And a voice from heaven said, “You are my dearly loved Son, and you bring me great joy.”

Then he looked at those around him and said, “Look, these are my mother and brothers. 35Anyone who does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”

Lord God, Forgive my sins and guide me on a path today that will lead to your Joy.
In Jesus name,
Amen

For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18If you serve Christ with this attitude, you will please God, and others will approve of you, too.

All glory to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, forever. Amen.

Lord God,
May I live a life of peace and goodness in ALL areas of my life. May I serve Joyfully and delight in you.
In Jesus name,
Amen

plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.

And don’t let yourself think about ways to indulge your evil desires.

Lord God,
I have a lifetime of bad habits to surrender to you, Lord take them from me and allow me to treat the temple you allowed me to use for your glory alone and help me release the focus of my mind from this place and give you full control.

In Jesus name,
Amen

For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will. 8That’s why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God.

“All day long I opened my arms to them,
but they were disobedient and rebellious.”

Lord God,
Remove in me my sinful nature and allow your nature to live freely in me.
In Jesus name,
Amen

Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.

But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commands for its own evil purposes.

Lord God,
Release a Joy in my faith that is all consuming and defeats the desires of sin in my life. May I walk joyfully with you and not allow sin to influence my desires, protect my desires from my sinful nature and replace it with a powerful Joy that can not be compromised. May we delight in each other.
In Jesus name,
Amen

For merely listening to the law doesn’t make us right with God. It is obeying the law that makes us right in his sight.

Well then, if we emphasize faith, does this mean that we can forget about the law? Of course not! In fact, only when we have faith do we truly fulfill the law.

To know what is rite is not enough, I must live rite by faith.

Lord God,
I thank you for my faith, I need my faith to be the only force behind my actions. Lord God empower my faith and make it strong and help me to surrender my will to you.
In Jesus name,
Amen

We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ. 6And after you have become fully obedient, we will punish everyone who remains disobedient.

Yes, I am afraid that when I come again, God will humble me in your presence. And I will be grieved because many of you have not given up your old sins. You have not repented of your impurity, sexual immorality, and eagerness for lustful pleasure.

Lord God,
May I destroy everything in my life that separates or even distracts me from you.

So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” 21For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.

Thank you Lord for this understanding that I am Christ’s ambassador, Open my eyes to the sin I hold onto and give me your power to remove it from my ways and allow me to walk more closely with you in all I do and protect me from the desires of Satan to trip me up.

In Jesus name,
Amen

In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God, who raises the dead. 10And he did rescue us from mortal danger, and he will rescue us again. We have placed our confidence in him, and he will continue to rescue us.

And when I forgive whatever needs to be forgiven, I do so with Christ’s authority for your benefit, so that Satan will not outsmart us. For we are familiar with his evil schemes.

For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.

Lord God I am grateful to know you and your influence in this world, I ask you to forgive my past and protect my future, for Satan is forever attacking my spirit and I need your protection to live only in your will. Lord God may I delight in you this day.
In Jesus name,
Amen

I’m not even worthy to be called an apostle after the way I persecuted God’s church.
10But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me—and not without results.

I am not worthy to be a friend of Christ because of all the sin of my past, the way I ignored God’s desire for me. But what I am now is a result of allowing God’s purpose for me to be my guiding light.

Lord God,
I am now worthy to be called your son, I have sinned against you and ignored you for so long but now I surrender to you way, an wish to live in a delightful relationship with you.
In Jesus name,
Amen