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Turned Upside Down

1 Corinthians 6; Acts 16&17

By your grace, Father, I am washed and sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by your Holy Spirit. I belong to you, Father. I have been bought with a price, and I am no longer my own.

I believe on the Lord Jesus, and I have been baptized. I am saved. My world is turned upside down. I receive your word with joy and confidence. I search your scriptures diligently.

Father, I know that you made the world and everything in it. You are Lord of heaven and earth. You do not dwell in temples made of hands. You are not worshiped by my flesh as if you needed anything that I could do.

It is you and you alone, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who give life and breath and all things to your creation. You have determined all those who are yours, Lord, and you have appointed times and boundaries for each of us.

I seek you, Lord, and I find you. I have eternal, divine communion with you, Father, through Jesus, your son. You fill me with your presence, and in you, through Christ, I live and move and have my being.

One of Your Many

Romans 8; 1 Corinthians 6; Romans 8

Thank you, Father, that you foreknew me, and you predestined me to be yours and to be conformed to the image of your son and my Lord, Jesus Christ.

Through Christ, I would become one of your many children. You predestined me, you called me, you justified me, and you glorify me.

You are for me, so nothing can prevail against me. You freely give me everything I need. Through Christ there is no condemnation for me. No one can bring a charge against me, because you, Father, have justified me.

My Lord Jesus is seated at your right hand, Father, and he daily makes intercession for me. I am yours, bought with a price of divine sacrifice, therefore, nothing can separate me from the love of Christ, my Lord, and Savior, and elder brother.

How Dark

Acts 9; Ephesians 2

Lord God, thank you for knocking me down, revealing yourself to me, and giving me sight to “see” you as Lord and Savior.

I was fervent in my sin for a long time, but then along the road of life you knocked me from my “high horse”. You showed me how wrong I was. You showed me Jesus as the way, the only way, the truth and the life.

I was astonished, and I trembled at how I had rebelled against you. I saw my sin and how great and dark it was, and I repented and turned away from self and turned to Jesus as Lord and Messiah.

Now I begin to see things as you see them, Father. You have filled me with your Spirit. You have given me sight to see the unseen eternal facts of life.

I realize that I am a chosen vessel of yours. I am your workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works that you ordained beforehand I would walk in.

Now I rejoice in your salvation, and I walk in fear of you and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

Overflows

John 15

Lord Jesus, I am clean through the word you have spoken to me. I abide in you, and you abide in me.

The branch cannot bear fruit on its own. It must abide in the vine. You, Lord Jesus, are the vine, and I am the branch. You abide in me, and I bring forth your holy fruit.

I abide in you, and your words abide in me. I ask for your word and will, and it is done for me. In this living communion, our Father is glorified.

I keep my eyes on your living word, and I abide in your love. Your joy fills me, Lord Jesus, and remains in me and overflows every worldly circumstance.

You chose me, Lord, and ordained me, that I would go and bring forth fruit, fruit that would last. You call me friend, and you make known to me the will and the love of our Father. Thank you for your sweet communion and eternal joy.

The Heavenly Christ

Ephesians 1

Thank you, Father, for grace and peace from you and the Lord Jesus. You are the God of my Lord Jesus, the Christ, and you have blessed me with every spiritual blessing in the Heavenly Christ.

You chose me before the foundation of the world that I would be holy and blameless before you in love. You predestined me to be adopted as your son through Christ according to your good pleasure to the praise of your glory and power and grace filled love.

In all this, you did all that had to be done to make me acceptable in the Beloved, that is in Christ. In Christ I have redemption through his atoning sacrifice and the forgiveness of my sins.

You, Lord Jesus, have made known to me the mystery of God’s will. That with grace he would gather together in one all that were his into you, his Christ.

This grace abounds to me and becomes wisdom and prudence, and through Christ in me, you, Father, work all things according to the council of your will.

Always Before My Eyes

Psalms 16&18

I put my trust in you, Lord, and you preserve me. You, oh God, are my Lord, and my goodness is nothing apart from you. You love me as one of your saints, and you take delight in me.

You, Father, are my inheritance and my cup. I bless you, Lord, and you give me counsel. You instruct me. You are always before my eyes. You are my right hand, and I shall not be moved.

Therefore, my heart is glad. My flesh rests in hope. You will not leave my soul lost. You show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy, and at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

I love you, Lord. You are my strength. You, oh Lord, are my rock and my fortress and my deliverer. You are my strength in whom I trust. I call upon you, Lord, and I am saved from my enemies.

Both Lord and Christ

Acts 2

Thank you, Father, for saving me from this perverse generation. I gladly receive your word. You granted me repentance, and I turned to you. I was baptized in the name of my Lord, Jesus, the Christ. I have received from you, Father, the gift of your Holy Spirit.

Now I continue steadfastly in the doctrine of your gospel, and I fellowship with other believers whom you have placed me with. We believe together, and we try to meet each other’s needs.

We continue to gather in one accord, and we live in gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and finding favor with all.

We know, Father, that you raised up Jesus and loosed him from the pains of death, because it was not possible that death could hold him. Let everyone know that you, Father, have made Jesus both Lord and Christ.

Always With Me

John 15&16

Father, I keep your word in front of my eyes. Your word lights my path and leads my thoughts.

Your words, Lord Jesus, remain in me and fill me with joy. You chose me and appointed me to go and bear fruit, fruit that would last.

Now I am no longer in this world because you chose me out of this world and made me yours. You chose me, Lord, and you call me friend. Now you have gone to the Father, but you have filled me with your spirit.

Now, you, Holy Spirit, have come to me. You are truth, and you guide me into all truth. You glorify Christ Jesus in me. You declare the words of Christ to me.

You, Holy Spirit, turn my sorrow into joy. You show me the love of the Father, and my heart rejoices with a joy that cannot be taken from me.

Now because I love you, Lord Jesus, and because I know you came forth from God, I know the Father himself loves me. I am never alone because you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are always with me.

A Lighthouse

John 15; Romans 8; 2 Corinthians 5; John 15

Lord Jesus, you are the true vine, and God, our Father, is the vinedresser. I am a branch in you, Lord Jesus. The Father prunes me so that I will bear fruit and more fruit.

I am clean because you, Lord Jesus, have washed me with your word. You have paid for my sins with your atonement, and now I am justified and reconciled to God, my Father.

I abide in you, Lord, and you abide in me. You are the vine, and I am the branch. I cannot yield anything of real value unless I abide in you.

I abide in you, and your word abides in me. I ask for the desires you place in my heart, and they are done for me. By this, God, the Father, is glorified in my life, and I know I am truly your disciple.

You love me, Lord Jesus, with a divine love. I keep your word in my mind and heart. I follow your word like a lighthouse. I abide in your love. Hallelujah, I am loved perfectly!!

Alive to You

Galatians 2&6; Colossians 6; Romans 6

Thank you, Father, for your grace and your provision of divine righteousness through Christ Jesus. I, through the law, have died to the law that I might live to you, Father.

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in this flesh I live by faith in your son, my Lord Jesus, who loves me and gave himself for me.

I boast only in the life and the atoning sacrifice of my Lord Jesus, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to the world. In Christ I am a new creature.

I have been raised with Christ, and I seek those things above, where Christ Jesus sits at your right hand, Father. I set my mind on things above and not on the things on earth, for I have died, and my life is hidden with Christ in you, Heavenly Father. When Christ who is my life appears, then I will appear with him in glory.

Now by your grace and revelation, Father, I reckon myself dead indeed to sin, but always alive to you in Christ Jesus, my Lord.