09/01/2026
Father, thank You that Your faithfulness never changes. When our hearts are weary and our understanding is limited, help us remember Your promises. Teach us to recall Your goodness in every season and to trust You even when we cannot see the outcome. Thank You that Your mercies are new every morning and that Your compassions never fail. Strengthen our faith, guard us from discouragement, and remind us daily that You are working all things together for Your glory and our good. Great is Your faithfulness, O Lord.
Lord, we exalt You for the healing and strength of Your people. Father, we express our gratitude that... You sent Your Son into the world to bring us life in the fullness and life for eternity. Thank you for partaking in Christ's resurrection life. Christ is alive in us, the hope of glory, and His Spirit dwells deeply in our being. We receive Your healing, and we receive the same power that raised Christ from the grave, that we might attain Your life, and we receive Your strength. As many as received You, to them You gave power to become the sons of God, to those who believe in Your name. Thanks for empowering us over all unclean spirits and washing us through the power of Your blood to cast out all evil spirits and to heal all kinds of sickness and all manner of disease. "For we are persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." "This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Save now, I pray, O Lord; O Lord, I pray, send now prosperity. Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! We have blessed You from the house of the Lord." - Psalms 118:24-26. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. The statement "we are his masterpiece" is a powerful and uplifting phrase, often used to convey the idea that God has created us for a specific purpose and that we are uniquely valuable.
Lord, I praise You that Your hands made me and fashioned me; Give me understanding, that we may learn Your commandments. We are Your servants; give us understanding, that we may know Your testimonies. Open our eyes, that we may behold Wonderful things from Your law.
Make us understand the way of Your precepts so that we will meditate on Your wonders.
Give us understanding, that we may observe Your law And keep it with all our heart. Let our cry come before You, O Lord; Give us understanding according to Your word.
Lord, do to us as You did to Your discipline. You opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, but as it is written,
They who had no news of You shall see, And they who have not heard shall understand.” This has come to us, just as in all the world it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in us also since the day we heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth;
Lord, Ezekiel 12:3 says, therefore, son of man, prepare for yourself baggage for exile and go into exile by day in their sight; even go into exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house. But as it is written,
“They who had no news of Him shall see,
And they who have not heard shall understand.”
Lord, that which has come to us, just as in all the world, also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in us also since the day we heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth;
The Old Testament views truth as an essential quality of God, signifying His reliability, dependability, and faithfulness. Derived from this is the concept of truth as a fact or state with unalienable validity or stability, and therefore one that must be accepted. As applied to man, truth meant that the individual was consistent in His actions and that he confirmed God’s will, as revealed in the law. Although the New Testament concept of truth is of truth closer to our modern view, truth is more than something to be done. The word is often used as an equivalent to Christianity or the revelation of God in Christ. Acceptance and dedication to this truth equip men for fellowship with one another and acceptance of Christ. “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” This is the result of abiding in the word of Jesus. We prove ourselves to be His disciples, and we know the truth, and God works His freedom in our lives through His truth. The freedom Jesus spoke of doesn’t come from just an academic pursuit of truth in general, but from abiding in His word and being His disciple. Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore, whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise for the same. For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. Therefore, you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience's sake. Because of this, you also pay taxes, for they are God's ministers attending continually to this very thing. Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.
Lord, thank there is nothing like the freedom we can have in You. No money can buy it, no status can obtain it, no work can earn it, and nothing can match it. Tragically, not every Christian experiences this freedom, which can never be found except by abiding by Your word and being Your disciple. In Jesus’ name, we pray.
