1 John 5:1-5

1 Passage: 1 John 5:1-5

1 Verse: Verse 4. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for the victory that overcomes the world. Thank You that the victory comes through faith. You know we couldn't win it any other way. Help me to have the faith I need to overcome the things of this world that threaten to defeat me. Remind me again and again what it means to be born of You -- to be Your child, in Your family, Your very own son.

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Tomorrow's passage: 1 Corinthians 15:51-53

John 11:18-26

1 Passage: John 11:18-26

1 Verse: Verse 24. Martha said to Him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day."

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for the assurances of Your word that promise us eternal life forever with You. But forgive me for sometimes failing to recognize that Your promises are for the present and not just the future. Like Martha, I let what I know get in the way of what You ask me to believe. Your promises aren't intended to work that way. They are intended to build up my faith in You, not put it off. Help me to believe in You not only for the for the future end of all things, but also for the immediate needs of the present moment, however great or small.

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Tomorrow's passage: 1 John 5:1-5

John 10:27-30

1 Passage: John 10:27-30

1 Verse: Verse 29. "My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand."

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for reminding me this morning that You are greater than all. No matter what I come up against, or what comes up against me, I know it is never able to compete with You. I am safe and secure in Your hand and nothing could ever change that. Nothing could snatch me out of Your hand. Please help me to be strong in believing this when I am faced with challenges that threaten to overwhelm me. You are greater than all. Nothing and no one is able to snatch me out of Your hand. Thank You, Father.

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Tomorrow's passage: John 11:18-26

2 Corinthians 5:17-21

1 Passage: 2 Corinthians 5:17-21

1 Verse: Verse 19. namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for reconciling us to Yourself. You are the one who reestablishes our relationship and not on the basis of my righteousness, but in the perfect righteousness of Christ. Thank You for not counting my sins, nor holding them against me. And not just mine, but the sins of the whole world. That is a good word to have committed to us. Please help me to live in the reality of our reconciliation, and help me to speak the same reconciliation into others' lives.

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Tomorrow's passage: John 10:27-30

Acts 1:7-11

1 Passage: Acts 1:7-11

1 Verse: Verse 9. And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.

1 Prayer: Father, You say that faith is the conviction of things unseen, and here is a prime example. That cloud is still keeping Jesus out of sight. Even when I think I have caught a glimpse of Him by faith, it seems to vanish while I am still looking on. Help me not to trust in what I see or don't see. Help me to trust in what You say.

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Tomorrow's passage: 2 Corinthians 5:17-21

Hebrews 11:1-6

1 Passage: Hebrews 11:1-6

1 Verse: Verse 6. And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

1 Prayer: Father, please increase my faith. Help me to trust in and hope for the things I don't yet see. I believe You reward those who seek You. But I keep looking for my reward all the same. Teach me to seek You even when the reward doesn't appear, when the payoff is unseen, when the benefit is hoped for but not yet here. Thank You, Father.

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Tomorrow's passage: Acts 1:7-11

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Philippians 3:12-14

1 Passage: Philippians 3:12-14

1 Verse: Verse 13. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,

1 Prayer: Father, forgive me for not forgetting the past. Forgive me for not reaching forward for the future. Forgive me for lamenting that I haven't laid hold of it yet. Help me to admit that I don't get it, that I don't have it, that I'm not there yet. Help me not to fret about that fact, but to simply do the one thing I need to do and press on.

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Tomorrow's passage: Jeremiah 9:23-24

Philippians 3:4b-11

1 Passage: Philippians 3:4b-11

1 Verse: Verse 9. and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for making me righteous by faith. I could never get there on my own by way of the Law. Forgive for thinking sometimes that I still must try. I apologize for letting my unrighteousness undermine my faith, when it should be exactly the other way around -- through Christ, it is faith that makes me righteous. Help me to walk in faith today.

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Tomorrow's passage: Philippians 3:12-14

Philippians 2:14-18

1 Passage: Philippians 2:14-18

1 Verse: Verse 16. holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for Your Living Word both in the person of Jesus and in the power of the Spirit ever-present in my heart. Thank You for trying to teach me how to hold fast to Your Word -- to maintain my focus and strengthen my grip. Somehow You make even my trials for my own good, so that I will learn to hang on to You and never let go. Help me hold fast today.

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Tomorrow's passage: Philippians 3:4b-11

1 Corinthians 6:18-20

1 Passage: 1 Corinthians 6:18-20

1 Verse: Verse 19. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for placing Your Holy Spirit in my humble body. Or is it now Your body? You say I am not my own. Yet, I sometimes insist on doing just as I please. Forgive me. I need not only to know that my body is a temple of Your Spirit, but to live like it as well. Please help me today to do as You please with it.

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Tomorrow's passage: Philippians 2:14-18

1 Corinthians 6:9-13

1 Passage: 1 Corinthians 6:9-13

1 Verse: Verse 12. All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

1 Prayer: Father, forgive me for allowing myself to be mastered by anything less than You. You are my one and only Master, my Maker, my Savior, my Lord. Teach me how to know and choose those things which are profitable and beneficial to You, to others, and to myself. And help me to not become dependent on those things which threaten to overpower and control me. I am in this world, but not of it. You have overcome the world.

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Tomorrow's passage: 1 Corinthians 6:18-20

Romans 4:19-25

1 Passage: Romans 4:19-25

1 Verse: Verse 20. yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God,

1 Prayer: Father, forgive me for wavering in unbelief when You have made promises to me that are unwavering, unshakeable and entirely sure. Help me not to become weak in faith -- even when I consider all my frailties -- but rather make me grow strong in faith. May You be glorified through what I believe of You today.

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Tomorrow's passage: 1 Corinthians 6:9-13

Matthew 5:14-16

1 Passage: Matthew 5:14-16

1 Verse: Verse 16. "Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven."

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for creating us in Christ Jesus for good works. Help us to walk in them in such a way that others will see Your light in us and give You all the glory.

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Tomorrow's passage: Romans 4:19-25