The apostle John is an eye witness. He saw God 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 somehow it, He, Jesus the Christ, was divine life made manifest.  He saw it and testified to it and proclaimed that it is eternal life from God, the heavenly father, and was made manifest to him as a disciple of Jesus, the Christ.

He saw it and proclaims it to me so then I also may have fellowship with the apostles and fellowship with God, my heavenly father, and with his son, Christ Jesus.  John wants me to know these things so that my joy will be complete. The message is that God is light and in him is no darkness at all.  I can walk in the light and have fellowship with almighty God, and with his son, and with his many other children.

I John 1

The apostle John tells me that he has heard from God, and proclaims to me that God is light and in him is no darkness at all.; that if I walk in the light, as he (God the father) is in the light, I have fellowship with other believers and the blood of Jesus, God’s son, cleanses me from all sin. If I confess my sins he is faithful and just to forgive my sins and cleanse me from all unrighteousness; and if I do sin, I have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.   He is the propitiation for my sins.

I attend carefully to the word of God and by this I know that I am in him. I know I have come to know him because I keep his commandments. They are life to me. As I do this daily the love of God is perfected in me. I abide in Jesus, the Christ, and in God, the father, and I walk  in the same way my Lord Jesus walked.

I John 1&2

The Lord rescues me. The Lord rescues me from every evil deed and brings me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory forever and ever.

God is manifested in his word. I hold fast to the true word that is preached and taught. By God’s grace and truth I am sound in faith.  For the grace of God has appeared to me bringing me salvation; training me to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and to live tempered, upright and godly lives in the present age; waiting for my blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of my great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself to redeem me from all lawlessness and to purify me for himself;  a person for his own possession who is zealous for good works. He saved me according to his own mercy by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit whom he poured out on me richly through Jesus Christ, my Savior. Being justified by his grace I have become an heir.

Titus 2&3

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 and I am thankful to you and desire to be holy and set apart for your use.

I am filled with your presence and a 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.

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, God has called me and cleansed me.  By his grace and his word I am 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 God will grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth.  Hoping they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil after being captured to do his will.

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 that they will obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

” If I have died with him, I will also live with him. If 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.

I bow before you, God, my father. I confess and acknowledge that you are the blessed and only sovereign, the king of kings, and 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 understained 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”.

My Lord Jesus, the Christ, is the same yesterday, today and forever. Through him I continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, the father, that is the fruit of my lips that acknowledges his name  (His character, His glory, mercy and grace).  He is the God of peace who brought again from the dead my Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant.

Lord, equip me with everything good that I may do your will. Work in me that which is pleasing in your sight through Jesus Christ alive in me, my hope of glory.  By your grace I lay aside every weight and sin which cling so closely and I run with endurance the race you have set before me, looking to Jesus the author and finisher of my life story, who for the joy set before him endured the cross and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

In my heart I honor Christ, the Lord, as holy, always prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks me for the reason for the hope that is in me, with gentleness and respect.   Since my Lord Jesus suffered in the flesh, I arm myself with the same way of thinking, for when I suffer in the flesh I have ceased from Sin, so as to live for the rest of my time in the flesh no longer for my human passions but for the will of God.   I am tempered and sober minded. I love the brethern. I show hospitality without grumbling. I serve others as a good steward of God’s varying graces. I speak, when I speak, as one who speaks the oracles from God.  I serve as one who serves by the strength that God supplies, in order that in everything, God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever!

Lord, by your grace I plant good seed and I water. Hallelujah, you give the growth; the increase. Jesus, the Christ, and all that your word says about him is my foundation. I pray today that I will build on that foundation with only gold, silver and precious stones, that the work you do with me, and the work you use me for will survive.

I know that I am your temple and your spirit dwells in me. Today I place my confidence in you, father, and in my Lord Jesus, the Christ.  No one deceive me. I’ve become a fool for God that I may be wise. The wisdom of this world is the real folly.  For you tell me, father, “I catch the wise in their craftiness, I know the thoughts of the wise and they are futile. ”  So I do not boast of wordly wisdom. I have real wisdom, and everything I need, because I have all that God gives me; because I am in Christ. I am Christ and Christ is God’s.