Day 14 of Praise

Day 14

Father, I’m so glad that the Holy Spirit is within me, to strengthen me with power in my inner person…to make Christ real within me and flood my heart with His limitless love…to fill me with Your fullness…to enable me to know in personal experience the things You have so freely bestowed on me in Christ—my new identity, my incredible spiritual blessings.

I celebrate the fact that I have been crucified with Christ, and that now I am alive with His life…that through my new birth I died out of my old life, and that You resurrected me to a living relationship with You…and so I am dead to sin and alive to You!  Thank You that these facts are true, whether or not they seem logical, whether or not I feel they’re true…and that as I praise You for them, Your Spirit enables me more and more to live in the light of my new identity in You.  Thank You that He is using Your Word to deliver me from the viewpoints and values of the world, the flesh, and the devil…and He is renewing my mind to see things from Your point of view, so that I can walk in newness of life.  I praise You that Christ is not a weak person outside me, but a tremendous power inside me…that through Him I am competent to cope with life, to do Your will, to love with Your love, to be more than a conqueror.  How I rejoice that I can grow, develop my gifts, enlarge my capacities…that I need not be forever shackled by my past, but that with confidence and joy I can look forward to actually becoming all that You have in mind for me to be.

But may it never be that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. …  Galatians 6:14