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2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 Therefore, If Anyone Is in Christ, the New Creation Has Come: the Old Has Gone, the New Is Here! 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! WEEK 1 –THE NEW IS HERE IN MY LIFE DAY 1 Confession, repentance + restoration PAGE 2 DAY 2 Renewed minds, higher thoughts PAGE 3 DAY 3 God’s faithfulness PAGE 4 DAY 4 Patience + endurance PAGE 5 DAY 5 Born into a new family PAGE 6 DAY 6 Holy Spirit PAGE 7 DAY 7 Promise of peace + hope PAGE 8 WEEK 2 - THE NEW IS HERE IN MY CHURCH + COMMUNITY DAY 8 Welcoming all to Christ’s table PAGE 9 DAY 9 Compassion + action PAGE 10 DAY 10 Taking the initiative to help PAGE 11 DAY 11 Living water PAGE 12 DAY 12 People of dreams + visions PAGE 13 DAY 13 Fasting + prayer PAGE 14 DAY 14 A new heaven and a new earth PAGE 15 WEEK 3 - THE NEW IS HERE IN MY GLOBAL COMMUNITY DAY 15 Strength in weakness PAGE 16 DAY 16 Praying for those with no access to the gospel PAGE 17 DAY 17 Working for a plentiful harvest PAGE 18 DAY 18 Blessing “the least of these” PAGE 19 DAY 19 Protection and blessing for our children PAGE 20 DAY 20 Praying for healing + health PAGE 21 DAY 21 Blessing our leaders PAGE 22 WEEK 1: THE NEW IS HERE IN MY LIFE JAN DAY 1 IN MY LIFE: A NEW HEART 4 CONFESSION, REPENTANCE + RESTORATION TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READING: Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; According to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; So you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge. Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; You taught me wisdom in that secret place. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; Let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you. Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness. Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise. You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; A broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. May it please you to prosper Zion, to build up the walls of Jerusalem. Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous, in burnt offerings offered whole; Then bulls will be offered on your altar. Psalms 51 And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their stony, stubborn heart and give them a tender, responsive heart, so they will obey my decrees and regulations. Then they will truly be my people, and I will be their God. Ezekiel 11:19-20 PRAYER + REFLECTION: 1. As we begin these 21 days, pray Psalm 51, personalizing it from a posture of confession and repentance. 2. Ask God to give you a tender, responsive heart, and walk in the grace, joy and deliverance He has for you. 3. Pray for a willing spirit, and ask the Lord for perpetual praise to be demonstrated in greater ways through your life. 2 | P a g e JAN WEEK 1: THE NEW IS HERE IN MY LIFE DAY 2 IN MY LIFE: A NEW THINKING 5 RENEWED MINDS, HIGHER THOUGHTS TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READING: Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is His good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:1-2 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; The mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the Lord’s renown, for an everlasting sign, that will endure forever.” Isaiah 55:8-13 PRAYER + REFLECTION: 1. Ask God to illuminate to you any limiting beliefs, areas of confirmation bias or internal narratives that do not align with the Word of God. 2. Pray for the Holy Spirit’s transformation through the renewal of your mind. 3. Ask the Lord to grant you understanding of things above, and for increased measures of faith that His word will not return void. 3 | P a g e JAN WEEK 1: THE NEW IS HERE IN MY LIFE DAY 3 IN MY LIFE: NEW MERCIES 6 GOD’S FAITHFULNESS TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READING: The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is His faithfulness; His mercies begin afresh each morning. I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance; Therefore, I will hope in Him!” Lamentations 3:22-24 PRAYER + REFLECTION: 1. Say a prayer of gratitude for God’s faithfulness and endless mercies. 2. Pray the verses from Lamentations aloud in defiant declaration against any forces of darkness that may be coming against you. 3. How will you receive His loving mercy that awaits you each day? 4 | P a g e JAN WEEK 1: THE NEW IS HERE IN MY LIFE DAY 4 IN MY LIFE: A NEW STRENGTH 7 PATIENCE + ENDURANCE TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READING: But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; They will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31 PRAYER + REFLECTION: 1. Ask God for patience in the waiting. 2. Pray for renewed strength, elevated perspective and courage to rise above present circumstances. 3. Pray for discernment of whether to run or walk in each given situation, and believe for His promise of endurance. 5 | P a g e WEEK 1: THE NEW IS HERE IN MY LIFE JAN DAY 5 IN MY LIFE: NEW BIRTH + RECONCILIATION 8 BORN INTO A NEW FAMILY TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READING: All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by His great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation, and we have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay. And through your faith, God is protecting you by His power until you receive this salvation, which is ready to be revealed on the last day for all to see. 1 Peter 1:3-5 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; A new life has begun! And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to Himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to Him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And He gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making His appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 PRAYER + REFLECTION: 1. Give thanks to God for redemption and a new life that is hidden in Christ (Col. 3:3). 2. Pray for greater understanding of your new birth into the family of God, and for an uprooting of anything not planted by Him. 3. Ask God for spiritual eyes and ears to see and hear beyond the physical and the audible. 4. Pray for selfless, emboldened faith to speak truth in love and to pursue reconciliation of people to God and to one another.
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