Unity

Father, thank you for the Apostle Paul and his passion for your church. 

Thank you that you are the one who completes the work in me, because you are the one who began it. This shows me that I am held by you with no need to strive. I want to be found abiding in you. 

I pray that your church will rise up and be bold in our unity and love. Help us to look past our own motivations and be thankful that the gospel is being proclaimed. Help us to walk in the joy of unity. 

Thank you that I only have to worry about my own heart and not everyone around me. That you are sovereign and in control of how your name is proclaimed. 

Oh Father, let my life be worthy of the gospel of Christ. For you are worth all of this junk that I endure. And even more. You are worth it. 

Help me to lay down my interests for the sake of the Gospel.

Philippians 1

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Pursue

Father, reveal to my heart what I crave. Deliver me from the cravings of my flesh and cause my heart to crave your truth.

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Reveal to me the root of my words. If they are conceited, puffed up, ignorant, or full of controversy and quarrels. Reveal to my heart the results of those kinds of words... envy, dissension, slander or friction. Break the chains of these, I know they flow from my heart.

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Father, help me to press through to pursue righteousness and fight for my faith. Help me to no longer be passive, but to be ready for work through hard things in order to take hold of all that you have for me. 

1 Timothy 6

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Day 18

Abba! I love you!  You are my strength and my rock. My shield, fortress and stronghold. I would have died if it were not for you!  

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I cried out to you and you came storming in! You rescued me because you delighted in me. 

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How can the love of a Father be so...

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Because of Jesus you see me righteous, blameless, free. With the merciful you show yourself merciful. Make me merciful like you. 

Psalm 18

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Delight

Father, David saw your deliverance in ways not many have. You set him apart and saved him. You preserved him for a purpose. 

He was a man full of sin... and a heart of repentance. His desperate cries reached your ears and you answered his plea.

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Father, help me to be a woman who has a heart of repentance. Help me to see my desperate state and the mighty hand you take to rescue me from what I deserve. 

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Thank you that you delight in me. Thank you that you chose me and set me apart. Help me to begin to understand the depths of that. I pray that all my delight is in you alone. Mark my heart deep with delight in you and your word. Thank you that you daily draw me to you. Help me to be sensitive and alert to your Spirit that draws me. 

2 Samuel 22

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Spring

Father, thank you for causing Jesus to reveal His humanity and His need in this moment to the woman at the well. 

Thank you for using her as an example of your love and mercy as you drew her into conversation that would change her life forever. 

Thank you for your call to repentance and lack of condemnation. Your mercy is scandalous. 

Help me to see my need daily, that I am not able to meet the standard of holiness, but help me to see that you have done that work for me in the finished work of Jesus. 

John 4

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Train

Father, thank you that everything created by you is good. Help me to receive all things from you with thanksgiving.  

Help me to obey the leading of your Spirit and to be able to recognize myths. Help me to be trained in the words of the faith and good doctrine. 

Help me to use your words to train myself for godliness, because my hope is set on you, the living God. 

Help me not to allow my fears of others opinions to hinder how I live my life. 

Help me to immerse myself in your ways and your teachings. Help me to put these things into practice as I learn them. 

Thank you for the gift of your Holy Spirit to teach me and guide me. Don't let me become calloused to His leading and conviction. Make my heart soft and able to be molded into your image. 

1 Timothy 4

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Search

Father, you search me and know me. You see my every move. You know my thoughts and fears. You know my inner accusations of you. 

You know my doubts and the filth of my heart that no one knows. 

But you formed me and you choose me. Your thoughts toward me are precious. 

Thank you for your unfailing love. Thank you for constantly covering my faults. You are my good Father. 

Psalm 139

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