Thank you for making your light shine in our hearts to give us the knowledge of Christ who is the Glory of God! And thank you for making us the light in Him! 2 Cor 4:6 6. For God, who said, "Let there be light in the darkness," has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ. NLT Eph 5:8 8. For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light! NLT How we thank you for rescuing us from the dominion of darkness and bringing us into the Kingdom of Your dear Son who is the light!
Thank you that He is the inheritance of all the saints, of everyone who believes. Col 1:12-13 12. always thanking the Father. He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to his people, who live in the light. 13. For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son, NLT We thank you for giving Your Son and for enabling us to believe in Him and have eternal life. How can we ever thank you for the gift and for the faith to receive Him? May our lives reflect our adoration and praise for Your wonderful grace.
John 3:16 16. "For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. NLT
Thank you for giving us a new righteousness through our faith in Jesus Christ. Enabling all who believe in Him to experience that they are right with You, Your grace through Christ has done it all because of Your Son.
Rom 3:21-24 21. But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements of the law, as was promised in the writings of Moses and the prophets long ago. 22. We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are.
23. For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard.
24. Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. NLT Thank you for justifying us, by enabling us to trust in you. Show us all, who call ourselves believers, that you justified us even before we had done wicked things! We were wicked because we were born of Adam and participated in his sin and in his nature to sin. Remind us too, that we were not saved by our works. Rom 4:5 5. But people are counted as righteous, not because of their work, but because of their faith in God who forgives sinners. NLT
Thank you for our father Abraham who did not waver in unbelief, but trusted you to do what you have promised. Thank you for putting to our credit the same righteousness of faith that we believe Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead to make us right before You; He is our justification Christ our Justifier. Rom 4:18-25 18. Even when there was no reason for hope, Abraham kept hoping—believing that he would become the father of many nations. For God had said to him, "That's how many descendants you will have!" 19. And Abraham's faith did not weaken, even though, at about 100 years of age, he figured his body was as good as dead—and so was Sarah's womb. 20. Abraham never wavered in believing God's promise. In fact, his faith grew stronger, and in this he brought glory to God. 21. He was fully convinced that God is able to do whatever he promises. 22. And because of Abraham's faith, God counted him as righteous. 23. And when God counted him as righteous, it wasn't just for Abraham's benefit.
It was recorded 24. for our benefit, too, assuring us that God will also count us as righteous if we believe in him, the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
25. He was handed over to die because of our sins, and he was raised to life to make us right with God. NLT Thank you we have been justified through faith, thank you we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We thank you for leaving us with peace and given us your peace. Thank you for giving us Your power to not be troubled. Rom 5:1 1. Therefore, since we have been made right in God's sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.
NLT John 14:27 27. "I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don't be troubled or afraid. NLT
Thank you Lord for the love that You poured in our hearts which reassures us that we have right standing before You, and thank you for giving us the Holy Spirit, who is God in us, revealing this love to us! Rom 5:5 5. And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love. NLT Heavenly Father what would we have done, we who were powerless and ungodly, if you had not given Your Son to die for us? What incredible love! Open our eyes to understand Your grace, to marvel at Your love. Rom 5:6-8 6.
When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. 7. Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. 8. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. NLT We praise You Heavenly Father that we are saved because of Your Word! Thank you for putting our sins on Your Son so that we would be saved from your wrath! And thank you for bringing us nearer to you through the Blood of Jesus. Rom 5:9 9. And since we have been made right in God's sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God's condemnation. NLT Eph 2:13 13.
But now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ. NLT Thank you Lord for making us a new creation! Help us to accept this as a fact by faith, so that we will experience the truth of it in our daily lives. Enable us to live as a new person, and this glorious fact of newness of nature be revealed and appropriated by many in the House of God. 2 Cor 5:17 17.
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! NLT
Thank you Lord that the Holy Spirit enables us to pray when we do not know what to say, and He, being God, knows your will and intercedes according to your good pleasure. Thank you, for giving us the blessed Holy Spirit to be in us, the Spirit who is The Lord. Rom 8:26-27 26. And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don't know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groaning’s that cannot be expressed in words. 27. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will. NLT
Thank you that everything in our lives will be worked out for good according to your purpose, because you called us by Your love, May we all trust Your love! You will never do anything in our lives except what glorifies you and is good, eternally good for us. Rom 8:28 28. And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. NLT
Dear Father you make us stand firm! We count on You to do it. You have anointed us and sealed us, you have given us Your Spirit as a deposit, and guaranteed what is to come therefore, we cannot fail! 1 Cor 1:21-22 21. Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe. 22. It is foolish to the Jews, who ask for signs from heaven. And it is foolish to the Greeks, who seek human wisdom. NLT
Thank you Father for making us more than conquerors through Christ who loves us, remind us to look to what is true, our promises, and not to circumstances. Father only Your Word gives us the good of truth to make a correct assessment as to whether something is good or bad. By faith, we believe you and praise you for making us more than conquerors! Rom 8:37 37. No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. NLT
Lord how we thank you that we are Your children, by Your will, not of human decision, but born of God! Reveal yourself to us as our Father, and enable us to please You because we are like You. May we grow up in faith and obedience like our brother Jesus! May it be said of us, like Father, like son’s and daughter’s, and may this family resemblance be seen in many as our children as possible in Christ Jesus Amen! John 1:12-13 12. But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. 13. They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God. NLT
Apostle James E. Morrow Sr.
