Consecration Reading Week 1: January 6-12, 2025

Day 1: Offering Praise
Quote: Shift your mind into a place of worship, seeing God’s majesty and praising Him for all He has done.

Today’s Scripture: No pagan god is like you, O Lord. None can do what you do!
9: All the nations you made will come and bow before you, Lord; they will praise your holy name.
10: For you are great and perform wonderful deeds.
You alone are God.
11: Teach me your ways, O LORD, that I may live according to your truth!
Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor you.
12: With all my heart I will praise you, O Lord my God. I will give glory to your name forever, —Psalm 86: 8-12 (NLT)

Day 2: Expressing Gratitude
Quote: Remember who God is and what He has done, and let us praise His holy name.

Today’s Scripture: Let all that I am praise the LORD; with my whole heart, I will praise his holy name.
2 Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me. 3 He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. 4 He redeems me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies.
5 He fills my life with good things. My youth is renewed like the eagle’s!
—Psalm 103:1-5 (NLT)

Day 3: Seeking Quote: Prayer and fasting are sure-fire ways to bring us back into God’s holy presence. Be still in Him.

Today’s Scripture: The one thing I ask of the LORD—the thing I seek most—is to live in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, delighting in the LORD’s perfections and meditating in his Temple. —Psalm 27:4 (NLT)

Day 4: True Repentance
Quote: Above all else, we desire to walk with God, with clean hands, a pure heart, and true repentance.

Today’s Scripture: Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins. 2. Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me from my sin. —Psalm 51:1-2 (NKJV)

Day 5: Transparency in Christ
Quote: Living a ministry requires total trust in the Lord and reliance on Him

Today’s Scripture: O LORD, how long will you forget me? Forever?
1. How long will you look the other way?
2. How long must I struggle with anguish in my soul, with sorrow in my heart every day? How long will my enemy have the upper hand?
3. Turn and answer me, O LORD my God! Restore the sparkle to my eyes, or I will die.
4. Don’t let my enemies gloat, saying, “We have defeated him!” Don’t let them rejoice at my downfall.
5. But I trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because you have rescued me.
6. I will sing to the LORD because he is good to me. Psalm 13: 1-6 (NLT)

Day 6: Walk Worthy
Quote: God has placed a calling on each of our lives; Let’s choose to live lives worthy of Him.

Today’s Scripture: So, we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will; and spiritual wisdom and understanding.

10. Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better. Colossians 1: 9-10 (NLT)

Day 7: On Our Knees
Quote: Let’s posture ourselves to give up anything that is keeping us from God’s presence.

Today’s Scripture: When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father; 15. The Creator of everything in heaven and on earth.
16. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources, he will empower you with inner strength through His Spirit.
17. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. 18. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.
19. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Ephesians 3: 14-19 (NLT)