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.

Galatians 6

I am not deceived. God is not mocked.  Whatsoever I sow is what I reap. If I insist on sowing to the flesh of my flesh, I will reap corruption.  I choose to sow to the Spirit of God and of the Spirit I reap life everlasting. I do not grow weary of doing life this way because I know in due season I will reap if I faint not.

As I have opportunity, I do good unto all people, especially those who are of the household of faith. I glory in the cross of my Lord, and His love for me, and His courage.  I will glory only in the cross of my Lord Jesus, the Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I am crucified to the world.  In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything or uncircumcision, but it is all about the new creature made alive by God and dwelling in me.

Colossians 1

Today, Father, I give thanks to you that you have qualified me to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.  You have delivered me from the domain of darkness and transferred me to the kingdom of your beloved son, my Lord, Jesus Christ. In him I have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

My Lord Jesus is the Christ, your Messiah, sent to save all those who are yours. He is the image of you, Father, the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.  By him all things were created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. All things were created through him and for him.  He is before all things and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the first born from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.  For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell.

Colossians 1

The Lord Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, sent to save all those who belong to you, Father. He is the image of you, Father, the firstborn of all creation. He is the head of the body the church. He is the beginning, the first born from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by his blood through the cross.

I was once alienated and hostile in mind; doing evil deeds, but now I am reconciled in the body of his flesh by his death, in order that he can present me holy and blameless and above reproach before you, my Father.

I continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel, the word of God, that you, Father, have chosen to make known among the Gentiles.  That is the answer to the mystery which is Christ in me the hope of glory.