1 Peter 5; Hebrews 9; 2 Timothy 4

Hallelujah, today I cast my cares upon you, Father, so thankful that you care for me. I am not anxious, my refuge is in you, not in being anxious. I am eager for your company and your lordship today, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes the judgment, so, Christ, you were offered once to bear my sins, and you will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save us who are eagerly waiting for you.

Therefore, by your grace, I fight a good fight, I finish my race, I keep the faith. Henceforth, there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which you, the Lord of Righteousness, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but to all who have loved your appearing.

1 Corinthians 15

Lord Jesus, you lifted my sins and carried them to the cross and died the death that I deserve to die. Now my death is no longer the wrath of God against me. Instead because of your atonement my death is my entrance into full salvation, with no condemnation.

My mortal body must put on immortality and death is swallowed up in victory for me, through Christ Jesus.”

At your appointed time, Father, in this flesh, I will appear to die, and this fleshly vessel will be sown like a kernel. It is sown perishable, but what you raise, Father, is imperishable.

It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. This is because flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s kingdom, nor can perishable inherit the imperishable.

Romans 9,10 &15; 1 Peter 1

Thank you, Father, that you chose me and have mercy and compassion on me. This election is for your purposes and by your mercy. It does not come because of my will or exertion.

But now, by your call to me, and your gift of grace and faith, I do pursue the righteousness that comes by faith in Jesus, the Christ.

I believe in him and receive him as Lord of my life. Jesus Christ is the end of the law of righteousness for each of us who believe.

I say with my mouth and my life that Jesus is Lord and that you, God, my heavenly Father, raised him from the dead, according to the scriptures.

I glorify you, Father, for your mercy to me and to all those who are yours. According to your great mercy, you have caused me to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

In Christ, my inheritance is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. I am guarded by your power, father, through faith, for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Hebrews 3,6, & 4

Lord Jesus, I believe you are the Messiah, the Christ, sent by God the Father to reconcile his people to himself.  You are Jesus, the Apostle and the high priest of my confession. You are faithful to God who appointed you. I hold fast my confidence and my boasting in you, Lord Jesus, you are my hope.

You are a sure and steadfast anchor of my soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the veil where you have gone as a forerunner on my behalf; having become my high priest forever.  Since I have a great high priest who is passed through the heavens, I hold fast my confession.

I have a high priest who is able to sympathize with my weaknesses because he was in every respect tempted as I am and yet without sin.  Therefore, because of Jesus, I have confidence to draw near to the throne of grace, to receive mercy and find grace in times of need!

Hebrews 8,7&9

Lord Jesus, you are the guarantor of a better covenant. You hold the priesthood permanently. Consequently, you are able to save to the uttermost those of us who draw near to God through you, since you always live to make intercession for us.  When you, Lord Jesus, the Christ, appeared as high priest of the good things to come, you entered once for all into the holy place by means of your own blood thus securing eternal redemption.

You offered yourself without blemish. Your blood purifies my conscience from dead works to serve the living God. You are my mediator of the new covenant so that I may receive the promised eternal inheritance.  You, Lord Jesus, have entered, not into the holy place made with hands, but into heaven itself, to appear in the presence of God the Father on my behalf.  

You appeared once for all to put away sin by the sacrifice of yourself. You will appear a second time, to save those who are eagerly waiting for you.

Psalms 40

Lord, you drew me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and you set my feet upon the rock. You steadied my steps and established my goings.

You, Father, have put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to you, my God.

Therefore, I am not too concerned about what may happen tomorrow. You, Almighty Father, are the same everlasting one who cares for me today, and you will take care of me tomorrow and every day. Either you will shield me from suffering, or you will give me unfailing strength to bear it.

I am at peace. I put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations and say continually, “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart has trusted in him and I am helped.  He is not only with me but in me, and I in him.”

Romans 8

By the Spirit of God in me I put to death the deeds of the body and I live.  All who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God. I have received the Spirit of adoption as a son, by which I cry Abba, Father.  The Spirit himself bears witness with my spirit that I am a child of God, and if a child, then an heir, heir of God and fellow heir with Christ provided I suffer with him in order that I may also be glorified with him.

The suffering of this present time is not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed in me. The whole creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. The Spirit of God helps me. The spirit intercedes for the Saints according to the will of God. I know that all things work for my good because I love God and I’m called according to his purpose. I am predestined to be conformed to the image of God’s son in order that he may be the firstborn among many brothers.

I Peter 1&2

I have been born again; not of perishable seed but of imperishable through the living and abiding word of God. The word of God remains forever. This is the good news that has been preached to me.

I am one of the chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a person of God’s possession, that I may proclaim the excellencies of God who has called me out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Romans 7

I have died to the law through the body of Christ, and I belong to another. I serve God in the new way of the Spirit.

Apart from the law sin is dead. I know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh sold under sin. I do not understand my own actions for I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. It is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.   Nothing good dwells in my flesh. I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.

When I want to do right, evil lives close at hand. I delight in the law of God in my inner being. I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin. Who will deliver me from this body of death?

Thank you, Heavenly Father, that I have been delivered from the flesh through Jesus, the Christ, my Lord and Savior.

Romans 8

I thank you, Father, that by your grace I am in Christ and there is no condemnation for me because the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.  You, Father, have done what the law could not do.

By sending your Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, you, Father, have condemned sin in the flesh and fulfilled the righteous requirement of the law in all who walk according to the Spirit and not according to the flesh; for to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

The Spirit of God dwells in me. I belong to Christ. I not in the flesh but in the Spirit.  The Spirit is life because of Christ’s righteousness. The Spirit of him who raised Christ from the dead dwells in me and gives live to my mortal body.