Always Ready

Psalms 119; Hebrews 12; Romans 8; 1 Peter 3; Hebrews 4; 1 Peter 1; John 10

Father, I trust in your word and in your steadfast love for me. I keep my eyes on Jesus the author and finisher of my life story. For the joy of seeing me saved he endured the cross, looking beyond the shame to your glory, father.

Now my Lord Jesus is seated at your right hand making intercession for me and waiting for your kingdom to come on this earth.

Therefore, I sanctify the Lord Jesus in my heart. I ponder his life and meditate on his word, so that I am always ready to give an answer for the hope that lives within me with gentleness and respect to any who ask.

I have your word, father, and it lives and acts within me. By your word I have been born again, and I know that you, Lord Jesus, are the good shepherd. You know me and I know you. I listen to your voice and I follow you. You give me eternal life, and I will never perish, and no one will snatch me out of your hand. You, Lord Jesus, and the father are one.

Alive in Me Now

Ephesians 6; 1 Corinthians 6; Luke 10; Matthew 6; Colossians 3

Thank you, father, that I am prepared by your gospel for the circumstances and events that are likely to occur during this life in the flesh. I am aware of the tricks and schemes of the enemy. I am satisfied that you are God, father, and that you are sovereign, and that you will do things exactly as you have planned.

I understand, and I’m also pleased that I belong to you and that you will use my life here on earth as you have ordained in heaven.

I set my mind that whatever I do in word or in deed, I do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to you, father, through him.

I am prepared for the foolishness and sin of this world and the world system because your gospel has forewarned me, but, hallelujah, I am also comforted by your promises that, in the fullness of time, all will be well.

I have your authority over all the power of the enemy, and I have your steadfast love and eternal life alive in me now. I am hidden in the heavenlies with Christ in you, father. I have nothing to fear and everything to hope for.

Age to Come

Ephesians 1

Father, I have heard your word, the gospel of my salvation, and I believe that Jesus is your Messiah and I receive him as my lord.

I have been sealed with your promised Holy Spirit who is the guarantee of my inheritance until my redemption as a purchased possession of yours to the praise of your glory.

Father, today give me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of you. Open the eyes of my understanding and enlighten me that I will know intimately the hope of your calling and the riches of the glorious inheritance that I have as a saint .

Show me, Holy Spirit, so that I will see and know the exceeding greatness of the father’s power toward me as his child.

Father, let me grasp the magnitude and might of your power as you worked in Christ Jesus when you raised him from the dead and seated him at your right hand in heavenly places far above all power and principality and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

Father

Ephesians 2

I thank you, father, that you have raised me up together with yours and made me sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. You have shown your exceeding rich grace in your kindness to me in Christ Jesus.

For by your grace, I have been saved through faith, that is not my own effort, but it is a gift from you, father.

I am not saved by my works. However, I am your workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which you, father, prepared beforehand that I would walk in.

Now, I, who was once far off from you, father, have been brought near to you by the blood of Christ. He is my peace.

He has created in himself one new man and reconciled me to you, father, in one body through the cross, and put to death the enmity between you and your children. Through Christ we have access by one Spirit to you, father.

We are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of god.

Can Stand

Ephesians 6; 1 Peter 1 & 3; Ephesians 6

Today, lord, in the spirit, my feet are shod with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. I’m ready to stand against the schemes of the devil. For by your grace I am knowledgeable now of his ways.

I prepare my mind for action, and I am sober-minded. I set my hope fully on your grace, father, that is brought to me through the revelation of Jesus, your Christ and my lord.

In my heart I sanctify the Lord Jesus as holy. I’m always prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks me for a reason for the hope that is in me, and to do that with gentleness and respect.

I pray to be filled and led with your holy spirit, father, so that, wherever I walk, folks will see Christ Jesus alive and clear.

My foundation in the gospel is solid so that I can withstand the circumstances that come at me in this lifetime, and having done all I can to be prepared, I can stand.

Generosity

Jeremiah 32; Matthew 22 & 20

Hallelujah, father, you have made an everlasting covenant for me that you will not turn away from doing good to me. You put a proper fear of you in my heart, so that I will not turn away from you. You rejoice in doing me good. You plant me in this land of faithfulness with all my heart and soul.

Thank you, lord, that when I rebelled and ran off you sought me, brought me to my senses, and brought me back to you into a place of faithfulness where you have made me dwell in safety. I am yours, lord, and you are my god.

I love you, father, with all my heart and with all my soul and with all my mind and with all my strength. And by your grace and presence in me, I love my neighbor as myself.

Thank you, lord, for your generosity to me. Even though I was slow to come to you, you took me and placed me in your vineyard. I was unworthy and lost, but in your mercy you made me first.

Joyfully Reconciled

Ephesians 6; Hebrews 4; Romans 10; 2 Corinthians 5; Romans 8; 2 Corinthians 5

I take up your whole armor continually, father. Thank you that I have your truth. Through your word and your Holy Spirit I have a standard of truth that is absolute and eternal. It is living and active and enables me to judge the thoughts and intentions of my heart.

All day, everyday I put on the breastplate of righteousness and my heart is thoroughly guarded. I know and thankfully agree that Jesus Christ and his perfect life is my righteousness.

Jesus, the Christ, is the end of the law of righteousness to everyone who believes. Everyone who believes in him shall not be put to shame. For my sake, father, you made Jesus, who knew no sin, to be sin for me, so that in him I became the righteousness of God.

There is therefore, now no condemnation for me for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. I am joyfully reconciled to you, father.

Stand Firm

Ephesians 6; John 17; 1 Peter 1; John 8

Thank you, father, that by your grace and illumination to me I am strong in you. I know you and I commune with you. I am strong in your strength which is active and living in me.

Ceaselessly and instantly I put on your whole armor, father, and thereby, I am able to stand against the schemes of the devil. I realize that the real fight is against spiritual forces of evil in heavenly places.

I take up your whole armor, father, and I am able to withstand in the evil days and having done all, I stand firm.

I fasten your truth about me. Your word is truth. I am sanctified by your word. I am born again by your incorruptible seed which is your word.

I continue in your word for I am indeed your disciple, and I know your truth, and the truth sets me free. Whom you set free, father, is free indeed.

Rest in You, Father

Psalms 36; John 1; Psalms 37

Your loving kindness is precious to me, oh God. Therefore, I put my trust in you. I remain under the shadow of your wings. I am abundantly satisfied with the fullness of your house.

You give me drink from the river of your pleasures, father. In you I have the fountain of life. In your light I see light.

The light of man is in the life of the Lord Jesus. His life and light shine in the darkness and the darkness can never overcome his life. His life is the true light which gives light to every man coming into the world.

I received the Lord Jesus as the Messiah and as my savior. I believe in his name as Savior and lord.

I trust in him and believe on him as God, my father’s, Messiah. I am God’s child and I dwell in the land and feed on God’s faithfulness. I delight myself in the Lord and he gives me the desires of my heart.

I rest in you, father, and wait patiently on you. You fill my heart and mind with your presence, and I cease from anger and do not fret.

You Uphold Me

Psalms 37; Colossians 1; John 16; Romans 8; Psalms 37

I trust in you, father, and I am saved. I wait upon you, lord, and I keep your ways.

By your grace and presence in me, I’m joined to you in fellowship and communion. Christ dwells in me now through your Holy Spirit, father, and that is glorious and fills me with hope and peace and joy.

Holy Spirit, you guide me into all truth. You glorify Jesus Christ in me. You take the things, the truths and blessings, of Jesus, and you declare them to me. You bear witness with my spirit that I am God’s child, and since I am his child, I am an heir: an heir of God and a joint heir with Jesus Christ.

Father, I am blameless in your sight, and my future is peace. I live forever in your salvation and you are my strength in time of trouble. My mouth speaks wisdom and my tongue talks of justice. Your law, father, is in my heart. I show mercy and I give.

My steps are ordered by you, Lord. You delight in my obedience. Even when I stumble you catch me and uphold me with your hand. You preserve me forever.