Daily Bible thoughts 135
31st July 2012 – Lord God, Heavenly King, I want to have a heart that always looks up to your throne, and endeavours to know your will. Have your way in me.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 152.
30th July 2012 – Help me Lord to take your Word seriously in its entirety. I confess that there are parts I don’t fully understand. But I know you are the Judge of all the earth and will always do what is right. I sink my ignorance into the infinite vastness of all that you are, and I worship you.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 151.
27th July 2012 – Let me be convinced, dear Lord, that you have an answer for the overwhelming problems I am facing today. Give me the spiritual stamina and determination to seek you until I have your solution within my grasp. I praise you Almighty mountain-moving God.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 150.
26th July 2012 – Lord Jesus, I thank you that those who hunger and thirst will be filled. Cause my spiritual appetite to become more and more intense, for the glory of your Name.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 149.
25th July 2012 – Lord, help me to walk through this world with the conviction that if you are for me, nothing can be against me.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 148.
24th July 2012 – O Lord, give me eyes to see my own ‘however’ and ‘was also’. Let me not be blind to those things that may sink my ‘ships’ as well.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 147.
23rd July 2012 – May my life influence others for God and for good, rather than being influenced by them for evil. Cause me to choose my friends wisely, O Lord.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 146.
20th July 2012 – Lord I want a soft heart that is ever open to your rebukes and corrections. Day by day I need you to save me from me! Have mercy on me O God.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 145.
19th July 2012 – Lord, may all victims of injustice know that you are on their side, and their oppressors will answer to a higher law. Thank you Jesus for becoming a victim in our place and for our sakes.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 144.
18th July 2012 – Lord keep me from the sin of wasted seconds, minutes, days, hours, weeks, months and years. I want to invest my one life in your Kingdom purposes.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 143.
17th July 2012 – Lord, I thank you that you are a God of the valleys as well as the mountains. Thank you that you have never been absent from my valley experiences. I have always met you there.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 142.
16th July 2012 – My Lord the King. I and all I have are yours. Maybe Ahab shouldn’t have said this to his enemy, but I understand why he did. However, I can truly say this to you my Heavenly Friend. I need not fear to yield everything to you, when you have my best interests at heart. Above all, you have your best interests at heart, and the interests of your Kingdom are no threat to me.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 141.
13th July 2012 – Help me Lord. I don’t want my small ambitions to keep me on ‘the farm’ when you are calling me to broader horizons.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 140.
12th July 2012 – Heavenly Father, please give me the strength to tell that ‘negative committee’ inside my head to ‘shut up.’ All things clarify when I listen to your voice.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 139.
11th July 2012 – Lord, I thank you for your tenderness towards me. I don’t deserve your goodness, but I am grateful for it. You know my frame because you made me; you put me together in my mother’s womb. I am so thankful that you know just what to say to me and just how to handle me. Help me to replicate your compassion in my service for all in need.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 138.
10th July 2012 – Heavenly Father, may I have such a walk with you that I hear something of what you are going to do before I see it. Thank you that such a thing is possible by your Holy Spirit.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 137.
9th July 2012 – Lord, may I not be slow to set about building up the broken places in my life. I want to always be ready to receive your fire.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 136.
6th July 2012 – Thank you Lord God that you still answer by fire. Please answer my heart’s cry and fill me with your Holy Spirit for the glory of your Name.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 135.
5th July 2012 – My life may not be threatened Lord, but enable me to live courageously for you. Help me to swim against this very strong current of secularism and worldliness.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 134.
4th July 2012 – Lord, don’t allow me to lazy about prayer. I want to be at a stretch. Help me to always see and believe in the immense power available to the one who prays.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 133.
3rd July 2012 – Heavenly Father, you are so good. I thank you for these amazing stories of your provision written into the Bible. I thank you also that these stories are still being written in life after life. You are writing them in my life, and I praise you. You are amazing God!
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 132.
2nd July 2012 – Lord God, my life is in your hands. Cause each movement of my feet to be in time with your heartbeat.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for July – 131.
Prayer for 29th June 2012 – Help us to remember, Sovereign Lord that, your Word stands above the Ahabs of this age. We rejoice that their knees will bow, and their tongues confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 130.
Prayer for 28th June 2012 – Lord God, only wise ruler of the universe, please let me always see things from your point of view. Your ways are not my ways; they are higher. Your thoughts are not my thoughts; they dwell infinitely above mine. Without your wisdom I will live at a very low level, and be duped by the things this world values. Don’t let me be taken in.
For todays’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 129.
Prayer for 27th June 2012 – Into my heart, into my heart, come into my heart Lord Jesus. Come in today; come in to stay. Come into my heart Lord Jesus.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 128.
Prayer for 26th June 2012 – Lord, I want to ask that worthless things will have no place in my life. Help me to hold fast to what is of supreme value, and give me wisdom to discard the rest.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 127.
Prayer for 25th June 2012 – Thank you Father that you have lifted me up from the dust and made me for a distinct purpose. Help me to know it, and do it, and not go beyond it. Let me never kick against it, knowing that in your will is peace.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 126.
Prayer for 22nd June 2012 – What an immense privilege it is, Heavenly Father, to be alive in your world, and to know that my life will influence others. I ask that everyone I come into contact with, however briefly, will be affected for God and for good in the encounter.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 125.
Prayer for 21st June 2012 – Lord, keep my feet from turning away from you. May I avoid the pain of having twisted feet.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 124.
Prayer for 20th June 2012 – Lord, people tend to judge others by what they see on the outside, but you look at my heart. May it be that you are pleased with what you see on the inside of my life. I want my heart to be fully devoted to you.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 123.
Prayer for 19th June 2012 – O Lord, may I not settle for bronze in my walk with you, when I can have silver and, preferably gold. Give to me an undiminished desire for your very best.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 122.
Prayer for 18th June 2012 – Lord, I want a life that is all of a piece; a seamless garment. Deliver me from any tendency to pretend. Let me be filled through and through with your integrity.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 121.
Prayer for 15th June 2012 – Help me Lord to undeviatingly hold to your Word. Let me hold it so tightly that it will never be snatched from my grasp. Keep me from believing things simply out of convenience; because they are what I want to hear. May I never lose sight of the dangers involved in straying from your truth.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 120.
Prayer for 14th June 2012 – I open my hands to fully receive your Word this day dear Lord. I thank you for its restorative power at work on all the withered areas of my life, as I walk in its brilliant light.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 119.
Prayer for 13th June 2012 – Lord Jesus, I want to be like you, walking through each day, living each night in communion with the Heavenly Father. Help me to keep in step with His plans for my life, and not invent my own.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 118.
Prayer for 12th June 2012 – I pray for all leaders in every sphere of life. Lord, give them servant hearts to always put the people they lead before themselves. Cause them to admit their weakness and ignorance and seek out good counsel. Above everything else, may they be people who listen to you and act obediently.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 117.
Prayer for 11th June 2012 – Help me, dear Lord, to carefully guard my heart, so that I do not fritter away this one wonderful life you have given me.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 116.
Prayer for 8th June 2012 – May I never try to defend myself against your Word Lord, but always fully expose every dark corner of my life to its penetrating and, sometimes unwelcome rays.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 115.
Prayer for 7th June 2012 – Lord, my heart cleaves to you. I love you. To whom else can I go? You alone have the words of eternal life. In you I lack nothing. Why would I ever want to return to that empty way of life? Keep my heart for your exclusive use. Let it never be stray from its true home.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 114.
Prayer for 6th June 2012 – Help me Lord to hold tight to you, and let go of anything that would spoil my relationship with you. Above all, I thank you that I am held tightly in the grip of your grace.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 113.
Prayer for 5th June 2012 – Heavenly Father, I am so thankful for all the gifts you have entrusted to my care. I don’t deserve your super-abundant generosity. I want you to be pleased with my handling of your property. Let no material thing own my heart. I belong exclusively to you.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 112.
Prayer for 4th June 2012 – Lord Jesus, I can never adequately put into words what you mean to me. You will always be far greater than any message that is conveyed about you. But let my heart always overflow, spilling out its loving contents in praise and thanksgiving.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 111.
Prayer for 1st June 2012 – Thank you Lord for your immense and amazing grace and mercy. I thank you so much that you visit the ‘tip’ to reclaim lives for your service. When you have finished us, no-one would guess where we came from. You are indeed a wonderful God.
For today’s Bible Notes– See Daily Bible Notes for June – No: 110.
31 May – Heavenly Father, as long as I live in this world don’t let me think I’ve arrived. I want to keep moving forward in you. Don’t let me settle for anything less than your very best.
For today’s Bible Notes – Please see below – Stephen’s Daily Bible Notes 2012 – May – No: 109.
30 May – I ask for a prayer life that is so vibrant and real, that when I get up off my knees, everyone I come into contact and speak to will be blessed.
For today’s Bible Notes – Please see below – Stephen’s Daily Bible Notes 2012 – May – No: 108.
29 May – Lord, don’t allow me to forget that you always monitor my heart. Let me really grasp that you are not necessarily impressed by outwardly spectacular things that tend to win human admiration. May my ambition always be to have a heart that is perfect towards you.
I also pray for all who do not yet know you, that you will give them a new heart. I ask these things in Jesus’ Name.
For today’s Bible Notes – Please see below – Stephen’s Daily Bible Notes 2012 – May – No: 107.
28 May – Lord, please pour on your church the Spirit of prayer. Plant in our hearts such a hunger and thirst for you. May the place of prayer be so precious to us, and not strewn with the cobwebs of neglect.
For today’s Bible Notes – Please see below – Stephen’s Daily Bible Notes 2012 – May – No: 106.
25 May – Dear Lord, how can I ever thank you enough that the innocent Jesus was treated as guilty in my place, so that I, the guilty, could be declared innocent. This is a miracle of sheer grace. (1 Kings 8: 32).
For today’s Bible Notes – Please see below – Stephen’s Daily Bible Notes 2012 – May – No: 105.
24 May – Lord, your Word says that you ‘confide’ in those who ‘fear’ you. Help me to be such a person: one who can hear your faintest whisper, and respond obediently.
For today’s Bible Notes – Please see below – Stephen’s Daily Bible Notes 2012 – May – No: 104.
23 May – I have to be honest, Lord; I don’t like this hammering business. But help me to not resent it. I know I need knocking into shape: the wonderful ‘shape’ of Jesus.
For today’s Bible Notes – Please see below – Stephen’s Daily Bible Notes 2012 – May – No: 103.
22 May – Lord Jesus, let my life be one of stability and strength as I build on you my Rock. Whatever forces may try to shake me, cause me be immoveable in you.
For today’s Bible Notes – Please see below – Stephen’s Daily Bible Notes 2012 – May – No: 102.
21 May – Help me Lord to ensure that the ‘things of God’ are much bigger in my life than my own ‘things’.
For today’s Bible Notes – Please see below – Stephen’s Daily Bible Notes 2012 – May – No: 101.
18 May – Heavenly Father, I thank you for all my brothers and sisters in Christ. I know that I cannot fully play my part without them. Help me to always show them appreciation and give encouragement. I recognise how much I need them. Thank you that this very truth helps to keep pride in check. I want to walk humbly before you all my days.
For today’s Bible Notes – Please see below – Stephen’s Daily Bible Notes 2012 – May – No: 100.
