True and Righteous

Revelation 15&16

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, great and marvelous are your works. Just and true are your ways, oh King of the Saints! All will fear you, oh Lord, and glorify your name, for you alone are holy!

All nations will come and worship before you, for your judgments are manifest and will be fully manifested to all, on your day.

You are righteous, oh Lord. You are the one who is and who was and who is to be. You judge all those who shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you give them blood to drink, for you decree, it is their just due.

Even so, Lord God Almighty, your judgments are true and righteous. 

Worthy To Take and To Open

Revelation 4&5

You are worthy, Father God, to receive glory and honor and power for you created all things, and by your will, they exist and were created.

Worthy are you, Lord Jesus, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the root of David. You are worthy to take the scroll and to open the seals, for you were slain and have redeemed me to God, my father.

You have chosen many, by your blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation. You have made us kings and priests to God, our heavenly and eternal father, and we shall reign on earth.

Worthy are you, Lord Jesus, who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.

Blessing and honor and glory and power be to you, God, my father, and to you, Lord Jesus, the Lamb of God, and my Lord and Savior. 

In The Heavenlies

Revelation 1-3

Lord Jesus, I know you are the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. You are the Almighty. You are he who is, who was, and who is to come

You, Lord, are alive forevermore. You have the keys of Hades and of death. The angels are in your hand, and you walk among your churches. You are fierce and fearful, but by your grace, you have chosen me to love, so I am not afraid.

My concern now is only to please you, to have a heart perfect toward you, Lord Jesus. Strengthen me, Lord, that I will be faithful to you unto death, that I would keep my eyes on your word and always witness to your life and truth

You have opened my heart to you. You, Lord Jesus, have filled me with your Holy Spirit. We commune now constantly. In Christ, I have overcome the lust of the world, and I sit with you, my Lord and Savior, in the heavenlies.

Forever and Ever

1 John 1&2

Lord Jesus, by John’s declaration and eye witness testimony, I know I have fellowship with you and with our Heavenly Father. My joy is full.

I walk in the light, Lord Jesus, for you are the light. You commune with me, and your blood cleanses me from all sin. I am humbled by my human weakness, so I am sober and watchful and quick to see my tendency to sin.

I confess when I fall short, and you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, are faithful and just to forgive me and to cleanse me from all unrighteousness.

I keep my eyes and faith on your word, and you guide me like markers in a channel. You continually perfect the new man who is born in me, and I begin to walk just as you walked, Lord Jesus!

I do not love the foul world system that tries to stand against you, Father. All the foolishness and perversion, all the lies and greed that are in the lost world’s system are not of you.

This world is passing away, and the lust of it. But I gaze upon Jesus as my Lord and Savior, and I have eternal life with you, Father, forever and ever!

Never

2 Peter 1

Thank you, Father, for the gift of a like and precious faith in you as my Heavenly Father, and in Jesus, your Christ, as my Lord and Savior. Grace and peace are multiplied to me, as I grow in a precise and correct understanding of you and in communion with you.

Your divine power births your nature in me and gives me all things pertaining to life and godliness, through that personal knowledge and fellowship.

You have called me to glory and virtue and have given me the exceedingly great and precious promises of your holy scripture. Your word has birthed your divine nature in me as my “new” man, so now, I am a partaker of your eternal life and have escaped the corruption that is in the world.

This is all from your loving grace, and it moves me to be diligent to strengthen my faith; to add to my faith, virtue, and to virtue, knowledge, and to knowledge, temperance, and to temperance, perseverance, to perseverance, godliness, and to godliness, divine love for you, Father, and for my neighbors.

If I invest and nurture these things, if they abound in me, then I will never be barren or unfruitful. 

The End

1 Peter 1

I greatly rejoice, Father, because you, Great and Almighty God, the Father of my Lord Jesus Christ, have, according to your abundant mercy, begotten me again to a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

You have chosen me and qualified me to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled that does not fade away, and that is reserved for me in heaven.

I am saved and kept by your power, Father, through faith, for salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

Now, while in this flesh, for a little while, I am troubled by various trials. These just prove the genuineness of my faith which is tested and found precious and pure to the praise, honor, and glory of your real presence and power in me, Lord Jesus.

I have not seen you, but I have known the love of communion with your word and your Holy Spirit. I have not seen you with my eyes, but I have seen your personal effect on my character and my mind and my heart.

I know your gospel is real, and I rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of my faith, the salvation of my soul. 

Well Pleasing

Hebrews 12&13

Thank you, Father, for a kingdom that cannot be shaken. You have given me a place in your kingdom, by your grace, and filled me with your spirit, so that I can serve you acceptably, with reverence and godly fear

I am content with you, Father, for you have said you will never leave me or forsake me. You, Lord, almighty and sovereign, are my helper, so I do not fear because man can do nothing to me that changes my eternity with you.

You, the God of Peace, who brought up my Lord Jesus from the dead, make me complete in every good work to do your will. You work in me, and you work out of me what is well pleasing in your sight.

Above Anything

Hebrews 12

Hallelujah, thank you, Father, for making me your child and for dealing with me as a loving, wise Father would deal. You have chastened me when I needed it, and that has been to my profit. You have made me a joyful partaker of your holiness.

Now that discipline hasn’t always seemed joyful, but now it has yielded a peaceful fruit of righteousness in me as you have trained me.

So, I am standing. I am “manning” up. I am setting my face on you, Lord Jesus, and my feet are following your path. Those things in me that are dislocated are being healed by your word and by the person of your Holy Spirit communing in my thoughts and prayers.

I pursue peace with all. I looked carefully at the issues of each day so that I will stay in you, Christ Jesus, and never fall short. I am quick to forgive, so that no root of bitterness takes hold of me.

I value the inheritance you have given me, Father, above anything this world has to offer. For now, I have come to Mount Zion, and there I remain and worship you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with all your angels and with all your redeemed.

The Call

Hebrews 10; Philippians 3

Clothed in your righteousness, Lord Jesus, I have the boldness to enter the holiest. This is the new and living way, which you established and consecrated, for all who are yours through faith. The veil, your flesh, Lord Jesus, was torn, and now I am able to commune with you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, person to person, ceaselessly.

I draw near to you with a new, true heart, in full assurance of faith. My heart is sprinkled from an evil conscience, and my body is washed with pure water. I hold fast to my confession of perfect living hope through you, Jesus, as my Lord and Savior. I do not waiver, because I know you are faithful.

You love me and encourage me, and I am stirred up to be a useful instrument in your hands. I love your fellowship and your good works. I assemble together with other believers. We exhort and encourage each other.

I do not draw back, instead, I constantly press on that I may lay hold of that for which you, Christ Jesus, have also laid hold of me. I forget what is behind, and I reach forward to those things which are ahead. I press toward the goal of the prize of the upward call of God through you, Christ Jesus. 

Covered

Colossians 1; Hebrews 10; Romans 12; 2 Corinthians 5

Lord Jesus, for my eyes and ears and understanding, you are the very image of the invisible God, our Father in Heaven. The law was a shadow of the good things, but you, Lord, are the fulfillment of the promises of our father.

You came, Lord, and took on flesh, and did the will of the Father. You ended the first covenant and established the last. You offered your body, Lord Jesus, and through that sacrifice, I have, once for all time, been sanctified.

You offered one sacrifice for sins forever and sat down at the right hand of God. Now you wait till your enemies are made your footstool. By this one offering, you have perfected, forever, me, and all those who are being sanctified.

Holy Spirit, you testify these truths to me. I know your word fills my heart and my mind. I have been transformed, as you renew my mind and lead me.

I am forgiven, and my sins and lawless deeds you remember no more. I am in Christ, and I am a new creation. The old things have passed away, and now, everything in me is new. I am covered with your righteousness, Lord Jesus!