Archives for 2012

Isaiah 65

Isaiah 65:2 Lord, what a privilege to know today I can run into Your arms, please hold me close to You all day long.

Isaiah 65:8 Father, no matter how rotten people may become around us because they choose not to serve You, please keep our spirit fresh and sweet in Your sight.

Isaiah 65:17 Thank You heavenly Father for the promise of new heavens and a new earth. It’s hard to imagine them being so wonderful that I won’t even think about this present life any longer.

Isaiah 65:20-25 Lord, please let our lives here on earth be a foretaste of You loris us new creation.

Isaiah 66

Isaiah 66:2 Father please give me a humble and contrite heart that follows Your Word.

Isaiah 66:14 Lord, please make my heart rejoice in the things that make Your heart rejoice.

Isaiah 66:20 O Lord, I desire to be part of this glorious procession. Bring me to Your holy mountain, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. I want to see Jesus, the One who offered His blood for my forgiveness.

Psalm 22:19-31

Psalm 22:22, 25 I praise You, Lord, with all who fear You! Help me to honour You in the presence of my family. Lord I desire to show You reverence with my brothers and sisters in
Christ. I will praise You among all Your people.

Psalm 22:30-31 Lord God, please let the future generations of our families serve You, even those who are yet unborn. Help us to make sure that we allow our children to hear about everything You have done.

Matthew 27:45-66

Matthew 27:47-54 Spend time to contemplate with adoration the crucified Christ on the cross, and how His separation from God bridged the gulf between God and mankind.

Isaiah 62

Isaiah 62:1 For Zion’s sake Isaiah said he will not hold his peace and be silent. Let us have a heart like Isaiah. Yom Kippur began yesterday and continues through today, pray for peace in Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6) and for the salvation of her people Jew and Gentile.

Isaiah 62:2 Thank you Lord, for this verse. As the 67th General Assembly of the United Nations began this week. Many leaders have expressed their concerns about that the arch enemy of the Jewish people will be able to address world leaders on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. The United Nations will have its Annual Debate of the General Assembly from September 25th – October 1st, when all 193 member states will gather in New York to be faced with a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state. In the next few months your nation will have to decide if it will accept the creation of a new Islamic state in the Middle East with the Old City of Jerusalem (East Jerusalem) as its capital.
Thank You Lord, this verse declares “And the nations shall see your righteousness and vindication ( your rightness and justice – not your own, but His ascribed to you).

Isaiah 62:6-7 Lord, teach me to pray tirelessly and expectantly.

Isaiah 63

Isaiah 63:1-6 Lord, I praise You today as I see judgment against the Lord’s enemies. You are mighty to save! Please show Your strength as You fight for Your chosen people and the church today. Announce Your salvation over the UN meetings this week Lord for Israel

Isaiah 63:7 Lord, I praise You for Your unfailing love, which You demonstrated in Your great goodness to Israel and Your great mercy to me.

Isaiah 63:9 Meditate on how God has lifted you up and carried you through all the years. Thank Him for specific events that come to mind.

Isaiah 63:15 Lord, look down from heaven and see Your people from Your holy, glorious home. Please let Your passion and might be revealed in my life today.

Isaiah 64

Isaiah 64:5 Father, please make me one of those who cheerfully do good, who willingly and quickly follow godly ways.

Psalm 22:1-18

Psalm 22:1-3 Even when we feel forsaken, Lord, You are holy. Your holiness and righteousness do not change with our moods. Help us to trust You even when we don’t feel Your presence.

Psalm 22:9-10 God brought you safely from you mother’s womb. Thank Him that He brought you into existence, and that He has been your God from the moment you were born.

Psalm 22:16-18 Lord Jesus, thank You for Your sacrificial love that was prophesied in these verses (Mark 15:24).

Matthew 27:27-44

Matthew 27:27-31 Jesus, King of Kings and Lord of lords, may my praise and the praises of all your church drown out the words of those who mocked You and spit on You.

Matthew 27:32-33 Today after reflecting on this account the words of the song by Philip P Bliss are appt. “Man of sorrows! what a name for the Son of God who came. Ruined sinners to reclaim! Hallelujah! What a saviour! Hallelujah What a Saviour!

Isaiah 60

Isaiah 60:1-2 Lord on this day of Yom Kippor the day of atonement for Your people the Jews. Let true repentance break forth from the hearts of Your people so the day may come so Jerusalem can be a light for all nations to see! Because the glory of the Lord is shinning upon it.

Isaiah 60:3-4 As it is prophesied that Your people will be brought home and this will bring great honour to You. Lord so let my life bring great honour to You.

Isaiah 60:18 Lord, let Your salvation surround my home like city walls, and let praise be on the lips of all who enter there.

Isaiah 61

Isaiah 61:3 Praise God for the ways He has brought beauty out of disappointment in your life.

Isaiah 61:7 Lord, thank You for the double portion of favour and blessing and everlasting joy,that will come upon Israel. I also thank you for the double portion that I have received from You since being saved, I truly have been blessed. Please help me to live in constant awareness of how blessed I am.

Psalm 109

Psalm 109:4 Is there someone in your life who is trying to hurt you or has already hurt you? Keep praying for that person, as Dvid did.

Psalm 109:22 Lord, no matter how comfortable or prosperous I may become remind me that I am poor and needy without You.

Psalm 109:30 Thank You, thank You! God I want to be the kind of person who gives repeated thanks to You. Help me to live my entire life in a spirit of gratitude toward You.

Matthew 27:1-26

Matthew 27:24-26 Ask God for the courage today to take responsibility for a situation when you are the one in authority.

Isaiah 58

Isaiah 58:1-4 Lord, in light of these verses please deliver me from any pretence. Help me never to make a show of coming to You. Make my inner motives as pure as my outward actions.

Isaiah 58:6-7 Dear Lord help us to compare our conduct with these verses. Please correct any shortcomings in our behaviour towards others.

Isaiah 58:10-11 Lord, thank You for this wonderful promise to those who feed the hungry and help those in trouble. I want to be that beautiful garden, Lord well watered and growing. I want to be like an ever flowing stream.

Isaiah 59

Isaiah 59:3-4 Father God, will You have mercy upon us and send Your mighty Holy Spirit power, to break Satan’s influence to put lies in our minds and mouths. This causes us not to speak the truth at all times and brings pain to You and ourselves.
Lord let the spirit of lying be loosed from everyone of our hearts. We love You Lord and know that You shed Your precious blood and redeemed us from the curse so that we could live free from the power of the curse. I cry out to You today for freedom for us Your children, that satan the father of lies will have no influence over us in anyway.

Isaiah 59:6-7 Pray for God to prevent violence and murder in your community.

Isaiah 59:15 Lord, Your Word says everyone who tries to live godly will be attacked. I ask for Your divine protection from every assignment of the evil one satan. I know the attacks will come because we try to live a godly life, but You are our defence.

Isaiah 59:21 Lord please let Your Word be on my lips and on the lips of my children and my children’s children forever.

Matthew 26:57-75

Matthew 26:59-68 Lord, You did not defend Yourself. I know that I have to stand up and defend the truth of the gospel, when others twist the truth about You. Give me the right words to say at the right time.

Matthew 26:69-75 Help us Lord, to seek Your forgiveness for those times when we should have spoken a word of truth that identified us as Christ’s followers but we chose to remain silent.

Isaiah 56

Isaiah 56:1 Lord, make me just and fair to all. Help me to do what is right and good which is in conformity to Your will which brings salvation.

Isaiah 56:7 Even You said of the Nations, ” I will bring them also to My Holy mountain of Jerusalem and will fill them with joy in My house of prayer” I ask You to increase the prayerfulness of our church. May it be a house of prayer.

Isaiah 56:10-11 Pray for the integrity and spiritual vitality of the shepherds in your church and around the world.

Isaiah 57

Isaiah 57:1-2 Lord, the righteous pass away; the godly often die before their time. And no one seems to care or wonder why. No one seems to understand that God is protecting them from the evil to come. But I thank You that the godly who die will rest in peace. Please protect the righteous from evil in whatever way You, in Your wisdom, choose.

Isaiah 57:12 Lord once again I confess openly that nothing that I have done can save me, but only the loving sacrifice of Jesus. Jesus, thank You for dying so that I can live.

Isaiah 57:15 Lord, You are the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity. You are the Holy One. Please make my spirit contrite and humble. Refresh me and give new courage to my repentant heart. Even as we approach Yom Kippur the day of atonement for Jews around the whole world. Where they will be repenting for their sins. Lord please reveal Yourself as Yeshua on the this significant day. Lord I know personally that repentance brings refreshment. When we pray with passion, we come boldly before Your throne in heaven and storm the gates of hell. It’s a battle and it cost more than simply time out of our day, it exacts a price. Lord I know that honest, passionate prayer can drain us physically, emotionally, and spiritually. This verse reminds me how we remain strong. You pour out refreshment and new courage when we pray with humility and contrition.

Coming to our heavenly Father in humility reminds us that the weight of the world isn’t on our shoulders but on His. Repentance enables us to relinquish our need to be in control so we can move forward again, unhindered and refreshed, with new power and perspective.

Isaiah 57:18-19 Lord, we pray that You will lead and comfort those who mourn. May they know Your peace and healing power.

Psalm 41

Psalm 41:1-2 Lord, I pray for the poor in my Nation, protect them. Show me how to be kind to them and bring joy to Your heart.

Psalm 41:11 Lord, this is the place I want to be, so give me the kind of assurance that I can say. “I know that You are pleased with me.”

Matthew 26:36-56

Matthew 26:41 Jesus, just as You asked Your disciples to keep alert and pray with You in the garden, You have called me to keep alert and pray before You come (Luke 21:36). Strengthen me Lord, for my spirit is willing though my body is often weak.

Matthew 26:52 You could have called thousands of angels to protect You, Lord Jesus, yet you choose to drink the cup of suffering for me. I stand in awe because You love me so much.