Psalms 144, 145, 146 & 147; Romans 12

I am happy, heavenly father, because you are my God and Jesus is the Lord of my life. You, father, are gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and great in mercy.

You, father, are good to all, and your tender mercies permeate all your works. You, oh Lord, are righteous in all your ways and gracious in all your works.

I call on you and you are always near me. You hear my cry and you save me. My hope is in you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. While I live I will praise you, Lord.

You opened my eyes when I was blind, Lord. You raise me up when I was bowed down. You healed my brokenness and bound up my wounds.

You renewed my mind and transformed me into your child; no longer slave to sin and to the world’s pattern of living. But now, born again in Christ; healed delivered and set free; justified by your grace and glorified by your presence in me.

You, oh Lord, are my hope and peace. A very present person in every breath I take. Nothing can separate me from your love, Father, which is in Christ Jesus, my Lord.

I Peter 3&4; Romans 6; II Cor. 5

Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord, that by your grace I am born again. I am a new creature in Christ. I refrain my tongue from evil and stop my lips from speaking guile.

I turn from evil and I do good. I seek peace and pursue it. Your eyes, Lord, are upon me and your ears are open to my prayers.

Today, I sanctify you, Lord Jesus, in my heart. Make me ready to give a defense to any that ask, for the hope that is in me, with meekness and fear.

Lord Jesus, you suffered for me in your flesh. Arm me with your mind and thoughts and will, so that I reckon myself dead to my flesh and alive in your spirit.

Then I will no longer live the rest of my time in the flesh for the lust of men, but instead I will live my life for the will of God, my heavenly father.

For I have spent enough of my past lifetime living as a slave to my lust. Henceforth, by your grace and provision, Lord Jesus, I will live according to God in the spirit.

1 Corinthians 15

Thank you, Father, that through my Lord Jesus, the Christ, I have victory over death, hell and the grave.

By your grace and redemption power my body is sown in corruption and raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.

The spiritual does not come first, but rather the natural, and after that the spiritual. The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second man is the Lord from heaven. As I have borne the image of the man of dust, I shall also bear the image of the Heavenly Man.

Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. But, at the time appointed by you, heavenly father, in the twinkling of an eye, we shall all be changed.

Your trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible. For corruptible must put on incorruption, and mortal must put on immortality.

I Thessalonians 5,3&4; Romans 12,8&6

Thank you, Father, that you did not appoint me to wrath, but instead you appointed me to obtain salvation.

By your power and presence in me, through Jesus Christ, you have established my heart blameless in holiness before you. My sanctification is your will and plan.

You, the God of Peace, sanctify me completely and my whole spirit, soul and body are preserved blameless at the coming of my Lord Jesus Christ.

In the meantime, I am transformed by the renewing of my mind. My character is conformed to the image of the Lord Jesus. I’m no longer conformed to the pattern of this world. Instead, I am filled with the spirit of the God of Peace. I am led by God, the Spirit, and no longer led by the lust of my flesh.

Instead, I aspire to lead a quiet life, and to mind my own business, and to work with joy with my hands. That I may walk properly, with all that are around me, and that I may lack nothing in my life.

Ed’s opinion

When one says, “I am nothing special.” It can be a truly spiritual understanding, but there is a potential humanistic perversion to be avoided.

This statement, without sincere recognition of the greatness of God in our life, becomes a lie and a cover-up or excuse to actually be self-centered. It can be a tip-off of idolatry with some aspect of “me, myself or I” being the idol.

First off, I can say the words, but at the same time be very much concentrated on “me”. Thinking about how everything affects me, and makes me feel, and waiting on others to prove to me, over and over, that I am special.

What’s going on in this perversion is I am saying humble sounding words, but my reality is that my feelings and interpretations are the center of my spiritual universe.

A second deception of this perversion is I say, ” I’m nothing special”, and I demonstrate the truth of that thought by not trying very hard and basically living a poor me, pity me lifestyle. This is still a very self-centered gospel even though it sounds humble.

Romans 8; 2 Cor 4; 1 Peter 2

I want to say I’m nothing special, and, in my renewed mine, I know that is true. Except, in a way, by the very presence of God, I am special.

It is not my intellect or physical ability, and certainly not my moral past, that makes me special, but rather, it is the understanding that you, father, are present in my mortal body by your Holy Spirit. That makes me special.

You are busy building and maintaining in me your very presence, and your presence is glorious. So, it is not me that is special, but your presence in me is very special.

In fact, your presence is glorious and divine. So, I am special because you chose me, justified me, filled me, and are transforming and converting me.

Physically I am an ordinary clay jar, but I am filled with the treasure, the very person of Almighty, holy and loving God. In my flesh I’m nothing special, but in your kingdom, I am a living stone being placed in a vast eternal temple where you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit are worshipped, served and adored.

Romans 9&10

By God’s grace and providence, I have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith. I believe your word, father, therefore, Christ is the end of the law of righteousness for me.

This is the righteousness that comes by faith. The righteousness of Faith speaks this way,” the word (of the life) is near me even in my mouth and in my heart.”

I confess with my mouth and I believe in my heart all that you tell me, father, of Jesus as your Messiah and my Lord.

I believe Jesus was born of Mary, according to the scriptures; that he lived a sinless life pleasing to you; was arrested, tried and crucified; dead and buried, and on the third day he arose according to the scriptures.

He was raised by your Holy Spirit, appeared to hundreds of witnesses for several days and then was raised up into the sky. He sits at your right hand, father, where he daily makes intercession for me, as his enemies are made a footstool for him as Savior, Lord, and God.

I Corinthians 11; 2 Cor. 5; Romans 5; I Cor. 6

The new covenant is given by God, my father. It’s terms are fulfilled by Jesus’ perfect life in the flesh, and the covenant is guaranteed by the blood (the sacrifice of Jesus’ life) as propitiation of the sins of mankind.

That propitiation is applied to my sins through faith in Jesus as the Messiah, and his perfect life is imputed to my life as righteousness. By God’s grace, I become the righteousness of God in Christ.

By Christ’s body and blood I’m reconciled to God, my father. I become a new creature in Christ. The old things are passed away and behold all that is important (eternal) in me becomes new.

My past is forgiven and I begin to live a life in the presence and by the power of the holy Spirit. I begin to become free of this world. Free of the regrets and guilt of sin. No longer a slave to sin, but set free to be a temple of God’s spirit and a son of almighty God.

John 6; Matt. 7; John 17

Thank you, Father, for your revelation to me of my sin and your salvation. Thank you for drawing me to faith in Jesus.

Today, by your grace, I see Jesus, the son, and I believe in him, and I seek his presence in my body diligently. By Jesus’ life and death and resurrection, I have eternal life and divine salvation.

I partake of Christ and his righteousness. I eat of his flesh and drink his blood; that is, Jesus is my complete savior. His perfect life gives me a life pleasing to you, father, and his atoning death pays for my sin and reconciles me to you, father, in a living sonship.

I have entered into your kingdom, father, through the narrow way. Thank you for drawing me to it and giving me the uction to walk in it, even though it seems hard.

I know you, father, son and holy Spirit. I hear your words and I let your word “do” in me what your word does. I am sanctified by your truth and your word is truth and life.

John 17&18

I thank you, Father, that by your grace and power and presence and provision you keep me from the evil one. I am not of this world. I am sanctified by your truth. Your word is truth.

I am one with you, father, just as you and the Lord Jesus are one; Christ in me and you in Christ, made perfect in one. You gave me to Christ, father, and I am with him. I have begun to behold his glory; the glory you have given him.

The world does not know you, father, but I have begun to know you as I have seen you and heard you in the life of Jesus, your Christ, and my Lord.

Thank you, Father, that the same love with which you loved Jesus, your only begotten son, is in me, and your Spirit fills me. You, Lord Jesus, have come into the world to bear witness to the truth. I hear your voice. I believe your testimony.