Psalm 97

1 Passage: Psalm 97

1 Verse: Verse 2. Clouds and thick darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for establishing Your eternal rule and reign upon the foundation of perfect justice and righteousness. Even when Your holy throne is obscured from our understanding by the veil of mystery that surrounds You, we trust You to do all things well and make all things right. We even draw near to that throne of grace to find mercy and help in time of need. Please, Father, help us to gain from our trust in You the wisdom and courage to implement Your righteousness and justice in our lives by loving others at all costs, as You have commanded and demonstrated in Christ.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 98

Psalm 96

1 Passage: Psalm 96

1 Verse: Verse 13. Before the LORD, for He is coming, For He is coming to judge the earth He will judge the world in righteousness And the peoples in His faithfulness.

1 Prayer: Father, You alone in all the world are the righteous Judge of all peoples. You alone see all and know all. Please forgive me for trying to judge others for myself, without all the facts and without all the righteousness. You will faithfully administer justice when You come. For now, we do the best we can, but far from much that is good and lasting and meaningful. But, Father, despite all that, please help us to lovingly and courageously and wisely uphold Your truth without judging and condemning those who deny it.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 97

Psalm 95:7b-11

1 Passage: Psalm 95:7b-11

1 Verse: Verse 8. Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness

1 Prayer: Father, I would like to hear Your voice today. But if I would . . . I must not harden my heart. Please help me keep a tender heart before You today. Even if I go wandering in the wilderness, even when I find myself at a place of strife or in a time of temptation, I will keep a gentle, humble heart. Of course, that means my poor soft heart will hurt all the more. But if it also means I will get to hear Your voice, then it will all be worth it.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 96

Psalm 95:3-5

1 Passage: Psalm 95:3-5

1 Verse: Verse 6. Come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for making me. I'd rather be than not be, though sometimes I'd rather not be me. I fear I've made quite a mess of what You have made for Yourself. But I'm grateful You still want me to come to You to worship and bow down. Perhaps I haven't made so little of myself. Perhaps You would make more of me than I would. Please help me, Father. Make me over again. Make me more like You.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 95:6-7a

Psalm 95:1-2

1 Passage: Psalm 95:1-2

1 Verse: Verse 2. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.

1 Prayer: Father, You are ever-present, everywhere. And in Your presence, my proper attitude of worship is to be grateful. Help me to be ever-thankful, all the time, wherever I may be, in whatever circumstances I find myself. Wherever I am, You are there. That alone is enough to be thankful for.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 95:3-5

Job 34:10-12 & Job 42:1-6

1 Passage: Job 34:10-12 & Job 42:1-6

1 Verse: Verse 6. "Therefore I retract, and I repent in dust and ashes."

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for the example of righteous Job. If he, a man so much greater and more faithful to You than I am, had to retract his false statements about You, how much more so must I. Please help me to cultivate and maintain a repentant heart, knowing that no matter how close we get, no matter how much I think I am growing in knowledge or understanding, that You are ever greater and beyond complete comprehension.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 95

Job 42:7-10

1 Passage: Job 42:7-10

1 Verse: Verse 8. "Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has."

1 Prayer: Father, thank You for accepting Jesus' sacrifice to atone for my sin. I have not spoken of you what is right, nor have I been righteous and faithful as Job was in the midst of his suffering. I have cursed You to Your face and kindled Your wrath. But I have also received Your grace. Thank You for not doing with me as my sins deserve. Thank You for allowing Jesus to receive the penalty that I have earned. Even today, Father, I beg You not to treat me according to my folly. Spare me from my sin and its consequences for the sake of Your name. Undo the wrong I have done and instead allow me to do right in Your name.

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Tomorrow's passage: Job 34:10-12

Job 5:17-19

1 Passage: Job 5:17-19

1 Verse: Verse 17. "Behold, how happy is the man whom God reproves, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty."

1 Prayer: Father, please forgive me for insisting on my unhappiness in the face of the fact that You promise that the painful reproving is a work of Your love for my good.

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Tomorrow's passage: Job 42:7-10

Psalm 91:1-4

1 Passage: Psalm 91:1-4

1 Verse: Verse 1. He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for giving me Your protection, safety and security. I know that if I dwell in Your shelter, nothing can harm me because nothing can separate me from Your love for me in Christ. Help me to dwell in Your shelter. Help me to abide and not stray.

"Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above."

(Robert Robinson, Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing)

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Tomorrow's passage: Job 5:17-19

Job 33:1-4

1 Passage: Job 33:1-4

1 Verse: Verse 4. "The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life."

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for making me and making me Yours. Thank You for giving me life and that both abundant and everlasting. Please help me to become all that You have made me to be and to spend my life on Your good purposes.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 91:1-4

Job 32:6-8

1 Passage: Job 32:6-8

1 Verse: Verse 8. "But it is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding."

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for the wisdom and understanding that comes from Your Spirit within us. Please help me to listen and learn from You so that, when I speak, my words may be seasoned with salt, appropriate for the moment, and useful to those who hear. Thank You for the opportunity You gave me to speak about You with Paolo last night. I would be grateful if by Your Spirit something I said encourages him to draw nearer to You.

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Tomorrow's passage: Job 33:1-4

Revelation 22:1-5

1 Passage: Revelation 22:1-5

1 Verse: Verse 3. There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him;

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for the promise of Your presence throughout all eternity. It will truly be a day when there is no more curse and all is blessing, when we serve before Your throne in heaven. Help me to begin serving You now. Help me to be a blessing even in the midst of the curse.

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Tomorrow's passage: Job 32:6-8

Revelation 21:6-8

1 Passage: Revelation 21:6-8

1 Verse: Verse 7. "He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son."

1 Prayer: Father -- please keep me from using that form of address in vain. I want You to be my God and me Your son, but I'm not so sure how I'm doing at the whole overcoming thing. I feel more overcome than not. Please help me by Your Spirit to replace my cowardice with Your courage, my doubt with Your faith, my ugliness with Your beauty, my malice with Your love, my deceptions with Your truth. You say You will allow those who thirst to drink from the springs of the water of life without cost. "I'm very thirsty, but I can't complain. Stuck in the desert but expecting rain . . ." (Bill Mallonee, Bethlehem Steel)

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Tomorrow's passage: Revelation 22:1-5

John 4:10-14

1 Passage: John 4:10-14

1 Verse: Verse 14. "but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

1 Prayer: Father, please forgive me for looking all around for water to quench my thirst -- even to the point of hewing my own broken cisterns -- when You say the living water is already springing up inside of me. Help me draw upon Your Spirit when I feel desiccated by the desert sun, the devil winds, the lengthening drought. Please help me clear away all the doubts and worries and fears that clog and choke the free flow of living water from the well of Your Spirit.

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Tomorrow's passage: Revelation 21:6-8

Revelation 7:13-17

1 Passage: Revelation 7:13-17

1 Verse: Verse 17. "for the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

1 Prayer: Thank You, Jesus, for being my shepherd. Thank You for being my sacrificial lamb. You know best how to follow God's leading in complete trust, and now I must learn to do the same as I follow after You. Thank You for being my ever-present teacher. Please guide me today beside streams of living water. Fill me up so full with your fountain of life springing up within me that the water wells up in my eyes -- not in tears for myself, but tears of joy and sorrow for those things that please and pain Your heart. Help me not to fear honest tears, as I know You will someday wipe them all away.

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Tomorrow's passage: John 4:10-14

Revelation 7:9-12

1 Passage: Revelation 7:9-12

1 Verse: Verse 12 . . . saying, "Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be to our God forever and ever Amen."

1 Prayer: Father, all these good things and more belong to You. They come from You and return to You. Whatever I can do today to bless You, please give me the grace and wisdom and courage to do it. However I might give You glory, please show me. In everything I encounter today, I will keep an attitude of thanksgiving to You. I will honor You as best I can. I will look to You for strength and power and might. Thank You for being such a great and glorious God.

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Tomorrow's passage: Revelation 7:13-17

Hebrews 13:20-21

1 Passage: Hebrews 13:20-21

1 Verse: Verse 21 . . . equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for working in us. It is only by Your working that we are equipped for every good thing to do Your will. Today, Father, please help me to do the good things You have willed for me. May what I do reflect who You are making me become -- pleasing in Your sight, to the glory of Jesus Christ.

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Tomorrow's passage: Revelation 7:9-12

Psalm 23:1-6

1 Passage: Psalm 23:1-6

1 Verse: Verse 1. The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for watching over me -- protecting, providing, guiding -- as my shepherd. It is by faith in Your perfect wisdom and power that I resolve not to desire more than what I have. You make it possible for me to live without coveting. And yet Your Word is clear -- suffering need is a part of even (or perhaps especially) the most faithful follower's life. So please teach me, as You taught our brother Paul, how to be content in whatever circumstances I am. No matter what I lack, no matter where I am or am not, no matter how much it hurts to not have what I need, You are my Good Shepherd. Thank You, Father. I shall not want.

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Tomorrow's passage: Hebrews 13:20-21

1 Peter 2:11-17

1 Passage: 1 Peter 2:11-17

1 Verse: Verse 11. Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.

1 Prayer: Father, You know I don't belong here. This is not my home, my country. My citizenship is in heaven. My King is Jesus Christ, raised to the right hand of Your throne where he rules in authority over every other power that can be named, either in heaven or on earth. I'm trying to keep the peace in this place, but I'm an alien and stranger. I'm at a disadvantage here. My opponents are the home team -- it's their field, their turf, they know the terrain. I'm still trying to find my way. So please help me. Tell me, how do I honor You by honoring those who dishonor You by dishonoring those You have also commanded me to honor?

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 23:1-6

1 Peter 2:6-10

1 Passage: 1 Peter 2:6-10

1 Verse: Verse 10. for you once were NOT A PEOPLE, but now you are THE PEOPLE OF GOD; you had NOT RECEIVED MERCY, but now you have RECEIVED MERCY.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for making me one of Your people. I'm grateful for Your mercy toward me. Please help me to show the same mercy to others.

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Tomorrow's passage: 1 Peter 2:11-17

1 Peter 2:1-5

1 Passage: 1 Peter 2:1-5

1 Verse: Verse 5. you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for Your grace to us in making us holy priests serving in Your spiritual house. The very thing that Uzziah was cursed with leprosy for doing, we are created and called and commanded to do -- to offer sacrifices to You through Jesus. Thank You for making our offerings acceptable in Him. Help me to make myself a living sacrifice of service to You and to those You place in my path.

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Tomorrow's passage: 1 Peter 2:6-10

2 Chronicles 26:16-21

1 Passage: 2 Chronicles 26:16-21

1 Verse: Verse 18. They opposed Uzziah the king and said to him, "It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron who are consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful and will have no honor from the LORD God."

1 Prayer: Father, please grant us the wisdom to know when and how to confront corrupt political powers who would try to use or manipulate Your power for their own purposes.

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Tomorrow's passage: 1 Peter 2:1-5

Hebrews 7:1-3, 17 and 23-28

1 Passage: Hebrews 7:1-3, 17 and 23-28

1 Verse: Verse 25. Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for making Jesus my perfect priest. He alone is able to save me forever because He alone has overcome death with His inexhaustible life . As I draw near to You through Him, I will remember His constant and unending intercession for me and know that His prayers are powerful and effective to insure my eternal security with You.

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Tomorrow's passage: 2 Chronicles 26:16-21

John 1:29-34

1 Passage: John 1:29-34

1 Verse: Verse 29. The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"

1 Prayer:

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, grant us peace.

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Tomorrow's passage: Hebrews 7:1-3, 17 and 23-28

Matthew 1:18-25

1 Passage: Matthew 1:18-25

1 Verse: Verse 19. And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for the example of Joseph -- a righteous man who did not flaunt his righteousness before others for the sake of honoring himself, but was intent on having at least some of his goodness go unrecognized out of compassion for those whose unrighteousness might by contrast cause them shame, disgrace and dishonor. Forgive me, Father, for not being more like this. Forgive me for wanting sometimes to use righteousness as a weapon of subjugation, to impel others to recognize or honor me and my goodness at the expense of their disgrace. Please give me wisdom to know when to "let [my] light shine before men" and when to "beware of practicing [my] righteousness before men."

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Tomorrow's passage: John 1:29-34

Hebrews 5:5-10

1 Passage: Hebrews 5:5-10

1 Verse: Verse 9. And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation

1 Prayer: Thank You, Jesus, for becoming the source of my eternal salvation. You have given me a gift that far exceeds my ability to earn or appreciate -- a gift which often leaves me perplexed as to how to comprehend its staggering reality. Somehow, my salvation involves me in a process of becoming like You through my obedience to Your Spirit and living Word. But You are perfect and have been made perfect by learning obedience through suffering. How can I expect to learn obedience like Yours if not through suffering, too? So, please, Jesus, be near me in my trials and troubles and struggles and sufferings. Help me to consider them all joy. Help me to be a comfort to others who also suffer.

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Tomorrow's passage: Matthew 1:18-25

Exodus 4:10-15

1 Passage: Exodus 4:10-15

1 Verse: Verse 11. The LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?"

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for making me. And thank You for the promise that You can make up for whatever I lack. I have by my own selfishness and sin made myself less than You intended me to be. But now, Lord, I trust You to compensate for me. Your power is made perfect in weakness, even though I feel like I have perfected the art of being weak. Father, please be my strength. Stop me from using my faults and frailties and failures as excuses for not doing the things You have created me to do. I am Your workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works which You have already prepared for me. Help me to trust that You have also already prepared me for them.

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Tomorrow's passage: Hebrews 5:5-10

Hebrews 4:14-16

1 Passage: Hebrews 4:14-16

1 Verse: Verse 16. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Jesus, for sympathizing with my weakness. Our shared humanity gives me confidence to draw near to our Heavenly Father's throne -- the same throne to which You sit at the right hand in resurrected glory. Thank You for promising to give mercy and grace in my time of need. Forgive me for failing to ask. So often I fail to recognize or am ashamed to admit my need until it is too late. Please help me to know when I am straying too far from the throne of grace so that I may instead draw near and be strengthened by Your good Spirit.

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Tomorrow's passage: Exodus 4:10-15

Hebrews 4:11-13

1 Passage: Hebrews 4:11-13

1 Verse: Verse 13. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

1 Prayer: I'm grateful, Father, that You see everything. I'm sorry if Your view of me sometimes isn't pretty, but, thankfully, You don't see me without also seeing Jesus' sacrifice on my behalf. I am open and laid bare before You, and yet covered and clothed in the righteousness of Christ. Help me today to be mindful of Your ever-present awareness of me, so that when I am in need I won't hesitate to turn to You. You do not forsake me or abandon me or leave me all alone, but forgive me for forgetting Your nearness.

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Tomorrow's passage: Hebrews 4:14-16

Genesis 13:10-17

1 Passage: Genesis 13:10-17

1 Verse: Verse 17. "Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you."

1 Prayer: Father, You are the Creator, Maker of heaven and earth and everything in them. Everywhere I go, everything I see belongs to You. You have ultimate authority and absolute power over it all. The things of this world are Yours to give or withhold as You see fit. You may not have promised me possession of a land like You did for Abraham, but there are other gifts You want to give me. There are so many more blessings You have already given. Father, I receive them with thanksgiving. As I go walking about my day, please help me to see with gratitude all the things You have granted me by Your grace. Thank You for blessing me so abundantly.

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Tomorrow's passage: Hebrews 4:11-13

Hebrews 1:8-12

1 Passage: Hebrews 1:8-12

1 Verse: Verse 10. And, "YOU, LORD, IN THE BEGINNING LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH, AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS;

1 Prayer: Father, You are the Creator, Maker of heaven and earth and everything in them, including me. I am one of the works of Your hands and this is the day that the You have made. There is a place for me here and now to do Your will. I am Your workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which You prepared beforehand so that I would walk in them. Please help me, Father, to walk by faith through this day. Help me to fit into Your plan both for me and for others today. There is work for me to do. There are foundations I need to lay. Please help me to be successful in them. Establish for me the works of my hands, just as You have established those of Your own.

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Tomorrow's passage: Genesis 13:10-17

Hebrews 1:1-4

1 Passage: Hebrews 1:1-4

1 Verse: Verse 3. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

1 Prayer: Father, there truly is only one like You -- Jesus, Your Son. Your glory shines through His perfect obedience. Your nature is made manifest through Him. Thank You for giving us a picture of Yourself in human flesh in the person of Jesus. And not only the person we see in the pages of Scripture, but the person who by His blood has removed all our sins and who by His word upholds all things. Thank You, Jesus, for upholding me by Your Spirit. And thank You for being my advocate before the Father, seated at the right hand of His throne on high. Advocate for me today. You know my needs.

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Tomorrow's passage: Hebrews 1:8-12

Isaiah 40:21-26

1 Passage: Isaiah 40:21-26

1 Verse: Verse 25. "To whom then will you liken Me that I would be his equal?" says the Holy One.

1 Prayer: Father, there truly is no one like You. There couldn't be. Forgive me if I try to put another in the place of honor and worship in which only You deserve to belong. You are unlike anything. You exceed everything. You equal nothing.

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Tomorrow's passage: Hebrews 1:1-4

Psalm 103:19-22

1 Passage: Psalm 103:19-22

1 Verse: Verse 22. Bless the LORD, all you works of His, in all places of His dominion; bless the LORD, O my soul!

1 Prayer: Father, may You have dominion where I am. May my life be Your domain, in which You rule as sovereign Lord and Master and King. Thank You for making me Your workmanship, so that I may display Your wonders. May You forever be honored and glorified by my soul as You deserve.

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Tomorrow's passage: Isaiah 40:21-26

Psalm 103:15-18

1 Passage: Psalm 103:15-18

1 Verse: Verse 15. As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

1 Prayer: Father, I know the point of this passage is to establish a contrast between the temporality of our human physical life and the eternality of Your divine spiritual love and life. And I'm incredibly thankful that Your love is eternal, because it is on the basis of Your eternal love that I have been promised eternal life together with You. But this verse also makes me think about my day today. If all my days are like grass, what is one day? Very little. And yet, it is everything I have for now. And I want to make it all count for You, Father. I want to flourish. I'm not sure if my flower is in bloom, but I want to try to do something good with this day that You have made and given to me. You say You've prepared good works beforehand for me to walk in. Please help me walk in faith that that is so. Father, please help my faith to flourish to the benefit of others and especially to You.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 103:19-22

Psalm 103:11-14

1 Passage: Psalm 103:11-14

1 Verse: Verse 12. As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for Your lovingkindness and compassion. You are better to me than I fully understand or faithfully express. Thank You for knowing me intimately and perfectly. I am grateful that You are mindful of my weakness and that You remember how I was made. It is only right for me to remember as well that You have made me. And You have made me for Yourself. You have removed my sins from me. Help me to do the same, and remove my sins from me -- as far as the east is from the west. The two cannot exist in the same place at the same time. Help me make it so for those sins that seem to so easily entangle me. And help me to show the same compassion to others made just like me -- created by You from the dust of the ground in order to be recipients of Your love and mercy.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 103:15-18

Psalm 103:1-5

1 Passage: Psalm 103:1-5

1 Verse: Verse 2. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits;

1 Prayer: Father, please forgive my forgetfulness.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 103:11-14

Psalm 97:9-12

1 Passage: Psalm 97:9-12

1 Verse: Verse 12. Be glad in the LORD, you righteous ones, and give thanks to His holy name.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for making me one of Your righteous ones. Any righteousness I might claim comes only from You -- by grace, through faith in the name of Jesus. But that doesn't make it any less real or true. I am righteous in Your sight and the way You see it is the way it is. That makes me glad, because I could never get there on my own. Help me to be glad and grateful today as I walk in the awareness of my righteousness in You.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 103:1-5

Psalm 93:1-5

1 Passage: Psalm 93:1-5

1 Verse: Verse 4. More than the sounds of many waters, than the mighty breakers of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty.

1 Prayer: The sound of many waters I hear this morning is more gentle than mighty, but it is a beautiful sound nonetheless. Thank You, Father, for waking us with thunder and again with softer rain. Your strength is majestic and mighty, and also generous and kind. You command Your clouds to withhold rain and to give it up again. Thank You for lessening our drought with showers of blessing.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 97:9-12

Psalm 22:18 with John 19:23-24

1 Passage: Psalm 22:18 with John 19:23-24

1 Verse: Verse 18. They divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.

1 Prayer: How thoroughly You were ravaged, Jesus. Not even Your clothes, which were likely not worth very much by this point -- torn by whips, shredded by splinters from a heavy wooden cross, stained with blood and spit and sweat -- were taken from You. Thank You for enduring such complete humiliation and loss for me. That was to have been my fate, but no more, thanks to You. I am forever grateful.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 93:1-5

Psalm 22:11-17

1 Passage: Psalm 22:11-17

1 Verse: Verse 11. Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

1 Prayer: Father, You are always near. You heard and answered Jesus' prayer; even as he was dying on the cross for the sin of the world, You were not far from Him. My troubles are so much less; how can I doubt that You are near to me? You are the One I look to for help, and I know Your help comes from many places, in many forms, through many ways, by many people. Help me to recognize Your close presence and Your means of help in the midst of my troubles. Help me to be near to those who are troubled, to help them as You make possible by Your Spirit. Thank You, Father.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 22:18 with John 19:23-24

Psalm 22:6-10 with Matthew 27:39-43

1 Passage: Psalm 22:6-10 with Matthew 27:39-43

1 Verse: Verse 39. And those passing by were hurling abuse at Him, wagging their heads

1 Prayer: Jesus, I appreciate Your sacrifice on my behalf. Thank You for enduring so much pain and suffering, abuse and scorn, shame and ridicule for me. I know You went through all of that because of Your love -- love for God our Father, and love for us, His lost and fallen people. I don't want to hurl further abuse on You by neglecting the great power of the gift You gave us at the cross, but I know that sometimes I do. Sometimes I forget that You already suffered for my sin. Sometimes I wonder whether Your grace is enough for me. Forgive me, Lord Jesus, for not recognizing the infinite value of Your sacrifice. Help me to realize that infinite value in my life today and always.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 22:11-17

Psalm 22:1-5 with Matthew 27:46

1 Passage: Psalm 22:1-5 with Matthew 27:46

1 Verse: Verse 3. Yet You are holy, O You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel.

1 Prayer: Father, You are holy. No matter what it may look like to me. To me sometimes You seem distant, silent, angry, unresponsive. But despite what it seems, You are who You are. And who You are is holy. You are love. You are present. You are near. You are always working. Help me trust that You are all that You say You are, even when You seem not to be.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 22:6-10 with Matthew 27:39-43

Luke 24:36-43

1 Passage: Luke 24:36-43

1 Verse: Verse 36. While they were telling these things, He Himself stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be to you."

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for the peace of Christ. May His peace be with me today, no matter where I go, what I do or what is done to me. Help me to be at peace with You and with those around me. Calm my troubled heart, Lord.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 22:1-5 with Matthew 27:46

Luke 24:27-35

1 Passage: Luke 24:27-35

1 Verse: Verse 28. And they approached the village where they were going, and He acted as though He were going farther.

1 Prayer: Jesus, how many times do I fall for Your act? You test my faith by seeming as if You are going to leave me behind, yet You only need a simple invitation -- or perhaps and impassioned urging? -- to stay instead and fellowship with me. Forgive me for not urging You to stay. Forgive me for thinking You would ever leave me behind. You are the Good Shepherd who leaves the flock of ninety-nine to seek out the one lamb who is lost. Thank You, Jesus, for seeking me out. Please help me return the favor by seeking to always stay with You.

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Tomorrow's passage: Luke 24:36-43

Luke 24:13-26

1 Passage: Luke 24:13-26

1 Verse: Verse 16. But their eyes were prevented from recognizing Him.

1 Prayer: Father, please open my eyes to recognize Jesus as He walks alongside me through the various journeys of my life. I know He is with me, but I miss seeing Him so many times because my eyes are on myself, or on things of this world. Help me to walk by faith and not by sight so that I can recognize Your ever-presence.

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Tomorrow's passage: Luke 24:27-35

Luke 24:44-49

1 Passage: Luke 24:44-49

1 Verse: Verse 49. "And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for Your Holy Spirit which You have promised to all who believe in You. Thank You for giving me Your Spirit -- Your divine, holy, eternally living Spirit. By Your Spirit You are my ever-present Comforter and help in time of need. Always remind me that I am clothed with power from on high, that my life is inhabited by Your Spirit from heaven that has completely overcome this world.

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Tomorrow's passage: Luke 24:13-26

Luke 6:46-49

1 Passage: Luke 6:46-49

1 Verse: Verse 46. "Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?"

1 Prayer: Lord Jesus, is this question for me? What have You said that I am not doing? Please help me to do it.

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Tomorrow's passage: Luke 24:44-49

Acts 9:1-16

1 Passage: Acts 9:1-16

1 Verse: Verse 6. but get up and enter the city, and it will be told you what you must do.

1 Prayer: Lord Jesus, this seems like a strange thing to say at a time like this. Is this a test? Do You give such small and cryptic instruction just to see if we believe You enough to follow no questions asked? Or are You intentionally leaving room for Your people to play a part? What You did not do directly on the road, Ananias did on Your behalf in the city. Lord, help me to do the little things You ask of me, however disappointingly small and vague they may seem. Help me to recognize when You are intentionally leaving room for Your people to work on Your behalf. Help me to be a faithful and obedient worker for You.

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Tomorrow's passage: Luke 6:46-49

Revelation 19:11-21

1 Passage: Revelation 19:11-21

1 Verse: Verse 11. And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war.

1 Prayer: Lord Jesus, You are Faithful and True. You are faithful even when I am faithless. You are true even when I am false. You are just when You judge and righteous when You wage war. Thank You for giving us Your peace. Help me, Lord, to live in light of the reality that You have overcome the world. Though we have yet to see it, we know it is coming. Help me live as if it has already come.

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Tomorrow's passage: Acts 9:1-16

Psalm 110:1-7

1 Passage: Psalm 110:1-7

1 Verse: Verse 2. The LORD will stretch forth Your strong scepter from Zion, saying, "Rule in the midst of Your enemies."

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for giving Jesus dominion over all things. He has, just as He said, overcome the world. Help me -- in the midst of Your enemies, surrounded by things that would destroy me only to hurt You -- to trust in His strength and security. May His strong scepter be stretched forth in my defense today. Thank You.

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Tomorrow's passage: Revelation 19:11-21

Genesis 15:1-6

1 Passage: Genesis 15:1-6

1 Verse: Verse 6. Then he believed in the LORD; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for this example of Your faithfulness. Help me be faithful, too. Help me to believe Your word, even when You don't come to me in a vision or address me by name like You did Abram. I believe, too. Help my unbelief.

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Tomorrow's passage: Psalm 110:1-7

Matthew 21:1-11

1 Passage: Matthew 21:1-11

1 Verse: Verse 5. "SAY TO THE DAUGHTER OF ZION,
'BEHOLD YOUR KING IS COMING TO YOU,
GENTLE, AND MOUNTED ON A DONKEY,
EVEN ON A COLT, THE FOAL OF A BEAST OF BURDEN.'"

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for sending us our King to save us. Thank You, Jesus, for being a gentle King, and humble. Thank You for being a King who bears our burdens. Like the donkey on which You rode into Jerusalem, You carry the weight of another -- of all others -- upon Yourself. All our sins and fears and shame and doubt and regret and pain is Yours. Please, Lord, help me to be worthy of Your kingdom. Help me to be gentle and humble and willing to bear whatever burden You see fit to place upon me.

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Tomorrow's passage: Genesis 15:1-6