John 17; 1 John 2 & 4

God’s delight in his son now dwells in me and is mine. This will never end because neither the Father nor the Son ever end.

Their love for each other is my love for them and, therefore, my loving them AND my knowing I am loved will never end.

I keep my eyes and thoughts on your word, Lord. In you verily is the love of God perfected. I love the brethren, so I know God dwells in me and his love is perfected in me.  Herein is my love made perfect, that I may have boldness on the day of judgment. There is no fear in that kind of love; but perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

2 Corinthians 5

If this tent which is my earthly home is destroyed, I know I have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. In this tent I groan, being burdened. I look forward during this time to being further clothed so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. God has prepared for me this very thing and given me the Holy Spirit as a guarantee.

So, I am always of good courage. I walk by faith and not by sight. So, whether I am at home or away my aim is to please God. The love of Christ controls me, because I have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died.  And he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who, for their sake, died and was raised. From now on, therefore, I regard no one according to the flesh.

2 Corinthians 5; Psalm 34

From now on I regard no one according to the flesh. If anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation, old things have passed away, behold all things have become new. All of this is from God who through Christ has reconciled me to himself.  I am reconciled to God. For my sake, God made Jesus to be sin, even though he knew no sin, so that in him I have become the righteousness of God.

The eyes of the Lord are towards me and he hears my cries. He delivers me out of all my troubles. He is near the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.  The Lord redeems my life. I bless the Lord at all times, and His praise is continually in my mouth. My soul makes its boasts in the Lord.

Matthew 5; John 6 & 7

Father, today I acknowledge that I am poor in spirit and I need you every day, for in you is the kingdom of heaven. I hunger and I thirst for real righteousness, the righteousness that is in you, Lord Jesus, and you satisfy my thirst. For your flesh is true food and your blood is true drink.  Spiritually I feed on your flesh and drink your blood, and I abide in you and you abide in me.

Your words are Spirit and life, and it is the Spirit that “gives life and the flesh is no help at all”.  I thirst and I come to you, Lord Jesus, Messiah, and I drink. I believe in you and out of my heart flow rivers of living water, the very Spirit of God!

Romans 4 & 5

I do not waver concerning your promises, Father, but I grow strong in faith and give glory to you! I am fully convinced that you, my heavenly Father, are able to do all that you have promised.  My faith in you, Father, and in Jesus, your son, is counted to me as righteousness. I believe that you, Father, raised from the dead Jesus, my Lord, and delivered up Jesus, your Messiah, as propitiation for my trespasses and that you raised Jesus for my justification.

Therefore, since I have been justified by faith, I have peace with God through my Lord Jesus Christ. Through him I have obtained access by faith into the grace of God in which I am now stand, and in which I rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.  I have divine hope because the love of God is poured into my heart through the Holy Spirit who has been given to me.

1 Thessalonians 5; 2 Thessalonians 1

The God of peace himself sanctifies me completely and keeps my whole spirit and soul and body blameless at the coming of my Lord Jesus, the Christ. You are faithful, Lord, and you will surely do it.

I give thanks to you, my heavenly Father, because my faith is growing abundantly, and my love for others is increasing. I pray I will be steadfast and faithful to your love this day, Father, through Christ Jesus, my Lord; that by your grace I will endure.

I pray, heavenly Father, that today you will make me worthy of your calling and that you will fulfill every resolve in me for good and every work of faith in me by your power so that the name of the Lord Jesus will be glorified in me and I will be in Him according to your grace.

Colossians 1, 2, & 3; Romans 15

The word, your words, Lord, were written before hand for my learning that through the patience and comfort of the scripture I would have hope. Lord, fill me with all joy and peace in believing, that I abound in hope through the power and presence of your Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit, establish me according to the Gospel and the preaching of my Lord Jesus, in accordance to the mystery. That mystery, by your grace, is now manifested in me. Jesus, the Christ, dwells in me, and I am led by his Spirit, not perfectly but always purposefully.   He is the very glory of God, and Christ in me is my hope of glory.

I seek those things above where Jesus is seated at your right hand, Father. I set my affections on things above and not on the things of this earth for I am dead and my life is hidden with Christ in God, and when Christ, who is my life, shall appear then I will appear with him in glory.

John 12; 2 Corinthians 4

Thank you, Lord, that by your grace I have received mercy. Mercy I certainly did not deserve. The god of this world had blinded my eyes, but you, oh Lord, broke through that bondage and filled my eyes with the light of the glorious gospel of Christ.  Now Jesus, the Christ, shines in my heart and mind.

My body is an earthen vessel filled with a treasure who is your presence and power.  I know that power is of you and not of me.  There are troubles all around, but I am not distressed. I am perplexed but I do not despair, because of your living presence within me, Lord.  I am not destroyed but now I walk through this life filled with your Spirit, led by your Spirit and dead to my flesh.  The life of Jesus is manifest in my body!

Galatians 2 & 3

Hallelujah!  I am justified by faith in Jesus Christ. I have believed Jesus and his word. I believe that he is the Messiah and therefore, I am justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law.  For by works of the law shall no flesh be justified. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness came by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. I am not so foolish as to believe that having begun in the Spirit, I am now made perfect by the flesh.  Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law, being made a curse for me.

Galatians 5 & 6

Today, by God’s grace I stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made me free, and I am not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.   Through the Spirit of God, I know my hope of righteousness is in my Lord Jesus Christ. In Christ what counts is faith working through love. I obey the truth of God’s word.

I walk in the Spirit and do not fulfill the lust of the flesh. I am led by the Spirit and not under the law.  The works of the flesh are obvious and those who practice them will not inherit the kingdom of God. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance. I live in the Spirit and I walk in the Spirit. I am not deceived. God is not mocked. What I sow is what I reap.