1 John 4

Father, your scripture makes it clear that you love me. You love me perfectly not because of some great quality in me, but rather because, by your grace, you chose me to be yours and because real love is in you.

Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. You manifested your love to me by sending your only begotten son into the world so that I can live through him.

So, this is divine love, not that I loved you, but that you loved me and gave your son to be the propitiation for all my selfish and mean sins. Now, I realize that if you so loved me, I must learn and discipline myself to love others.

You work the love for others into my new nature through your Holy Spirit, who fills me. I prepare myself by repeatedly dying to myself and following your spirit’s lead. The world and my flesh try to draw me back, but I pray and gird up my loins against those worldly desires.

Now, because I am born again, greater is he who is in me than he who is in the world. By the power of your word and through the presence of your Holy Spirit in me, I can love others, and I can abide in your love, Father.

1 Corinthians 15

Lord Jesus, you have risen from the dead, and you are the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. Death came by man, and then by you, the Son of Man, came the resurrection of the dead.

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. You, Lord, are the first fruit and after you those who are yours at your coming. Then comes the end when you deliver the kingdom to God, our father.

At that time you will have put all enemies under your feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

The dead are raised to a new body given to us as it pleases God. The fleshy body we had is sown like a seed. What is sown like a seed is not made alive unless it dies. And when you sow, you do not sow the body that you reap. But the new body is in the seed and comes forth after the seed is planted and dies, and it becomes what God has ordained it to be.

Yes, the body is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. Lord Jesus, you are a life-giving spirit.

Romans 15

Lord God, I thank you for the local body of believers that you have placed me in. I pray I will be strong in your spirit and that I will minister to others for their good and for their edification.

I have your heart for hospitality and service. Deliver me from selfishness and laziness for even you, Lord Jesus, did not come just to please yourself.

Father, your Holy Spirit is wisdom in me. Your word is learning for me. Through the patience and comfort of your scripture, I have sweet steadfast hope.

You, the God of patience and comfort, fixed my mind up on the Son of Man so that I, along with all your people, glorify you with one mind and one mouth.

I sing to your name, Father. I rejoice in you. I praise you, and you, the God of hope, fill me with all joy and peace in believing, and I abound in hope by the power and in the person of your Holy Spirit.

Romans 14

I do not dispute with other believers over doubtful things. There are gray areas of belief among brothers. We believe different things regarding food, holy days, dress, gifts of the spirit, and methods of worship. I do not want to destroy your work in someone, Father, over a detail.

I want to pursue things that make for peace and things by which each person may be edified. For your kingdom, Father, is not about eating and drinking and religious details. Your kingdom, Father, is about righteousness and peace and joy in your Holy Spirit. All of that is for everyone who believes and receives Jesus as Lord and Savior.

It is not my job to judge another’s servant. To his own master he stands or falls. If he is truly your servant, Father, you will see that he stands victorious regardless of the details of his faith, for he is yours.

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.