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Look What God Has Done

Romans 12

In view of your mercies, Father, I present my body today a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to you. I am not conformed to this world, but I am transformed by the renewing of my mind, and I discern what your will is for me, Father.

I do not think more highly of myself than I ought to think, but I think with sober judgment. I rejoice in hope, I am patient in tribulation, and I am constant in prayer.

I do not repay evil with evil. So far as depends on me I live peaceable with all. I do not avenge myself; I leave vengeance to the wrath of God. I am not overcome with evil, but I overcome evil with good.

Gladly and Thankfully

Luke 15&14

Lord God, my merciful father, I was lost, and now I am found. I was dead, and now I am alive again. You and all of heaven rejoice because, by your grace, I have come back home to you, great God.

All that you have is mine. I am back as your son. I am covered by your righteousness and shod with your love. I am a joint heir with my elder brother, the Lord Jesus Christ.

I deserve none of this mercy. I am not worthy. I am humbled by your love and patience. I receive your forgiveness and reconciliation with humility and constant thanksgiving.

Thank you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for bringing me to my senses and for granting me repentance. I have come home gladly and thankfully. I forsake all. I take up my cross daily and follow you, Lord Jesus.

You give a great supper, father, and you invite many people, and with joy I attend now and forever.

The Son of God Has Come

I John 4&5

I have come to believe and to know the love you have for me, Heavenly Father. Your love is perfected in me. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.   I love because I realize you, Father, first loved me.

I have been born of God. I believe that you, Lord Jesus, are the Christ. I keep my eyes steadily on your word, Lord.  This is the victory that overcomes the world; my faith (i.e. the seed God has given me, and the light and life that is in the words of my Lord and my Heavenly Father).  I have been born of God and by your grace, Father, I do not keep on sinning.  God the Spirit dwells in me and protects me and the evil one cannot touch me.

Jesus, the Son of God, has come and has given me understanding so that I know God, my Father, and Jesus his son. I am in Christ, and he is the true God and eternal life.

Restored & Established

1 Peter 5&4

You, father, are the God of all grace. You have called me to your eternal glory in Christ. You, yourself, restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish me. To you, great God, be the dominion forever and ever.

I humble myself before you, father. Without you I am lost and helpless in the spiritual battle, but with you as my God, in Christ, I am sober minded and watchful.

I am able to resist the wiles and temptations of the adversary. I cast all my cares on you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, for I know that you care for me.

Today, I reckon myself dead to my flesh and alive to your Spirit, father. In times past I lived as the lost live, living in sensuality and worldly passions. But now I suffer in the flesh so as to live the rest of my time in the flesh for the will of you, Almighty God.

Your gospel was preached to me, and by your grace, I heard it. Now I live in your spirit; the way you would have me live.

Divine, Eternal Joy

John 14&15; James 1

Holy Spirit, you dwell in me. You are sent to me as a gift from God, my father, in the name of Jesus. You teach me all things, and you bring to my remembrance all the word of Jesus.

Through your presence I have the assurance of Jesus’s peace: a divine supernatural peace. My heart is not troubled, and I am not afraid.

I abide in Christ, and Jesus, the Christ, abides in me. He tells me all these things, so that I will have his eternal joy, and so that that joy will fill me.

Thank you, Lord, that through your word you have grafted your joy into me. It is a divine, eternal joy that never fades away, and it is sovereign over all of the world’s reports.

Now, Lord Jesus, your joy lives in me eternally. It grows and fills me until my joy is full and overflows.

I Can Know

1 Corinthians 2; John 15

Holy Spirit, good morning and good day. Fill me today and show me all the things of God, my father, and Jesus, my brother, that I need to see. Show me the amazing unimaginable things that God has prepared for me.

I have received you, Holy Spirit, as a gift from God, my father, so that through your testimony and presence I can know the things that have been freely given to me from God.

Jesus tells me that he has spoken the word of God to me in order that his joy would remain in me, and so that my joy would be full.

So I am just a branch, Lord Jesus, and you are the vine, but by God’s grace, I do abide in you. Your word abides in me and cleans me. I abide in you, Lord Jesus, and your spirit fills me, and I bear the fruit of God: fruit that lasts. Fruit that brings life to me and to those around me.

The New Has Come

2 Corinthians 5; Romans 6&7

Hallelujah, I am in Christ, therefore I am a new creation. The old has passed away, behold the new has come. All this is from God, my father, through Christ.

I have a new nature, a divine nature. For now he dwells in this old fleshy body. But each day I reckon myself dead to my flesh and alive in God’s Spirit.

I have died to the law of sin and death through the body of Christ, so that I now belong to Christ Jesus, my Lord. He is my Lord and Savior, and he has been raised from the dead in order that I may bear the fruit of God.

By your life, Lord Jesus, I am released from the law so that I serve in the new way of the Spirit and no longer in the old way of a written code.

By your grace, Lord Jesus, I have a new nature. Now for a short time my new nature is incarcerated in this old flesh. So sometimes I do not do the things I want to do, and sometimes I do the very things I don’t want to do.

But now I realize it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is in my flesh. But in my new nature I do delight in the law of my Lord, and I am delivered from this body of death by the life and resurrection of Jesus Christ, my Lord.

The Glorious Presence

Mark 8; Ephesians 5; Galatians 5; Romans 8; 2 Corinthians 4

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I understand and believe that you are the Christ. By grace through faith you have saved me. Now I’m filled with God the Spirit. Now I’m led by the very presence of God. Now I am a son of God, our heavenly father.

Now I have the glorious presence of God in me like a treasure in a clay jar. I continue, for now, to live in this fleshy body, but I am always reckoning myself dead to the flesh for Jesus’s sake, so that the life of Jesus is manifested in my mortal flesh.

I know that he who raised you, Lord Jesus, will raise me also with you and bring me into his presence. So even though there are some momentary afflictions, I do not lose heart because I’m being prepared for an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.

I do not look at those things that are seen but I keep my eyes on the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Forever and Ever

Romans 16&15

Thank you, Holy Spirit, that you strengthen me according to the gospel and in accord with the word of the Lord Jesus. Thank you for some understanding of the mystery of the method of God’s salvation.

All that was kept secret for long ages, but now has been disclosed and made known to me and to all those who are chosen by God.

In this way I am able to be obedient in faith to the only wise God, my Father in Heaven. To you, father, be glory and honor forevermore through Jesus Christ.

You, father, are the God of hope, and you fill me with joy and peace as I seek you in faith. By the power of your Holy Spirit I abound in faith and hope. You, the God of peace, are with me each and every day forever and ever.

Sit and Listen

Luke 10&9; Romans 12

Lord Jesus, my Lord and Savior, my elder brother, I love you, and I praise you. I thank God, our father, for you and for your saving grace.

Lord, I sit at your feet and listen to your word. I rejoice that my name is written in your book of life. You let me see amazing things. Things that many prophets and kings desired to see.

By your grace and presence in me I hear from you. Many from the past have wished they could hear the things I hear from you. I commune with you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, ceaselessly.

Today, Lord, I deny myself. I take up my cross. And I follow you. You are the Christ of God. In view of your power, and love, and mercy, I present my body to you today as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to you.

Hallelujah, I am no longer conformed to this world, instead I am transformed as you, Lord, renew my mind day by day and thought by thought.