Category: NIV First Person

Categories
Method for Prayer NIV First Person

Acknowledge your Dependence on God and your Obligations to Him

Adoration 1.12 | NIV

I must acknowledge my dependence upon God and my obligations to him as my Creator, Preserver, and Benefactor.

You, O God, made me, and not I myself, and therefore I am not my own but yours: 1 Corinthians 6:19(NIV) I am of your people and of the sheep of your pasture; Psalm 100:3(NIV) let me therefore worship and fall down and kneel before the Lord my Maker. Psalm 95:6(NIV)

You, Lord, are the former of my body, and it is fearfully and wonderfully made and curiously wrought. Your eyes saw my unformed body, and all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. Psalm 139:14-16(NIV)

You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews; you have given me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence have watched over my spirit. Job 10:11-12(NIV)

You are the Father of my spirit, Hebrews 12:9(NIV) for you form the spirit of man within him, Zechariah 12:1(NIV) and give me breath. Jeremiah 38:16(NIV) The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life. Job 33:4(NIV) You endow the heart with wisdom and give understanding to the mind. Job 38:36(NIV)

You are God my Maker, who teaches more to me than to the beasts of the earth and makes me wiser than the birds of the air. Job 35:10-11(NIV)

I am the clay, you are the potter; I am the work of your hand. Isaiah 64:8(NIV)

You brought me out of the womb and made me trust in you even at my mother’s breast; from birth I have been cast upon you and have relied on you. Psalm 22:9-10(NIV) You are my God from my mother’s womb, and therefore I will ever praise you. Psalm 71:6(NIV)

In you, O God, I live and move and have my being, for I am your offspring. Acts 17:28(NIV)

In your hand you hold my life and all my ways, Daniel 5:23(NIV) for a man’s life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps, Jeremiah 10:23(NIV) but my times are in your hands. Psalm 31:15(NIV)

You are the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day and has delivered me from all harm. Genesis 48:15-16(NIV)

It is because of your great love that I am not consumed, for your compassions never fail: they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23(NIV)

If you take away my breath, I die and return to the dust out of which I was taken. Psalm 104:29(NIV)

Who can speak and have it happen if you have not decreed it? From your mouth, O Most High, both calamities and good things come. Lamentations 3:37-38(NIV)

Categories
Method for Prayer NIV First Person

Give Honor to the Triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

Adoration 1.11 | NIV

We must give honor to the three persons in the Godhead distinctly, to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, that great and sacred Name into which we were baptized and in which we assemble for religious worship, in communion with the universal church.

I pay my homage to three that testify in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; for these three are one. 1 John 5:7(KJV)

I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, Matthew 11:25(NIV) and the eternal Word, who was with God in the beginning and was God, through whom all things were made; without whom nothing was made that has been made; John 1:1-3(NIV) and who, when the time had fully come, Galatians 4:4(NIV) became flesh and made his dwelling among us and showed his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14(NIV)

And since it is the will of God that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father, John 5:23(NIV) I adore him as the radiance of his Father’s glory and the exact representation of his being; Hebrews 1:3(NIV) herein joining with the angels of God, who were all bidden to worship him. Hebrews 1:6(NIV)

I pay homage to the exalted Redeemer, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth, Revelation 1:5(NIV) confessing that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:11(NIV)

I also worship the Holy Spirit, the Counselor, whom the Son has sent from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, John 15:26(NIV) and who is sent to teach me all things and to remind me of everything; John 14:26(NIV) who indited the Scriptures, holy men of God writing them as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:21(NIV)

Categories
Method for Prayer NIV First Person

Give Glory to God as the Creator of the World

Adoration 1.10 | NIV

I must give glory to him as the Creator of the world and the great Protector, Benefactor, and Ruler of the whole creation.

You are worthy, O Lord, to receive blessing and honor and glory and power, for you created all things, and by your will and for your praise they were created and have their being. Revelation 4:11(NIV)

I worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the springs of water; Revelation 14:7(NIV) who spoke, and it came to be; who commanded, and it stood firm; Psalm 33:9(NIV) who said, “Let there be light,” and there was light; Genesis 1:3(NIV) “Let there be an expanse,” and he made the expanse; Genesis 1:6-7(NIV) and he made all very good; Genesis 1:31(NIV) and they endure to this day according to your laws, for all things serve you. Psalm 119:91(NIV)

The day is yours, and yours also the night; you established the sun and moon. It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth; you made both summer and winter. Psalm 74:16-17(NIV)

You sustain all things by your powerful word, Hebrews 1:3(NIV) and in you all things hold together. Colossians 1:17(NIV)

The earth is full of your creatures, so also is the vast and spacious sea. Psalm 104:24-25(NIV) The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time: You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing. Psalm 145:15-16(NIV) You preserve both man and beast, Psalm 36:6(NIV) and give food to every creature. Psalm 136:25(NIV)

You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you, Nehemiah 9:6(NIV) whose kingdom rules over all. Psalm 103:19(NIV)

A sparrow will not fall to the ground apart from your will. Matthew 10:29(NIV)

You formed man at first from the dust of the ground and breathed into him the breath of life, and so he became a living being. Genesis 2:7(NIV)

From one man you made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and you determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. Acts 17:26(NIV)

You are the Most High, who is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes; Daniel 4:25(NIV) for it is from you that man gets justice. Proverbs 29:26(NIV)

Hallelujah! The Lord God Almighty reigns, Revelation 19:6(NIV) and works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, for the praise of his own glory. Ephesians 1:11-12(NIV)