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Not Entangled

Galatians 4,3,4&5

My Lord God, I know that when the fullness of time came you sent forth your son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem me from the law of sin and death, so that I could receive adoption as a son of yours.

And because I am your son, father, you sent forth your Holy Spirit, the Spirit of your son, Jesus, into my heart to dwell there forever. Your Spirit is your life in me and my connection to you. Through your Spirit I can cry, Abba, father, and commune with you all day.

Therefore, I am no longer a slave, but instead, I am a son, and since I am a son, I am an heir of yours, father, through Christ. Now, by your grace to me and your presence in me, I know you, father, and you know me.

So, Christ is formed in me by your very Spirit, father. I worship in Spirit and truth. I live by faith in the simplicity of what Christ has done and who he is. Therefore, I stand fast in the liberty by which Christ has made me free, and I am not entangled ever again with a yoke of bondage.

Fellowship of the Gospel

Philippians 1,2,3&4

Thank you, father, for the joy of the fellowship of the Gospel; for times shared with you and with other believers; for making us partakers together of your grace.

I thank you, Lord, that your love abounds in me more and more in knowledge and all discernment. I am confident that you will complete perfectly the work you have begun in me.

Today, led by your Spirit and filled with faith, I love sincerely and approve all things that are excellent. I look out not only for my own interests, but for the interests of others. I take my salvation very seriously for I know that it is you, father, who works in me to set my will and guide my actions to suit your pleasure.

So with joy and determination, born from your love for me, father, I press on toward the goal for the prize of your upward call on my life in Christ Jesus.

I am anxious of nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, I make my request known to you, father, and your peace that passes understanding mounts guard over my heart and mind.

I can do everything you ordain for me to do through Christ who strengthens me.

Constant Communion

2 Corinthians 13

Lord God, I pray for me and for the fellowship in which you place me. I pray that our people would each examine themselves and be sure they are living in faith. That they would realize that you, Lord Jesus, dwell in them, unless in fact, they are disqualified.

I pray that you would grant each of us conviction and repentance where we need it. That you would bring each of us to our senses, and that we would see, and admit, and repent, in every area where we are wrong.

Heal hurts and renew minds, father, that we would quit living for ourselves, and, instead, we would each, everyday, live with Jesus as Lord by the power and presence of you, father, in each of us.

Make us complete. Draw us together in one mind that we would live in your peace and love, father. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for your grace. Thank you, Father, for your love, and thank you, Holy Spirit, for your constant communion.

Nevertheless

2 Corinthians 7

Good morning, father. Today by your communion I am filled with comfort and exceeding joy. Outside in this world there are conflicts, and in my heart there are concerns. Nevertheless, you, father, comfort me.

I see your faithfulness to me, Lord, and your love for me, as I reflect on my past. There were times back then when I was very wrong.

I was in sin. I was self-centered, but by your word, through your Holy Spirit and divine providence, you brought me to sorrow, and that sorrow led me to sincere repentance, and I gained real forgiveness, and I was reconciled to you.

This experience with you worked wisdom and faith in me. It produced a diligent determination to follow you more closely. These experiences of godly sorrow made me want to obey you more perfectly.

Now, I obey because I like it. I have a zeal for communion with you, father. I find joy and peace in belonging to you and being free of the world.

Provision

2 Corinthians 5; Ephesians 2; 2 Corinthians 6&7

Thank you, father, that you made Jesus, who knew no sin, to be sin for me, so that by that substitutionary provision I was made perfectly righteous before you in Christ. Here I stand. Righteous by your grace.

I am reconciled to you, my heavenly father, through Christ, and I have a ministry to share your reconciliation with others. By your grace, father, through faith, I am saved.

Praise you, father, you dwell in me. You walk among us. You are my God, and I am yours. Therefore, I separate myself from worldliness. I try to stay clean in my thoughts. I stay steadfast in communion with you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. You are a father to me.

So, with gladness and faith, I enjoy your promises. I dwell in your word. I cleanse myself of filthiness of the flesh, and I yield to you, father, confident that you will perfect your holiness in me.

Look to a Time

2 Corinthians 5

Thank you, father, that in your divine powered, eternal Kingdom this fleshly body of mine is just a temporary dwelling place; a tent, so to speak. At a time you have ordained I leave this tent and receive an eternal house in the heavens made for me by you, father.

For a time now, while I am in this fleshly tent, I groan at the trials and tests and limits of my flesh. I look to a time when I will be better clothed in a glorified body. I look to a time when mortality is swallowed up by your eternal life, father.

You prepare my mind for this very thing, father, by the gift of your Holy Spirit who guarantees your presence and promises to me. So, I am always confident, knowing that while I am at home in this mortal body I’m absent from you, father.

For I walk by faith and not by sight. So, I am okay now, but also well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with you, father, when and as you ordain that time to be.

Glory In Me

2 Corinthians 4&5

Thank you, father, that I am encouraged and at peace even though my outward man is aging and passing away. For I see that my inward man is renewed day by day by your eternal and perfect Holy Spirit.

The tests and trials of this life in the flesh are brief compared to eternity, and they cannot defeat the divine Spirit you have placed in me. Instead, as I deal with these trials in the wisdom and presence of your Spirit, they work an exceeding and eternal weight of glory in me.

I have learned to not be very concerned with the things which are seen, but to pay all my attention on the things which are unseen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

For I know that if my earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, I have a building from you, father, a house not made of flesh and not made by man. It is a house eternal with you in the heavens.

Renewed Everyday

2 Corinthians 4

Thank you, father, for your provision to me of yourself. I am like a clay jar filled with a treasure who is your very presence. He is your Holy Spirit who dwells in me and with me forever.

There is light and divine glory in me now. You lead me, and you illumine the things of life for me in such a way that I know the power is of you and not of me.

So, in this world I am hard-pressed, but because of your Spirit in me, I can’t be crushed. Sometimes I am perplexed, but I am not in despair.

I am always reckoning myself dead to my flesh and alive in Christ, and the life of Jesus is manifested in my mortal flesh. Death is working in my human flesh, but divine eternal life is working in my spirit man.

I know that you, Holy Spirit, who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise me up at your appointed time, and you will present me to God, my father. Then thanksgiving will abound, and God, our father, will be glorified. With this promise I am renewed every day.

On Me and In Me

Ephesians 1; 2 Corinthians 3&4

Thank you, father, that you have opened the eyes of my understanding, and I know the hope of your calling on my life, and I realize the riches of the glory of the inheritance that I have in Christ.

Through Christ you have removed the veil from my eyes, and I have turned to the Lord Jesus. The Lord is a spirit, and that Spirit dwells in me now forever, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.

Through your presence in me, Lord Jesus, I, with unveiled face, behold as in a mirror your glory, and that illumination transforms me into your image from glory to glory- day by day- step by step.

The light of the Gospel of the glory of Jesus Christ shines on me and in me. You, father, have commanded that light to shine out of darkness and to shine in my heart to fill me with the light of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am lit up!!

Sweet Peace

2 Corinthians 1; Phillipians 4

Thank you, father, that today I have grace and peace from you and from my Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be you, God, my father, and Jesus Christ, my brother. You are the father of mercies and the God of all comfort.

You comfort me through this world of tribulation, and by your grace, I’m able to comfort others who are in any trouble with the divine comfort that I myself am comforted with.

Often there are troubles, and disappointments, and stupid tragedies in this sinful world. They try to burden me with despair, so I put my trust in you, father, the God of Hope; you who raise the dead.

I live every day in simplicity and Godly sincerity, not in fleshy wisdom, and you, father, the Almighty, keep my heart and mind through Christ Jesus in a divine peace which surpasses all human understanding. In that sweet peace I rejoice, and again I say I rejoice.