Acts 20 & 22

Lord, I do not count my life as precious to me; if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I have received from you, Lord Jesus; that is to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

That I would believe and live out, and then declare things that are profitable, the whole counsel of God, that is repentance towards God, the Father, and faith in the Lord Jesus, the Christ.

I commend myself and those whom you have given me, Lord, to God, the Father, and to the word of your grace, which is able to build each of us up and to give us the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

I believe that the God of my fathers has appointed me to know his will, to “see” the righteous one, and to “hear” his words. I am to be a witness for him to whomever he sends me to and to whomever is sent to me. By your grace, Lord, I will live and preach your grace.

Hebrews 12

Today, I look to Jesus, the founder and perfector of my faith. I keep my thoughts on him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself so that I do not grow weary or faint-hearted.

I thank you, Lord, that you discipline the ones you love. You have disciplined me for my good that I may share your holiness. Therefore, I lift up drooping hands, and strengthen weakened knees, and head in straight paths.

I see to it that I, and anyone who asks, do obtain the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to defile and cause trouble. I hold on to and value highly the birthright God, my father, has decreed, and Jesus, my Lord, has provided.

I am, by God’s grace, one of the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven. I am grateful to receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and I give, you, my God, worship with reverence and awe.

Colossians 3

I am risen with Christ, and I seek those things which are above where Jesus, the Christ, sits at the right hand of God. I set my affections on things above and not on things on the earth. For I am dead, and my life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is my life, shall appear, then I will appear with him in glory.

Christ is all and in all. The peace of God rules in my heart, and I am thankful.

The word of Christ dwells in me richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing me in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. I sing with grace in my heart to the Lord. Whatever I do, I do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Whatsoever I do, I do it heartily as to the Lord and not to man; knowing that from the Lord I shall receive the reward of the inheritance for I serve the Lord Christ.

Romans 6

Sin does not reign in my mortal body. I have died to sin, therefore how can I who have died to sin live in it any longer? I am baptized into Christ; I have been baptized into his death.

I’ve been buried, therefore, with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the father, I too can walk in newness of life. Thank you, father, that today I walk in the newness of life.

Since I’ve been united with Jesus, the Christ, in a death like his, I shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. My old self was crucified with him, so that I am no longer enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin.

Now I believe that, since I have died with Christ, I will also live with him. So, I reckon myself dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 2

I bow before you, God, my father. I confess and acknowledge that you are the blessed and only sovereign, the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, who no one has ever seen or can see.

To you be honor and eternal dominion. Amen. You give life to all things, father.

Today by your grace and through the presence of Jesus Christ in me, I pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, and gentleness. I fight the good fight of faith. I take hold of eternal life to which I was called, and about which I have a good confession.

I pray today that by the grace of the Lord Jesus and the presence of the Holy Spirit, I will keep the commandments, unstained and free from reproach, until the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. I guard the presence of God in me. I avoid irreverent babble and foolish ideas falsely called ” knowledge”.

2 Timothy 2

Today, thank you, Lord, I am strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus. Lord, give me understanding in everything that I may be useful to you. I look forward to each and everyone of your elect obtaining the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

If I have died with him, I will also live with him. If I endure, I will also reign with him.

I do not quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. I do my best to present myself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, who rightly handles the word of truth.

I avoid irreverent babble for it leads to more and more ungodliness and spreads like gangrene. God’s firm foundation stands. The Lord knows those that are his. Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.

2 Timothy 2

In the great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also wood and clay, some for honorable use and some for dishonorable. I have certainly been a vessel of wood or clay with such a selfish and sinful beginning.

But now, praise God, you, father, have called me and cleansed me. By your grace and your word, I’m cleansed from the dishonorable use and set apart as holy, useful to my master, ready for every good work.

I flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace along with those who call on the Lord with a pure heart. I have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies. I know they breed quarrels.

I am the Lord’s servant, and I must not be quarrelsome, but kind, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting opponents with gentleness, hoping that you, father, will grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth. Hoping that they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil after being captured to do his will.

Romans 6; 2 Timothy 2, 3, & 4

Lord, I know I have an enemy who desires to ensnare me. I know the areas of “bait” he uses. Lord, I recognize and confess that I am weak and suspect in those areas. So, today I reckon myself dead to ( list your particular weak area where you are prone to sin. Be specific).

By your grace, today, I have no desire or draw to those things. I am tempered against those desires and thoughts. I recognize them as traps, as lures to bondage. Sin messes stuff up.

I am pleased and very content with the “life” you have given me, Lord. I focus on my contentment with you. I am thankful to you and desire to be holy and set apart for your use.

I am filled with your presence, and I am led by your Spirit every moment of every day. Keep charge of me, Lord. I am your man and by your grace, I am complete in Christ, equipped for every good work. Lord, see that I fight a good fight, finish the race, and keep the faith.

1 John 1

The apostle John is an eyewitness. He saw you, father, through the Lord Jesus from the very beginning. He says, “He heard, and he saw “. He looked upon and touched with his hands; he knew that somehow It, He, Jesus the Christ was divine life made manifest.

He saw it, and testified to it, and proclaimed that He is eternal life from God, the Heavenly Father, and that this life was made manifest to him as a disciple of Jesus, the Christ.

Lord God, John, your witness saw the life, and he proclaims it to me, so that I also may have fellowship with the apostles, and fellowship with you, my Heavenly Father, and with your Son, Christ Jesus.

I know these things, and my joy is complete. The message is that you, father, are light, and in you there is no darkness at all. By your grace and presence in me, I walk in the light and have fellowship with you, Almighty God, and with your son, and with your many other children.

1 John 2

The old commandment, that I have had from the beginning, is the same as the new commandment. It is all the “word” that I have heard. I see it manifest perfectly in the Lord Jesus, and I see glimpses of the Word, Jesus, the Christ, manifested in the apostles, and sometimes I see the Lord manifested in me.

Jesus states the old and new commandment, “You are to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself”.  John explains that loving my brother shows that I walk in the light, and not loving shows I am in darkness.

When I am in darkness, I do not know where I am going because darkness has blinded my eyes. When I stay angry with the brethren, I am being (choosing to be) blind. I am not seeing the whole picture. The word is not abiding in me, and I’m being overcome by evil.