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.

Romans 4 & 5

Father, I do not waiver at your promises. You give life to the dead, and you call those things which do not exist as though they did. I am fully convinced that what you promise you will and are accomplishing. That faith is accounted to me, by your grace, for righteousness.

I believe in you, Father. I believe you raised up Jesus, my Lord, from the dead. He was delivered up for my offenses, and he was raised as my justification.

Now, hallelujah, having been justified by faith, I have peace with you, Father, through my Lord Jesus Christ. Through Christ, I have full access to your grace, Father, and in that grace, I now stand.

I stand in your grace, and I rejoice in hope of your glorious presence with and within me. Even in trying times, I glory, because with you, Father, tribulation produces perseverance and character, and character produces hope. And hope in you, Father, does not disappoint, because you pour your love out to my heart by your Holy Spirit whom you have given to me.

Ephesians 2; Psalm 32

Father, in humble sorrow, I realize that for years I conducted myself among the children of disobedience in the lust of my flesh fulfilling all the selfish imaginings of my flesh and my mind. I was by my nature a child of wrath just like much of mankind still is.

But, thank you, that you, Father, because of your rich mercy and because of your great love, even when I was dead in my sins and trespasses, you made me alive together with your other children with Christ.

By your grace, you saved me and raised me up and made me to sit together in the Heavenly Christ Jesus. In this way of your divine salvation, you showed the exceeding riches of your grace and your kindness towards me. Thank you, Father, you are the God of my salvation, and thank you, Jesus, you are the Savior of my life.

I am truly blessed because my lawless deeds are forgiven, and my sins are covered. By your grace, Father, my sins are not imputed against me. That is undeserved mercy, and I am thankful for it.

Romans 3; John 1; Romans 3

For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. We cannot make up for that by deeds of the law. No flesh can be justified in your sight, Father, by our good deeds. The law gives us knowledge of sin, but it is not the cure for sin.

Your provision for curing sin is to justify those who live by faith, by your grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

You, Heavenly Father, set forth Jesus as a propitiation, by his sacrifice, for my sins and for all who believe and receive Jesus as the Lord of their lives.

Jesus, through living faith, is my righteousness, and that righteousness is eternal and fully pleasing to you, Father. You, Father, through Christ, pass over my sins and demonstrate your righteousness. You are just, and you are the justifier of all who have faith in Christ Jesus.

So, I have nothing to boast about in regard to my works, but I have much to be thankful for because of your grace, Father. I am justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. Hallelujah, it’s by Jesus and not by me.

2 Corinthians 5; Romans 3

Lord Jesus, I know you died for me, and you rose again. Your love compels me to live no longer for myself, but to live for you.

You dwell in me now in the person of your Holy Spirit. You have given me a new heart that is sincerely yours. I am in Christ, and I am a new creature. My old fleshy ways are passed away, behold everything in my life is new.

Now everything about me that counts is of God, our father. He has reconciled me to himself through you, Lord Jesus, and has prepared me to be used by him in the ongoing ministry of reconciliation, which is God in you, Lord Jesus, reconciling the world to himself.

So, I am now an ambassador of Christ Jesus. I am the very righteousness of God because you, Lord Jesus, who knew no sin, paid for my sins (past, present, and future). Now I see, and with thanksgiving receive a righteousness of God apart from deeds of the law.

It is the Father’s divine declared righteousness given me and all who believe, by his grace, through faith in you, Lord Jesus.

Romans 1

Good morning, Father. I am proud of your gospel. It is the power, your divine sovereign power, to salvation for each of us who believe.

In your gospel, your plan for my perfect righteousness is revealed from faith to faith. You have written to me, “The just shall live by faith”. You have shown me that I am justified by faith in my Lord Jesus, your Christ.

You have also revealed your wrath from heaven for those who will not believe, for those who live ungodly and unrighteously and continue in that life without conviction or repentance.

There are many who suppress the truth even though you, Father, have manifested yourself to them. For since the creation of the world, you have shown your invisible attributes clearly in the things that are made.

Yet much of mankind will not glorify you as God. They are not thankful, instead they are futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts grow even darker.

They profess to be wise, and instead, become more and more foolish until finally, they belong totally to their vile passions.

Psalm 18; James 1; Psalm 18

I praise you, Father, with all my heart. I sing praise to you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I worship your majesty and sovereign grace. You are Almighty God, and there is no other.

To your chosen people you give life and redemption. Your loving kindness gives me sure hope, and your truth guides my feet and thoughts.

Your word is magnified beyond mere words and precepts. Your word is life. Your word saves or offends. With meekness, I engraft your word into my mind, and my soul is saved.

I cry out, and you answer me. You fill me with your Holy Spirit, and I am bold to seek your purposes and strengthened to do your will.

In this fallen world I walk in the midst of trouble. Rage and selfishness abound. Liars seek to prevail. Even your truth is called evil, and now, the lie is called truth.

Nevertheless, you guard me, and you guard your people from the wrath of your enemies. With your right hand you save all who are yours.