Saturday, March 10, 2007

Jeremiah 29:11-13

1 Passage: Jeremiah 29:11-13

1 Verse:
Verse 13. 'You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.'

1 Prayer:
Thank You, Father, for making Yourself available to be found. You aren't hiding from us the condition of our finding You. Help me to meet that condition. Help me to be wholehearted in my searching after You. Sometimes I feel like my heart is so divided, so broken into many pieces, that I cannot manage to search for you with all my heart. Please help my heart be whole and my search be genuine and sincere and complete. You know how much I need You, how much I need to know You. Please let me find You in the moments of my life today.

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Tomorrow's passage
: Hebrews 11:1-6

Friday, March 09, 2007

Deuteronomy 10:17-22

1 Passage: Deuteronomy 10:17-22

1 Verse:
Verse 18. "He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing."

1 Prayer:
Thank You, Father, for caring for the helpless, the weak, the oppressed, the despised, the rejected, the unwanted. Thank You for providing for the needy. Forgive us when we fail to love and care for one another. Help us to become people who more fully live out Your justice and show Your love to those in our society and community who suffer hatred, injustice, discrimination and need.

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Tomorrow's passage
: Jeremiah 29:11-13

Thursday, March 08, 2007

John 14:7-14

1 Passage: John 14:7-14

1 Verse:
Verse 7. "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him."

1 Prayer:
"From now on . . ." and to forever, Father, I know You and have seen You because I have known and seen Your chosen revelation in Jesus. Thank You, Father, for making Yourself known. Thank You for initiating a relationship with me that will never end. Help me to know You in the now, not to wait to know You at some future date when I will know fully, even as I am fully known. Help me to walk in knowledge of You and in relationship with You today.

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Tomorrow's passage
: Deuteronomy 10:17-22

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

John 14:1-6

1 Passage: John 14:1-6

1 Verse:
Verse 3. "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also."

1 Prayer:
Thank You, Father, for having a house with many rooms. Thank You for having a room prepared for me. Thank You for the promise that, just as Jesus is preparing a place for me with Him, He will also come and receive me into it so that we can be together forever. Help me to remember that, while I am alive on this earth, I am out of place. I don't belong here. Despite how hard I try to fit in, to get comfortable, to make myself a home, my real place is with You and I will be with You there forever. I want to be where You are. Thank You for wanting me to be there, too. Help me today to be where You are by faith. Let not my heart be troubled.

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Tomorrow's passage
: John 14:7-14

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Romans 1:16-23

1 Passage: Romans 1:16-23

1 Verse:
Verse 17. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH."

1 Prayer:
Thank You, Father, for revealing Your righteousness through the gospel of Jesus. It takes faith to see it, faith to believe it, faith to receive it, and faith to live it. Help me to live by faith. Forgive me for thinking Your righteousness could be granted to me any other way and help me to walk in the righteousness that only comes by faith in Jesus.

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Tomorrow's passage
: John 14:1-6

Monday, March 05, 2007

Exodus 3:10-15

1 Passage: Exodus 3:10-15

1 Verse:
Verse 12. And He said, "Certainly I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain."

1 Prayer:
Thank You, Father, for being with me. Help me to draw upon the confidence that comes from Your presence, so I can accomplish the things You have sent me to do. Forgive me for waiting on signs. Help me to do the works first and trust that the signs will follow their successful completion. Lord, help my unbelief.

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Tomorrow's passage
: Romans 1:16-23

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Jeremiah 9:23-24

1 Passage: Jeremiah 9:23-24

1 Verse:
Verse 24. "but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things," declares the LORD.

1 Prayer:
Thank You, Father, for exercising lovingkindness on earth, and not only in heaven. Help me to desire above all to know and understand You -- as You are revealing Yourself through Your love, Your justice and Your righteousness, on earth as it is in heaven. Forgive me for putting so much of my time and energy into making myself healthy, wealthy and wise -- instead of getting to know and understand Your loving and kind ways. I want to better understand Your love, Father. Please teach me.

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Tomorrow's passage
: Exodus 3:10-15