FOCUSED ON GOODNESS
Philippians 4:8-9
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Philippians+4:8-9
Dear Father, praiseworthy God,
Help me set my mind only on things that are true, that are noble,
right, pure and lovely, things that are worthy of admiration.
If there is anything excellent or praiseworthy, O God, let me
think only about such things!
Whatever I have learned or received or heard through your apostles
and y…
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REJOICE! AND PRAY!
Philippians 4:4-7
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Philippians+4:4-7
Dear Father, forbearing God,
Let me rejoice in the Lord always! Again I ask this from you: Let
me rejoice always!
Let me be gentle, open to reason, slow to make negative judgments.
Let this forbearing spirit be apparent to everyone.
I know the Lord Jesus is near, so I have no reason to be anxious
about anything, but in ev…
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A CITIZEN OF HEAVEN
Philippians 3:16-21
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Philippians+3:16-21
Dear Father,
I want to join all your holy people in imitating the example of
your apostle Paul, and I want to take notice of people in my own
time who live by the same example.
Thank you, my God, that my citizenship is in heaven, from which I
wait the return of my Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you, Father, th…
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A PRECIOUS PROMISE
Philippians 3:8
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Philippians+3:8
Dear Father, Keeper of all your promises,
You have promised: "Be faithful unto death and I will give you a
crown of life." Thank you for such a precious promise! You are so
gracious to me!
Help me to count everything as loss for the surpassing worth of
knowing Christ Jesus as my Lord. For his sake I would gladly suffer
the loss o…
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THE ULTIMATE LOYALTY
Philippians 2:19-3:7
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Philippians+2:19-3:7
Dear Father,
Help me to be a Timothy, one who genuinely cares for the welfare
of others.
Help me look out not just for my own interests, but for Christ's.
Help me to be an Epaphroditus, a true fellow worker and fellow
soldier to all others who serve you, risking my life for you.
Help me to be one of the true ci…
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A BRILLIANT STAR
Philippians 2:14-18
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Philippians+2:14-18
Dear Father,
Help me do what is needed without complaining or arguing, so that
I may be blameless and pure.
Let me be your child without fault, a child of God, in a crooked
and perverse generation.
Let me shine like a brilliant star in the night skies of your
universe, as I hold out the word of life.
Make me a source…
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FEAR AND TREMBLING
Philippians 2:12-13
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Dear Father,
Help me to obey your word, not only in the presence of other
followers of Christ but even more when they are absent, when
there's no one there but me.
Be with me as I work out my salvation with fear and trembling,
lest I should ever think that I have earned it. After all, it is
you, dear God, who is at…
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FEAR AND TREMBLING
Philippians 2:12-13
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Philippians+2:12-13
Dear Father,
Help me to obey your word, not only in the presence of other
followers of Christ but even more when they are absent, when
there's no one there but me.
Be with me as I work out my salvation with fear and trembling,
lest I should ever think that I have earned it. After all, it is
you, dear God, who is at…
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ONE IN SPIRIT
Philippians 2:3-11
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Philippians+2:3-11
Dear Father, One God of your one holy people,
Help all of us to do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain
conceit, but in humility help us count each other better than
ourselves.
May we look out for the interests of each other, not just our own.
Let our attitude be the same as was in Christ Jesus, who made
himself nothing a…
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Lord Have Mercy
Scott Williams
Have Mercy On Me is not a phrase that you hear very often. When many of us hear "Have Mercy On Me," we immediately think of the Parable of The Pharisee and the Tax Collector.
You know where the Pharisee prayed to God, "Oh, God, I thank you that I am not like those other people--robbers, crooks, adulterers, or heaven forbid, like this IRS Guy, I mean Tax Collector. I fast twice a week and tithe on all my income." Meanwhile the Tax Collector slumped in the shadows wi…
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SETBACKS INTO STEPPING STONES
Philippians 1:12-20
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Philippians+1:12-20
Dear Father,
Take the setbacks of our lives and use them to further the
proclamation of your Good News about Jesus to the world.
Let such things become a source of encouragement to our brethren
when they see the valor of those who bear up under adversity. May
every hardship spur your people on to boldly spe…
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PARTICIPANTS
Philippians 1:3-11
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Philippians+1:3-11
Dear Father,
Thank you for the great joy I feel about my fellow believers.
Thank you for the partnership we have in your Son Jesus. Thank you
that we are common partakers of your grace. Give us all the grace
to yearn for each other with the affection of Christ.
Help our love to abound more and more, with knowledge and all
disc…
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VERSE:
Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this
rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in
his brother's way.
-- Romans 14:13
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Romans+14:13&translation=kjv
THOUGHT:
It is so easy to be judgmental of others. We don't know their
struggles. We don't know their situation. Most of all, we don't
know their hearts. When we…
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PREPARED TO FIGHT
Ephesians 6:14-17
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Ephesians+6:14-17
Dear Father, my support in battle,
Help me stand, having put on my body the garments of TRUTH and the
bullet-proof vest of the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS, having put on my
feet the combat boots of PREPARATION IN THE GOOD NEWS OF PEACE, and
besides these, having taken in hand the shield of TRUST IN GOD. (I
feel like I need a gas…
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VERSE:
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his
death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body
of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
-- Romans 6:5-6
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THOUGHT:
Paul reminds us that our baptism was more than…
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VERSE:
I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God;
in him will I trust.
-- Psalm 91:2
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THOUGHT:
"In God we trust." That's the phrase written on much of the
money in the United States. It's a great reminder. The financial
climate ebbs and flows, always vulnerable to instability in the
world. Only God is our refuge and…
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A CLEAN MIND
Ephesians 5:5
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Ephesians+5:5
Dear Father, Holy God,
You have warned me that I can be sure of this: that no fornicator
or impure person, or one who is covetous (idolatrous!) has any
inheritance in the kingdom that belongs to you and Christ.
Furthermore, keep me from enjoying as entertainment the depiction
of such things in books or magazines, or on the stage or on
televi…
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A CLEAN MOUTH
Ephesians 5:3-4
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Ephesians+5:3-4
Dear Father,
Keep me from talking about or thinking about illicit sex and
pornography and covetousness, since you require that your holy
people avoid referring to these things.
Keep me from filthy stories, silly or flippant talk, and any other
kind of conversation not fitting for one who follows you.
Instead, let my mouth be filled w…
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VERSE:
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of
his might.
-- Ephesians 6:10
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Ephesians+6:10&translation=kjv
THOUGHT:
Some of our strength to fight evil comes from our experiences in
the past, from the encouragement of others, and from our knowledge
of the truth in the Scriptures. Ultimately, however, our strength
comes from God's mighty…
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MY NEW NATURE MADE ALIVE
Ephesians 4:17-21
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Ephesians+4:17-21
Dear Father, righteous and holy God,
Help me never to be tempted to live as worldly people live: futile
in their thinking - darkened in their understanding - alienated
from you because of the ignorance within them - hard-hearted and
calloused -given over to licentiousness - greedy to practice every
kind of uncleanness.…
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