LET HIM OUT!

PSALM 35:28 (MSG)
I’ll tell the world how great and good you are,
   I’ll shout Hallelujah all day, every day.

COLOSSIANS 3:16 (NLT)
Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts.

SUMMARY SENTENCE
If you're full of Christ let him out!

DAILY FODDER
Practically speaking, what does it look like when Christ fills a life?

PRAYER
Good God, thank you for sending Christ into the world. He has made a big change—especially for those who welcome him into their lives. Forgive me for taking this wonderful thing for granted. Keep filling my life with your presence until wisdom, direction, and songs of praise burst the seams, and the world around me starts to join in the song. I want the way that I live to shout "Hallelujah!" all day, every day. Amen.

THE LORD’S PRAYER (ABP)
Our Father in Heaven,
     we hold your name in the highest regard.
Please come and establish your reign here on earth
     so that everything that happens here will align
     with what is happening in heaven.

Give us enough food for today.

Forgive us our wrongdoing,
     and we’ll forgive those who have wronged us.
Shield us from the trials and temptations that come our way.
Lastly, we pray that you will protect us from all forms of evil. Amen.

SPIRIT-POWERED NEW COVENANT

EZEKIEL 16:60 (MSG)
I’ll remember the covenant I made with you when you were young and I’ll make a new covenant with you that will last forever.

2 CORINTHIANS 3:6 (CEB)
He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not based on what is written but on the Spirit...

SUMMARY SENTENCE
We are ministers of the new Spirit-powered covenant executed by Christ Jesus.

DAILY FODDER
What exactly does it mean to be a minister?

PRAYER
Gracious Lord, thank you for keeping the relationship going—even as we fail to live up to your expectations. Thank you for sending Jesus to make it all right. Thank you for sending the Holy Spirit to empower us to live up to our calling. Might he help me in my role as a minister of the new covenant. I'm going to faithfully serve you and share the gospel with all who need to know about your faithfulness. Amen.

THE LORD’S PRAYER (ABP)
Our Father in Heaven,
     we hold your name in the highest regard.
Please come and establish your reign here on earth
     so that everything that happens here will align
     with what is happening in heaven.

Give us enough food for today.

Forgive us our wrongdoing,
     and we’ll forgive those who have wronged us.
Shield us from the trials and temptations that come our way.
Lastly, we pray that you will protect us from all forms of evil. Amen.

THE FOREVER POWER

ISAIAH 45:6-7 (MSG)
I am GOD, the only God there is.
I form light and create darkness,
I make harmonies and create discords.
I, GOD, do all these things.

REVELATION 1:18 (NLT)
I am the living one. I died, but look—I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and the grave.

SUMMARY SENTENCE
Jesus is the forever Power who holds the keys to life and death.

DAILY FODDER
Death will never catch up with Jesus; and when we hook up with him he shares with us the benefits of his power, and his victory over all attempts to drag him down.  

PRAYER
Almighty Savior, death couldn't hold you. Forgive me for despairing when I see the forces of death as they express themslves in our modern world—hatred, polarization, tyranny, war, greed, racism, poverty... I wallow in the hopelessness of the news ignoring the hope that comes from living with a conquering Savior. Help me to tune out the despair and allow the hope that is you control my mind and my actions. I recognize that the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen. 

THE LORD’S PRAYER (ABP)
Our Father in Heaven,
     we hold your name in the highest regard.
Please come and establish your reign here on earth
     so that everything that happens here will align
     with what is happening in heaven.

Give us enough food for today.

Forgive us our wrongdoing,
     and we’ll forgive those who have wronged us.
Shield us from the trials and temptations that come our way.
Lastly, we pray that you will protect us from all forms of evil. Amen.

RELIEF IS ON THE WAY

EZEKIEL 34:27 (NLT)
When I have broken their chains of slavery and rescued them from those who enslaved them, then they will know that I am the LORD.

REVELATION 21:4 (NCB)
He will wipe every tear from their eyes,
and there will no longer be death.
Neither will there be any mourning or crying or pain,
for the old order has passed away.

SUMMARY SENTENCE
Live lives that anticipate the relief of divine deliverance. 

DAILY FODDER
What kind of relief are you most anticipating? 

PRAYER
Divine Deliverer, you have a strong history of rescuing those who call out to you. And you are promising a future where the pain that dominates this world will be eliminated. Forgive me for getting so caught up in the challenges of today that I fail to remember your promised relief. Show me how to live through today's pain confident of your promises. I understand that through Christ things won't always be this way and I will let the reality of that future shape the present. Amen.

THE LORD’S PRAYER (ABP)
Our Father in Heaven,
     we hold your name in the highest regard.
Please come and establish your reign here on earth
     so that everything that happens here will align
     with what is happening in heaven.

Give us enough food for today.

Forgive us our wrongdoing,
     and we’ll forgive those who have wronged us.
Shield us from the trials and temptations that come our way.
Lastly, we pray that you will protect us from all forms of evil. Amen.