Romans 13; 1 Corinthians 6; Romans 6 &13

Good morning, Father, today I put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and I make no provision for the flesh to fulfill its lust. For I belong to you now, Lord. I have been bought with a price, and I am no longer my own.

I reckon myself dead to the flesh and alive to your Holy Spirit and led by your Holy Spirit. I cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. I live in the light of the truth, and you, Lord Jesus, are the truth.

Today, as much as depends on me, I live peaceably with all people. I do not let anger linger. I do not let wrath have a foothold. I do not seek vengeance. All issues of anger and vengeance belong to you, Father. They are yours to deal with.

I abhor what is evil, and I cling to what is good. I am fervent to seek you and to hear from you and to be available to be used by you. Hallelujah! What a sweet and simple life.

Romans 11 &12

Thank you for your mercies, Father. I once was disobedient, yet have now obtained mercy since, by your determination, salvation has come to the Gentiles.

In effect, I am a wild olive branch, but by your grace and election, I have been grafted into your kingdom and have become a partaker of the riches of your grace and nature (a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree).

I stand here by faith. I am glad of your adoption, but have nothing to be proud of regarding my works. I did not earn this place with you. Instead, I regard your mercy for me with reverent awe and worship.

I consider your goodness and your severity, Father, and I thank you for your continued goodness. I think soberly as you have dealt to me the gift of faith. For all things of life are of you and through you, and to you for your glory forever.

Therefore, today, Father, in view of your mercy to me, I offer my body to you as a living sacrifice. I rejoice in hope. I am patient in tribulation, and I am instant and ceaseless in communion with you.

2 Corinthians 5; Romans 12 &10; Colossians 1; Romans 10

Thank you, Father, that you charged Jesus who knew no sin with the penalty of my sins so that I am credited with Jesus’s perfect righteousness. That is grace beyond measure. That is the great divine exchange.

So now, Father, by all of that grace and propitiation, I am reconciled to you. I am able to present myself to you today as a living sacrifice and be holy and acceptable to you, because in Christ and through Christ, you have made me holy and acceptable.

I have heard your gospel preached, and I have read your word. Faith has filled me, and I believe that Jesus is the one you sent; that he is the Messiah and that his words are the words of life. Now Christ has become my righteousness.

Now I know the answer to your mystery, Father. Christ lives in me now, and his living, communing spirit in me is glorious; brighter and warmer than the rising Sun.

I do not have to go looking for you, Lord Jesus, for you are near me. You fill me. Your word is on my mouth and in my heart. I am in you, and you are in me forever

Romans 9 &10

Father, your word tells me that you will finish the work and cut short in righteousness. You Father, Son, and Holy Spirit will make a short work upon the earth.

Among mankind you have left a seed. That seed will result in all those who are of it pursuing righteousness of faith. Others who are not of that seed will talk righteousness, but they will seek to be righteous by some set of rules or tradition and not seek the righteousness that you provide through faith in Jesus, your Messiah.

Many who are not of your seed will stumble over faith in Christ as a stumbling stone and a rock of offense. Other people, though, who are your seed will see Christ as the way of salvation, and they will believe and receive him, and they will not be put to shame.

Many people seem to have a zeal for their idea of the “things” of God, but in reality they stay ignorant of God’s way of righteousness by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and instead continue seeking to establish their own righteousness through works of the law. But your truth, Father, is that Christ is the end of the law of righteousness to everyone who believes.

Romans 9

Father, in your word you tell me you have purposes for your children according to your election. You are Almighty God, our creator. You are the potter, and your creation, including all people, is the clay.

If you, as God, want to show your wrath and make your power known by enduring with much long suffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction so that you can make known the riches of your glory on the vessels of mercy, which you prepared beforehand for your glory, that is your sovereign choice.

You state clearly that you will have mercy on whomever you elect to have mercy and that you will have compassion on whomever you will have compassion. You have mercy on whom you will, and on whom you will you will harden.

It is not my place to reply against you. How can I, the thing formed, judge your purposes, as the one who formed me. You have rights over me. I am your creation. Thankfully you have chosen me and made me your person. By your grace and election, Father, I am a child of the Living God.

Romans 8; 2 Peter 1; Colossians 1; Hebrews 13; John 4; Romans 8

Father, by your grace, you are for me. Through Christ’s death and righteous life, you have freely given me all things needed for life and godliness.

Christ died to pay for my sins, and even more than that, he is also risen and even now is at your right hand, Father, making intercession for me.

Christ now dwells in me in the person of your Holy Spirit, Father, and you never leave me or forsake me. Therefore, it is certain that no one and nothing can separate me from the love of Christ Jesus.

In this world, because of flesh, there are all kinds of tribulation and distress, even persecution and unfairness, even prejudice and attacks. Yet in all these worldly fleshy issues your spirit in me is more than a conqueror.

Now I live in the spirit and in truth. I am no longer in the flesh, but now I am yours in spirit, Father, and nothing in the fleshy world can separate me from your love, Father, which is mine through Jesus Christ, my Lord.

Romans 8

Father, you have taught me to understand that the sufferings of this present age are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed. All creation eagerly waits for the revealing of your sons, Father.

Now through Christ, we see the first fruits of your Holy Spirit poured out on mankind. Many people now know you and live in the sure hope of divine, eternal adoption and the redemption of the body.

I hope for what I do not see, but I eagerly wait for it with perseverance. Your Holy Spirit helps me in my faith. Even when I do not know what I should pray, you, Holy Spirit, make intercession for me with groanings which cannot be uttered.

You, Holy Spirit, search my heart. You know the heart of God, and you bring me into the good, pleasing, and perfect will of the Father. You intercede perfectly for me according to God’s desire and plan for me.

Romans 8

Father, what the law could not do you did by sending Jesus, your own son, in the likeness of sinful flesh to account for my sin. You, Father, condemned sin in the flesh, and Christ became the propitiation for that condemnation.

You, Father, even with the penalty of sin paid for, still required a righteous fulfillment of the law, and Christ lived that righteous life.

That righteousness is imputed to all who have faith in Christ as their Lord and Savior, to all who walk according to the Holy Spirit’s presence and leading. To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Those who live in the flesh cannot please you, Father. But I am not in the flesh, but in the spirit. I know this because your Spirit lives in me.

Christ dwells in me. My body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. Your Spirit, Father, who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in me, and gives life to my mortal body.

I am quickened by your Spirit and led by your Spirit. Therefore, Father, I know I am your son.

Romans 6; Galatians 2

Where sin abounds, grace does much more abound. Your grace, Father, reigns through righteousness to eternal life for me through Jesus Christ, my Lord.

I have died to sin, and I live in it no longer. Through baptism with Christ, I walk in the newness of life.

I have been united together with Jesus in the likeness of his death so I shall certainly be united in his resurrection. I know that my old man was crucified with Christ that this body of sin could be done away with.

Now I live with Christ. He has been raised from the dead to die no more. Death no longer has dominion over him. He died once for all, but the life that he lives now, he lives to God.

Likewise, I reckon myself dead indeed to sin, but alive to God with Jesus Christ my Lord. Therefore, sin no longer reigns in my flesh, that I should obey its lusts.

Instead I live alive by your Holy Spirit, Father. I am crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh, Father, I live by faith in your son, my Lord Jesus, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Romans 5 & 6; 2 Corinthians 5; Romans 8

I rejoice in you, Father, through my Lord Jesus Christ, through whom I have received reconciliation to you, Father. Glory and thank you for your mercies.

Sin entered the world through one man, but by your grace, the free gift of life and salvation through Jesus Christ abounded to many and resulted in justification.

Through Jesus’s righteous act, the free gift of salvation came to me resulting in justification of my life. With joy and humility, I receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness, and I reign in life through the one Messiah, Jesus Christ.

This “reigning” means my old man is crucified with Christ, and I am no longer a slave to sin. I am in Christ now and freed from the shame of my past for I am a new creature, and the old is gone, and behold everything is new for me.

There is, therefore, now no condemnation for me for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.