Prayer
Thank You Lord for the many ways You use other people to counsel me and help me grow… and yet that Christ Himself is the answer to my hang-ups, the one source who can meet my deepest needs. How I rejoice that He is wonderful in counsel and mighty in power, and that He heals from the inside out.
Bible Verses
Philipians 1:3
Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God.
Father, I celebrate the fact that I have been crucified with Christ, and that now I am alive with Hs life… that through my new birth I died out of my old life, and that You resurrected me to a living relationship with You… and so I am dead to sin and alive to You!
Bible Verses
Galatians 2:20
I myself no longer live, but Christ lives in me. So I live my life in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 6:14
As for me, God forbid that I should boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, my interest in this world died a long time ago, and the world’s interest in me is also long dead.
Prayer
Holy Spirit I thank You that You are within me, to strengthen me with power in my inner person… to make Christ real within me and flood my heart with His limitless love… to fill me with Your fullness… to enable me to know in personal experience the things You have so freely bestowed on me in Christ.
Bible Verses
Romans 8:9-10
God saved you by His special favor when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this, it is a gift from God. 9Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
Ephesians 3:16-19
I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you mighty inner strength through His Holy Spirit. 17And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in Him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love. 18And may you have the power to understand how deep his love really is. 19May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God.
Prayer
I greatly rejoice in You, Lord; my soul exalts in You; for You have clothed me with the garments of salvation,
You have wrapped me with a robe of righteousness and beauty, as a bridegroom dressed for his wedding, as a bride adorned with her jewels. What amazing grace! How wonderful that You ask me to do absolutely nothing to earn Your forgiveness.
Bible Verses
Isaiah 61:10
I am overwhelmed with joy in the Lord, my God! For He has dressed me with the clothing of salvation and draped me in a robe of righteousness. I am like a bridegroom in a wedding suit or a bride with her jewels.
Ephesians 2:8-9
God saved you by His special favor when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this, it is a gift from God. 9Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
Prayer
I praise You God, that the things that happened in my past, both enjoyable and painful, are raw materials for blessings, both in my life and in the lives of others. I choose to look beyond my past and present troubles in this temporary life – and fix my eyes on the unseen things that will last forever. I praise You for the eternal glory these things are piling up for me as I choose to trust You.
Bible Verses
1 Thessalonians 5:18
No matter what happens, always be thankful, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
