Deuteronomy 10&11

Lord, today with gladness, joy and excitement, I fear you as my Lord and God. I walk in your ways. I love you. I desire to serve you with all my heart and with all my soul. I desire to keep your commandments and statutes in front of my eyes and have them guide my steps.

You, father, are my God and to you belong heaven and the heaven of heaven. The earth and all that is in it belongs to you. Yet, you set your heart to love my family and to love me. You chose me.

You are my praise, and you are my God. I lay up your words, o Lord, in my heart and in my soul. I bind them upon me. I teach them to all my children. I am careful to do all that you tell me.

I love you, father, Son and Holy Spirit. I walk in your ways and I hold fast to you.

Galatians 3&4

In Christ Jesus, by your grace and decree, father, I am your son through faith. I have been baptized into Christ and I have put on Christ. I am one with the family of God in Christ. I am Christ’s; I am Abraham’s offspring; I am an heir according to your promises father.

In the fullness of time, father, you sent forth your son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem me who was under the law, so that I would receive adoption as your son. And because I am your son, you sent the spirit of your son into my heart crying, “Abba, Father”.

You are my father and I am your child. I am no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

I do not turn to the weak and worthless, elementary principles of this world, whose slave I once was, but now I have come to know you, father, and to be known by you.

Acts 2

Father, I know that you delivered up Jesus, my Lord and Savior, according to your definite plan and foreknowledge. Then you raised him up, loosing him from the pangs of death because it is not possible for death to hold him.

Now Jesus, the Christ, is always at your right hand making intercession for me. He is my high priest and the complete atoning sacrifice for my sins. By his grace, I am forgiven and justified; able to come before your throne of grace as your son and joint heir with Jesus.

Therefore, my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices. My flesh dwells in hope. You did not abandon Jesus and you do not abandon me. I rejoice in your steadfast love and in your sovereign power. You make me full of gladness with your presence.

I John 5; Matt. 11

I love you, father. I thank you that I have been born again. I believe that Jesus is your son. He is begotten of you and was born into this world to be your Christ and to become my Savior and Lord.

You have placed your spirit on me and in me, and I have a love for your word and daily understanding of it. It tastes good to me. In your word is life and light, truth and wisdom, peace and joy.

Therefore, I keep my eye on your word as if it were a lighthouse. I let it lead me because I know it and I trust it. I love where it takes me.

Your commandments are not burdensome, instead, they are easy and light. I learn Christ from your word, Lord Jesus, and I come to know you, and I am joined to you. I learn meekness and humility from you, and I find eternal, unshakable rest for my soul.

Nehemiah 9&8; Ps 105; John 15

Father, blessed be your glorious name. You are the Lord; you alone. You are exalted above all blessing and praise.

Thank you, Father, for your word and for giving me the sense that I can hear it and have understanding of it. Today I make great rejoicing, because I understand the words that you declare to me.

I have your joy, father, a divine eternal joy; sovereign over all of the world’s anxieties and foolishness. Your joy is my strength and it is rooted in your living and abiding word that fills and guides me. Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.

You, Lord Jesus, have spoken these things to me so that the joy of the Lord will be in me, and so that my joy would be full. Not that my joy would just be “enough”, but more than enough: a wellspring filling up and overflowing in praise and honor and glory to you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Romans 6

Today, Father, I live a life to you. I consider myself dead to sin and alive to you in Jesus Christ. By your grace and provision, father, sin no longer reigns in my mortal body able to make me obey its passions. Now, today, hallelujah, I present my members to you, father, as instruments of righteousness.

Thanks be to you, father, for I was once a slave to sin, but now I am born again of your spirit and you dwell in my mind and heart. I delight in being obedient from my heart to your teaching and to the standard of your word.

I am set free from sin and have become a slave of righteousness. Now I present my members as slaves to your divine, sweet, peaceful righteousness that leads to sanctification. Now I am set free of the bondage to sin and I have become a peaceful slave of yours, father.

I once had death but now, by your grace and power, father, I have your free gift of eternal life in Christ Jesus, my Lord.

Romans 5,4&5

I have peace with you, father, through my Lord Jesus Christ. I have been justified by faith. My belief does not waver concerning your promises, father. In fact, I am fully convinced that you are able to do all that you promise.

I stand firm in the grace of God, my Father, and Jesus, my Lord. I rejoice in the sure hope of the sovereign glory of God.

You, father, work your character in me by the divine orchestration of circumstances in my life. Your character, in me, produces hope and hope does not put me to shame because your love and encouraging fellowship are poured into my heart through your Holy Spirit whom you have given to me.

You love me so much, father, that even while I was horribly selfish, a slave to sin, Christ died for me. By his atoning sacrifice, I was justified and saved by him from your wrath.

Glory hallelujah, I am reconciled to you, father, by the life and death and resurrection of my Lord Jesus, your divine son. My life has been saved by his life.

Hebrews 6:17&18

Christ’s atoning sacrifice and perfect righteousness purchased for me all that is needed for my complete, eternal salvation. What my Lord bought for me was not the lack of need for effort, but rather, the assurance that I would have the determination to hold fast and that my holding would be successful.

My Lord bought for me the enabling power to hold fast (not the freedom from having to). He bought the empowering of my will so that I would want to hold fast.

He bought the right to fill me and empower me to be transformed from a worldly person driven by passions into a spiritual being seated with God in the heavenlies.

I am on this earth and in this flesh, but I am no longer of these things. I am set free by Christ who loves me. Now, because God bought me and illuminated my thinking, I press on towards the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

By God’s grace, I’ve been enabled to do that. I, who have fled to God for refuge, have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before me.

2 Cor. 1; Romans 5; Lamentations 3

In my weakness and/or suffering, father, you are encouraging me into an utterly helpless and yet mature dependence on you. You give me your very presence to comfort, to sustain, to encourage, and to shepherd me home.

Bless you, father. You are the God and Father of my Lord Jesus, the Christ. You are the father of real divine mercy, and the God of all comfort. You comfort me in all my affliction.

I am justified by faith in Jesus as the Christ. Therefore, I have peace with you, father. You give me access by faith into your perfect grace where I stand and rejoice in hope of your glory, father.

Even in afflictions, I glory knowing that tribulations worketh patience, and patience, experience and experience, hope. And hope does not put me to shame because your love, father, is poured into my heart through your Holy Spirit whom you have given to me.

You restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish me. Your steadfast love for me, father, never ceases. Your mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness, oh God, my father.

Ps 23:5

God, my father, has prepared a table before me in the presence of my enemies. The “table” is the very presence in fellowship & communion of the triune god with me, now, at this very time, through the spirit.

In Exodus 25, God designs a table to hold the bread of his presence, perhaps this is the vision David is having in Psalms 23, verse 5.

He is recognizing that God will give him the daily bread of divine presence and fellowship now, here on this Earth, while we live in this flesh.

Of course, for us now with the New Testament, we can see the promise of God to “shed his love abroad with us through the Holy ghost”, whom he gives us.

Jesus speaks to us of never leaving or forsaking; and of feeding our spirit here on this earth (John 6). He encourages us to eat and drink of him.

“Table” is a place of food and fellowship with friends and family. Perhaps in Psalms 23, God has David prophesying as to what our relationship with the godhead will be like, or should be like, now for us.

So come to the table prepared for you by our Lord. Partake and believe, find faith and relief and encouragement.