SCRIPTURE:Psalm 121 Our Father in Heaven, great is Your name and great is the worship due You with all of our hearts. Before You today I bow in the adoration of praise with much thanksgiving for the possessions that are mine through the assurances of Your promises. There are times Father when all around us it seems hard to look beyond the barrenness that tries our faith in times of loss and pain. ...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:Isaiah 40:21-31 Our gracious God, as Your prophet Isaiah asked Your people, “To Whom will we liken our God?”  As we kneel today to pray unto You, we are very much aware that at the end of our words there is You, who sees all things, and knows all things, and with You nothing exists beyond the possibilities of Your limitless grace and almighty power. Many are the desires, needs, and conce...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:Luke 22:39-46 Father in Heaven, it is a struggle and sometimes a place of defeat when praying to You for what is right when everything we are feeling at the time seems just the opposite. It is our own version of the Garden of Gethsemane. In the same manner as our Lord, we are tempted and tried to give into the pull of the flesh against Your known will. In our hearts we want to do what is...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:Hebrews 11:1-6 Eternal God, our Father in Heaven, You have determined that we cannot have a personal relationship with You that is real without true faith.  To live in this world with You as an ever-present reality is at times a challenge to us that often results in failure because what we see means more to our decisions than what we believe.  It is when I am in Your presence, either in ...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:I Peter 5:5-12 Our God and Father in Heaven, up to You we look for the guidance and help that is so necessary to live in this world. The unpredictability of life’s circumstance has made Your grace so essential for us to live and move and have our being as Your sons and daughters. As for me Your grace, over 45 years, has become far more than something I sing about in my worship services, ...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:2 Peter 1:2-4 Our God and our Father, in this new year, there are many among us that need an awakening in our hearts, that the Word of God would become alive to our eyes as we read it. That our hearts would explode with praise as Your Word saturates us. We are asking for a miracle! Only You can work through the veil of our humanity and bring forth the revelation of Yourself, but our pray...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: Zephaniah 3:17 Our Father in heaven, once again You have caused us to marvel at the magnitude of Your doings and dealing with us. You are just sometimes too big and too great for us to wrap our minds around all You do and then the kinds of people you do it in and do it for.  What we can do at times is just humble ourselves under Your mighty hand and to praise Your name for You are great...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 6:1-8 Oh Mighty God our Father, we bend our knees before You again this day, through the Lord Jesus Your Son and yielding ourselves to the Holy Spirit to pray from the depths of our hearts where the true us cannot hide. So, as we come to our knees, we desire to cleanse ourselves of all filthiness of the flesh and spirit by confessing our known and even unaware sins before You. We...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Oh Lord, our God, how often in life do we find ourselves tested when we have to accept the worse things in this life. There are times when we can find no solace in the best that this world has to offer us and in some of those times it appears Your silence makes our test even a greater hurdle in our time of crisis. It is a fact of our faith that no matter what befal...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:Psalm 37:23,24 Eternal God and our Heavenly Father, as I am impressed in my heart about You today, I am mindful of the personal testimony You have given me of Your willingness and faithfulness to involve Yourself in the affairs of my life. It is not I who have made this relationship with You intimate and personal, but it has been Your internal and intense love demonstrated beyond anythin...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:Isaiah 55:6-11 Father in heaven, I bring my heart before You today, ever mindful of how much I needand want to see all matters of life through the perfect understanding that only Youpossess. It is so foolish of me to think that I know more than You, and so prideful of meto not seek out Your ways for my life, especially since I am supposed to be living forYou. Why Father do we grope all o...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:John 15:4-8 Father and our God, we bow again today before Your great presence through our Lord Jesus Christ and in yieldedness to the Holy Spirit in us. We are Your children, and it is marvelous to embrace this truth because it is something that You have done that we could never have done ourselves. Praise, honor, and glory for such a wonderful privilege of love, position, and access You...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.2 Peter 1...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:Isaiah 30:18-22 Eternal Father and our gracious God, we again thank You for the Word You have given unto us. You expose us to us. You have made us to examine ourselves in the manner that we should. That each one of us, as we go into a new year, would certainly think how it is going to be better, better than our last year.  We’ve heard testimonies Lord, about how people have gone through ...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:Ephesians 1:15-23 Our God and Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your great name. Surely our Father before Your presence in prayer we are humbled by the knowledge of Your holiness. It is always fitting to ask for forgiveness and cleansing of our hearts so that Your mercy can usher us into Your presence with a sense of new freedom, openness, and the restored joy of Your salvation (Psalm...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:Ephesians 1:3 – 8 Our great God and Father, through the Lord Jesus Christ we come with filled hearts of praise because there is the awareness of many things You have done for us as Your children, with us as Your partners, and through us as servants for Your glory. Today, we are further gripped in our hearts because we even see there are things You’ve done because You made choices and dec...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. 5 And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. 11 This is a faithful saying:  For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Hi...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:“14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.15 Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. 16 Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind. 17 Brethren, join in following my example, and note ...  Read More