You Begin a Good Work and Will Complete It

FATHER, You have chosen and appointed ____ to bear fruit. Your Son intends (he/she) bear fruit and keep on bearing fruit and keep on bearing a fruit that is lasting—that will remain forever. This is all CHRIST’s doing (John 15:16).

Therefore JESUS, because Your HOLY SPIRIT now is at work in ____, (he/she) receives power of the kind which You have and exert. And, therefore (he/she) will testify and be Your witness of what (he/she) has experienced (Acts 1:8). ____ is a co- worker with You. Directed by Your grace, (he/she) labors together with You. (He/She) is as Your “land under cultivation”—Your structure under production—Yours (ref#37, p387, [1 Cor 3:9]).

FATHER, You are fashioning Your life in ____ and are working it out into (his/her) conduct. (He/She) does not have to stop and consider how well (he/she) is doing, You will accurately reproduce Your character in
(him/her) (Eph 4:24)—even when sin is so powerful in (his/her) members that (he/she) sees no way to be free from its snares.

When ____ demonstrates (his/her) lack of fortitude, let (him/her) stop striving and know that You are GOD (Ps 46:10). Let ____ find (his/her) joy in You as You build Your edifice in (him/her).