Heavenly Father, I praise You for allowing us to have four different perspectives and testimonies of when Christ lived here on the earth. I praise You for giving us different insights and personal encounters that happened during his ministry. I praise You for giving the inspired breath of Your Spirit that can flow into our spirit and help us gain knowledge, wisdom, understanding and discernment as we grow to understand who You are and how You created us with purpose, potential and that You desire a relationship with us and offered us salvation as the covenant bond that helps shed our sins so we can fully be in Your presence.
In Luke 18, Christ tells about a judge and a widow. He uses the parable to teach us how desperate and focused our prayers need to be if we are truly going to allow ourselves to be broken and humble so that God can then do His will in our lives. I need to learn to pray constantly, consistently, and with reckless abandonment to God, acknowledging I have no control, and that only by the mercy of God can my petition be heard and acted upon for the best
of God’s kingdom. I need to heed that this does not put me in a place to just ask for anything and God will grant my desire, but to truly strip my request to the most desperate plea that will touch the heart of God and seek His mercy and answer to my truest need and desire that should align with His will. I think most of all I need this kind of prayer to be the center of my focus for the salvation of my family, and those who have become part of my community and awareness that need the salvation, healing, and restoration of life with Christ. Let me learn to not only abide but seek You with all of my heart.
Praise be to You, God, and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed me in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For You chose me before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in Your sight. In love, You predestined me to be adopted as Your son through Jesus, in accordance with His pleasure and will—to the praise of His glorious grace, which he has freely given me in the One He loves. In You, I have redemption through the blood of Christ, the forgiveness of
sins, in accordance with the riches of Your grace that You lavished on me with all wisdom and understanding. And You are making known to me the mystery of Your will according to Your good pleasure, which You purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ. In You I was also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of God who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will, might be for the praise of His glory. And I was also included in Christ when I heard the word of truth, the gospel of my salvation. Having believed, I am marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing my inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory. Amen. Ephesians 1:3-14