Luke 11; Romans 8

Thank you, Father, for the gift of your Holy Spirit. Now the Spirit of God dwells in me, and I no longer live led by my flesh. To be carnally minded is death, but, by your grace, Lord, my mind is renewed by your Spirit and that is life and peace.

So, I am yours, Lord, and you dwell in me. Therefore, my body is dead because of sin, but my spirit is alive forever more because of your perfect righteousness, Lord Jesus.

The same Spirit that raised you from the dead, Lord Jesus, now dwells in me and gives life to my mortal body. Now I no longer live according to the flesh, but, by your spirit, I put to death the deeds of my body.

I am led by your spirit so I know I am your child, Father. I did not receive a spirit of bondage to fear, but I received the Spirit of Adoption. Now, Father, you cry out to me that “I am yours”, and I cry out to you that “you are mine”.

Job 19; 1 Thessalonians 4; John 14; Job 33

Thank you, Lord Jesus, for your written word, for your Bible. You are the word, and you are the rock of my salvation. Your word is written with a pen of iron, and your word will never pass away.

By your word and the witness of your Holy Spirit, I know you have redeemed my life. You are my redeemer. In you, I have eternal life. You shall stand at last on the earth. Even after my skin is destroyed, I know I will see you again in my new flesh. I will see you and behold you, and so shall I always be with you, Lord Jesus.

Lord, you have given me the gift of your Holy Spirit, a messenger of truth, a comforter. He speaks to me of you and your word. He shows me my errors and leads me in paths of righteousness. He witnesses to me of my salvation and testifies to my deliverance from the pit. He shows me, Lord Jesus, that you yourself are my ransom.

My life is renewed every day by your presence. I see our Father, and I see his delight in me. He has restored my life and delivered me from destruction. He has put his light in my life. I am enlightened with you, Lord Jesus, the light of life.

1 Corinthians 6; John 17; 1 Peter 2; Philippians 3; Ephesians 2; Job 1 & 2

Good morning, Lord, I love you, and I praise you. I bow before you. Thank you for your love for me and your call on my life. I belong to you. I have been bought with a price. I am no longer my own.

I thank you, Lord, that now I belong to you. I am in this world but no longer of it. I can enjoy your creation and my life in the flesh, but I do not take this life too seriously because my actual home is in heaven with you.

Here, on this earth, I am a pilgrim and a sojourner. But by your grace and decree, I am actually a citizen of heaven, a member of your household.

I came into this world with nothing, and I leave it, when you ordain, with nothing. You, Lord, give, and you take away. From you, I accept good and sometimes adversity. In all cases, I bless your holy, sovereign, merciful name.

Romans 7; Ephesians 2 & 1; Colossians 1; Romans 8

Now, my old nature still dwells in my flesh, and if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. Now by faith in Christ, I have been born from above, and you, Father, have filled me with a new nature, a new man, your very Spirit.

That person delights in your law, Father, and naturally enjoys obedience to your word and service to you as Almighty God. That person is the Holy Spirit, the very person of Christ Jesus.

Christ in me is your way of assuring my salvation. So I am delivered from the tyranny of the old nature, and now your new, eternal nature dwells in me until you call me home. I live in the law of the Spirit of Christ Jesus, and that law has made me free from the law of sin and death. There is therefore now no condemnation for me.

Romans 7

Now, Father, by your grace, I see I am dead to the law through the body of Christ. Now this does not mean the law is sin. No! In fact, the law is holy, and your commandments are holy, just, and good.

What it does mean is that I am no longer seeking salvation based on my obeying the law. Instead, I am joined to another way of salvation, Father. I’m relying on your way of salvation through faith in Jesus who you raised from the dead.

I have been delivered from the law, so that I can serve you now, Father, in the newness of the spirit and not in the oldness of the letter of the law.

Now while I live in this flesh, I will not always do what I should, and sometimes I will do the very thing you and I hate. That man is my old man who sin still dwells in.

But now, by your new birth, there is a new man in me who delights in your law. Now, I am led by that man in my thoughts and intentions until, at your appointed time, you deliver me from this death into divine eternal life.

Isaiah 43; Ephesians 1; Isaiah 41; 2 Corinthians 5; Isaiah 41

I do not fear for I am yours, Lord. You have called me by name. You are the Lord my God, my Savior. By your choice and grace, I am precious in your sight.

You honor me. You have loved me from before the foundation of the world. I am called Christian, by your name, and I am created for your glory.

I am your servant, Father. You have chosen me, and you will not cast me away. I do not fear for you are with me. I am not dismayed for you are my God. You strengthen me. You sanctify me. You transform me.

In you, I am a new, eternal creation. Old things have passed away, behold all things have become new. In you, Christ Jesus, I have become the righteousness of God. You uphold me with your righteous right hand.

Romans 5 & 6

There was a time in my life, Father, when sin reigned unto death, but, by your call and mercy, I have come to faith in Jesus, your Christ, as my Lord. Now grace reigns in my life through Christ’s righteousness to eternal life, to salvation. Thank you, Father.

Now I have been baptized into Christ Jesus. I have been baptized into his death and buried with him, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by your glory, Father, I also now walk in newness of life.

I am united together with Jesus first in the likeness of his death and now, forever united with him in the likeness of his resurrection.

My old man has been crucified with Christ that my body of sin has been rendered useless, i.e. it has no effect on my “real” life that is now lived in Christ and by Christ.

Therefore, I know that I am dead to sin but alive to you, Father, in Christ Jesus, my Lord. Sin no longer reigns in my mortal body, and I no longer obey its lusts. My members are yielded unto you, Father, as instruments of righteousness.

Romans 5

Father, hallelujah! You demonstrate your love for me in that, while I was still lost in sin and selfishness, Christ died for me. Now, I know I have been justified by his blood, and I have been saved from the wrath to come through Christ.

For, if while I was your enemy, Father, you reconciled me to yourself through the sacrifice of your son, much more, now that we are reconciled, I am saved by Jesus’s perfect life.

All this saving power and purpose is by your grace, Father, and is a gift to me by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, your Messiah and my Savior.

With joy and thanksgiving, I receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness that is mine through faith in Christ Jesus and by the love of Christ Jesus.

Romans 4 & 5

Thank you, Father, for your grace upon my life. In your mercy, you have given me the gift of faith. By that, I believe more and more in your promises. I am convinced that you are able and perfectly faithful to perform all that you have promised.

Through faith, your righteousness is imputed to me. I know you raised Jesus, my Lord, from the dead. I know he was delivered because of my offenses and is raised to prove my justification.

So, by your grace, mercy, and gift, I have been justified by faith, and I have peace with you, Father, through my Lord Jesus Christ. Through you, Lord Jesus, I have access into the marvelous grace of God where I now stand and rejoice in sure hope of the glory of God.

Tribulations may come, but by faith, tribulations produce perseverance, and perseverance builds my character, and character produces hope. Now, hope in you, Father, does not disappoint because you make faith a surety by your very presence poured out into my heart by your Holy Spirit.

Romans 3; Ephesians 1; Romans 2, 8, & 3

So, Lord, all mankind, including and especially me, has sinned against you and fallen short of your glory. Nevertheless, in your mercy, you included some, including me, in Christ before the foundation of the world.

In your goodness, you led me to repentance. You predestined me to be conformed to the image of Jesus, my Lord and Savior. You called me. You justified me, and you glorified me. You are for me, so nothing can prevail against my salvation.

Now, I am not justified by my good deeds or because I am a good person. Rather, I see that your perfect righteousness is credited to me through faith in Jesus Christ.

For everyone who is yours, Father, is justified as a free gift, by your grace, through faith in your redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

You, Father, set Jesus forth as the propitiation for my sins. His righteousness is imputed to me, and, in your forbearance, Father, you passed over my sins. You are just with me and the justifier of me, through faith in Jesus, your Messiah and my Savior.