Acts 20; John 6 & 17; I Cor. 6

Paul sums up the whole counsel of God as: repentance towards God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. I pray and study your word carefully, father, that I will be quick to repent; that I might be able to see and confess when my thoughts are leading me towards sin. Grant me strength to turn away from sins and, even better, to crush sinful intentions before they can manifest.

I study and pray today to increase and strengthen my belief that Jesus is the Christ; that he is my savior and I have received him; and that I am born again by the spirit of God. I belong to you, father. I have been bought with a price and I’m no longer my own. I have eternal life because I know you, father, the only true God, and I know you, Lord Jesus, whom the father has sent to be my Messiah. You, Lord Jesus, give to me food that endures to eternal life. I seek you, Lord Jesus, and I come to you. You feed me and you slake my thirst.

Matt. 16, I Peter 2, Matt 6

Lord Jesus, I say that you are the Christ, the son of the living God. You are my savior and my Lord. By your life, your atoning sacrifice and your resurrection, I have been chosen, justified, reconciled to God, my father, and sanctified. By your grace, Lord Jesus, I have been born again and I am filled with God, the spirit. Now, dwelling in my fleshly vessel is the very person of God; I am born again of your divine substance, Lord Jesus.

I am now a part of the kingdom of God. Like a living stone I’m being built into, as a part of, a spiritual house to honor and worship you, father. Jesus is the cornerstone. I am one of many living stones in your house.

You have given me the keys to the kingdom of heaven which is a personal, living communion with you. In that communion I can implore and implement your kingdom to come, and your will to be done, on Earth as it is in heaven.

Today’s post should have had a reference of Revelation 19 not just Revelation 1

James 1, Rev 1

I put away my flesh and receive with meekness the implanted word which saves my soul, day by day, forever. I am born again by the imperishable seed which is the living and abiding word of God. Someday I will see heaven open and behold a white horse.

The one sitting on the horse is called faithful and true, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood and the name by which He is called is the Word of God.

From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which he will strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God, the Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh is a name written: King of kings and Lord of lords.

John 1, James 1, I Peter 1, Rev 19

In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of man. The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it. The word became flesh and dwelt among us. Men saw the glory and wrote about it, and I have read their accounts and felt the glory of the presence of, and the communion with, the person of God the Spirit, who dwells in me and is always with me.

I put away my flesh and receive with meekness the implanted word which saves my soul, day by day, forever. I am born again by the imperishable seed which is the living and abiding word of God. Someday I will see heaven open and behold, a white horse. The one sitting on the horse is called faithful and true and in righteousness he judges and makes war.

I Peter 1

Thank you, Father, for the hope of the inheritance that I have through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. My inheritance is imperishable, undefiled and unfading. It is kept in heaven for me. In the meantime, I am guarded by your power, father, through faith, for a salvation that will be revealed in the last time. Because of all this, I rejoice, even though now, for a little while I may be grieved by various trials. These trials just test the genuineness of my faith and refine that Faith as if tested by fire, and the refining results in praise and glory and honor for the revelation of Jesus, my Lord.

Though I have not seen him, I love him. I believe in him, and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with Glory. I seek communion with him diligently, and I receive the outcome of faith in Christ: the salvation of my soul.

Hebrews 6

Father, you desired to show me more convincingly the unchangeable character of your purpose, so you granted your promise with an oath. You swore upon yourself and so, by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for you, father, to lie, I who have fled to you for refuge find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope you have set before me.

You, almighty God, made a promise to Abraham that he and others who were yours would be blessed by you, and then you swore upon yourself that you would be faithful to complete your promises. You, heavenly Father, cannot lie so, I am encouraged to endure; to seek you dailyly and diligently. I have a great hope. Your promise, your oath, and your faithfulness is a sure and steadfast anchor for my soul. I have a hope that enters into the holiest place where Jesus, my Lord, has gone as a forerunner on my behalf.

I Peter 2

Hallelujah, by your grace upon me and your presence in me, Lord Jesus, today, I lay aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies and envies, and all evil speaking. As a newborn babe I desire the sincere milk of your word so that I may grow in your image, Jesus. I have tasted your lordship and the fullness of your presence and I know it is good and that you are so very gracious to me.

You are the living stone, Lord Jesus, The Rock, the Chief cornerstone. Upon you the spiritual House of God, our Father, is built. I also am of the same spiritual DNA and I am a little, but lively, stone that is added to the buildup of my father’s spiritual house. I am a member of a holy priesthood offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to almighty God, my father, through Jesus Christ, my Lord. I believe my Lord Jesus and therefore, I am not confounded. Today I crave your word and your presence.

I Peter 1

By the ministry and life of Jesus Christ and by God’s grace, I believe in God. I believe God is my heavenly father and that he has adopted me as his child. To justify and deliver me, he placed the punishment of my sin on Jesus, and he imputed Jesus’s righteousness to my account. He raised Jesus up from the dead and gave him glory that, through faith in Jesus, I would see God. Through diligent faith in Christ my soul is purified. I am born again of incorruptible seed by the word of God who lives and abides in me forever.

Therefore, I gird up the loins of my mind; I am sober and I hope always for the grace of God to be brought to me dailyly by the revelation of Jesus Christ. I no longer fashion my thoughts according to my former lusts when I was ignorant, but now I try to make every part of my life and lifestyle holy. My God, whom I fear properly, has called me to be holy as he is holy.

I Peter 5, PS 34&23, Romans 5, Is 46, Rm 14, Hb 7

Lord, I bow down before you, humble under your mighty hand, and I cast my cares on you for I know you care for me. Many are the afflictions of the righteous but you, father, deliver me out of them all. You have redeemed my life and I take refuge in you. Your rod and your staff comfort me and give me peace. I seek you, Lord, and I lack no good thing. I rejoice in sufferings for suffering produces endurance and endurance produces character and character produces hope and hope does not put me to shame because your love has been poured into my heart, father, through your holy Spirit who you have given to me.

Even in my old age you are my God and to gray hairs you carry me. You have made me; you bear me; you carry me and you save me. As long as I live, I live to you, father, and if I die, I die to you, father. So then, whether I live or whether I die, I am yours, Lord. I draw near to you, father, and I am utterly saved because my Lord Jesus makes intercession to you for me forever.