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I Cast Down the Stronghold of My Past

7/13/2026

I will conform to You, Lord. I will seek to know not my will but Your Word in my life. I cast down the stronghold of my past against me. I am choosing to forget those things that have bonded me. I am free in You, Lord. I claim freedom from all ill-effects from socialization. I claim to know only the new life in Christ Jesus. I flush my entire system clean of the wickedness that came from socialization. I bring forth a new light in Christ Jesus. I thank You for the knowledge of Your excellency. I accept my entrance into Your holies of holies where Christ Jesus dwells. I ask for forgiveness of my trespasses in living under the curse of socialization. I thank You, Lord, for letting me be a new creation in You. Let me reap the fullness of Your benefits. I realize that I have passed from death to life. I am requiring of me to live blameless in Your majesty. I believe, Lord, that You will take care of every iota of my life. I want to be strong in keeping the sabotage that comes from my mind away from the blessings You have for me.

I Will Pray More to Shun My Mind

7/6/2026

O Lord, I am seeking Your fullness in me. I have realized that the mind is a source of corruption. I must destroy the works of my mind that seek to turn me from You. I am learning how to pray. I am learning to trust You for everything.

I must lose who I think I am, learning only to know the way You want me to be. I am learning that the source of who I think I am is in my mind. I must shun all the desires that stem from my mind. I will abolish the habitat of the evilness that starts the thoughts and perception.

O Lord, help me to be strong in receiving Your Spirit and putting my ways aside. I will pray more diligently so that I can conform to You.

I Want to Bear Your Fruit

6/29/2026

Thank You, Lord, for my life. You have given me much. You have granted me the desires of my heart. You have fulfilled everything Your Word says about one who sets his ways on You. I desire to trust in You more. I desire to forget myself and know nothing but You. However, many times the flesh kicks up and tries to set me living in my own way. I thank You for giving me the desire to turn from wanting to sin. I desire to have a complete fill of Your Spirit. I want to know nothing except You. I desire to know nothing that my flesh wants to support. Let me leave those ways behind. I accept Your fruit. I denounce the ways of evil of hindrances to knowing You more.

Lord, please let me be strong. I have determined that You have given me the tools to be a soldier for You. I must only cultivate them.

I Must Learn How to Pray

6/22/2026

You have equipped me with the tools I need to be a soldier for You.

You have granted me wisdom.

You have blessed me with the ability to shape things with the tools.

I must now be diligent about applying the wisdom You have granted me.

I have discovered that the application of wisdom comes through prayer.

I must learn how to pray.

Give Me Strength to Submit Myself To You

6/15/2026

Give me strength, O Lord, so that I can always have You in my hope to live. I want to have peace in You so that I know what I should always be doing. I want to have the fullness of Your Spirit in my life. Whatever situation I have, please let me know that You are in charge of it.

I have faith that You will constantly keep me where I need to be so I can be close to You. Give me the strength to endure the spiritual battles that occur in trying to make me turn my faith from You. I declare that I will hold firm to You. I will not look or feel my flesh. I will know nothing except You. I will forget and put away all things that come to try to make me distrust You or to find joy in it through sin. I submit myself to You.

I Will Uplift Everyone I Encounter

6/8/2026

O Lord, I realize that my purpose in You, besides loving You, is to love others by uplifting them.

As Isaiah 58 says, I desire to know and seek You. Yet, most often I attempt to seek You through only having a one-on-one relationship. However, I realize that seeking You involves others. It means that I must seek to help others through loving them. I must seek to do Your will by loving others.

I realize now that seeking You just doesn’t come from knowing You without having interaction with others. I will seek to uplift everyone with whom I come in contact.

Thank You for Your Spiritual Blessings

6/1/2026

O Lord,

I am thanking You for the blessings You have bestowed in my life. I thank You that You have granted me everything I have. You have had mercy on me. Many times when I was not in Your will You still looked out over me. You provided me with security when it appeared that I should fall. I am grateful as I look back on how You protected me.

Help me to understand the profoundness of Your love for me. Help me to realize Your presence in all parts of my life. Let me not know my wisdom but only Yours. I thank You for Your Spirit.

Thank You.

To Know You Means to Not Know Me

5/25/2026

Seeking You, Lord, means to give up my identity. To know You means to not know me. So much of the philosophy of the world is to get to know oneself. It is to know what makes one happy, what makes one feel good. I realize that I was shaped in a deceitful philosophy of pleasing myself. I was separated from all manners of discipline. Therefore, I sought my wisdom.

My wisdom, of course, was to seek to glorify me by establishing my way as being the right and only way. I began living that I was my own god. I abhorred the presence of any other type of instruction in my life. The only instruction for me was if it had originated in my own mind and was good to satisfy my sinful desires. I realize now how foolish I was in seeking my own desires.

I Want to Have Your Word in My Life

5/18/2026

Have mercy on me, Lord.

I want to seek You, Lord. I want to find Your profoundness. I want to have Your Word in my life. I want to submit my life to Your Spirit. I want to find Your Spirit present in every moment of my life. I pray for Your Spirit.

I ask for You to fill me so that I don’t have a spot of my own desires in my life. I want to have only Your Spirit to rely on for all my existence. Let me know no other way. I rebuke all parts of me. I deny me. I cast my desires, my will away.

I accept Your Spirit and rebuke mine. I ask that I can control my mind so that I only know You. Give me strength to only know You.

I Must Trust in You, Lord

5/11/2026

Lord, I realize that I must trust in You to take care of every minute thing in my life. I realize that I must not, by any infinitesimal way, try to trust on my own strength. I realize that as I trust in You for all my existence I will be more than satisfied. I must learn to realize that I am vain with my strength. I must realize that I can do absolutely nothing of substance with my own strength. I ask, Lord, that You inspire me with the desire to only trust You.

If there occurs a time when I might be leaning towards trusting in my strength, reveal it to me and give me the inspiration to shun it. I call upon You for my life. Let me know nothing else but You, Lord, I pray.