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With Gladness

Acts 2

Lord Jesus, God our father has raised you up to sit on his throne. He did not leave your soul in Hades, nor did your flesh see corruption. Our father raised you up, Lord Jesus, and exalted you at his right hand.

You received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, and then you poured out that Spirit on all of us who are yours.

You, Father, have made Jesus both Lord and Christ.

By your grace, Father, through faith in Jesus as your Christ and my Lord, I repent of my sins, and I have been baptized in the name of Jesus.

I have received the gift of your Holy Spirit. I have been saved from this perverse generation.

With gladness, I receive your word, and I continue steadfastly in your doctrine and fellowship, Lord Jesus.

In Your Presence

John 1; Acts 2

Hallelujah. Lord Jesus, you are the Word. You took on flesh and came into this world. Through you, all who believe you are the Messiah and who receive you as their Lord are born of God. You dwell among us.

You are God’s Christ, and that was attested to by miracles, wonders, and signs as you dwelt in our midst. You were delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, our father.

You, Lord Jesus, were taken by lawless hands, crucified, and put to death. Then God raised you up and loosed you from the pains of death, because it was not possible for death to hold you.

Now, by the grace of God, my father, I see you, Lord Jesus. You are near me, and I am not shaken. My heart rejoices, and my tongue is glad. I rest in hope.

You do not leave me, nor do you allow me to see corruption. You make known to me the way of life. I am full of joy in your presence.

Know and Sanctify

Ephesians 2; Ezekiel 36; 1 John 1; Ezekiel 36

Thank you, Father, for choosing me and convicting me. I was dead in my sin and selfishness. My choices were profaning your name. You broke me down, and I came to my senses.

I repented and ran back to you. You sprinkled me with clean water. I saw my sin and stubbornness. I saw how hard my heart was. I confessed my sin, and you, oh Lord, were faithful and just to forgive me and to cleanse me from all unrighteousness.

You took out my heart of stone and gave me a heart of flesh. You put your Holy Spirit within me and caused me to walk in your statutes and to keep your judgments. Now, I joyfully do your word.

I dwell in a place of faith that you have given me. I am yours, and you, oh Father, are mine. I know you, and I sanctify your great name.

Wrath

John 3

Father, you are just and merciful. You sent your son that the world through him could be saved. All who believe in him as their savior are not condemned, but those who do not believe are condemned already because they do not believe in the name of your only begotten son, Jesus, as Lord and Savior.

This is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and many people love darkness rather than the light. Their deeds are evil. They practice evil and hate the light because their evil is exposed.

By your grace, Father, I see that Jesus is the truth. I long to live in the truth with Jesus as my Lord and Savior.

Lord Jesus, I decrease, and you increase. You have come from the Father, and you are above all. You know the Father. You have seen him and communed with him.

You testify and certify that God is real and true. You speak the very words of God, our father. The Father loves you, Lord Jesus, and has given all things into your hand.

I believe you are the Christ, Lord Jesus, and I have everlasting life. Those who do not believe that you, Lord, are God’s son and the Savior shall not see life, and the wrath of God abides on them.

No One Who Believes

John 1 & 3; Luke 12; John 3

Lord Jesus, you are the Lamb of God who takes away my sin. You baptize me with the Holy Spirit. Behold, you are the Lamb of God.

By your grace through faith, Lord Jesus, I have been born again. What is born of flesh is flesh, and that which is born of Spirit is spirit. I am born once of water and born again from above; born into the kingdom of God, my father. It is God, my Father’s good pleasure to give me the kingdom.

The Holy Spirit comes unseen, like the wind, but I can see, and hear, and feel his divine presence and power. By your presence, Holy Spirit, I am born of God; Christ Jesus is raised up in my life, and my mind is renewed. I gaze upon my savior, and I am saved, healed, and delivered. I have eternal life.

God, our father, loves me and gave Jesus to me and to all who would believe so that no one who believes would perish, but instead, all who believe would have everlasting life.

Doubts Do Not Stay

Luke 24; John 1; Luke 24

I am not troubled. Doubts do not stay in my heart. I behold you, Lord Jesus. I know you live in me. You speak to my spirit. You are mine, and I am yours. You lead and encourage my flesh and bones. In that way, I know you are real. You are the Christ, and you are my savior.

You are the word. Through the words you spoke, all things are fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the Psalms.

It was always your way for salvation that you would come, and take on flesh, and live among us; that you would suffer and then rise from the dead on the third day.

You preach to me repentance and remission of sin. With joy, humility, and thanksgiving, I receive you, Lord Jesus, as my savior, and I believe in your name. I have been born again from above.

Now, I am your witness, and the person and promise of God, our father, is upon me and fills me.

My Savior and My Brother

Matthew 16, 18, & 6

Lord Jesus, you are the Christ, the Son of the Living God. You speak to me. You show me eternal, spiritual things. I set my mind on your words today, Lord, and not on the things of man.

Today, Lord Jesus, I follow you. I deny myself. I take up my cross, and I follow you. I’m humble before you, Lord. Like a child, I depend on you and your presence within me completely.

I hallow God, our father. I live in his kingdom as he would have it here today on this earth. I thank him today for all my daily needs. I forgive others their trespasses as God, our father, has forgiven me.

Thank you, Father, that today I am led, by your spirit, toward righteousness, and I am delivered from evil.

I do not labor to lay up treasure on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves steal, instead I lay up for myself treasure in heaven. My treasure is in God our father, and in you, Christ Jesus, my savior and my brother. My heart is with you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

A Pleasure to My Soul

Proverbs 1 & 2

Lord Jesus, with your wisdom, you cried out to me. You spoke into my thoughts, and I saw my sin. I saw my foolishness, my selfishness, my course towards destruction. In your grace, you granted me repentance, and I turned at your reproof.

You poured out your spirit on me. You filled me with your word. I listened to you. You reached out to me, and you grabbed hold of my hand.

With joy and humility, I heeded your counsel. I saw my sin. I received your reproof and confessed my sin. I listened to you, and I was born again. I was forgiven, and my mind began to live renewed.

Now Lord, I dwell secure in you, and I am at peace, without fear of disaster. I receive your word day by day. I treasure your commandments. I am attentive to be led by your spirit into wisdom and understanding in each circumstance.

I call out to you for communion and leadership. You hear me, and you fill me with your presence. You fill my heart, oh Lord, and you are a pleasure to my soul.

In Your Truth

John 17; Romans 1; Colossians 3; John 17

Lord Jesus, God our father has glorified you. He has given you authority over all flesh, and in that authority, you have given me eternal life. This is eternal life that I know God the Father, the only true God, because I know you, Lord Jesus, as my Lord and Savior.

The Father glorified you, Lord Jesus, and declared you to be the Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of Holiness, by your resurrection from the dead. Now, you are seated with the Father in the heavenlies in the glory that you had before the world existed.

You gave me the word that the Father had given you, and I received that word and have come to know the truth. You, Lord Jesus, are the Messiah sent by the Father.

I am yours, and because I am yours, I am the Father’s as well. I am one with you Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. You keep me, and you guard me. Your joy fills me. I am in this world but no longer of this world. You sanctify me in your truth; your word is truth.

Escaped

2 Timothy 2; Neamiah 9; Colossians 2

Father, in your mercy, you granted me repentance and led me to the knowledge of your truth. I came to my senses and escaped from the snare of the devil who had taken me captive through the lust of my flesh.

I turned and cried out to you, and you heard me, and you delivered me from my selfish self. You are gracious and merciful, Father. You are my God and my Savior.

You, Father, are ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love. Not only did you forgive me, but you justified me by and in Christ Jesus.

You redeemed me from foolishness. You gave me your Good Spirit to fill me, to instruct me, and to lead me. You gave me daily bread from the mouth and life of Jesus. You gave me the cleansing blood of Jesus to satisfy my thirst for true righteousness.

Now, in Christ, I am complete and lacking in nothing. I am alive forever in Christ, filled with him who is the head of all rule and authority.