Heavenly Father, I praise you, for you are the God who lifts up and who glorifies. You made Christ my Lord perfect, so that he became the author of eternal salvation unto us (Hebrews 5:9). You set him far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. You have put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
You have raised us up together with Christ (in the spirit), and made us sit together with him in heavenly places, that in the ages to come you might shew the exceeding riches of your grace in your kindness (Ephesians 2:6-7).
In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the counsel of your will unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ (Ephesians 1:5, Ephesians 1:11).
In these last days, I believe that you will once again set apart your adopted children and lift them up; you will glorify them. You will do with them things which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, but which you have kept in store for them that love you (1 Corinthians 2:9).
That is why, once again on this day, I yield myself to you as a holy sacrifice, acceptable to you, so that I may be to you an offering of a sweet savour, a sacrifice of righteousness, so that through me Christ may be made manifest in the eyes of the world.
May your Spirit search my heart and my reins, so that truth may be in my inward parts. I renounce lying, so that I may walk in the righteousness of God. May my heart be kept pure and blameless in you.
You, the God who lifts up and who glorifies, lift me up above all my adversaries. Put my enemies under my feet. As you lifted up the ark in the days of Noah during the flood, lift up your people in these last days above the calamities, the plagues and the judgments that will come upon the nations.
I pray that you will keep us and set us apart in the midst of this perverse generation. For we are to you a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people, that we should shew forth your praises, for you have called us out of darkness into your marvellous light (1 Peter 2:9).
Correct us in your love and in your kindness, so that we may remain on the right path. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby (Hebrews 12:11).
May my whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless before you unto the coming of our Lord (1 Thessalonians 5:23).
Shape my life into your likeness, until I come unto the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ (Ephesians 4:13).
Change me from glory to glory into the image of Christ, by the work of the Spirit, through the mirror of your Word (2 Corinthians 3:18). Grant me the grace to see and to lay hold of new things that are hidden from the eyes of the world. Enlighten the eyes of my understanding, that I may know what is the hope of your calling, and what the riches of the glory of your inheritance in the saints in Christ (Ephesians 1:18).
Blessed be your name from everlasting to everlasting, for in you we are complete (Colossians 2:10).
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