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

1 Peter 1:13-16

1 Passage: 1 Peter 1:13-16

1 Verse: Verse 13. Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 Prayer: Father, please help me be ready for action. Sharpen my mind and steady my spirit so that I can be prepared for whatever You set before me. Help my fix my hope on Jesus and the future I have with You, and not only on things of this world and this life.

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Tomorrow's passage: Matthew 21:1-11

2 Timothy 2:20-23

1 Passage: 2 Timothy 2:20-23

1 Verse: Verse 21. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for giving us the privilege of being useful to You. Help me to get rid of the things in my life that make me useless and ill-prepared. Lead me to the good works You have prepared beforehand for me to walk in and help me to be prepared for them when they come.

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Tomorrow's passage: 1 Peter 1:13-16

1 Timothy 6:6-11

1 Passage: 1 Timothy 6:6-11

1 Verse: Verse 6. But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment.

1 Prayer: Father, please teach me to be content.

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Tomorrow's passage: 2 Timothy 2:20-23

Matthew 4:1-11

1 Passage: Matthew 4:1-11

1 Verse: Verse 7. Jesus said to him, "On the other hand, it is written, 'YOU SHALL NOT PUT THE LORD YOUR GOD TO THE TEST.'"

1 Prayer: Father, please help me to recognize when I am testing You, and help me to stop. Forgive me for not trusting in faith the promises of Your word. Forgive me for seeking for signs rather than simply believing You.

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Tomorrow's passage: 1 Timothy 6:6-11

1 John 2:15-17

1 Passage: 1 John 2:15-17

1 Verse: Verse 17. The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for saving me from this world. Thank You for promising that, though everything else passes away, I will be preserved by Your love and grace forever. Please remind me again and again that this world and all its lusts are passing away. They are only for a time. Please help me to do Your will, so that I will be ready for an eternity with You.

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Tomorrow's passage: Matthew 4:1-11

Genesis 3:1-5

1 Passage: Genesis 3:1-5

1 Verse: Verse 5. "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

1 Prayer: Father, please help me to recognize lies when I hear them. I am susceptible to wanting the things the serpent here promises Eve -- I want to see with open eyes, I want to have God-like knowledge. And just as those desires became the bait the serpent used to ensnare Eve, I am in danger of being misled also. Help me to look to You. Help me keep my eyes shut and walk by faith and not by sight whenever I am tempted. Help me to be content not to be like You, if my efforts to become like You are only going to lead me away from You.

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Tomorrow's passage: 1 John 2:15-17

Leviticus 19:1-4

1 Passage: Leviticus 19:1-4

1 Verse: Verse 2. "Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, 'You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.'"

1 Prayer: Father, is this a command or a promise? Or both. You are holy and You are my God. You shall make me holy, even as You have been and will forever be my God. Insofar as this is a command -- "Be holy!" -- it contains the promise that You have made me able to obey it. But keep me ever mindful that righteousness comes by faith, lest I try to summon or conjure or imitate Your holiness in my own strength. We both know that won't work; it leads only to hypocrisy, weariness and self-condemnation. But just as You speak and what You say becomes real, Father, please make Your holiness real in my life. Let there be holiness.

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Tomorrow's passage: Genesis 3:1-5

Revelation 22:12-17

1 Passage: Revelation 22:12-17

1 Verse: Verse 17. The Spirit and the bride say, "Come " And let the one who hears say, "Come", And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for inviting me to come and drink for free the water that will save me. Please help us, the Bride of Christ -- the Church -- say "Come" to the thirsty world around us -- loud and clear and convincingly. Make us into people who invite others to take the water of life without cost. Forgive us for the ways we make people pay for that which You have freely given.

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Tomorrow's passage: Leviticus 19:1-4

John 11:23-26

1 Passage: John 11:23-26

1 Verse: Verse 25. Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,"

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for raising us to new life in Jesus. I am in desperate need of daily resurrection. I face death -- the wages of sin -- every day. Thank You for granting me a life that is unconquered and unconquerable by death. Thank You for giving me life in Jesus. Please, Father, help me to continually look to Him for resurrection, for new life, fresh hope, and renewed strength.

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Tomorrow's passage: Revelation 22:12-17

John 10:11-15

1 Passage: John 10:11-15

1 Verse: Verse 12. "He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them."

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for sending Jesus to be our Good Shepherd. I praise You because You own me, and because You own me You are not going to desert or abandon or forsake me. Even when the wolves are coming, when all I hear is their howling through the night, I know my Good Shepherd won't leave me. Jesus would rather die -- rather offer himself, his own flesh, to be torn apart by those bloody fangs -- than to see me snatched up and scattered away. Thank You, Father, for such perfect love.

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Tomorrow's passage: John 11:23-26

John 10:7-10

1 Passage: John 10:7-10

1 Verse: Verse 10. "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly."

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for sending Jesus to give us life, shelter, safety, protection, pasture. Thieves and robbers are still prowling all around, and even though I am a sheep of Your flock, I can still hear their voices. Help me to not listen. Help me to stay close beside my Good Shepherd. Help me to rid my life of the things that steal, kill and destroy so that I may live abundant life in You.

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Tomorrow's passage: John 10:11-15

John 6:32-35

1 Passage: John 6:32-35

1 Verse: Verse 35. Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst."

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for promising us life and satiety in Jesus -- the One who comes down from heaven to feed our souls. I come to You for nourishment. Feed me today upon Your Word, give us this day our daily bread, and help me believe until my thirstiness goes away.

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Tomorrow's passage: John 10:7-10

John 8:51-58

1 Passage: John 8:51-58

1 Verse: Verse 51. "Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he will never see death."

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for promising to deliver us from death. Help me to keep Your word, so that I can walk in the truth of Your life and not in the death of lies.

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Tomorrow's passage: John 6:32-35

Revelation 1:4-8

1 Passage: Revelation 1:4-8

1 Verse: Verse 6. and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father--to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for making us to be a kingdom of priests, a society of people in special relationship with You. Help us to be what You have made us to be today. As we gather together for corporate worship, may we do so for Your glory and under Your dominion now just as we will forevermore be. Amen. Let it be so, Father.

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Tomorrow's passage: John 8:51-58

1 Corinthians 15:51-53

1 Passage: 1 Corinthians 15:51-53

1 Verse: Verse 53. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.

1 Prayer: Thank You, Father, for overcoming even death. Our bodies are frail, our flesh is weak, our lives wear out -- but Your love is sure and strong and everlasting. Thank You for promising us resurrection to new life with You. But as I wait for my body to be made anew, please help me to live according to the new spirit and heart and life You have already born in me by faith in Christ.

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Tomorrow's passage: Revelation 1:4-8