Colossians 2:1,2

For I would that ye knew what great conflict

I have for you, and for them at Laodicea... that their

hearts might be comforted being knit together

in love...

Meditation:

Is my heart knit together with the hearts of other believers?

Affirmation:

My heart is part of a great weaving of love.

Prayer:

Lord, I praise you for being the Creator of caring relationships.

Philippians 4:6,7

Be careful for nothing: but in everything by prayer

and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests

be made known unto God, And the peace of God, which

passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds

through Christ Jesus.

Meditation:

Is my prayer life bringing peace to my mind today?

Affirmation:

The peace of God is mine through Christ Jesus.

Prayer:

With awe and thanksgiving, Lord God, I bring to you

the concerns of my heart and mind, hoping for the peace

that passes understanding.

Ephesians 6:5

Servants, be obedient to them that are your

masters according to the flesh, with fear and

trembling, in singleness of heart, as unto Christ...

Meditation:

What feelings do I have about being a servant?

Affirmation:

In all circumstances my service is to the Lord.

Prayer:

Lord Jesus, please grace me with a right attitude towards the

service you have given me to perform.

Ephesians 5:18,19

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess:

but be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves

in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing

and making melody in your heart to the Lord...

Meditation:

What spiritual songs do I know by heart?

Affirmation:

There is music in my heart for God today.

Prayer:

I adore you, Creator God, for the beauty of spiritual music.

II Corinthians 4:4,5

But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that

are lost: In whom the god of this world hath

blinded the minds of them which believe not,

lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ,

who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Meditation:

Am I trusting the God of this world today, or the truth of the Gospel?

Affirmation:

The Gospel is full of light for my mind.

Prayer:

Lord God, please inspire me often to seek you in your word,

for the enlightening of my mind, and have mercy on my mind

when it is full of the god of this world.

1 Corinthians 4:5

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until

the Lord come, who both will bring to light

the hidden things of darkness, and will make

manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall

every man have praise of God.

Meditation:

Do I consider myself to be a righteous judge? In what situations lately

am I tempted to judge others? Do I judge myself?

Affirmation:

I wait on the the Lord for truth and justice.

Prayer:

Come, Lord Jesus: bring Light to our darkness.

Acts 15:8,9

And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare

them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost,

even as he did unto us; and put no difference between

us and them (the Jews and the Gentiles), purifying

their hearts by faith.

Meditation:

Where is the "us and them" dilemma in my life today?

Affirmation:

I look for the Holy Spirit to unify and harmonize groups of people.

Prayer:

Lord God, help me to see the unity that you have designed.