Matthew 11; John 15 & 16

Thank you, Lord, for your rest. I take your yoke upon me and learn from you, for you are meek and lowly, and I find rest for my soul; for your yoke is easy and your burden is light.

I abide in you, and your word abides in me. I keep your word in front of me. I watch your word like I would watch a channel marker. I live in the love you have for me, filled and anointed, guarded and guided.

Your joy is in me, and I am full of the joy of the Lord. Thank you, Lord that you chose me and appointed me that I should go and bear fruit, fruit that would last.

Thank you, father, for the gift of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, who proceeds from the father and bears witness about my Lord Jesus and guides me into all truth.

The Spirit of God declares things to come and glorifies the Lord Jesus, and fills me with righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

1 Peter 1

Today I prepare my mind for action. I’m sober-minded. I set my hope fully on the grace that is brought to me today by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Today, by God’s grace, I am holy in all my conduct, knowing that I am ransomed from the futile ways inherited from my forefathers not with perishable things, but with the precious blood of Christ. My faith and my hope are in God.

God has purified my soul through faith in Christ. I know I am loved by God and able to love others earnestly with a pure heart. I have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God.

All flesh is like grass. Grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever. And this word is the good news that has been preached to me. So, I put away all malice and self, and long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it, I may grow up into salvation.

Galatians 2 & 3

Thank you, God, my father, that you work in me, both to will and to work for your good pleasure. By the works of the law no one is justified, but by your grace, I died to the law so that I might live to you, father.

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in Jesus, your son, who loved me and gave himself for me.

What you, father, have begun in me with your Spirit, you will finish in me by your Spirit. The righteous live by faith.

Jesus, the Christ, redeemed me from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for me, so that in Christ Jesus, the blessing of Abraham might come to me, so that I would receive the promised Holy Spirit through faith.

For in Christ Jesus, I am your son, father, through faith. I was baptized into Christ. I have put on Christ. I am one with Christ.

Hebrews 7 & 8

Jesus became a priest not on the basis of legal requirements, but by the power of an indestructible life. For the father said to him, “You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.” He was made a priest with an oath from God, the father, who said, ” You are a priest forever.”

This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant. He holds the priesthood permanently; consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

He has no need to offer sacrifices daily since he did this once for all when he offered up himself. The word of the oath, that came later than the law, appoints a son who has been made perfect forever.

I have a high priest who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven and makes intercession daily for me.

Ecclesiastes 12; Proverbs 1 & 2

The end of the matter: fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

When I turn at the Spirit’s reproof, God pours his Spirit to me, and he makes his word known to me. I receive my father’s words, and I treasure his commandments. I make my ear attentive to wisdom, and I incline my heart to understanding.

I call out for insight and pray for understanding. I seek these things like silver and search for them like hidden treasure.

As I do, I understand the fear of the Lord and find knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. He stores up wisdom for the upright, and he is a shield for those who walk with integrity.

Hebrews 12 & 13

Today, father, I give you worship with reverence and awe. I’m grateful to be in your kingdom, a kingdom that cannot be shaken. You, father, are a consuming fire.

My Lord Jesus has told me he will never leave me nor forsake me. “The Lord is my helper, I do not fear, what can man do to me? ” Jesus is the same yesterday and today and forever.

I will not be led away by diverse and strange teachings. Through Jesus, my Lord, I continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is the fruit of my lips that acknowledge his name.

I obey my leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over my soul. Let them be wise, obedient leaders, who lead with joy and not with groaning.

Father, you are the God of Peace; you brought the Lord Jesus again from the dead. You equip me today with everything good that I may do your will; working in me that which is pleasing in your sight through Jesus the Christ.

1 Corinthians 15

I believe that you, Jesus, the Christ, died for my sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that you were buried, and that you were raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that you appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

Then you appeared to more than 500 brothers at one time, most of whom were still alive when these words were written.

“If Christ had not been raised, then our preaching and our faith would be in vain.” But, in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For Christ is the first fruit.

Then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end when he delivers the kingdom to God, my father, after destroying every rule and every authority and power.

I know that what is sown does not come to life unless it dies. So it is with the resurrection of the dead.

What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.

Acts 20 & 22

Lord, I do not count my life as precious to me; if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I have received from you, Lord Jesus; that is to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

That I would believe and live out, and then declare things that are profitable, the whole counsel of God, that is repentance towards God, the Father, and faith in the Lord Jesus, the Christ.

I commend myself and those whom you have given me, Lord, to God, the Father, and to the word of your grace, which is able to build each of us up and to give us the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

I believe that the God of my fathers has appointed me to know his will, to “see” the righteous one, and to “hear” his words. I am to be a witness for him to whomever he sends me to and to whomever is sent to me. By your grace, Lord, I will live and preach your grace.

Hebrews 12

Today, I look to Jesus, the founder and perfector of my faith. I keep my thoughts on him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself so that I do not grow weary or faint-hearted.

I thank you, Lord, that you discipline the ones you love. You have disciplined me for my good that I may share your holiness. Therefore, I lift up drooping hands, and strengthen weakened knees, and head in straight paths.

I see to it that I, and anyone who asks, do obtain the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to defile and cause trouble. I hold on to and value highly the birthright God, my father, has decreed, and Jesus, my Lord, has provided.

I am, by God’s grace, one of the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven. I am grateful to receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and I give, you, my God, worship with reverence and awe.

Colossians 3

I am risen with Christ, and I seek those things which are above where Jesus, the Christ, sits at the right hand of God. I set my affections on things above and not on things on the earth. For I am dead, and my life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is my life, shall appear, then I will appear with him in glory.

Christ is all and in all. The peace of God rules in my heart, and I am thankful.

The word of Christ dwells in me richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing me in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. I sing with grace in my heart to the Lord. Whatever I do, I do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Whatsoever I do, I do it heartily as to the Lord and not to man; knowing that from the Lord I shall receive the reward of the inheritance for I serve the Lord Christ.