Friday 22nd Februayr 2013 – Lord, this day I confess my need of your grace to be all that you have called me to be. I pray that your grace will flow freely through me this day, and to you be all the glory.
For today’s Bible Notes please see Note 300.
Thursday 21st February 2013 – Take my life and let it be, consecrated, Lord, to thee.
For today’s Bible Notes please see Note 299.
Wednesday 20th February 2013 – Lord, please show me just what it is you want me to do, and cause me to thrive in the allotment where you plant me, for the glory of your name.
For today’s Bible Notes please see Note 298.
Tuesday 19th February 2013 – I am so thankful to be a working part in your body Lord Jesus. Help me to play my part fully alongside others who are playing theirs. Thank you that this makes for harmony and health as we take our orders from you, the Head.
For today’s Bible Notes please see Note 297.
Monday 18th February 2013 – May I never envy others and their gifts, dear Lord. Let me be content to be the very best version of me that I can be, by your grace.
For today’s Bible Notes please see Note 296.
Friday 15th February 2013 – Dear God, I long to be fruitful. Please give me spiritual children. Help me to bring people to you. Give me eyes to see those brothers and sisters you want me to come alongside and give support to. You know my fears and sense of inadequacy. Let me see that your strength is always greater.
For today’s Bible Notes please see Note 295.
Thursday 14th February 2013 – Lord please fill me with your strength so that I can do what is impossible in my own strength and carry out your calling for this life of mine; although I freely confess it is not mine, but yours.
For today’s Bible Notes please see Note 294.
Wednesday 13th February 2013 – Then sings my soul, my Saviour God to thee; How great thou art!
For today’s Bible Notes please see Note 293.
Tuesday 12th February 2013 – Lord, I pray especially for the Jewish people to be given eyes to see who their Messiah is, and I long for the great blessing that is to come to the entire world through them.
For today’s Bible Notes please see Note 292.
Monday 11th February 2013 – Lord God, it is my heart’s desire to give you undiluted love and commitment. Please give me the strength to hold to you and all your paths. Keep me too from superficial judgments regarding my (or other’s) work for you. Let me do all ‘for an Audience of One.’
For today’s Bible Notes please see Note 291.
Friday 8th February 2013 – Lord help me to be someone who prays before the battle and afterwards too. If prayer is my continual habit I will be more likely to pray to you during the battle.
For today’s Bible Notes please see Note 290.
Thursday 7th February 2013 – Thank you Heavenly Father that these Old Testament stories were written for our instruction. Help us to look and learn. As we see people taking wrong turnings, thank you that we get to benefit from watching. May we be kept from besmirching your Name and bringing deeply regrettable consequences on ourselves and others we love.
For today’s Bible Notes please see Note 289.
Wednesday 6th February 2013 – As I read your Word each day Lord, please speak to me and help me to change to become all you want me to be. Let your Book be embedded in me, so that I am increasingly becoming a ‘living Bible.’
For today’s Bible Notes please see Note 288.
Tuesday 5th February 2013 – Why not paraphrase Jabez’s prayer for yourself this day?
For today’s Bible Notes please see Note 287.
Monday 4th February 2013 – Reading these words, Lord, I long to know more of your wisdom in my life. I thank you that you will give this generously, and not find fault with me for my lack.
For today’s Bible Notes please see Note 286.
Friday 1st February 2013 – Thank you Lord for the Jewish roots of the Christian faith. And thank you that both Jewish and Gentile believers are being built together into a holy temple in Christ.
For today’s Bible Notes please see Note 285.
31st January – Lord, I am ‘reporting for duty.’ Let me be used by you to speak about you.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 284.
30th January – Lord Jesus, please open doors this day for me to express my faith in words. I love you and I am not ashamed to tell the world. Thank you Lord for helping me.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 283.
29th January – Lord Jesus, you graced a wedding at Cana with your miraculous, transforming power. Please will you so be at the centre of every Christian marriage that the relationship will be continually changed into what you want it to be.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 282.
28th January – Lord, please give me the joy of pointing someone to you. Let me not die ‘childless’.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 281.
25th January – Praise Him for His grace and favour, to our fathers in distress. Praise Him still the same forever, slow to chide and swift to bless.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 280.
24th January – Lord, I pray my heart will be bursting with love for those who do not yet know Jesus. May my heart beat in time with yours.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 279.
23rd January – Thank you Father for the truth of the gospel message that it is not by works, but by your grace through faith that we are saved.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 278.
22nd January – Thank you Lord that I don’t have to be able to dot every theological ‘i’ or cross every ‘t’ to worship you. I thank you from my heart for the many things you do make clear. One day, by your grace and mercy, I will see you, and that will be the answer to every question.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 277.
21st January – Father God, help me to always walk carefully before you and men, that I may daily please you and ever glorify your Name. Let me continually walk as one who is conscious of living in your presence.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 276.
18th January – Thank you Lord that you know my name, my relationships and my abilities. I dedicate this one life to you to serve your purposes in the world.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 275.
17th January – How I marvel over your Word Lord God. I can read just a tiny part of it, like today, and yet find it is alive. It speaks to me and my present circumstances and condition. This is not just about someone else’s story a long time ago and many miles away. This has such startling relevance to me. How can I ever thank you enough for blessing me with your mighty truth?
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 274.
16th January 2013 – Thank you Sovereign Lord for the beautiful mystery of my salvation. This I do understand: that you love me and gave your life for me to show me mercy and draw me to yourself. I am eternally grateful.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 273.
15th January 2013 – I recognise dear Lord that I am not a Christian because I have been born into a (supposedly) Christian country, but because you graciously chose me and gave me the faith to trust in Jesus. This is too much for me to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, I am truly grateful. Help me to always work worthily of my great calling from you.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 272.
14th January 2013 – Lord crucified, give us a heart like yours.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 271.
11th January 2013 – Help me this day, Heavenly Father, to turn away from everything I know to be wrong. May I not just say ‘sorry’ with my lips, but also with my entire life.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 270.
10th January 2013 – Lord, I know that many people want to remove your judgment from the Bible, but I don’t want to be infected by this spirit of the age. Help me to believe and preach everything your Word teaches. It is the only place of safety. You do not give us the right to pick and choose what we will believe.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 269.
9th January 2013 – Thank you Lord that I will always find all that I need in you. Cause my heart to cleave to you always and never look anywhere else.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 268.
8th January 2013 – Thank you Lord for Jesus’ cross and all it means. I am grateful that all my debt is paid and I receive full and free forgiveness as I trust in Him.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 267.
7th January 2013 – Lord I pray for (you supply the names). Although they have drifted away, please draw them back to you.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 266.
4th January 2013 – Lord, I am so grateful that your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. When my way becomes thorny and treacherous; when my route takes me through dark and dangerous territory, let me hold on tightly to my powerful ‘torch’ and put it to maximum use.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 265.
3 January 2013 – Thank you dear Lord that even when I may not feel your love I can be absolutely sure of it. Thank you that nothing in life can come between your love and me. Help me to never forget it.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 264.
2 January 2013 – At the beginning of a new year, Lord, I thank you that my life is not haphazard. I am so grateful that the blueprint is in your hands, and so am I. Thank you that you will complete what you have started. I am grateful beyond any words.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 263.
1 January 2013 – Lord, as I step into this New Year, I am grateful that I do so with you. I pray that the glorious hope of all that is to come will sustain me through any difficult days that might lie ahead. I praise you for all that is past, and trust you for all that’s to come.
For today’s Bible Notes please see No. 262.
31st December 2012 – Heavenly Father, on this last day of the year I want to thank you for all your tender care; for how you have watched over me and all my ways. When you call me, I want to run to you. Let me always show you my face and not my heels. Again I thank you for your great and undeserved love.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 261.
28th December 2012 – Lord, I find this ‘until’ business in prayer very difficult. I can’t calculate your ‘until’. I don’t know for how long I will have to pray. My nation, my church, my life is in desperate need of your showers, but my will is weak. Strengthen me to persevere in prayer.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 260.
27th December 2012 – Dear Lord, please let everything in my life bring glory to you, and not to me. If I see any genuine success in ministry, let me not boast or feel proud. I want to be quick to say, ‘all glory to you’ and mean it from the depths of my being. I understand that ‘man’s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever’. Let me do both. No idol could ever suffice or satisfy.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 259.
26th December 2012 – Lord, I truly believe that the only way to be wise is to keep your company continually. Help me exercise such self-control that my words are few, and my ears are always wide open to heaven.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 258.
25th December 2012 –My Lord, on this Christmas day I thank you for all that Jesus came into the world to do for me. Thank you that you have forgiven me and that you are setting me free from sin’s power right now. Thank you Father that I am your dearly loved child, and that one day I will bear the perfect likeness of Jesus, as I share His resurrection life. What a happy Christmas reality all of this is.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 257.
24th December 2012 -Thank you Lord that this son is equipped to be like your Son Jesus. Cause me to fully live in what I know, and live it out in a world moving against all that the Spirit desires.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 256.
21st December 2012 – Help me Lord to yield to your life in mine. I want to deny the dictates of my old nature and follow all the promptings of your Holy Spirit
For Bible Notes – please see No: 255.
20th December 2012 – Lord, I know it is not enough to start well. By your Spirit enable me to be a good finisher.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 254.
19th December 2012 – My desire, dear Lord, is to have a closer walk with you, and to know a deeper obedience to your Word.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 253.
18th December 2012 – Lord, it is such a privilege to possess your Word; may your Word possess me. Let it govern every part of my life. May I never be a stranger to it, or it become a stranger to me.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 252.
17th December 2012 – In the face of human suffering let me hold fast to you Lord. Let me never let go of the ‘wondrous’ cross. I acknowledge it shines a brilliant light on all our pain in this world.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 251.
14th December 2012 – Lord, when I look at myself I have cause to despair; when I look to Jesus I am filled with hope. Cause me to keep my eyes locked on Him all through this journey.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 250.
13th December 2012 – Lord God, Heavenly Bridegroom, it is very obvious that you want your people close to you in a relationship of loving intimacy. I ask that I may have the closest possible walk with you, and by your grace I will pursue this.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 249.
12th December 2012 – Lord, I ask that there will be nothing of half-heartedness in my trust in you.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 248.
11th December 2012 – Thank you Lord that you are far more eager for us to return to you than we are to return. Help us to come to you with more than words. May our lives turn round also and be pointing in your direction.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 247.
10th December 2012 – Whatever may come my way, Sovereign Lord, help me to be like the psalmist: convinced of your control, holding on to you in faith and praying without ceasing.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 246.
7th December 2012 – Thank you Lord Jesus that you do not call us to a rule-based, rule-driven life, but to a relationship with you that will issue in much fruit to the Father’s glory. I want to be as fruitful as possible. Lord glorify your Name in me. Thank you so much for this living relationship with a living Lord.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 245.
6th December 2012 – Lord, let me believe Romans 6 so much that it will change my life. By your grace I want to fully play my part in resisting sin and serving you.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 244.
5th December 2012 – My help comes from the Lord… May I never look to anyone else or anything else to be to me what only you can.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 243.
4th December 2012 – Dear Lord, however dear my idols may have been to me, help me to mercilessly tear them from that throne which belongs to you alone, and give you your rightful place.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 242.
3rd December 2012 – Heavenly Father, we pray for all those called to spiritual leadership in your church. Keep them always true to you; ever faithful in proclaiming the truth of your Word.
For Bible Notes – please see No: 241.
30th November 2012 – Lord Jesus, thank you that you are building your church across the earth, and that the gates of hell will never prevail against it. Thank you for including me in your register.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 240.
29th November 2012 – Dear God, thank you for bringing me from death to life. I recognise I owe you my thanks not merely in words, but also with my very life. Help me to give everything to you.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 239.
28th November 2012 – O love that will not let me go, I rest my weary soul on you. I marvel at your persevering kindness towards such a wandering heart as mine. Thank you for offering another chance. Help me to take it.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 238.
27th November 2012 – Lord, if you take me to the desert, let me come out singing your song.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 237.
26th For today’s Bible Notes – Lord I owe everything to you. You have lavished me with innumerable blessings. I pray that I may never become forgetful and ungrateful. Bind my heart to you in thankful love.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 236.
23rd November 2012 – My specific calling may not be the same as Hosea’s, but help me loving God to embody the message I seek to bring with my lips. Let your message live in me.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 235.
22nd November 2012 – God only wise, I ask that I may increasingly receive the wisdom that is from above in large amounts, so that my everyday life in this world may point to you, be guided by you and reflect your glory.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 234.
21st November 2012 – Thank you Lord Jesus that you have brought an overwhelming amount of grace and life into the world. Thank you that it has flowed into me. May your grace and life flow everywhere like a mighty river.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 233.
20th November 2012 – We pray for the peace of Jerusalem, the massive growth of your church and the coming of your Kingdom Lord Jesus. May your will be done on earth even as in heaven.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 232.
19th November 2012 – Lord God, may my worship be thoroughly cleansed from any element that displeases you. Help me to always give you much more than a song.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 231.
16th November 2012 – Lord, I ask for sight for my eyes, strength for my days and focus for my soul, to live always for your glory.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 230.
15th November 2012 – Thank you Lord that you can never be said to short change any believer. You abundantly give us all we need to live the Christian life. Help me to count on this at all times, and remember it especially when life is tough.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 229.
14th November 2012 – Lord God, please assist me by your endless might to starve my doubts and feed my faith. Cause me to live like a believer, for your glory.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 228.
13th November 2012 – Give me backbone Sovereign Lord to stand up for you and your truth in a culture that wants to press the ‘off’ button when you speak. Enable me to swim against this strong current. Let me never forget that you are in total control.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 227.
12th November 2012 – Lord God, I want to state my strong desire that complacency will never find a place to lodge in my heart. I want my life to be a fireplace where your fire can burn continually, for the glory of your Name. Thank you Lord. Amen.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 226.
9th November 2012 – Dear God, help me in all things to keep my eyes on you, and may my eyes see you clearly. Please give to your church an unshakeable confidence in you.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 225.
8th November 2012 – Thank you Lord that you accept me on the basis of faith in your Son Jesus. I acknowledge that I could never earn heaven. I am not good enough, nor will I ever be. But I open my hands to receive your gracious gift, and I thank you from the depths of my heart for such costly and generous provision.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 224.
7th November 2012 –Lord, may we meet YOU in our worship and be changed by you.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 223.
6th November 2012 – Thank you Jesus for all that you did for me at the cross. It is simply amazing. Help me by your Spirit to walk before you always in fully attentive, worshipful obedience, and enjoy your peace.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 222.
5th November 2012 – I’m lost in wonder, I’m lost in love, I’m lost in praise forevermore. Because of Jesus’ unfailing love, I am forgiven, I am restored.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 221.
2nd November 2012 – Lord we pray for our leaders and fellow-citizens; we pray also for ourselves. Help us to return to you.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 220.
1st November 2012 – How I thank you Lord God, Heavenly King, that you are the incorruptible One. No-one can bribe their way into your presence. We cannot buy you off with our religious good works or any other thing. But thank you that you give free ‘passes’ to all who trust in your Son Jesus.
For today’s Bible Notes – see No: 219.
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