1 Peter 3

Father, fill me today that I will grow in the grace and knowledge of my Lord and Savior, Jesus, your Christ. Today I’m diligent to seek you and to be found in you, Lord, in peace without spot, and blameless.

I know that you, Father, are the God of time. To you one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day. You are not bound by time, and you, and you alone, set your time table.

You are not slack about your timing, but you are merciful to wait on those whom you have called to repentance and salvation.

But “The day of the Lord” is coming. It will come unexpectedly. The heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

Therefore, I seek your holiness and Godliness, Father, and I look for a new heaven and a new earth where righteousness dwells.

1 Peter 1; Colossians 3; 1 Peter 1

In view of all that you have done in me, Lord, to save me and to transform me, I keep my eyes on you now. With your nature dwelling in me, I seek things above and not the things of this earth.

I am diligent to add to my faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge temperance, to temperance perseverance, to perseverance godliness, and to godliness, love for the brethren and love for you Father.

These things abound in me, and I am fruitful in my communion with you, Lord Jesus. I can see the truth, and I can remember the deception of the sinful world.

By all of that, I’m even more diligent to make my calling and election sure. I steadily and purposefully pursue your character in me, Lord Jesus, and I do not stumble. You dwell in me and with me, and I see and enjoy glimpses of my life to come in your everlasting kingdom, Lord Jesus, my Savior.

1 Peter 1; Romans 12; 1 Peter 1

Thank you, Father, that by your grace, I have obtained the same precious faith as your Apostles. I have your eternal salvation, by the righteousness of Jesus, my Lord and Savior.

Grace and peace are multiplied to me as I come to know both you, Father, as my Heavenly Father and Jesus, as your Messiah, better and more intimately. Now I know your person dwelling in me, and I hear your voice through your Holy Spirit and your scripture.

By your person dwelling in me, I am transformed by the renewing of my mind. Your power in me gives me all things that pertain to life and Godliness through personal and corporate communion with you.

You call me to glory and virtue. You give me exceeding great and precious promises. I am a partaker of your divine nature, and I have escaped the corruption that is in this world through lust.

1 Peter 4

Father, I spent enough time following the lusts of my flesh. Now, by your grace and in response to your preaching, I reckon myself dead to my flesh and alive in your spirit. I am armed with the same mind as the Lord Jesus Christ. I want to live in your will, Father, to live according to your spirit.

This civilization is racing to an end. I am serious and watchful in my prayers. I am fervent in my love for others. I am hospitable, and I do not grumble.

I am a good steward of the gifts and provisions you give to me. I minister with these provisions to the folks you give to me, with all the ability you bless me with, that in all things you, Father, are glorified through Jesus Christ. To you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, be glory and dominion forever and ever.

1 Peter 2 & 3

Lord, I thank you that, by your grace and the unction of your Holy Spirit, I have returned to you, the Shepherd and Bishop of my soul. Father, give me understanding of my wife that I will be a perfect husband for her.

Lead me, Holy Spirit, that I will meet her needs and guard over her that we can be one together and heirs together of the grace of life; that our prayers would be pleasing and rise to you unhindered.

Give us one mind, Father, that we will have compassion for one another; that we will be tenderhearted and courteous, and not hateful. On the contrary, Father, fill us and convert us that we will bless you and each other.

Father, today, led by your Holy Spirit, I do not speak evil; I speak the truth in love; I do good; I seek peace in all my matters. You watch over me, Lord, and you hear my prayers.

I sanctify the Lord Jesus in my heart, and I meditate on all the reasons for hope that I have from you, Father, through Christ.

1 Peter 2; 1 Corinthians 6

Lord God, I see that in this lost and dying world I am just a sojourner and pilgrim. I am, by your grace, becoming more and more out of step with the fleshy world.

I believe in Jesus as your Messiah, Father, as the one who delivers me from the lost. Jesus is a stone of stumbling to those that are lost, but to me, he is a precious cornerstone.

In Christ, I am one of a chosen generation, part of a royal priesthood, a citizen in a holy nation. I am special to you, Father; set apart to proclaim praises to you. I praise you because you called me out of darkness and into your marvelous light.

I was, at one time, lost and alone, but now, by your mercy, I have become yours. My body is now a temple for your Holy Spirit, who dwells in me, Father. I am no longer my own, because you bought me with your precious price.

Now and forever, I belong to you, Father. I glorify you in my body and in my spirit.

1 Peter 4; James 3

Lord God, take charge of me today that I would minister to others exactly as you would have me minister. That I would be a good steward of your manifold grace, Father.

If I speak, let me speak as an oracle of your gospel and salvation, Lord. Let me minister with the ability that you supply that in all things you are glorified, Father.

Make my words your words, Lord. Mount guard over my tongue, Holy Spirit, that my words would bless God and bless all who hear them. Let my mouth be like a spring of fresh water.

Lord, today I commune with you in meekness of wisdom, not earthly wisdom but divine wisdom. For your wisdom, Father, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruit, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

Your wisdom, Father, yields the fruit of righteousness and lives in peace with those who make peace.

James 1

It is a joy, Father, to know that you work circumstances and various trials in my life to test and strengthen my faith. I know these things are good for me, even if they are hurtful at first.

The tests work patience in me, and when I, in mature faith, let patience work in me, I am perfected as a man of yours, Father. I am made perfect, complete, and lacking nothing.

I pray for wisdom to know this truth in every situation so that I do not give up or complain. You give me understanding wisdom liberally, and you do not upbraid me for being sometimes slow to catch on to your perfect presence in every detail of my life.

You have given me the good and perfect gift of your eternal, divine salvation. You brought me to life with your word of truth so that I am a kind of first fruit of your creatures.

I lay aside all nasty thinking and all evil lusts. I receive, with meekness and thanksgiving, your word implanted in my heart and mind, and my soul is saved. Hallelujah, I am yours, oh Lord.

Hebrews 13

Hallelujah, thank you, Lord, that you have placed me in your kingdom, a kingdom that cannot be shaken. Fill me with your grace, by which I will serve you well, with reverence and Godly fear. You, oh Lord, are a consuming fire.

Take charge of me, Holy Spirit, that today I will love the brethren. Today I will be hospitable to strangers, and I will remember those who are prisoners in one way or another.

Thank you for my marriage, Father. Let me be a perfect husband and meet all the needs of my wife and honor her as a great gift from you, as a lifesaver for me.

I am free of covetousness, and I am very content with your rich provision for me and mine. You are faithful to all my needs, Lord, and you never leave me or forsake me. Thank you for your perfect communion.

You are my help. You are sovereign. I will not fear. You, the God of Peace, who brought up Jesus from the dead, make me complete in every good work to obey you perfectly.

Hebrews 12

Father, I love you, and I thank you for your perfect intervention in my life. I do not despise your chastening, and I am not discouraged by your rebuke. For your correction proves your love for me. You are dealing with me as your legitimate, beloved offspring, thank you.

You, Father, chasten me, for my great gain; that I become a wise partaker of your holiness. No chastening seems joyful at first, nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness. I am trained by it.

So, I pick myself up, and I toughen up. I become mature, and I do not give in to self-pity. Instead, I repent and go again toward you, Father. I pursue peace and holiness. I am quick to forgive and to give grace so that no root of bitterness can spring up in my mind or heart.

I value the new birth you have given me, Father. I am headed to Mount Zion and your city, Father. I have received a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and I serve you, Lord, with reverence and fear. For you, my God, are a consuming fire.