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WORDS
from the Cave
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12 month Devotional
By
Jeff Voth
WORDS
from the Cave
12 month Devotional
By
Jeff Voth
Compiled by Tom Farrell
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WORDS
Prologue
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God. He was with God
in the beginning. Through him all things were
made; without him nothing was made that has been
made. In him was life, and that life was the light of
all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and
the darkness has not overcome it.
- John 1:1-5
Words
...
Powerful,
meaningless,
hurtful
exhilarating. There can be both life and death in
them. It is no mistake that Jesus is called “The
Word” by His best friend in John 1:1,and 14. He is
God’s Word in flesh. His thoughts, His power, HIs
affections towards us ... with skin on them.
I am a fan of words. Especially the right ones. I
make a living trying to find them. As an author,
professor, preacher, husband, father and grandfather, I participate in relationships that survive and
thrive on them; or suffer from their misuse or
abuse.
I use words to try and make some laugh, some
think, some feel. And hopefully, bring as many as
possible to an understanding of what is in my head
and my heart. Hopefully receiving into themselves
in some form or fashion the power of the words that
He Himself helped me to use rightly.
And so, with this first volume of what I have entitled
“Words from the Cave”, I want you to be blessed,
provoked, informed, comforted and built up by the
words you will find here. They are a compilation of
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daily prayers, thoughts and exhortations that I have
prayed and written over the last five years, each of
them coupled with a verse or verses from The
Bible. Because in the end, It is the only true and life
giving Word. And when our words don’t line up with
it, or ultimately point others to it, we just babble.
It is my hope that you will read my words, and have
your thoughts raised and pointed towards The
Word. This process, of “interacting” with words that
point you towards the Eternal Word is life giving
and renewing. It is especially beneficial when done
over a period of days, weeks, months and years.
So, I have compiled over 365 individual words to
help encourage you to engage in these
interactions. There are also a few lines for you after
each selection, to record your thoughts or
questions, allowing you to revisit them again in the
future.
You will also notice that there are twelve selections
(one for each month) that have been marked as
“Words of Legacy.” I am a firm believer that our
words can reverberate—along with the Living
Word—throughout generations. This is due greatly
to the fact that I am a product of this process and
have seen it working in my own life.
My father met The Word and spoke of Him to me,
because he had a father who met The Word and
spoke of Him to him ... because he had a father
who met The Word and spoke of Him to him ...
because he had a father who met The Word and
spoke of Him to him. Therefore, I have included
words from my Great-Great-Grandfather, my Father
and each of my sons. Each of these men, from the
eldest to the youngest, was writing and speaking
words in their time, to see His Kingdom come when
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and where they live and lived. Men speaking to and
through their generations. Words from specific men
in specific times, from the One beyond time. The
Word making the words of men timeless ...
May this happen to you as you consider these
words.
JV
WORDS Prologue
Month One
They were put to death by stoning; they were
sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They
went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute,
persecuted and mistreated—the world was not
worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and
mountains, living in caves and in holes in the
ground.
- Hebrews 11:37-38
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Words of Legacy
his first Legacy Word is an old one ... about
130 years old to be exact. It is one that
comes from my great-great grandfather,
Johan C. Voth. Although I don’t know a lot about
him, I do know that he loved Jesus, tried his very
best to serve Him and was desirous that his
children and their children would serve him as well.
He immigrated from Poland in the mid 1850’s,
married and ultimately had nine children. He loved
to read, journal and speak of the things of God. He
was a farmer, carpenter, student and at one time a
school master. Often his mind would turn to the
things of God and how he might help to see His
kingdom come and His will be done, right there in
McPherson, Kansas, where he would ultimately
settle, building a home and a life.
I believe with all of my heart that I am serving the
Lord and doing the things that I am doing ... writing,
teaching and pastoring because this man
understood the power of words of legacy. Words
spoken to The Word Himself with eternal purposes,
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yet in a specific time. Listen to him as he writes
words describing his own conversion experience:
“ ... can He root out the worst sinners? An
answer comes again from Scripture. The
blood of Jesus cleanses us from All sin.
This was sufficient for me. Now I could burst
forth in the evening prayer: ‘Blessing, honor
and praise be to our God through our Lord
Jesus Christ for the great, unspeakable
grace, that He has made available so that I
too have been redeemed from the curse
and destruction.’ Oh loving Savior,
encourage my soul that I may with all heart
and strength love you. Give me grace that I
may remain faithful and vigilant to overcome
the world, devil and sin. Keep my heart in
prayer that I may remain vigilant and be
kept on the path of godliness. Be my dear
example that I may follow your footsteps.
Make me a faithful disciple. I want to love
you my beloved. I want to love you until
death. I believe in you Jesus ...”
Johan C. Voth, Friday April 6th, 1883,
McPherson, Kansas
JV
What words or thoughts come to your mind as you
read these words of legacy?
Date:
WORDS Month One
Day 1
I am in my cave this morning praying for you.
May God bless and keep you.
May His peace reign in your lives.
May He overwhelm you with hope,
light and life … right now!!!
JV
May the Lord bless you and keep you; the
Lord make His face shine upon you and be
gracious to you; the Lord turn His face
towards you and give you peace.
- Numbers 6:24-26
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 2
Lord, please fill us up with your spirit and
guide our every moment:
That we may be led where you want us to go.
That we may look at what you want us to see.
That we may say what you want us to say.
That we may hear what you want us to hear.
That we may rest when you want us to rest.
That we may eat when you want us to eat.
That we may pray when you want us to pray.
Yes Lord, micromanage our day.
JV
May the favor of our God rest upon us;
establish the work of our hands for us -yes,
establish the work of our hands.
- Psalm 90:17
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 3
Lord Jesus, will you please organize my thoughts?
So much to do and as I try and make a plan, the
clock continues to tick and makes me concerned
that I don't have a plan yet.
You are not bound by time and are Lord over it, so
will you please help me as I live my life in it.
Will you redeem my time?
Will you anoint my time?
Will you multiply my time?
Will you order my time?
I love you O timeless Savior. Amen!
JV
He is before all things
and in Him all things hold together.
- Col. 1:17
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 4
May the Lord bless you and lead you. May He
enable you to hear His voice above the noise, the
voices and the sounds of our culture. May He cover
you and protect from those things that you cannot
see and those forces of which you are unaware.
May He nourish your heart and your soul as His
Holy Spirit prays through the vessel of your body.
And may Jesus be the very focal point of your
existence. Amen.
JV
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you
should go;
will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
- Psalm 32:8
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 5
This morning I am pleading the blood of Jesus over
you. I spoke your name before the Father. I am
asking that the blood of our blessed Lamb be over
the doorpost of your life and that the enemy of your
body, soul and spirit pass over you. You are
marked, set apart, sealed, saved and on display for
His purposes and absolutely nothing can disrupt
this. Oh the blood of Jesus. Oh the blood of Jesus.
JV
The blood will be a sign for you on the
houses where you are, and when I see
the blood, I will pass over you. No
destructive plague will touch you when I
strike Egypt.
- Exodus 12:13
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 6
I am praying for our family and friends who don't
know Jesus yet. May He show Himself to them in
powerful fashion, soon. And when He does, may
the power contained in the prayers that you have
offered on their behalf, that has been stored up for
years, flood their lives. Salvation to your house, to
their house. May the party in Heaven be prepared,
and may your loved one's name be on the welcome
home banner.
JV
Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has
come to this house, because this man,
too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of
Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
- Luke 19:9-10
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 7
Be released from all fear, intimidation and doubt my
friends. May the perfect love of Jesus surround you
and fill you with a peace and confidence that
overwhelms every doubt, hesitation and little voice
that lies to you incessantly. May the indwelling
power of His Holy Spirit propel you through this day
and sling you into the next with such force that
doubt can neither find nor attach itself to you any
more.
JV
Suddenly a great company of the
heavenly host appeared with the angel,
praising God and saying,
“Glory to God in the highest heaven,
on earth peace
to those on whom his favor rests.”
- Luke 2:13-14
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 8
I am praying that God would move on your behalf
very soon and bring about the miracle for which you
have been praying. May He show Himself real and
big, yes REAL BIG. Whether financial, or physical,
emotional or relational, let's believe together that
your miracle is in the works now, due to the finished
work of Jesus Christ, the Risen One. And when that
miracle comes, please shout loud enough for me to
hear.
JV
Shepherd your people with your staff,
the flock of your inheritance,
which lives by itself in a forest,
in fertile pasturelands.
Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead
as in days long ago.
“As in the days when you came out of Egypt,
I will show them my wonders.”
- Micah 7:13-14
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 9
May Grace abounding and Joy unspeakable wash
over you and do away with any and all anxiety and
depression. May you sense a lifting of the cloud
today in the mighty name of YESHUA, Jesus, The
King of Kings, The Prince of Peace, The Lion of the
Tribe of Judah.
JV
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling
among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of
the one and only Son, who came from the
Father, full of grace and truth.
- John 1:14
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 10
I pray for healing in your bodies, your minds and
your spirits today. May the healing power of our
magnificent God touch each of you in profound
ways. I know that some of you have been dry, but
like the prophet Elijah, I think that I am beginning to
smell rain. May the rain of God's abundance pour
down upon you today and tomorrow and the next
day and the next day and the next.
JV
The seventh time the servant reported, “A
cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from
the sea.” So Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab,
‘Hitch up your chariot and go down before the
rain stops you.’” Meanwhile, the sky grew black
with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain started
falling …
The power of the LORD came on Elijah …
- 1 Kings 18:44-46
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 11
My prayer for you today is that you might feel God's
unconditional love towards you. May you be set
free of feeling that you have to perform or measure
up to some standard for Him to love you. He loves
you, period. His love for you is amazingly deep and
large and powerful and filled with grace. You are
loved. End of story
JV
… And I pray that you, being rooted and
established in love, may have power, together
with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how
wide and long and high and deep is the love of
Christ, and to know this love that surpasses
knowledge—that you may be filled to the
measure of all the fullness of God.
- Ephesians 3:17-19
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 12
May our Lord Jesus reveal Himself to you today as
your shield, your comforter, your deliverer, your
grace-giver, your friend who sticks closer than a
brother, your Lord, your Savior, your devil rebuker,
your biggest fan, your helper, your insight giver,
your protector, your creator, your redeemer, and
the list goes on ad infinitum ...
JV
To him who is able to keep you from stumbling
and to present you before his glorious
presence without fault and with great joy — to
the only God our Savior be glory, majesty,
power and authority, through Jesus Christ our
Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore!
Amen.
- Jude 1:24-25
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 13
I am in the Cave praying for you and the Lord
wants you to know that He has never been taken
by surprise! He is the Ancient of Days and He is
older than time itself. May the Ancient of Days
impart to you confidence and strength in Jesus.
JV
… And behold, with the clouds of heaven
One like a Son of Man was coming,
And He came up to the Ancient of Days And was
presented before Him.
“And to Him was given dominion, Glory and a
kingdom,
That all the peoples, nations and men of every
language
Might serve Him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion
Which will not pass away;
And His kingdom is one
Which will not be destroyed.
- Daniel 7:13-14 NASB
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 14
Like David, I believe that God will use you to slay
Giants. What are the Giants coming against you in
your life? In your church? In your family? In your
city? In the name of Jesus, start gathering the
stones to throw at them. The stone of faith. The
stone of prayer. The stone of engaging in a
passionate church community. In the name of
Jesus, Giants will fall!
JV
David said to the Philistine, “You come
against me with sword and spear and
javelin, but I come against you in the name
of the LORD Almighty, the God of the
armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
- 1 Samuel 17:45
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 15
My prayer for you today is that you would feel
God's powerful prophetic plan operating in your
lives. Yes, He has an over-arching plan for the
universe, but He has one that is specific for you as
well! You matter to Him and he desires to use you
to see His Kingdom come and His will to be done.
You are an important part of His strategy and His
will. You are valuable. You are priceless. You are
amazing!
JV
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a
merchant looking for fine pearls. When
he found one of great value, he went
away and sold everything he had and
bought it.”
- Matthew 13:45-46
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 16
My prayer for you today is that you would be able to
do something profound for Jesus. To get this
process started, I want to challenge you to smile
real big, speak to somebody at the gas station, buy
someone's lunch. Let's do some simple or
seemingly mundane things and watch Him turn
them into miracles.
JV
On the third day a wedding took place at
Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
and Jesus and his disciples had also been
invited to the wedding. When the wine was
gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They
have no more wine.”
“Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus
replied. “My hour has not yet come.”
- John 2:1-4
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 17
My prayer for you today is that you might have a
bona fide visit from Heaven. I am asking that you
will know that you have caught the Lord's attention
and that He might let you know it. Blessings upon
you. Healing to you. Peace to you. Refreshed
spirits to you. Provision for you. In Jesus' name.
JV
Once when Zechariah’s division was on duty
and he was serving as priest before God, he
was chosen by lot, according to the custom of
the priesthood, to go into the temple of the
Lord and burn incense …
Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him,
standing at the right side of the altar of
incense. When Zechariah saw him, he was
startled and was gripped with fear. But the
angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah;
your prayer has been heard.
- Luke 1:8-13
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 18
I am praying for those of you who feel as if you are
doing exactly what God told you to do, but
struggling and making no progress. May Jesus
come to you this day in the middle of your struggle
and speak to the things that are impeding your
progress. He can do this you know, as He is Lord of
ALL creation. May you know that you are not alone
and that He is Lord over your situation. Peace to
you.
JV
Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since
the first day that you set your mind to gain
understanding and to humble yourself before your
God, your words were heard, and I have come in
response to them. But the prince of the Persian
kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then
Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me,
because I was detained there with the king of
Persia.
- Daniel 10:12-13
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 19
Today I am praying that you would be repeatedly
reminded of and stirred by the presence of Jesus. I
hope that is a palpable presence. I hope that it is a
presence that touches your body and mind and
your spirit in amazing fashion. I hope that you feel
like He is paying special attention to you and that
you have been picked out of a crowd. Be blessed
today my friends.
JV
She came up behind him and touched the
edge of his cloak, and immediately her
bleeding stopped.
“Who touched me?” Jesus asked.
they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the
people are crowding and pressing against
you.”
But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know
that power has gone out from me.”
- Luke 8:44-46
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 20
May we know that Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
has mercy on us sinners. May we walk in that
mercy and have a sense that He puts no shame
upon us. May you be shameless today in your love
for Him.
JV
Date:
… a blind man, Bartimaeus ... was sitting by the
roadside begging. When he heard that it was Jesus
of Nazareth, he began to shout, “Jesus, Son of
David, have mercy on me!”
Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he
shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on
me!”
Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”
So they called to the blind man, “Cheer up! On your
feet! He’s calling you.” Throwing his cloak aside, he
jumped to his feet and came to Jesus.
“What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked
him.
The blind man said, “Rabbi, I want to see.”
“Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.”
Immediately he received his sight and followed
Jesus along the road.
- Mark 10:46-52
My Notes:
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Day 21
May you have a keen sense that God is truly your
source. I mean, may you know that He is really the
one paying the bills, keeping you alive and feeding
your family. He is real, He is here and He is
concerned with every aspect of your lives and He
gives tangibly to you.
JV
That evening quail came and covered the
camp, and in the morning there was a layer of
dew around the camp. When the dew was
gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground
appeared on the desert floor. When the
Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What
is it?” For they did not know what it was.
Moses said to them, “It is the bread the LORD
has given you to eat.
- Exodus 16:13-15
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 22
My prayer for you today, is that whatever
relationships the enemy is attacking might be
strengthened for you right now in the name of
Jesus. The enemy has come to kill, steal and
destroy, but He came that we might have life and
have it to the full. May you live in God ordained,
Christ sanctified and Holy Spirit empowered
relational fullness today … right now!
JV
They had such a sharp disagreement that they
parted company. Barnabas took Mark and sailed
for Cyprus, but Paul chose Silas and left,
commended by the believers to the grace of the
Lord.
- Acts 15:39-40
After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan
became one in spirit with David, and he loved him
as himself … And Jonathan made a covenant with
David because he loved him as himself.
- 1 Samuel 18:1, 3
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My Notes:
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Day 23
May God heal the deep hurts that you have
received at the hands of your family and closest
friends. May He be a balm to help you move on and
come to a place of the releasing all bitterness. May
His Spirit be like warm and soothing oil to you each
time that you have an opportunity to become angry
or bitter. And may you soon walk out of the place in
which you are stuck. Amen and Amen.
JV
There was reclining on Jesus’ bosom
one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.
- John 13:23 NASB
The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are
the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemies
before you, saying, ‘Destroy them!’
- Deuteronomy 33:27
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 24
My prayer today is that God would help you to hold
on long enough to see the victory that He has in
store for you. I know that the enemy of your soul
has taken his shots at you and inflicted some
damage, but know that wasn't the whole war, only a
skirmish. You will win and the victory is so very
close. Don't succumb to other's perceptions of you,
God is on your side and sees you as His victorious
warrior.
JV
The angel of the LORD came and sat down
under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to
Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was
threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from
the Midianites.
When the angel of the LORD appeared to
Gideon, he said,
“The LORD is with you, mighty warrior.”
- Judges 6:11-12
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 25
Today my prayer is that you are in tune with the
Holy Spirit as He speaks to you. May you hear Him
as you travel in your car. May you hear Him at work
and school. May you hear Him at breakfast and at
lunch and at dinner. May you hear Him whisper
truth to you about Jesus and also about yourself.
May He bathe you in truth and revelation from
Heaven all day long my friends. Blessings and love
to you all.
JV
After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD
was not in the fire. And after the fire came a
gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled
his cloak over his face and went out and stood
at the mouth of the cave.
A voice said to him,
“What are you doing here, Elijah?”
- 1 Kings 19:12-13
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 26
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Praise Him all creatures here below.
Praise Him above ye Heavenly hosts.
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
I think that those of you reading this would fall into
the "all creatures here below" category, so let's get
it done and Praise Him! Praise Him! Let all God's
creatures Praise Him! Please somebody help a
brother out and Praise Him!
JV
I called to the LORD,
who is worthy of praise,
I have been saved from my enemies
- Psalm 18:3
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My Notes:
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Day 27
May every one of you be anointed with the amazing
power of the Holy Spirit today, so that you might
really sense that you are truly being used of God.
May you know that you are valuable to the efforts of
the Kingdom and that He has gifted you to operate
on His behalf in your spheres of influence. He is
proud of you and so am I. Blessings to you.
JV
Next to him was Shammah son of Agee the
Hararite. When the Philistines banded together
at a place where there was a field full of lentils,
Israel’s troops fled from them.
But Shammah took his stand in the middle of
the field. He defended it and struck the
Philistines down, and the LORD brought about
a great victory.
- 2 Samuel 23:11-12
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My Notes:
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Day 28
May your discernment be on high alert. Just as the
Father has plans for you to prosper and to be in
health, the enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy. I
am praying that you see his efforts to do so way
before they are set in motion and do what is
necessary to thwart them. And I mean thwart them.
Thwart them through prayer, good deeds and doing
everything within your power to advance the
Kingdom of Heaven.
JV
Surely he will save you
the fowler’s snare
from the deadly pestilence.
He will cover you with his feathers,
under his wings you will find refuge;
faithfulness will be your shield and
rampart.
- Psalm 91:3-4
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 29
May the Lord bring some of the loose ends in your
life to completion. May the frazzled nature and
frenzied pace of your life become not so frazzled
nor so frenzied. I speak order, organization,
completion, peace, serenity and the ability to finish.
May the One who is faithful to complete the things
that He has started in you prove Himself strong as
Completer through you this day.
JV
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about
with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
every weight, and the sin which doth so easily
beset us, and let us run with patience the race that
is set before us,
unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who
for the joy that was set before him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the
right hand of the throne of God.
Consider him that endured such contradiction of
sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint
in your minds.
- Hebrews 12:1-3 KJV
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 30
My prayer for you today is that you have a keen
sense of what it means to be "hidden with Christ in
God." May you know that in Jesus you are safe,
secure, resting, at peace, loved, cared for, in
community, without shame, valued, pardoned …
need I say more?
JV
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ,
set your hearts on things above, where Christ
is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your
minds on things above, not on earthly things.
For you died, and your life is now hidden with
Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life,
appears, then you also will appear with him in
glory.
- Colossians 3:1-4
Date:
My Notes:
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Day 31
I am in the cave praying that Jesus will make
Himself so real to you today that the intimidation
and fear that you have been feeling will become not
even a distant memory. And may the place where
the fear used to be, be taken by faith and peace
and joy and happiness and security and the
knowing that Jesus has it all under control. Hey,
I've got a feelin’ everything is gonna be all right!
JV
As he was talking with them, Goliath, the
philistine champion from Gath, stepped out
from his lines and shouted his usual defiance,
And David heard it.
- 1 Samuel 17:23
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Month Two
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is
what their father said to them when he blessed
them, giving each the blessing appropriate to him.
- Genesis 49:28
Words of Legacy
T
his Legacy Word is one that comes from my
father, Kirk Voth. Dad grew up in a good
home, but did not meet Jesus until 1971, in a
motel room in Gunnison, Colorado as he and my
mom asked Him to save their souls and their
crumbling marriage. Both prayers were answered.
As a result of Dad’s prayer, he realized the power
of his words, on behalf of God would mean to his
young son (me). On a regular basis, Dad would
speak encouraging words to me, periodically writing
them as well. The following words were written on a
card and sent to me in the mail The power of a
father’s words are immeasurable ....
“It is really neat to share your life with you
and to observe your reactions to love, joy,
trials and tribulations. You are about to
enter another chapter in your life, 8th grade.
As you progress in maturity, both physical
and spiritual, it becomes more important
that you keep your eyes on Jesus, as He is
the author of your strength and He and only
He can sustain you “Thru it All”. I praise
God for you and what you are. Let’s
continue to grow in Him together.”
Kirk Voth, 7/7/75
WORDS Month Two
As I read these words today, my heart is still
warmed, encouraged and empowered. A father’s
verbal covering reverberates still.
JV
What words or thoughts come to your mind as you
read these Words of Legacy?
Date:
WORDS Month Two
Day 1
God, please let us know who we are in Christ. Not
just conceptually, but in reality. We want to know
and feel Jesus. To see him and smell Him and be
close enough to hear His heartbeat. We speak
often of being in Christ, but let us feel Him in us.
We know that we can't live for, nor be sustained by
our feelings, but today would you allow us to feel
our Savior's touch. Better yet, His breath. Breathe
on us Jesus.
JV
Now there were some Greeks among those
who were going up to worship at the feast;
these then came to Philip, who was from
Bethsaida of Galilee, and began to ask him,
saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” Philip
came and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip
came and told Jesus.
- John 12:20-22 NASB
Date:
My Notes:
[Type text]
Day 2
I am praying for miraculous provision. May you be
surprised by the crazy miraculous ways that God
will provide for you. May He bring bona fide
miracles into your house. The kind that usually only
happen to the other guy. Salvation to a loved one.
Healing to your body. Food in the pantry. That job
for which you have been praying. Restoration to a
long lost relationship. And when the miracle comes,
make sure and shout, loudly, wherever you are.
This makes God grin, I am sure of it.
JV
He said, “Throw your net on the right
side of the boat and you will find some.”
When they did, they were unable to haul
the net in because of the large number
of fish.
- John 21:6
Date:
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WORDS Month Two
Day 3
I am praying that the peace of God would rest upon
you all. Racing thoughts, slow down! Tired and
stressed body, be renewed! May your weary soul
be deeply and thoroughly relaxed. May such a
peace roll over you that you are literally impervious
to the anger, panic and anxiety that have plagued
you recently. Peace of Heaven reside on my
friends. Peace of God guide my friends. Yes, may
the unflappable, peaceful demeanor of Jesus, who
is never intimidated, be all over you.
JV
Then he got into the boat and his
disciples followed him. Suddenly a
furious storm came up on the lake, so
that the waves swept over the boat.
But Jesus was sleeping.
- Matthew 8:23-24
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 4
May Jesus rule and reign in your life. This means
that as "ruler", He doesn't just make it into the top
five on your priority list, but that He is in fact sitting
on the seat of authority, the very throne of your life.
He is the boss. He is the king. He "reigns" means
that He is actively making decisions and taking
measures to advance His Kingdom, through you.
You are one of His subjects. His slave. He is your
Lord and He is directing you where and how He
wants for you to go. Jesus, our Christ, use us this
day according to your will. Do whatever you want
whenever you want. Amen and amen.
JV
DO YOU THINK I CANNOT CALL ON MY
FATHER, AND HE WILL AT ONCE PUT
AT MY DISPOSAL MORE THAN TWELVE
LEGIONS OF ANGELS?
- MATTHEW 26:53
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 5
May you know without a doubt today that God is
good and may you feel Him smiling at you. May you
feel smiled at as you just sit with Him. May you feel
it as you drive and as you are at work. May you feel
it as you are at school and in the lunch room. In
fact, I am praying that the smile from Him gets so
obnoxious that it actually makes you start to
snicker. And then, may that God induced snicker
turn into an outright snorting laugh that makes it
necessary for you to leave the room. May the holy
laughter of Heaven tickle you today.
JV
Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I
have become old, shall I have pleasure,
my lord being old also?” And the LORD
said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh,
saying, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child,
when I am so old?’ Is anything too
difficult for the LORD? …”
Gen 18:12-14
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 6
I am praying today that you would have a very keen
sense of discernment. May the things that are grey
to you now, become very black and white. May
those things that are confusing you become brutally
obvious. May the sense of panic and anxiety that
has been overwhelming you turn into shalom, the
peace of Heaven. May Jesus Himself comfort you
and show you how He is able to give you rest, real
rest. Your faithful cries have moved Heaven and
help is on the way. In fact, it may already be
knocking on your door.
JV
“DON’T BE AFRAID,” THE PROPHET ANSWERED.
“THOSE WHO ARE WITH US ARE MORE THAN THOSE
WHO ARE WITH THEM.”
AND ELISHA PRAYED, “OPEN HIS EYES, LORD, SO
THAT HE MAY SEE.” THEN THE LORD OPENED THE
SERVANT’S EYES, AND HE LOOKED AND SAW THE
HILLS FULL OF HORSES AND CHARIOTS OF FIRE ALL
AROUND ELISHA.
- 2 KINGS 6:16-17
Date:
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WORDS Month Two
Day 7
Please know that God loves you. You have to do
nothing to earn this, you can't. He just decided that
He loves you and that's it. You caught His eye. You
were on His mind. You were in His plan. Yes, you
were planned and arranged for before time began.
He was waiting on you and still is. He longs to
spend time with you, just you and Him. It's
conversation that He wants. He wants to speak with
you and you are not in trouble. It is not like you are
being called to the principal's office and scolded.
You are being called to the office, just because He
wanted to see you. God loves you my friend.
JV
For God so loved the world,
that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him shall not
perish,
but have eternal life.
- John 3:16
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 8
My prayer today is that grace would overwhelm
you. You have beaten yourself up enough. You
have been forgiven. In Christ it is as if it did not
happen. Be healed in your mind and your emotions
and your face even. Smile real big and begin to live
fully. I know that you don't deserve forgiveness, but
that's the point of grace. No one does. It is favor
that you couldn't come close to deserving and the
ones who think that they do, need it the most.
Grace to you. Grace to your family. Grace to your
friends. Grace to your face.
JV
The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned
against heaven and against you. I am no
longer worthy to be called your son.’
“But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick!
Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring
on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the
fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and
celebrate. For this son of mine was dead and is
alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they
began to celebrate.
- Luke 15:21-24
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 9
I am praying for you to be LED BY THE SPIRIT
down the path of forgiveness today. You have been
hurt deeply, but have recently made the decision to
forgive and even felt a seed of it grow in your heart.
This seed must be nurtured however, or it will die,
and it is only nurtured by regular trips down the
path of forgiveness again and again and again, until
you know the path so well that you don't even think
about where you are going any more. Jesus,
please lead us down the path of forgiveness, for we
know that it is through walking in forgiveness that
we experience it and are healed ourselves. Jesus, I
love you for you are the Great forgiver of us all.
JV
But Jesus was saying, “Father, forgive
them; for they do not know what they are
doing.” And they cast lots, dividing up His
garments among themselves.
- Luke 23:34
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 11
Today I am asking God to smile on you. May you
feel better in your body. May you have clarity in
your mind. May you feel renewed in your spirit. May
you know deep in your knower that you are very
important to the Creator of the universe, therefore
you have much worth. May you live out of this
worth and not the worth of a world that says your
only value is in what you produce or what you can
do. May you feel God's grace, lots of it, waves of it,
boat loads of it. In fact, may you be overwhelmed
by it all day long. Dear God, thank you for smiling at
us through Jesus. Amen.
JV
But for you who fear My name, the sun of
righteousness will rise with healing in its
wings; and you will go forth and skip about
like calves from the stall
- Malachi 4:2 NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 12
Today I am praying that you will turn the tables on
the enemy of your soul and begin to pursue him.
Why not? Instead of being defensive in your
posture and running away like a scared little mouse
from a prowling lion, get offensive and go after him.
Let's declare that it's open season on prowling
lions. Make him run in fear as you love someone
unconditionally. Cause him to have a stroke as you
give with no intention of receiving. Watch him have
a panic attack as you extend grace and then extend
it some more for good measure. Send him into
convulsions as you make the first move towards
reconciliation. Pray longer and with more intensity
and see him faint. Worship with more passion and
forget that he was ever even there. I do believe that
I just heard a defeated kitty being hauled away to
the pound. Hallelujah, the devil is defeated and
Jesus is Lord!
JV
And He said to them, “I was watching
Satan fall from heaven like lightning.”
- Luke 10:18
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 13
I am praying for you to be blessed with some
serious joy today. Serious in that there will be much
of it and joy in that you will be unable to contain
yourself due to that which is happening inside of
your person. So many of you have been pressed
down lately, so prepare to be released from those
pressings-down this day. May laughter, smiling,
snickering, spontaneous jumping and dancing be
all over you today.
JV
so that the proof of your faith, being more
precious than gold which is perishable, even
though tested by fire, may be found to result in
praise and glory and honor at the revelation of
Jesus Christ; and though you have not seen
Him, you love Him, and though you do not see
Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly
rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,
obtaining as the outcome of your faith the
salvation of your souls.
- 1 Peter 1:7-9 NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 14
May the Lord bless you and keep you and make
His face to shine upon you. May you feel today that
He is looking right at you and is pleased with you
and that He is going to bring you to a spacious and
good place. May you know that He delights in you
and wants to be with you and may you feel
especially peaceful in the midst of whatever it is
that is going on around you. Selah.
JV
And there I will meet with thee, and I will
commune with thee from above the mercy
seat, from between the two cherubims
which are upon the ark of the testimony, of
all things which I will give thee in
commandment unto the children of Israel.
- Exodus 25:22 KJV
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My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 15
May your discernment be on high alert. Just as the
Father has plans for you to prosper and to be in
health, the enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy. I
am praying that you see his efforts to do so way
before they are set in motion and do what is
necessary to thwart them. And I mean thwart them.
Thwart them through prayer, good deeds and doing
everything within your power to advance the
Kingdom of Heaven.
JV
But if I cast out demons by the
Spirit of God, then the kingdom
of God has come upon you.
- Matthew 12:28
Date:
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WORDS Month Two
Day 16
I am praying today that our Lord would subvert any
attack that the enemy has planned for you. May the
Holy Spirit be active and speak to you about with
whom, where and what you should be about today.
May the Blood of Jesus cover you and may you
sense His presence guiding you. If you don't feel
peace, don't do it. Plain and simple. Let the peace
that passes understanding rule in your heart and
mind in Jesus.
JV
Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I
tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself;
he can do only what he sees his Father
doing, because whatever the Father does
the Son also does. For the Father loves the
Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he
will show him even greater works than
these, so that you will be amazed.”
- John 5:19-20
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 17
May the Lord establish Himself as your shelter from
the storm. May you know beyond the shadow of a
doubt that He is your protector, defender, consoler,
healer and coverer. Yes, He is a refuge and a place
where you can run and not be afraid. May He be
your refuge this day. Run to Him. Hide there.
Escape. In Jesus' name. Shalom.
JV
There he went into a cave and spent the night.
And the word of the LORD came to him: “What
are you doing here, Elijah?”
He replied, “I have been very zealous for the
LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have
rejected your covenant, torn down your altars,
and put your prophets to death with the sword.
I am the only one left, and now they are trying
to kill me too.”
- 1 Kings 19:9-10
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 18
May the roar of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah be so
loud in your life that the enemy of your soul will flee
in fear. Let fear be gone from every aspect of your
life in the name of Jesus.
JV
The LORD will march out like a
champion,
like a warrior he will stir up his zeal;
with a shout he will raise the battle cry
will triumph over his enemies.
- Isaiah 42:13
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 19
I am praying today for God's protective hand to
guide you. May you be exactly where you should
be today and nowhere else. May you have the
intuition of the Holy Spirit as you walk, drive and
travel throughout the marketplace, the community
and the world. May he who comes to steal, kill and
destroy be bound, gagged and thrashed. In the
name of our living and loving Lord Jesus, amen.
JV
But if we walk in the light, as he is
in the light, we have fellowship with
one another, and the blood of
Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all
sin.
- 1 John 1:7
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 20
My prayer for you today is that you would sense the
hand of God protecting you and the Holy Spirit of
God advising you. May you be keenly aware that
you are being watched over by One who cares for
your well-being more than you will ever know. "His
kingdom come and His will be done" in you and
through you and around you this day.
JV
See that you do not despise one of
these little ones. For I tell you that their
angels in heaven always see the face of
my Father in heaven.
- Matthew 18:10
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 21
May our Father bring an order and sense of
security to your lives that can only come from a
Daddy's care. He is watching over you and making
sure that it will ALL be good. It may not feel good
right now, but our faithful Father will make it good.
Thanks be to our good, faithful, caring, loving and
amazingly able Father.
JV
“Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will
rescue him;
will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
He will call on me, and I will answer him;
will be with him in trouble,
will deliver him and honor him.
With long life I will satisfy him
show him my salvation.”
- Psalm 91:14-16
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 22
Today I am praying that salvation would come to
those for whom you have been praying. May the
Lord release messengers of every kind to
encourage, woo and bring them in through the
power of His amazing Holy Spirit. I am also praying
that the efforts of the enemy to thwart salvation
coming to these people would be rendered
ineffective and harmless. Salvation has come.
Salvation will come!
JV
You, Lord, are forgiving and good,
abounding in love to all who call to you.
Hear my prayer, LORD;
to my cry for mercy.
- Psalm 84:5-6
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 23
May the enemy of your body, soul and spirit be
bound from your life today by the blood of Jesus. I
am praying for a hedge of protection for you all.
May God post angelic hosts over you and around
you and yours while you are at work, school and
the marketplace. Blessings to you.
JV
He that dwelleth in the secret place of
the most High shall abide under the
shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge
and my fortress: my God; in him will I
trust.
- Psalm 91:1-2 KJV
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 24
May Christ be with you, behind you, above you and
below you. May He be beneath you and may He be
on your right side and on your left. May He speak to
others through you and to you through them. May
you have a keen sense of His presence in all that
you do and everywhere that you go. May you walk
in the blessing of the LORD of Heaven and Earth.
Amen and Amen.
(My version of St. Patrick's Breastplate Prayer.)
JV
To them God has chosen to make
known among the Gentiles the glorious
riches of this mystery, which is Christ in
you, the hope of glory.
- Colossians 1:27
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 25
My prayer for you today is that the Holy Spirit would
give you precise strategies to see people come to
salvation in your spheres of influence. May you get
intriguing ideas and thoughts that will turn into
plans and works and ministry that will bring about
salvation in the lives of the people with whom you
do life this day and this week. May salvation
surround you this day, where you live and work and
learn and play.
JV
After this I looked, and there before me was a
great multitude that no one could count, from
every nation, tribe, people and language,
standing before the throne and before the
Lamb. They were wearing white robes and
were holding palm branches in their hands.
And they cried out in a loud voice:
“SALVATION BELONGS TO OUR GOD,
WHO SITS ON THE THRONE,
AND TO THE LAMB.”
- Revelation 7:9-10
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 26
May the direction that you received from God
yesterday begin to come to life today. I am praying
that the Holy Spirit would give you a plan to see a
thought become a strategy and then a strategy an
action and an action cause you to see the reality of
God moving in you and through you and for you.
May this be part of His kingdom coming and His will
being done in your life.
JV
“SET UP THE TABERNACLE ACCORDING TO
THE PLAN SHOWN YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN.”
- Exodus 26:30
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 27
Jesus Christ, giver of real life, please let us feel that
life today. We know by faith that it is in us, but may
we feel it and see it soon. May we see it in the
middle of the situations for which we are praying.
May we hear it in the conversations that we are
having. May we experience it in the midst of the
projects where we find ourselves working. Real life.
Blessed life. Jesus' life.
JV
From inside the fish
Jonah prayed to the LORD his God.
- Jonah 2:1
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and
singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners
were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a
violent earthquake that the foundations of the
prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors
flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.
- Acts 16: 25-26
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 28
My prayer for you today is that you will see a need
in someone's life and fill it. As you fill this need in
the name of Jesus, you will see His Kingdom come
and His will being done in another. Just wait, get
ready and then pounce with the practical love of
Jesus. Be like a heat-seeking missile and explode
with the love of Jesus today and then give Him
praise. Praise the name of Jesus!
JV
Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have,
but what I do have I give you. In the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.” Taking him by
the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly
the man’s feet and ankles became strong.
- Acts 3:6-7
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 29
My prayer for you today focuses upon God's
sabbath in your life. As God rested on the seventh
day (Gen. 2:3), may you have rest in your lives as
well. May the hustle and clamor and prattle of your
lives dissipate as a result of His peace in your
bodies, souls and spirits. May you feel the peace of
Heaven all day long.
JV
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for
the people of God; for anyone who
enters God’s rest also rests from their
works, just as God did from his.
- Hebrews 4:9-10
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 30
As Jesus reached out to those in dire need, may
you do so to someone today. When He said "Thy
Kingdom come, thy will be done", He meant for it to
happen through you and me. So on behalf of the
Kingdom, start touching. On behalf of the Kingdom,
let's bring the power and influence of Heaven to
this planet one touch at a time
JV
Philip went down to a city in Samaria and
proclaimed the Messiah there. When the
crowds heard Philip and saw the signs he
performed, they all paid close attention to what
he said. For with shrieks, impure spirits came
out of many, and many who were paralyzed or
lame were healed. So there was great joy in
that city.
- Acts 8:5-8
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Two
Day 31
The enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy, but
Jesus came to give us life abundantly. May
anything that tries to steal abundant life from you
be stopped dead in its tracks by the life giving
power of Jesus, Today, may you feel His power
bringing life to your mind, your body and your spirit.
Life to you my friends in the name of Jesus.
JV
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who
has left home or brothers or sisters or mother
or father or children or fields for me and the
gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as
much in this present age: homes, brothers,
sisters, mothers, children and fields—along
with persecutions—and in the age to come
eternal life.
- Mark 10:29-30
Date:
My Notes
WORDS Month Two
Month Three
Once again David inquired of the Lord, and the
Lord answered him, “Go down to Keilah, for I am
going to give the Philistines into your hand.” So
David and his men went to Keilah, fought the
Philistines and carried off their livestock. He
inflicted heavy losses on the Philistines and saved
the people of Keilah.
- 1Samuel 23:4-5
Words of Legacy
T
his Legacy Word comes from my oldest son,
Jacob. Jacob has had quite a journey. He
has travelled extensively, been a Marine,
played in several bands, is a gifted photographer, a
writer and desires to serve Jesus is radical fashion.
His word here is not lengthy, but the truth in it is
deep.
Listen for HIs voice. He is never silent. He
might be quiet, but He is never silent.”
Jacob Voth, 5/12/14
JV
What words or thoughts come to your mind as you
read these Words of Legacy?
Date:
WORDS, Month Three
WORDS Month Three
Day 1
May the God who created the world simply by His
spoken word create something in your lives today
as He speaks a word over your life. Have faith. Be
still. Listen. God is speaking creative activity into
your lives right now. Praise the name of the LORD!
JV
In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth. The earth was
formless and void, and darkness was
over the surface of the deep, and the
Spirit of God was moving over the
surface of the waters.
- Genesis 1:1-2 NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 2
My prayer is that you would know that you have
been crucified with Christ and that not you, but the
resurrected Christ lives in you and the life you live
in the flesh you live by faith in the Son of God who
loved you and gave Himself for you. You are
priceless! Immeasurably worthwhile! Amazingly
crafted! Stunningly put on display for all to see! God
is proud of you!
JV
and among the lampstands was someone like
a son of man, dressed in a robe reaching down
to his feet and with a golden sash around his
chest. The hair on his head was white like
wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like
blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing
in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound
of rushing waters. In his right hand he held
seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was
a sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like
the sun shining in all its brilliance.
- Revelation 1:13-16
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 3
May the God who spoke life and light into existence
by His word do the same for you today. May He
bring light and life to every aspect of your life and
may you sense it every hour that you are awake
and be blessed by it even in your sleep.
JV
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE W ORD, AND THE W ORD
WAS WITH GOD, AND THE W ORD WAS GOD. HE
WAS WITH GOD IN THE BEGINNING. THROUGH HIM
ALL THINGS WERE MADE; WITHOUT HIM NOTHING
WAS MADE THAT HAS BEEN MADE. IN HIM WAS LIFE,
AND THAT LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF ALL MANKIND.
THE LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS, AND THE
DARKNESS HAS NOT OVERCOME IT.
- JOHN 1:1-5
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 4
Jesus, please help the dead spots in our hearts
come to life. Where we might feel as if there is no
way to do your will, please help us. We need you
Jesus, to come to our rescue and literally save us
from ourselves. And would you please do this
today? Soon? Like right now? I'm waiting …
JV
To him who is able to keep you from
stumbling and to present you before his
glorious presence without fault and with
great joy—to the only God our Savior be
glory, majesty, power and authority,
through Jesus Christ our LORD, before all
ages, now and forevermore! Amen.
- Jude 1:24-25
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 5
Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Help us
to seek your peace in every aspect of our
existence. Peace in our homes. Peace in our
schools. Peace at work. Peace in our cities. Peace
in our world. Jesus, only you are our peace. Help
us to seek you. Jesus, you are our Prince of Peace.
Amen.
JV
Do not let your hearts be troubled.
You believe in God; believe also in
me.
- John 14:1
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My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 6
He has put us in a good place, Himself. Right there
in the middle of whatever is going on in your lives,
He is your safe-place. Regardless of your
circumstance, He is your harbor in the storm. He is
the calm in the middle of the raging sea. He is the
point of life, the fulcrum, the reason, the tipping
point and critical mass. May the truth of this word
envelop and bless and keep you today. Amen
JV
You are my hiding place;
you will protect me from trouble
and surround me with songs of
deliverance.
- Psalm 32:7
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 7
My prayer for you today is that an uncanny
presence of God will be evident to you all day. May
that presence bring you peace, regardless of your
circumstance. May you sense that it is well with
your soul and every other aspect of your life. Grace
to you … peace to you ... our Lord Jesus to you.
JV
Then the angel of God, who had been traveling
in front of Israel’s army, withdrew and went
behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved
from in front and stood behind them, coming
between the armies of Egypt and Israel.
Throughout the night the cloud brought
darkness to the one side and light to the other
side; so neither went near the other all night
long.
- Exodus14:19-20
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My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 8
My prayer for you today is that you will "Cast ALL
your anxiety on Him because He cares for you."
Please know that He is in control and that you need
to let Him care for you. May His grace and His
peace and His comfort and His compassion and
His miraculous provision be present in your lives
today. You are covered in prayer my friends.
JV
Humble yourselves, therefore, under
God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you
up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on
him because he cares for you.
- 1 Peter 5:6-7
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 9
May you be anxious for nothing. But in everything,
may you let your requests be made known to God.
And may the peace that passes understanding rule
in your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. May
confusion, depression and anxiety not even come
close to your house, your car, your school, your
place of work, your kids, your dog, or your stuff.
JV
When my anxious thoughts
multiply within me,
Your consolations delight my soul.
- Psalm 94:19
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 10
May the Holy Spirit anoint you with peace. May
your inner man whisper "Selah" to the activity of
God in your life today. The Holy God is active in
your life at this very moment! May the presence of
Jesus be so evident in you that you are just going
to have to praise Him. Is somebody out there
gonna praise Him?
JV
Each of the four living creatures had six wings and
was covered with eyes all around, even under its
wings. Day and night they never stop saying:
“‘Holy, holy, holy
Is the LORD God Almighty,’
who was, and is, and is to come.”
- Revelation 4:8
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 11
May the peace that passes understanding rule in
your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. May He
guide you in your decisions, your interactions, your
travels, your business, your relationships and every
other area in which you live and move and have
your being. I am praying for deep and real and
abiding peace for you today. Selah
JV
Surely the righteous will never be shaken;
they will be remembered forever.
They will have no fear of bad news;
their hearts are steadfast,
trusting in the LORD.
Their hearts are secure,
they will have no fear;
in the end they will look in triumph on their
foes.
- Psalm 112:6-8
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 12
I am praying that peace would descend upon you
and be with you all day. May confusion depart from
you and may you feel the calm presence of His
Holy Spirit in your mind, body and spirit. Peace in
your relationships. Peace in your home. Peace in
your car. Peace at work. Peace as you speak.
Peace as you listen. Peace as you give and peace
as you receive. In the name of the Prince of Peace,
our Lord Jesus. Amen
JV
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give
you. I do not give to you as the world
gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled
and do not be afraid.
- John 14:27
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 13
My prayer for you today is that you will be kept in
perfect peace as your mind is stayed upon Him.
Regardless of the circumstance, may you realize
that He is God and that He is in control and that He
is orchestrating a good and peaceful result in the
name of Jesus.
JV
The LORD bless you and keep you;
the LORD make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
the LORD turn his face toward you
give you peace.
- Numbers 6:24-26
Date:
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WORDS Month Three
Day 14
My prayer today is that you lock on to God's vision
of who you are. You are an integral part of
salvation's family tree and part of His strategic plan
to redeem humanity. You are not just a face in the
crowd, but a reflection of the Most High, His image
in flesh. You are not just working a job or going to
school, but you have been strategically assigned to
a specific place in the Master's plan to advance
against the powers of darkness and Hell. Your
position is crucial. In fact, as I hear all of this about
you, I am even more impressed with you now than I
was a few minutes ago. Impressive you are.
JV
He says:
“It is too small a thing for you to be my servant
to restore the tribes of Jacob
and bring back those of Israel I have kept.
I will also make you a light for the Gentiles,
that my salvation may reach to the ends of the
earth.”
- Isaiah 49:6
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 15
I pray today that you would hear God's voice. If you
feel that you can't hear it, just be still. And as you
are still, I have no doubt that He will speak. It may
be in the stillness. It may be through another
person. The voice may be that of an adult, or
maybe a child. It may be through conversation,
word, poetry, song, a chirping bird or a barking dog.
It may be in a memory, vision or a dream. But
know this, our God speaks and communicates in a
million different ways, saying a million different
things which say the same thing, "I love you
through Jesus."
JV
The word of the LORD came to me:
“What do you see, Jeremiah?”
“I see the branch of an almond tree,” I replied.
LORD said to me, “You have seen correctly,
for I am watching to see that my word is
fulfilled.”
- Jeremiah 1:11-12
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 16
You have not had much hope as of late, but get
ready, because Hope is moving towards you right
now. The despair that has resided in your mind and
was preparing to make its eventual dwelling place
in your heart will be evicted today. Despair and
heaviness cannot dwell where hope lives and hope
is preparing a place in you right now. Hope is on
the scene and it will be better now. I know so,
because hope has a name and that name is Jesus.
Jesus is cleaning out, sweeping, renewing and rearranging the order of your mind and He is bringing
life to the parched and barren ground that was your
heart. Hope to you. Life to you. Renewal to you.
Jesus to you.
JV
the people living in darkness
seen a great light;
on those living in the land of the shadow of
death
a light has dawned.”
- Matthew 4:16
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 17
I am praying this morning that you will have peace.
Since Jesus is the Prince of Peace, it is His to give.
May you be inundated with real, present and
discernible peace, especially as it relates to that
thing that has been confusing you. I pray this in the
name of the Prince of Peace, who is alive and able.
Amen and Amen
JV
For to us a child is born,
us a son is given,
the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Counselor, Mighty God,
Father, Prince of Peace.
Of the greatness of his government and peace
there will be no end
He will reign on David’s throne
and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
with justice and righteousness
from that time on and forever.
The zeal of the Lord Almighty
will accomplish this.
- Isaiah 9:6-7
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 18
I am praying today that your faith in Jesus would
increase dramatically, exponentially. May your
sense of His presence there with you right now be
palpable. May your reluctance to have a
conversation with Him be replaced with an
insatiable desire to have a cup of coffee with Him
and express your deepest and most secret
thoughts and dreams. May a powerful sense of His
ability to forgive and forget sins release you to
forgive and forget them as well. And may the
insane nature of true grace wash over you and pull
you away from the depressive nature of sin,
judgment and religious bondage, like a rip-tide
pulling you out into the sea.
JV
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If
anyone hears my voice and opens the
door, I will come in and eat with that
person, and they with me.
- Revelation 3:20
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 19
My prayer for you today is that God would cause
peace to descend upon you like you have not felt in
many, many days. Peace to all of you who are
burdened and fatigued. Peace to you when you feel
such a knot in your stomach that it is literally hard
to breathe. Peace to you when you feel ashamed
and insecure and insignificant.
JV
Then Jesus said to him,
“Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘YOU SHALL
WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND
SERVE HIM ONLY.’”
Then the devil left Him; and behold, angels
came and began to minister to Him.
- Mathew 4:10-11 NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 20
Due to the fact that Jesus is alive in you and
looking out at the world through your eyes,
understand that you will sense this strange
compulsion to dance the dance of life where there
is death, so go there and dance. Seek out and find
the underdog, black-sheep, homeless, dirty and
alone, and dance with them in the power of
unconditional love and forgiveness. Jesus dancing
in you will cause you to feel, talk, walk, dance and
sing a counter-cultural song that will ruffle feathers,
garner some weird looks and bring about
misunderstanding, because that's not the way that
their culture dances, but never mind, culture never
died for nor saved anyone anyway. Keep dancing
the Jesus dance.
JV
Wearing a linen ephod, David was
dancing before the LORD with all his
might
- 2 Samuel 6:14
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 21
May you get a powerful sense of the fact that Christ
is alive in you. Can you feel Him? Just sit there for
a second and think about it, feel it. The Lord of the
universe, creator of all things, the resurrected one,
is inside of you, right now. If you don't believe it,
just go and look in a mirror. There He is. Did you
see Him? He is right there, looking through your
baby blues, browns, greens or whatever you look
through. Be affirmed this day that you are the
dwelling place of the Most High, the temple of the
living God. This makes you valuable, precious,
powerful, holy, earthy yet heavenly, eternal yet
now. What an amazing piece of real estate you are.
JV
This is what the LORD says:
“Heaven is my throne,
the earth is my footstool.
Where is the house you will build for me?
Where will my resting place be?
- Isaiah 66:1
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 22
May the peace that passes understanding rule in
your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus (Phil. 4:7).
This means that I am praying for a peace that you
will feel emotionally (in your heart) and mentally (in
your mind). May the things that are pressing you
down and causing you stress be cast away in the
name of our Lord Jesus. Peace and calm and rest
to you all.
JV
This is what the Lord says:
“In the time of my favor I will answer you,
and in the day of salvation I will help you;
I will keep you and will make you
to be a covenant for the people,
to restore the land
and to reassign its desolate inheritances,
to say to the captives, ‘Come out,’
and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!’
- Isaiah 49:8-9
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 23
May you get a glimpse of the fact that because of
Jesus, you are living eternally, right now. Eternal
life is in you. The eternal and miraculous is
pulsating through your veins. That which seems
impossible does not rule the day any more. You live
in the realm of hope, faith and the potential that
Jesus will show up and work His miracle mojo this
very instant and if He doesn't overtly do so, He is
covertly working out everything for your good in
miraculous fashion anyway. Jesus, Jesus, precious
Jesus, O for grace to trust Him more.
JV
And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus
from the dead is living in you, he who
raised Christ from the dead will also give
life to your mortal bodies because of his
Spirit who lives in you.
- Romans 8:11
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 24
I am asking God to bless you today. Yes, just flat
out bless your socks off. I don't know whether you
feel like you deserve it or not, but just get ready, put
on your seat-belt and prepare to be blessed. May
you be blessed in your thinking. May Jesus invade
your thoughts and renew your mind like you have
never
experienced
before.
Joy,
hope,
encouragement and life to your brain. May you be
blessed in your finances. We have all made some
stupid fiscal decisions, but He is above all of that
and it's about time for you to experience an
amazing return on the investments of your time,
treasure and talent into the Kingdom. Be blessed
and encouraged as the abundance of the Kingdom
comes your way.
JV
Date:
Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her,
you who love her;
rejoice greatly with her,
you who mourn over her.
For you will nurse and be satisfied
her comforting breasts;
you will drink deeply
delight in her overflowing abundance.
- Isaiah 66:10-11
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 25
May the Lord bless you and keep you and impart
His peace of mind to you. The Apostle Paul tells us
that we have the mind of Christ and I don't believe
that He is anxious about anything. The peace, calm
and confidence of Jesus to you my friends. May
depression, anxiety, jumbled thoughts and hysteria
be cast far from you. Blessings and peace to you
this day.
JV
for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord
as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 2:16
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 26
I am praying that you would get a vision of the great
things that God wants to accomplish through you
today. And If you want to accomplish these great
things, you must know that He is GREAT and
greatly to be praised. You must focus upon the
epitome of greatness Himself, God. So, open up
your mouth and give Him some great praise. I
mean, put some volume behind it and shout some
great praise right there where you are. Praise Him
for His life in your body. Praise Him for His breath
in your lungs. Praise Him this morning, then at
noon and tonight for good measure. Our God is
Great and Great things happen when we praise our
GREAT GOD.
JV
Praise the LORD.
Praise God in his sanctuary;
Praise him in his mighty heavens.
Praise him for his acts of power;
Praise him for his surpassing greatness ….
Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.
Date:
My Notes:
- Psalm 150:1-2,6
WORDS Month Three
Day 27
Today I pray for your sustenance in the Peace of
God. May that peace reside with you and make its
dwelling with you. Yes, may it literally live with you.
May that thing that has been pressing you down
leave you alone and peace take its place. Pressure
and tension and stress, GO NOW. Jesus is the
Prince of Peace you know. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus to
you all.
JV
My heart is not proud, LORD,
my eyes are not haughty;
I do not concern myself with great matters
or things too wonderful for me.
But I have calmed and quieted myself,
I am like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child I am content.
Israel, put your hope in the LORD
both now and forevermore.
- Psalm 131:1-3
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 28
My prayer for you today is for God to hold the
things together in your lives that feel as if they are
falling apart. May God minister the staying and
holding power that is found in Jesus to you today.
He is the Ultimate Champion. He never gives in or
gives up. Healing, life, light, covering, security and
strength to you my friends.
JV
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn over all creation. For in him all things
were created: things in heaven and on earth,
visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers
or rulers or authorities; all things have been
created through him and for him. He is before
all things, and in him all things hold together.
- Colossians 1:15-17
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 29
My prayer for you today is that you have a keen
sense of what it means to be "hidden with Christ in
God." May you know that in Jesus you are safe,
secure, resting, at peace, loved, cared for, in
community, without shame, valued, pardoned …
need I say more?
JV
Since, then, you have been raised with
Christ, set your hearts on things above,
where Christ is, seated at the right hand of
God. Set your minds on things above, not
on earthly things. For you died, and your
life is now hidden with Christ in God.
- Colossians 3:1-3
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 30
I pray that the Ancient of Days shows you that He is
neither scared of nor startled by your situation. As
the Ancient of Days, He is older than time and
foresaw your circumstance and has an answer that
is already on the way. I want you to just praise His
name and give Him the glory as he moves on your
behalf. I will help you get started … Glory, Glory,
Glory and praise to the name of the Lord!
JV
I kept looking
Until thrones were set up,
And the Ancient of Days took His seat;
His vesture was like white snow
And the hair of His head like pure wool.
His throne was ablaze with flames,
Its wheels were a burning fire.
A river of fire was flowing
And coming out from before Him;
Thousands upon thousands were attending Him,
And myriads upon myriads were standing before
Him …
-Daniel 7:9-10b
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Day 31
My prayer for you today is that Jesus will invade
your space. I mean that He would come and make
it obnoxiously obvious that He is moving in and
around you. I also hope that when he does, you will
stop right there and give Him some praise. Why
don't you go ahead and make a preemptive shout
of
praise
with
me?
Thank
you
JEEEEEEEESUUUUUUUUS!
JV
When the day of Pentecost had come,
they were all together in one place. And
suddenly there came from heaven a
noise like a violent rushing wind, and it
filled the whole house where they were
sitting.
- Acts 2:1-2NASB
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My Notes:
WORDS Month Three
Month Four
So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by
that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights
until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. There
he went into a cave and spent the night.
And the word of the Lord came to him: “What are
you doing here, Elijah?”
- 1Kings 19:8-9
Words of Legacy
T
his Legacy Word comes from my middle son,
Caleb. Caleb, like his namesake in the Word,
is one who wants to take his mountain and
doesn’t seem to care if giants live there or not. He
does however realize that there is One who gives
us direction as to the best way to take that
mountain. In this word he expounds upon how to
access that direction ...
Be listening for the still small voice of God.
We see over and over in scripture God
speaking in a small voice. We know he has
the power to do the same in a thunderous
roar, yet he does so in a small voice.
He longs for us to draw nearer and nearer
to him. Just close enough to where He can
lean in, touch our face, and whisper into
your ear; just like any lover would do. You
would not shout across the room something
to your spouse so intimate, only intended for
them to hear.
That is why He draws us in close. He wants
to share something personal, intimate, only
WORDS, Month FIve
intended for you today. Draw near to Him.
He wants to speak.”
Caleb Voth, 11/1/12
JV
What words or thoughts come to your mind as you
read these Words of Legacy?
Date:
WORDS Month Four
Day 1
My prayer for you today is for God to hold the
things together in your lives that feel as if they are
falling apart. May God minister the staying and
holding power that is found in Jesus to you today.
Healing, life, light, covering, security and strength to
you my friends.
JV
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn over all creation. For in him all things
were created: things in heaven and on earth,
visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers
or rulers or authorities; all things have been
created through him and for him. He is before
all things, and in him all things hold together.
- Colossians 1:15-17
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 2
May you have a keen sense that in Him you live
and move and have your being. This means that
the Living God is most definitely your life-giving
source. Can you fathom this? You are empowered
and sustained by the creator of the universe. Is
there anything that he can't handle? Is there
anything that could ever take Him by surprise?
Excuse me while I shout!
JV
‘For in him we live and move and have
our being.’ As some of your own poets
have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
- Acts 17:28
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 3
May you walk in an authority today that will help
you to see His Kingdom come and His will be done
in your spheres of influence. Please know that God
is intent upon using you in powerful and influential
ways on His behalf. He loves you and is proud of
who you are becoming, just keep seeking His face.
Blessings to each of you.
JV
THEN JESUS CAME TO THEM AND SAID, “ALL
AUTHORITY IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH HAS BEEN
GIVEN TO ME. THEREFORE GO AND MAKE DISCIPLES
OF ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF
THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT, AND TEACHING THEM TO OBEY EVERYTHING
I HAVE COMMANDED YOU. AND SURELY I AM WITH
YOU ALWAYS, TO THE VERY END OF THE AGE.”
- MATTHEW 28:18-20
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 4
I am praying that the power of Jesus would
resonate through your body right now. I really mean
it. May you be pulsating with the life of Christ. He is
alive. He is living and moving and putting the devil
to flight in a billion different places, and you are one
of them. In the name of our living Lord Jesus Christ,
may you be healed and touched and free of what is
ailing and plaguing you my brothers.
JV
And a leper came to Jesus, beseeching Him
and falling on his knees before Him, and
saying, “If You are willing, You can make me
clean.” Moved with compassion, Jesus
stretched out His hand and touched him, and
said to him,
“I am willing; be cleansed.”
Immediately the leprosy left him and he was
cleansed.
- Mark 1:40-42NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 5
My prayer for you today is that the hurts and
intimidating memories of your past might be
washed in the blood. May they be disempowered
and disrespected by the powers of the Kingdom of
Light and may you be re-leased from their grip on
you. Freedom to you this day in your body, your
mind and your spirit, in the name of Jesus, our
Redeemer and Savior. Hallelujah! I hope somebody
is shouting!
JV
“For this reason I say to you, her sins,
which are many, have been forgiven, for
she loved much; but he who is forgiven
little, loves little.” Then He said to her,
“Your sins have been forgiven.”
- Luke 7:47-47NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 6
I pray that you would be delivered from all of the
shame that the enemy has tried to use to intimidate
you, May you be free and filled with peace and joy
like you haven't known for a long time. May you
boast in the Lord who is your deliverer and the one
who takes all shame from you and gives you a
radiant and clean face. Selah and Shalom to you
all. I pray for each of you by name.
JV
I sought the Lord, and he answered me;
he delivered me from all my fears.
Those who look to him are radiant;
their faces are never covered with shame.
This poor man called, and the Lord heard him;
he saved him out of all his troubles.
The angel of the Lord encamps around those
who fear him,
and he delivers them.
- Psalm 34:4-8
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 7
May His Kingdom come and His will be done in
your lives today. May His Kingdom come and His
will be done in your city today. May His Kingdom
come and His will be done in your home today and
may His Kingdom come and His will be done at
your place of work today. Amen and Amen.
JV
At that very time Jesus cured many who had
diseases, sicknesses and evil spirits, and gave
sight to many who were blind. So he replied to
the messengers, “Go back and report to John
what you have seen and heard: The blind
receive sight, the lame walk, those who have
leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead
are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to
the poor. Blessed is anyone who does not
stumble on account of me.”
- Luke 7:21-23
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 8
I am praying for you to be blessed with some
serious joy today. Serious in that there will be much
of it and joy in that you will be unable to contain
yourself due to that which is happening inside of
your person. So many of you have been pressed
down lately, so prepare to be released from those
pressings down this day. May laughter, smiling,
snickering, spontaneous jumping and dancing be
all over you today. May the fresh wind of the spirit
blow in all of your lives today and rejuvenate you.
JV
and provide for those who grieve in Zion—
to bestow on them a crown of beauty
instead of ashes,
the oil of joy
instead of mourning,
and a garment of praise
instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
a planting of the LORD
for the display of his splendor.
- Isaiah 61:3
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 9
I am praying that you will have seasoned words
today for specific conversations, with specific
people. Husbands will bless their wives. Employees
will have solutions and employers will listen.
Parents will prophesy hope, life and success to
their children. Some of you will speak exactly what
a stranger needed to hear to come to Jesus. Be
anointed and be ready!
JV
Do not let any unwholesome talk come
out of your mouths, but only what is
helpful for building others up according
to their needs, that it may benefit those
who listen.
- Ephesians 4:29
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 10
May you GO to someone today in the name of
Jesus. I mean it. Be aware that God is going to
bring someone across your path for whom you are
supposed to do something on behalf of your
amazing and risen Lord. Be ready and be filled with
His Holy Spirit as you GO.
JV
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two
others and sent them two by two ahead of
him to every town and place where he was
about to go. He told them, “The harvest is
plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the
Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out
workers into his harvest field.”
- Luke 10:1-2
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 11
I pray that Jesus would heal relationships that you
thought were irreparably marred and dead. He
healed lepers, the blind, and raised the physically
dead, He can also raise the relationally dead. You
must pray, believe and be willing to take the first
small step, then He will do the healing. You step,
He heals. Don't fret if the stepping is slow, things
that were once dead can forget how to walk. Just
keep stepping.
JV
So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His
eyes, and said, “Father, I thank You that You have
heard Me. I knew that You always hear Me; but
because of the people standing around I said it, so
that they may believe that You sent Me.” When He
had said these things, He cried out with a loud
voice, “Lazarus, come forth.” The man who had
died came forth, bound hand and foot with
wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with
a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let
him go.”
- John 11:41-44 NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 12
My prayer for you today is that God would help you
to be victorious in an area of your life where you
have been struggling. You will need to release it to
Him and listen to His strategy and then have faith
as you walk in His plan. His Kingdom come and His
will be done in this area of your life.
JV
I waited patiently for the LORD;
he turned to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
He set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand.
He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear the LORD
and put their trust in him.
- Psalm 40:1-3
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 13
I am praying that today you feel Christ before you,
behind you, above you, beneath you and beside
you. I am also believing that those of you who feel
conspired against by the enemy will feel your Lord
raise up and mount the forces of Heaven on your
behalf and thwart the conspiracy. May you feel
protected and provided for and victorious. God is
faithful!
JV
SO SHALL THEY FEAR THE NAME OF THE LORD
FROM THE WEST, AND HIS GLORY FROM THE RISING
OF THE SUN. W HEN THE ENEMY SHALL COME IN
LIKE A FLOOD, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD SHALL
LIFT UP A STANDARD AGAINST HIM.
AND THE REDEEMER SHALL COME TO ZION, AND
UNTO THEM THAT TURN FROM TRANSGRESSION IN
JACOB, SAITH THE LORD.
- ISAIAH 59:19-20KJV
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 14
My prayer for you today is that you get a revelation
of how special you are to the Father. In His eyes
you are amazing, worthwhile, not a mistake,
planned for, exciting, honored, loved, anticipated,
thought about, believed in, respected, smiled at,
and preferred … do you get the picture? Please
know that today I am praying for each of you.
JV
Yet you have a few people in Sardis who
have not soiled their clothes. They will walk
with me, dressed in white, for they are
worthy. The one who is victorious will, like
them, be dressed in white. I will never blot
out the name of that person from the book
of life, but will acknowledge that name
before my Father and his angels.
- Revelation 3:4-5
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 15
Today my prayer is that you are in tune with the
Holy Spirit as He speaks to you. May you hear Him
as you travel in your car. May you hear Him at work
and school. May you hear Him at breakfast and at
lunch and at dinner. May you hear Him whisper
truth to you about Jesus and also about yourself.
May He bathe you in truth and revelation from
Heaven all day long my friends. Blessings and love
to you all.
.JV
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give
you another Comforter, that he may abide
with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth;
whom the world cannot receive, because it
seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye
know him; for he dwelleth with you, and
shall be in you. I will not leave you
comfortless: I will come to you.
- John 14:16-18KJV
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 16
This morning I am praying that you get a fresh
revelation of the Holy Spirit. May His gifts be very
pronounced in you and may His fruit be ripe and
sweet. May you be a place where God's glory and
love and power might be revealed to those with
whom you do life. May you be a place for His glory
to be revealed and displayed so that others might
know that He is God and that HE loves them. I love
you my friends.
JV
I have given them the glory that you
gave me, that they may be one as we are
one— I in them and you in me—so that
they may be brought to complete unity.
Then the world will know that you sent
me and have loved them even as you
have loved me.
- John 17:22-23
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 17
I am praying for you today to get a revelation from
God as to how He really feels about you. I want for
you to know that He is impressed with you and
wants to spend more time with you in order to
express His feelings for you. He wants to eradicate
your feelings of shame, inadequacy and failure;
replacing them with the security and peace that
only a dose of His grace can bring. Make sure and
get with Him ASAP.
JV
My beloved spoke and said to me,
“Arise, my darling,
my beautiful one, come with me.
See! The winter is past;
the rains are over and gone.
Flowers appear on the earth;
the season of singing has come,
the cooing of doves is heard in our land.
The fig tree forms its early fruit;
the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise,
come, my darling; my beautiful one,
come with me.”
- Song of Songs 2:10-13
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 18
May the Lord Bless you and keep you and make
His face to shine upon you. May He visit you in a
special way today. May it be so special that you
stop and thank Him for it and then make sure and
tell someone. I know that you have been stressed
lately, but I am praying that this interaction will
relieve much stress and pain and anxiety. When it
happens, let me know.
JV
When Jesus reached the spot, he
looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus,
come down immediately. I must stay at
your house today.” So he came down at
once and welcomed him gladly.
- Luke 19:5-6
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 19
Jesus Christ, Son of God, please give us all a deep
and abiding revelation of who you are. May we be
delivered from consumerism and greed and filled
with the selfless glory of who you are. Help us to
value others above ourselves, showing all with
whom we come into contact that we embrace the
power of what was done so humbly and powerfully
through a baby in a manger on the first Christmas.
JV
“‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of
Judah;
for out of you will come a ruler
who will shepherd my people Israel.’”
- Mathew 2:6
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 20
I am praying today that you get a revelation of what
it is that God wants you to do specifically for the
Kingdom. He has a specific task for you and wants
you to dive in to it … and soon. May you be totally
immersed in seeing His kingdom come and His will
being done in your community. Blessings to you all.
JV
So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together
and said, “It would not be right for us to neglect the
ministry of the word of God in order to wait on
tables. Brothers and sisters, choose seven men
from among you who are known to be full of the
Spirit and wisdom. We will turn this responsibility
over to them and will give our attention to prayer
and the ministry of the word.”
This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose
Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit.
… Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and
power, performed great wonders and signs among
the people.
- Acts 6:2-5a,8
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 21
I am praying that you get a new revelation of the
Christ child this year. May the power and glory of
the Incarnation overwhelm you. May it stun you.
May it wow you. May it humble you. And may it
motivate you to live your life in yet a place of
deeper commitment to Him than ever before.
JV
On coming to the house, they saw the child
with his mother Mary, and they bowed down
and worshiped him. Then they opened their
treasures and presented him with gifts of gold,
frankincense and myrrh.
- Matthew 2:11
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 22
I am praying today that we each might get a
revelation as to what we might do to see His
Kingdom come and His will be done in our spheres
of influence. I mean that I want to have something
specific at the end of this day that I can point to and
know for sure that I was involved in that caused the
Kingdom of Heaven to advance and that of Hell to
be assaulted and repulsed. Go out today and pick a
fight.
JV
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of
you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness
of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy
Spirit. The promise is for you and your children and
for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our
God will call.”
With many other words he warned them; and he
pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this
corrupt generation.”
Those who accepted his message were baptized,
and about three thousand were added to their
number that day.
- Acts 2: 38-41
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 23
Today I pray that you would get a revelation as to
why you exist. You exist for the purpose of loving
God and enjoying Him forever. May your love for
Him be kindled today and go beyond a mere
feeling. And may your desire for His presence be
insatiable. We love you O God and our hearts beat
to be with you. Glory to your name.
JV
As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?
- Psalm 42:1-2
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 24
I am praying today that you would receive a word
from the Lord that is undeniably and certifiably for
you. May it be more than a whisper and may it be a
source of encouragement to you in a difficult
situation. May you know that God is watching and
involved in your life and that you matter to Him. Yes
you matter to Him and to me and to a whole lot of
other people. We have all conferred and we love
you.
JV
The angel went to her and said, “Greetings,
you who are highly favored! The Lord is with
you.”
Mary was greatly troubled at his words and
wondered what kind of greeting this might be.
But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid,
Mary; you have found favor with God.
- Luke 1:28-30
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 25
My prayer is that you would see Jesus today in
some form or fashion. May He reveal Himself to
you and may your faith be built up. May you know
that Jesus is not only real, but that He is really
involved in your life and cares about even the
minutest of details. Yes, you are so very important
to Him my friend. Blessings to you today.
JV
After six days Jesus took with him Peter,
James and John the brother of James, and
led them up a high mountain by
themselves. There he was transfigured
before them. His face shone like the sun,
and his clothes became as white as the
light.
- Matthew 17:1-2
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 26
I am believing with you that God is going to show
up in your life in a BIG way and soon. May you
have a real and tangible experience with the Lord
of Hosts. May He reveal Himself to you in fresh and
new and exciting fashion. Nothing low-key or under
the radar my friends. I am asking for a bona fide
Heavenly explosion to occur right where you live.
Praise His name in here somebody!
JV
In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord
sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of
His robe filling the temple. Seraphim stood above
Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his
face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two
he flew. And one called out to another and said,
“Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, The whole
earth is full of His glory.”
And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the
voice of him who called out, while the temple was
filling with smoke.
- Isaiah 6:1-4NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 27
My prayer for you today is that you would receive a
fresh word from God. I mean a word that is real and
pertinent and palpable for you in your real life
exactly where you live. "The word of God is active
and living" (Hebrews 4:12) Word of God speak, in
Jesus' name.
JV
In the beginning God created the heavens and
the earth. Now the earth was formless and
empty, darkness was over the surface of the
deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over
the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there
was light.
- Genesis 1:1-4
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 28
All creatures of our God and king, lift up your voice
with us and sing, Oh praise Him, Oh praise Him,
Hallelujah! (St. Francis) "Praise God from whom all
blessings flow. Praise Him all creatures here below.
Praise Him above ye Heavenly hosts. Praise
Father, Son and Holy Ghost." I think that those of
you reading this would fall into the "all creatures
here below" category, so let's get it done and
Praise Him! Praise Him! Let all God's creatures
Praise Him! Please somebody help a brother out
and Praise Him!!!
JV
Then I heard every creature in heaven and on
earth and under the earth and on the sea, and
all that is in them, saying:
“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
be praise and honor and glory and power, for
ever and ever!”
The four living creatures said, “Amen,”
and the elders fell down and worshiped.
- Revelation 5:13-14
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 29
May you really know that He is Immanuel, God with
us. Praise be to His name, in that He is walking
with us and speaking to us. May His presence be
an amazing reality to you today. May it be blatantly
obvious that He has put on flesh and dwelled
among us (John 1:14). When the obvious becomes
blatant, give Him glory and let us know what He
did.
JV
Now that same day two of them were going to
a village called Emmaus, about seven miles
from Jerusalem. They were talking with each
other about everything that had happened. As
they talked and discussed these things with
each other, Jesus himself came up and walked
along with them; but they were kept from
recognizing him.
- Luke 24:13-16
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 30
Today it is my prayer that you see the sovereign
God of the universe move specifically on your
behalf and when He does … Be encouraged, be
healed, be sustained, be hopeful, be happy, be
alive, be nice, be peaceful, be born again, be free,
be Godly proud, be joyful, be ready, be loud, be
someone who dances wildly, be someone who
smiles until it hurts and be someone who gives
thanks. Amen and amen again.
JV
After they had heard the king, they went on
their way, and the star they had seen when
it rose went ahead of them until it stopped
over the place where the child was. When
they saw the star, they were overjoyed
- Matthew 2:9-10
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Day 31
May the dynamic power of the Holy Spirit be so
pronounced in your lives today that you have to
smile. May that unspeakable joy that comes from
Heaven just get all over you and cause people to
ask you "What's going on?" And when this
happens, just begin to tell them about God's
faithfulness, HIs love, His peace, His amazing
personality, His gifts, His fruit, His provision, His
healing power, His love for them … in fact, I need
to stop right now, because I’m smiling so big it
hurts.
JV
I am going to send you what my Father
has promised; but stay in the city until
you have been clothed with power from
on high.
- Luke 24:49
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Four
Month 5
Once again David inquired of the Lord, and the
Lord answered him, “Go down to Keilah, for I am
going to give the Philistines into your hand.” So
David and his men went to Keilah, fought the
Philistines and carried off their livestock. He
inflicted heavy losses on the Philistines and saved
the people of Keilah.
- 1Samuel 23:4-5
Words of Legacy
T
his Legacy Word comes from my youngest
son, Cody. He is my Renaissance Man. The
well rounded one. I love this about him. He is
as comfortable singing, dancing, or leading worship
as he is backpacking in the Rockies, hunting
waterfowl or trout fishing. He is also an old soul
who is inherently responsible and able ... he has
been this way since he was a little boy. Now, as a
young adult he speaks some ancient and
masculine wisdom with these words ...
Today I will be a man, a wall, a provider, a
giant killer. A warrior ... His warrior. I am
wild at heart. I desire to have a joy through
God that is chronic and contagious. God, let
me overwhelm people with your joy!!!
Cody Voth, 2/14/14
JV
WORDS, Month Five
What words or thoughts come to your mind as you
read these Words of Legacy?
Date:
WORDS Month Five
Day 1
I am praying that He will give you rest, deep in your
body and your soul and your spirit. Even in the
midst of the grind of life, may the breath of His Holy
Spirit revive and empower you in a manner that
only He is capable of. "For in Him we live and move
and have our being" (Acts 17:28).
JV
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a living soul.
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in
Eden; and there he put the man whom he had
formed.
- Genesis 2:7-8KJV
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Five
Day 2
I am praying that the Holy Spirit would anoint you
with fresh oil. By this I mean that you will feel
refreshed and up to the task as it relates to your
purpose for the Kingdom on this planet. His
Kingdom come and His will be done will become
personal for you as it becomes a reality in all that
you do. You are an anointed and equipped vessel
to actually see this happen. Let's just shout His
praise together!
JV
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take the following
fine spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half as
much (that is, 250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon,
250 shekels of fragrant calamus, 500 shekels of
cassia—all according to the sanctuary shekel—and
a hin of olive oil. Make these into a sacred
anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a
perfumer. It will be the sacred anointing oil
-Exodus 30:22-25
Take the anointing oil
and anoint him
by pouring it on his head.
- Exodus 29:7
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Five
Day 3
May God give you strength. Strength to laugh.
Strength to cry. Strength to shut up. Strength to
speak. Strength to stand. Strength to bow down.
Strength to press in. Strength to defer. Strength to
create. Strength to emulate. Strength to show up.
Strength to stay away. Strength to say the king has
no clothes. Strength to be part of the crowd.
Strength to be poetic. Strength to be concise. Jesus
help us to be strong.
JV
DO YOU NOT KNOW ? HAVE YOU NOT HEARD?
THE EVERLASTING GOD, THE LORD,
THE CREATOR OF THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
DOES NOT BECOME WEARY OR TIRED.
HIS UNDERSTANDING IS INSCRUTABLE.
HE GIVES STRENGTH TO THE WEARY,
AND TO HIM WHO LACKS MIGHT HE INCREASES
POWER.
- ISAIAH 40:28-29NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Five
Day 4
Today I pray that you will be driven neither by
people's opinions of you, nor by a constant fear of
failure. "IN CHRIST" you cannot fail. Hear me
again: "IN CHRIST YOU CANNOT FAIL!" May you
bask in the warmth and grace of this
understanding. Hear Him whisper His plan and
purpose to you, pursue it passionately and then
watch the clutter of others opinions and your former
fears become little more than afterthoughts.
JV
Now to Him who is able to keep you from
stumbling, and to make you stand in the
presence of His glory blameless with great joy,
to the only God our Savior, through Jesus
Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion
and authority, before all time and now and
forever. Amen.
- Jude 1:24-25NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Five
Day 5
Jesus Christ, Son of God, please save us from
ourselves. Save us from thinking that we are the
center of our world. My He ever be the reason that
we live and move and have our being. Our brother
Paul reminds us that it is Jesus who "holds all
things together" and may we never think for a
moment that it is us. Selah.
JV
He is before all things, and in him all things hold
together. And he is the head of the body, the
church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from
among the dead, so that in everything he might
have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have
all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to
reconcile to himself all things, whether things on
earth or things in heaven, by making peace through
his blood, shed on the cross.
- Colossians 1:17-20
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Five
Day 6
Jesus Christ, Son of God, please continue your
work of saving us from ourselves. Please put within
each of us a new understanding and appreciation
for who you really are. You are THE preeminent
force to be reckoned with. You are THE King. You
are THE Logos. You are THE Lion. You are THE
Immovable Rock. May we never, ever forget the
THE in all of these. God help us today.
JV
For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Of the greatness of his government and peace
there will be no end.
- Isaiah 9:6-7a
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Five
Day 7
Today I am praying that God will help us to act like
what we are. We are saved. We are redeemed. We
are born again. We are new creations. We are a
royal priesthood. We are seated at the right hand of
the Father. We are friends of God. We are in Him.
We are filled with the Holy Ghost. We are the
image of God. I need some help in here.
JV
All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin
looked intently at Stephen, and they saw
that his face was like the face of an angel.
- Acts 6:15
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Five
Day 8
My prayer today is that you will be able to sense
where and how God is moving in your life and line
yourself up accordingly. Be attentive to the still
small voice and get in line with it. He has an opinion
about what you should do, what you should say
and where you should go today, but He usually
doesn't shout. Draw in close to Him and hear what
He has to say. Selah.
JV
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark,
Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a
solitary place, where he prayed. Simon and his
companions went to look for him, and when
they found him, they exclaimed: “Everyone is
looking for you!”
Jesus replied, “Let us go somewhere else—to
the nearby villages—so I can preach there also.
That is why I have come.”
- Mark 1:35-38
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Five
Day 9
May you who seem to be running out of time, be
blessed by He who is outside of it. May the crazy
pace and the impending deadlines come under the
Lordship of Jesus Christ, the One who never ever
worried about how He would get it all done. May an
obvious sense of Shalom come blowing through
your lives today as His Kingdom comes and His will
is done in and through you.
JV
Thus the heavens and the earth were
completed in all their vast array.
By the seventh day God had finished the work
he had been doing; so on the seventh day he
rested from all his work. Then God blessed the
seventh day and made it holy, because on it he
rested from all the work of creating that he had
done.
- Genesis 2:1-3
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Five
Day 10
May you be free. Free from past definitions of who
you are. Definitions that say that you don’t measure
up, can’t measure up and never will, because of the
many mistakes and blunders that you have made.
These definitions have plagued you with the
remembrance of past defeats and they suggest that
you will most assuredly lose, fail or not measure up
in the future. They assure you that it is a done deal,
you will fail. Well, I want you to know that it is not a
done deal, in fact, it is a new one. It is a deal based
on the definition of who Jesus says that you are
and how He defines you. He says that you are
FREE. You are FREE because He paid a very
expensive price. You are indescribably valuable
and are now free of what has held you back and
formerly defined you incorrectly. Why? Because He
says so. Be FREE my friends.
JV
Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who
sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no
permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to
it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be
free indeed.”
- John 8:34-36
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Five
Day 11
Today I am asking that Jesus would cause that
faith-spark of hope to ignite in you and bring the fire
of faith where the dank and dark pallor of
hopelessness abounds. May it burn for your lost
loved ones. Yes, let it burn for a living, passionate
and vibrant faith to be ignited in the darkest and
most desperate of their hearts; burning so intensely
with the white-hot coals of Jesus' love through your
heart towards them, that they might not help but be
warmed as well. Jesus, O spark of hope, please
infuse us with your faith for the faithless, that we
might see them come to know you and follow you
and burn for you as we do. You are our Blessed
Hope, burning in us. We cannot resist you, they
cannot resist you. Please let it be so.
JV
Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live
coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs
from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and
said, “See, this has touched your lips; your
guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying,
“Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
-Isaiah 6:6-8
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Five
Day 12
Today I am praying that Jesus would laugh at the
enemy through you. May He laugh as that snake
tries to steal your joy. So, when you sense him
trying to steal it, do something for someone else
that would bring them joy. Take them to lunch.
Send them an email or a text and make them
laugh. Be Heaven-bent on putting a smile on their
face. Let the snake know that his attempts to steal
your joy, will work towards building up someone
else's, every single time that turd sets out to rob
you of yours. His efforts at thievery will work
towards goodness. May Jesus' joy overwhelm,
swamp and capsize your boat today.
JV
Date:
And we know that God causes all things
to work together for good to those who
love God, to those who are called
according to His purpose.
- Romans 8:28NASB
My Notes:
WORDS Month Five
Day 13
May you know today that He has rescued you. You
had been taken captive by sin and shame and all
the wrong thinking that goes with them and Jesus
led the rescue effort. He has forcibly taken you
back because of your great value to the Kingdom.
Yes, you are valuable, worthwhile, precious and
very expensive. You could never be replaced.
Jesus, took you back!
JV
This is why it says:
“When he ascended on high,
he took many captives
and gave gifts to his people.”
(What does “he ascended” mean except that he
also descended to the lower, earthly regions? He
who descended is the very one who ascended
higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole
universe.)
- Ephesians 4:8-10
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WORDS Month Five
Day 14
My prayer today is that the Living God would make
it obvious to you that He is in fact living in you. May
you sense His compassion in your heart. May feel
His thoughts running through your mind. May you
feel His energy pulsating through you veins and
may you sense that you are being carried and
sustained by the power of the Ancient of Days. Now
that will preach!
JV
Therefore having such a hope, we use great
boldness in our speech, and are not like Moses,
who used to put a veil over his face so that the
sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of
what was fading away.… Now the Lord is the
Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding
as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same image from glory to
glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
- 2Corinthians 3:12-13, 17-18 NASB
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WORDS Month Five
Day 15
I asked God to make you keenly aware of His
thoughts today. I asked Him to give you an intuition
that will help you in your interactions with the
people that you encounter. May you know when to
speak and when to stay silent. May you know when
to stay and when to leave. May you be covered by
His blood and be wise as you "come in" and as you
"go out", in the name of Jesus I pray.
.JV
these are the things God has revealed to us by his
Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep
things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts
except their own spirit within them? In the same
way no one knows the thoughts of God except the
Spirit of God. What we have received is not the
spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so
that we may understand what God has freely given
us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us
by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit,
explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.
- 1 Corinthians 2:10-13
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WORDS Month Five
Day 16
Jesus Christ, Son of God, please invade our space
today in ways that cause us to have to pause and
be still, and In that stillness, may every last one of
us know that you are God. We need you Jesus.
JV
And the LORD said, “I will cause all my
goodness to pass in front of you, and I will
proclaim my name, the LORD, in your
presence. I will have mercy on whom I will
have mercy, and I will have compassion on
whom I will have compassion.
- Exodus 33:19-20
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WORDS Month Five
Day 17
May you sense that Jesus is advocating and
interceding on your behalf before our Father today.
I am guessing that He knows how to do both of
these well, so get ready for some serious stuff to
happen. I mean it. Let's get some big time faith
rollin’ up in here, because the risen and living Lord
of ALL is praying for us … I am going to start
running around the room now!
JV
In the same way the Spirit also helps our
weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we
should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with
groanings too deep for words; and He who
searches the hearts knows what the mind of the
Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints
according to the will of God….
who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He
who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the
right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
- Romans 8:26-27, 34 NASB
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WORDS Month Five
Day 18
Today I am praying that you get a true sense for
who and what you are. You are saved! You are
New! You are filled with Grace! You are children of
the living and eternal God! You are so very
important! You are clean! You are on the mind of
Jesus! You are filled with gifts and fruit! You are
Chosen! I feel blessed to be acquainted with you.
JV
But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal
PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE
FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, so that you
may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has
called you out of darkness into His marvelous
light;
1 Peter 2:9 NASB
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WORDS Month Five
Day 19
May you have the unmistakable feeling that God is
absolutely and positively in control of your life. And
because of His divine control, may you make
decisions that are powerful and effective and
productive. May you have an insight into issues and
problems that will allow you to be a peace-maker,
problem-solver, grace-giver, order-bringer and evilresister. In the name of our risen and living Lord
Jesus.
JV
For in Christ all the fullness of the
Deity lives in bodily form, and in
Christ you have been brought to
fullness. He is the head over every
power and authority.
- Colossians 2:9-10
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WORDS Month Five
Day 20
I am praying today for you to see that God is more
than just fleetingly interested in your life. He cares
passionately about your thoughts, your dreams,
your intentions and your outcomes. He wants to be
involved in the deepest desires of your heart and in
some miraculous way see them intertwined with His
and become part of His plan to see His Kingdom
come and His will be done.
JV
The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
- Jeremiah 1:4-5
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WORDS Month Five
Day 21
Today I am praying that you feel totally free. Free to
speak to God like never before. Free to be who you
are in Christ. Free to live a real life in Him. Free to
be healed. Free to think like Jesus. Free to act like
Jesus. Free to see His Kingdom come and His will
be done in your life and in your home as it is in
Heaven. May the Holy Spirit do His liberating work
in you my friends. Selah
JV
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the
prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
- Luke 4:18-19
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WORDS Month Five
Day 22
My prayer today is a simple one: "Jesus please
invade every space that makes up who I am." The
way that I think. The way that I react to the way that
I think. The way that I look and the way that I feel.
The things that I desire. The way that I pursue the
things that I desire. Create in me a clean heart O
God probably says it better. Selah.
JV
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts:
and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know
wisdom.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Make me to hear joy and gladness;
that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Hide thy face from my sins,
and blot out all mine iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God;
and renew a right spirit within me.
- Psalm 51:6-10KJV
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WORDS Month Five
Day 23
Jesus Christ, please be in us. And because you
are, would you look through our eyes. Would you
touch with our hands. Would you speak with our
words. Would you think through our minds and
express through our face. Would you beat in our
hearts. Would you be sung as our song. Would you
be the message that we preach. Yes, in and
through you is any and all real living done. Praise
be to your name. Jesus
JV
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be
enlightened in order that you may know the hope to
which he has called you, the riches of his glorious
inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably
great power for us who believe. That power is the
same as the mighty strength he exerted when he
raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his
right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule
and authority, power and dominion, and every
name that is invoked, not only in the present age
but also in the one to come
- Ephesians 1:18-21
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My Notes:
WORDS Month Five
Day 24
I pray for God's order to your day and ultimately
your life. May you sense the presence of your
loving Father God leading, guiding and caring for
you. Even though there may be a frantic pace and
a hectic sense to your schedule, I am praying that
you would know that He is in charge and since
Daddy is overseeing your coming in and going out,
you will be just fine. I've got a feelin that
everything's gonna be all right.
JV
The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
for his name’s sake.
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My Notes:
- Psalm 23:1-3
WORDS Month Five
Day 25
I am praying for an obvious and flagrant miracle to
happen in your lives, soon. May you have no doubt
that God has been dabbling in your affairs and that
He is most definitely working on your behalf. God is
your Refuge, your Strength, your Rock, your
Provider, your Friend and your Miracle Worker. I
can't get no help in here this morning.
JV
Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always
obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much
more in my absence—continue to work out your
salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who
works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his
good purpose.
- Philippians 2:12-13
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WORDS Month Five
Day 26
May God bring clarity where there has been
confusion. The enemy has endeavored to steal
your time, your relationships and your money
through confusing situations and interactions, but
God Himself is moving to make the path straight
and the way obvious. Doubt, fear and hesitation will
dissipate today like fog in sunlight as our Lord
brings you revelation from Heaven. His Kingdom
come and His will be done in your life.
JV
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
- Proverbs 3:5-6
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WORDS Month Five
Day 27
Today I am praying that God would order your
words. May you be aware of the words that you
speak and the power that they have to assault the
Kingdom of darkness and bring about hope and
light and life in those with whom you speak.
Remember that you are speaking on behalf of
Jesus, so do so with clarity and love and truth.
Advance His Kingdom with your mouth today.
JV
Jesus, knowing all that was going to happen to
him, went out and asked them,
“Who is it you want?”
“Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied.
“I am he,” Jesus said. (And Judas the traitor
was standing there with them.) When Jesus
said, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the
ground.
- John 18:4-6
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WORDS Month Five
Day 28
I pray today for you to get a revelation about the
Resurrection of Jesus that is deeper and more
profound than you have ever had before. May you
be keenly aware that He is alive. May you sense
Him in you, around you, behind you, in front of you,
driving with you, eating with you, at school with you,
at work with you and at play with you. Jesus Christ,
Son of God, Savior, in you. Amazing. Amen.
JV
I saw heaven standing open and there before me
was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful
and True. With justice he judges and wages war.
His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are
many crowns. He has a name written on him that
no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a
robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word
of God. The armies of heaven were following
him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine
linen, white and clean.
- Revelation 19:11-15
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My Notes:
WORDS Month Five
Day 29
My prayer for you today is that you might have the
ability and insight to finish that which you have
started. You have much to do today, but God is
going to help you pick out that thing that must be
done and then give you supernatural help to
complete it. In the process, may the Holy Spirit heal
your frazzled mind. You are able and you have the
mind of Christ. His Kingdom come and His will be
done in your mind.
JV
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As he approached the town gate, a dead person
was being carried out—the only son of his mother,
and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the
town was with her. When the Lord saw her, his
heart went out to her and he said, “Don’t cry.”
Then he went up and touched the bier they were
carrying him on, and the bearers stood still. He
said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!” The dead
man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him
back to his mother
- Luke 7:12-15
My Notes:
WORDS Month Five
Day 30
May you have a keen awareness of those around
you who don't know Jesus. Once you are aware of
them, I am praying that you will have such an
insight and wisdom from Heaven that you will act
and speak in such a way that those people will be
so drawn to Jesus in you that it will be funny. Once
you finish laughing, introduce them to the one who
is making you laugh.
JV
The plan seemed good to Pharaoh and to
all his officials. So Pharaoh asked them,
“Can we find anyone like this man, one in
whom is the spirit of God?”
- Genesis 41:37-38
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My Notes:
WORDS Month Five
Day 31
Jesus Christ, the Center of our lives. Would you
please help us to love you more? Would you help
us to believe in you more? Would you help our
faithless hearts to be filled with faith towards you?
Will you help us to be selfless? Kind? Loving? and
merciful? Would you please help us to be what we
really want to be? People possessed by, obsessed
with and caught all up in YOU.
JV
As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was
sitting by the roadside begging. When he heard the
crowd going by, he asked what was happening.
They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.”
He called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on
me!”
Those who led the way rebuked him and told him to
be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of
David, have mercy on me!”
Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought
to him. When he came near, Jesus asked him,
“What do you want me to do for you?”
“Lord, I want to see,” he replied.
- Luke 18:35-41
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My Notes:
WORDS Month Five
Month Six
Once again David inquired of the Lord, and the
Lord answered him, “Go down to Keilah, for I am
going to give the Philistines into your hand.” So
David and his men went to Keilah, fought the
Philistines and carried off their livestock. He
inflicted heavy losses on the Philistines and saved
the people of Keilah.
- 1Samuel 23:4-5
Words of Legacy
T
he Legacy Word for today is packed with
much personal relevance ... let me explain.
Some of you may or may not know that I
wrote a book entitled Cavetime in 2012. It is a book
that chronicles a period in the life of King David as
he escaped to the cave at Adullam (see 1 Samuel
22:1-4). He was escaping from the relentless
assaults being waged against him by his father-inlaw, King Saul.
In Cavetime, I compare David’s escape to the cave
with my own need to escape the assaults waged
against my masculinity. A need that all men have to
hide with God. I make the case that really, every
man needs to have his own cave ... and seek to
have a daily Cavetime. Hence, the word “cave” has
become very important to me in my own journey.
Therefore, you can understand when I read the
following words in my great-great-grandfather’s
journal, I felt the Lord winking at me from 130 years
ago...
WORDS Month Six
“Very hot during the day, but by evening we
received a big rain. We thank our heavenly
father for that. We were going to work on
our cave, digging, but as so often
happened, we were interrupted. There was
hay to be put up.”
Johan C. Voth, August 14th, 1883
“... We worked on our cave again but were
interrupted occasionally by hay making.”
Johan C. Voth, August 16th, 1883
Now these two references may not seem to be that
big to you, but to me they were huge. There are
many other words that Johan could have used to
describe the storm shelter that he was building with
his own two hands, but he used the word “cave”.
These words screamed at me that God was doing
something in my lineage four generations before
me coming to the planet and He thought enough to
wink at me through time. Timeless words ...
encouraging words ... cavetime words. Words that
encouraged me to show up each day in my cave,
building a storm shelter for my family. A wall of
prayer and interaction with the Word.
JV
What words or thoughts come to your mind as you
read today’s Words of Legacy?
Date:
WORDS Month Six
WORDS Month Six
Day 1
I am praying that Jesus will make Himself so real to
you today that the intimidation and fear that you
have been feeling will become not even a distant
memory. And may the place where the fear used to
dwell be taken by faith and peace and joy and
happiness and security and the knowing that Jesus
has it all under control. Hey, I've got a feelin,
everything is gonna be all right!!!
JV
Then David ran and stood over the
Philistine; he grasped his sword, drew it out
of its sheath, and killed him; then he cut off
his head with it.
When the Philistines saw that their
champion was dead, they fled.
- 1Samuel 17:51NASB
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My Notes:
WORDS Month Six
Day 2
May the Lord of ALL Creation fashion a miracle for
you today. I pray that it is obvious and personal and
so special that all you can do is stop and give Him
glory. As a matter of fact, why don't you just give
Him glory right now, even before you see anything
... let's get a little faith goin’ on up in here!
JV
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Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell
me, what do you have in your house?”
“Your servant has nothing there at all,” she
said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”
Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your
neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a
few. Then go inside and shut the door behind
you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and
as each is filled, put it to one side.”
She left him and shut the door behind her and
her sons. They brought the jars to her and she
kept pouring. When all the jars were full, she
said to her son, “Bring me another one.”
But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the
oil stopped flowing.
-2Kings 4:2-6
My Notes:
WORDS Month Six
Day 3
I am praying that God will give you specific and
pointed direction in your life. May confusion be
eradicated from your mind and clarity come in like a
flood. Yes, may a mighty flood of clarity overwhelm
you with ideas and thoughts and plans where
before there was only a fog. And as the fog lifts,
may you know that you are smack dab in the
middle of his will. Now that's worth shoutin’ about.
Let's hear it for clarity.
JV
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your
ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This
is the way; walk in it.”
- Isaiah 30:21
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My Notes:
WORDS Month Six
Day 4
May He who is the Ancient of Days help you to
process those things that make no sense to you.
He can do this, because as the Ancient of Days He
is before and after time and is surprised by nothing.
He saw those things before they happened and
sees the end as well.
JV
He said, “Daniel, you who are highly esteemed,
consider carefully the words I am about to speak to
you, and stand up, for I have now been sent to
you.” And when he said this to me, I stood up
trembling.
Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since
the first day that you set your mind to gain
understanding and to humble yourself before your
God, your words were heard, and I have come in
response to them.
- Daniel 10:11-12
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My Notes:
WORDS Month Six
Day 5
Author Phillips Brooks said that "Only fire kindles
fire". My prayer for you today is that the fire of the
Holy Spirit kindles a fire in you that kindles a fire in
your family that kindles a fire in their friends that
kindles a fire in their friends that kindles a fire in
their friends .... How many want some fire up in
here?
JV
At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah
stepped forward and prayed: “Lord, the God of
Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today
that you are God in Israel and that I am your
servant and have done all these things at your
command. Answer me, Lord, answer me, so
these people will know that you, Lord, are God,
and that you are turning their hearts back
again.”
Then the fire of the Lord fell and burned up the
sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and
also licked up the water in the trench.
When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate
and cried, “The Lord—he is God! The Lord—he
is God!”
- 1Kings 18:36-39
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My Notes:
WORDS Month Six
Day 6
May a fresh wind of His Spirit blow upon you
throughout the day. May you feel energized and
revitalized deep in your body, soul and spirit. As a
result of this blowing, may you be especially
attuned to His will and His way for your life. His
Kingdom come and His will be done in you my
friends.
JV
Be glad, people of Zion,
rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given you the autumn rains
because he is faithful.
He sends you abundant showers,
both autumn and spring rains, as before.
The threshing floors will be filled with grain;
the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
Date:
My Notes:
- Joel 2:23-24
WORDS Month Six
Day 7
May your desire to serve and love God supersede
all other desires in your life today. I am praying that
the Holy Spirit will do His work deep in your souls,
so that you will really know that you are changed on
the inside. May His love be placed deep in you and
become part of who you are, in Jesus' name.
JV
Jesus said to them, “You will indeed drink
from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is
not for me to grant. These places belong to
those for whom they have been prepared by
my Father.”
- Matthew 20:23
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My Notes:
WORDS Month Six
Day 8
May you know without a shadow of a doubt that
your redeemer lives and that He lives in you. I trust
that His life will permeate your mind, your body and
your spirit. May you then radiate His life to those
with whom you do life and literally become a
vehicle for redemption in this world. May
redemption. life, light, hope, peace and every gift
that the Holy Spirit possesses be at work in you for
the purposes of Heaven.
JV
Now you are Christ’s body, and individually
members of it. And God has appointed in the
church, first apostles, second prophets, third
teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings,
helps, administrations, various kinds of
tongues.
- 1Corinthians 12:27-28NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Six
Day 9
My prayer for you today is that you will find your
place in His Kingdom and begin to "get er' done".
When Jesus said His Kingdom come and His will
be done, I believe that He meant that those things
would be brought about by Him in you and me.
Let's be active in establishing His Kingdom today in
our spheres of influence. Blessings to all of you
today.
JV
As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The
kingdom of heaven has come near.’ Heal
the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who
have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you
have received; freely give.
- Mathew 10:7-8
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Six
Day 10
May the Holy Spirit of Jesus encourage you beyond
your wildest dreams. I am praying that all of you
feel encouraged today. May the very things that
have been bringing you down have absolutely no
hold and no effect upon you whatsoever. I am
believing that this deep sense of encouragement
will get all over you before you even leave your
house for the day. There, did you feel it yet? Here it
comes!!!
JV
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may
strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your
inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts
through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and
established in love, may have power, together with
all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and
long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to
know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you
may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of
God.
- Ephesians 3:16-19
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Six
Day 11
My prayer for you today is that God will repair the
breach that exists between you and someone in
your life with whom you are at odds. He is an
expert at doing breach repair if you will just let Him.
In Jesus' name I am praying for the breaches to be
gone very soon in your life.
JV
Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for
full restoration, encourage one another, be of
one mind, live in peace. And the God of love
and peace will be with you.
-2Corinthians 13:11
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My Notes:
WORDS Month Six
Day 12
May you know today without a shadow of a doubt
that God is your keeper and your provider. He is
not intimidated by recession nor is He limited by it.
His kingdom will come and His will shall be done
regardless of economic indicators and markets.
Jehovah Jireh is my provider and I praise His
glorious and mighty name. Are you with me?
JV
I have no need of a bull from your stall
or of goats from your pens,
for every animal of the forest is mine,
and the cattle on a thousand hills.
I know every bird in the mountains,
and the insects in the fields are mine.
If I were hungry I would not tell you,
for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
- Psalm 50:9-12
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Six
Day 13
My prayer for you today is that God might show HIs
miracle working power in your life very soon. May
you be made well aware that He is sovereign and in
control of every aspect of your life. You may have
felt alone and secluded in your pain, fear and
doubt, but He will rescue, provide and set you up in
a manner that will blow you away. Selah and praise
to His mighty name.
JV
Those the Lord has rescued will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
- Isaiah 51:11
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Six
Day 14
Jesus Christ, Son of God, thank you for having
mercy upon us!!! My prayer for you today is that
you would truly feel and sense His mercy flowing
towards you, around you, through you and in you.
May mercy be palpable for you today. Blessings to
you.
JV
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering
and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself
carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them
went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to
his father Abraham, “Father?”
“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.
“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but
where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
Abraham answered, “God himself will provide
the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And
the two of them went on together.
Genesis 22:6-8
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Six
Day 15
I am praying right now that you would be
captivated, enrapt, drawn in, pulled in, sucked in
and consumed with the call of God on your life.
Your job is not just a job. Your life is not just a life.
Your family is not just a family. You are part of an
overt plan to seek out and redeem men and
women, boys and girls, the young and the old, on
behalf of the Kingdom of Heaven. My God, let's live
with purpose then!
.JV
And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the
Most High;
for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the
way for him,
to give his people the knowledge of salvation
through the forgiveness of their sins,
because of the tender mercy of our God,
by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven
to shine on those living in darkness
and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
And the child grew and became strong in spirit; and
he lived in the wilderness until he appeared publicly
to Israel.
- Luke 1:76-80
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Day 16
Please deliver us today from manipulative thoughts
and actions. Free us from using people for our own
gain and pleasure as a commodity. May we value
them as the immeasurably precious treasures that
they are. They possess your image and likeness,
how could we ever merely use them? We commit to
honor, value, perpetuate, lift up, caress and protect
your image in the people with whom we do life this
day. Help us Jesus
.JV
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for
those who will believe in me through their
message, that all of them may be one, Father,
just as you are in me and I am in you. May they
also be in us so that the world may believe that
you have sent me. I have given them the glory
that you gave me, that they may be one as we
are one—I in them and you in me—so that they
may be brought to complete unity. Then the
world will know that you sent me and have
loved them even as you have loved me.
- John 17:20-23
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Day 17
May God renew your rattled faith today. I pray that
your frustration over unanswered prayers turns to a
tenacious desire to pray even harder. And as you
pray harder, may you see the mighty hand of God
move on your behalf in such pronounced fashion
that you will not be able to contain your response.
Go ahead and shout, dance, sing, laugh, jump up
and down, fall on your face and cry holy or just yell
"Jesus!”
JV
Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and
pray for one another so that you may be healed.
The effective prayer of a righteous man can
accomplish much. Elijah was a man with a nature
like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not
rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years
and six months. Then he prayed again, and the sky
poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.
- James 5:16-18NASB
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Day 18
Lord, please renew our minds. Can you take old
things and make them new? Turning hurts into
forgiveness? Doubts into faith? Dead dreams into
living realities? Painful regrets into fresh initiatives?
Replace old lusts with new and healthy passions?
Old bondages with new freedoms ? Old mistakes
with new potential? Old strongholds with new
deliverance? Old grudges with a new sense of
forgetfulness? Make it so Jesus.
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When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,
we were like those who dreamed.
Our mouths were filled with laughter,
our tongues with songs of joy.
Then it was said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
The Lord has done great things for us,
and we are filled with joy.
- Psalm 126:1-3
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Day 19
Please know that eternal life is not escaping Hell
someday, but knowing Him, the Eternal One, today.
Alive in Christ, this instant. Living eternally, now.
His Kingdom come and His will done, immediately.
To be part of the forceful advance of His Kingdom,
in the next 5 minutes. Reaping the eternal benefits
of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, before your
breakfast is done. Heaven advances now, through
you and in you!
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Once more the Philistines came up and spread out
in the Valley of Rephaim; so David inquired of the
Lord, and he answered, “Do not go straight up, but
circle around behind them and attack them in front
of the poplar trees. As soon as you hear the
sound of marching in the tops of the poplar
trees, move quickly, because that will mean the
Lord has gone out in front of you to strike the
Philistine army.” So David did as the Lord
commanded him, and he struck down the
Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.
2Samuel5:22-25
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Day 20
Jesus' face was shamed through beatings, spit, a
crown of thorns and the kisses of a traitor, so that
you and I might have it wiped from ours. May the
shameful things that we have done and the
accompanying memories that haunt us be wiped
away by the cleansing power of our amazing Lord.
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He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
- Isaiah 53:3-5
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Day 21
Jesus is not a concept. He is not a philosophy. He
is not a baby born in a manger anymore. He is not
a mere prophet. He is not my errand boy, whose
name I tack on to the end of my prayers for good
luck. He is Lord. God. Creator of the Universe. The
One who holds the keys of death and the grave. He
is the controversial figure who died for the sins of
humanity, resurrected and will come again. Glory to
His name!
JV
Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and
thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives
for ever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down
before him who sits on the throne and worship him
who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns
before the throne and say:
“You are worthy, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they were created
and have their being.”
- Revelation 4:9-11
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Day 22
Dear God. we know that you are the Great
Unchangeable One; the one who is consistent in
love and goodness. Would you please help us to be
consistent? Consistent in loving well. Consistent in
forgiving much. Consistent in praying often.
Consistent in giving bountifully. Consistent in
speaking truthfully. Consistent in living honestly.
Consistent in worshiping faithfully. Please help us
Jesus.
JV
God is not human, that he should lie,
not a human being, that he should change
his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill?
I have received a command to bless;
he has blessed, and I cannot change it.
- Numbers 23:19-20
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Day 23
Lord, please help us to mean it when we say that
we live to serve you and not that we live to serve
you if it is convenient, or if it is fun, or if it makes us
immediately happy, or if it is profitable, or if it is
easy, or if it is popular, or if it is pleasurable, or if it
fits into my schedule (remember the Good
Samaritan was on his way to somewhere else), or if
it ... deliver us from ourselves Jesus.
JV
Peter began to say to Him, “Behold, we have left
everything and followed You.” Jesus said, “Truly I
say to you, there is no one who has left house or
brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or
farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake, but
that he will receive a hundred times as much now in
the present age, houses and brothers and sisters
and mothers and children and farms, along with
persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.
- Mark 10:28-30NASB
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Day 24
God is faithful, no doubt about it. He is everpresent. He is ever-loving. He is ever-knowing. He
is incomparable. He is unfathomable. He is
boundless. He is our covering. He is our wisdom.
He is our peace. He is our defender. He is our joy.
He is our laughter. He is our provider. He is our
strategy. He is our answer. He is our life-source. He
is our healer. He is our deliverer. He is our hope ...
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But the Lord is with me like a dread champion;
Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not
prevail.
They will be utterly ashamed, because they
have failed,
With an everlasting disgrace that will not be
forgotten.
- Jeremiah 20:11NASB
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Day 25
My prayer for you today is that you would sense
that God is in control of your life. I mean that I want
for you to know that He is involved in the minute
details of your existence. He cares about the little
things. He cares about your thoughts and your
dreams. He cares about your passions and the ebb
and flow of your life. He wants to put you in a
spacious place (PS.18:19) and yes He delights in
you!!!
JV
When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved,
he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel
remained childless. Leah became pregnant
and gave birth to a son. She named him
Reuben, for she said, “It is because the Lord
has seen my misery. Surely my husband will
love me now.”
- Genesis 29 31-32
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Day 26
My prayer is that you get a sense for the fact that
HE is in control. In the middle of our lives and the
exercise of choice and desire, He brings about a
synthesis with His grand plan and makes it work.
You are part of His grand plan and causing His
kingdom to come and His will to be done on the
earth. May you realize that you are about Kingdom
plans this day and that makes your life very
important.
JV
“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are
few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to
send out workers into his harvest field.
Go! I am sending you out like lambs among
wolves. Do not take a purse or bag or sandals;
and do not greet anyone on the road.
- Luke 10:2-4
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Day 27
May the GIANT called fear be done away with
today in the name of Jesus. My prayer is that
whatever the enemy is using to shame, intimidate
or keep you down will lose its power over you
because Jesus has dealt it a crushing and lethal
blow on your behalf, Freedom from those clouds of
fear and depression my friends.
JV
Your servant has killed both the lion and
the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will
be like one of them, because he has defied
the armies of the living God. The Lord who
rescued me from the paw of the lion and the
paw of the bear will rescue me from the
hand of this Philistine.”
-1Samuel 17:36-37
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Day 28
Be ready to respond to those hopes, dreams and
relationships that have come back to life and are
now sitting with you at your table. Take the grave
clothes off. Don't just sit there and act shocked by
the whole situation, move into the newness that you
prayed for. Now that there is life, you must respond
with life. Speak life, think life, feed life and do not
touch those stinky grave clothes again. Throw them
away.
JV
You were taught, with regard to your former
way of life, to put off your old self, which is
being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be
made new in the attitude of your minds; and to
put on the new self, created to be like God in
true righteousness and holiness.
- Ephesians 4:22-23
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Day 29
I am praying that you will have wisdom beyond your
years and beyond your own capabilities today for
the decisions that you will have to make. You have
the mind of Christ and He will lead and guide you
by the power of HIs Holy Spirit. Be blessed with
success and peace as you decide issues having to
do with your finances, your relationships, your
school-work and your job. He is truly alive in you!
JV
Then Eli realized that the Lord was calling the boy.
So Eli told Samuel, “Go and lie down, and if he
calls you, say, ‘Speak, Lord, for your servant is
listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his
place.
The Lord came and stood there, calling as at the
other times, “Samuel! Samuel!”
Then Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is
listening.”
- 1Samuel 3:8b-10
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Day 30
Today I am asking God to give you your laugh
back. There are many of you who are so caught up
in the battle that you don't have time to laugh and if
you did have time, your laugh is just gone. May
Jesus, the Lord of life, bring joy and happiness to
you right now. May you realize what a failure the
devil is and that he is a joke. Laugh at him. Laugh
in the name of Jesus. Laugh real loud. Didn't that
feel good?
JV
And the devil, who deceived them, was
thrown into the lake of burning sulfur,
where the beast and the false prophet had
been thrown. They will be tormented day
and night for ever and ever.
- Revelation 20:10
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Day 31
May you hear Jesus speak your name today. I don't
mean this in some cute little metaphysical way
either. I am asking that He call your name and that
both you and He know that He has done so. Like
He called Mary's name at the tomb and Peter's
name by the seashore, I pray that He does so to
you. And when He does, may you feel singled out,
focused upon and loved by the King of Kings (risen
and living King of Kings might I add).
JV
When the Lord saw that he had gone over to
look, God called to him from within the bush,
“Moses! Moses!”
And Moses said, “Here I am.”
“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off
your sandals, for the place where you are
standing is holy ground.” Then he said, “I am
the God of your father, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At
this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid
to look at God.
- Exodus 3:4-6
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Month Seven
Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him
as if he were your father. Treat younger men as
brothers, older women as mothers, and younger
women as sisters, with absolute purity.
- 1Timothy 5:1-2
Words of Legacy
I
think that my dad knew I would be a leader from
a young age. He would often encourage, coach
and help me to realize the importance of leading
well. He always, and I mean always, helped me to
believe that I could lead successfully. He
encouraged me to be a man ... God’s man. Here is
an excerpt from a letter he sent me when I was a
counselor at summer camp. To some this may
have seemed to be an insignificant few days
babysitting. To my dad it was a chance to mold a
young leader.
I am very proud of you for what you are and
particularly because of your willingness to
be a counselor at Camp Woodbine. The
spiritual influence you can impart to those
there will stick with them for years, if not for
life. You know how much Christ means in
your life. Just think how excited those boys,
who do not know Him will be when they get
introduced to Him. Jeff, learn to be sensitive
to their needs ... listen to what they say ...
and listen to what they don’t say. Be a good
listener, not only to the younger, but the
older people as well. Always be ready to
WORDS Month Seven
offer assistance, but do not over help the
younger fellas. Do not be afraid to offer help
or volunteer—remember in the Bible Jesus
many times talked about giving of oneself
unselfishly. Thanks for going fishing with me
last weekend, it was real fun. I am looking
for to next time.”
Kirk Voth, August 1, 1977
JV
What words or thoughts come to your mind as you
read these Words of Legacy?
Date:
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Day 1
Today my prayers are for miracles. May He take
our mundane and small efforts and make them
miraculous. May the God who took Gideon from the
winepress and made him a warrior, who took
David's small stone and felled a giant, who flung
the stars and moon and galaxies into space, work
absolutely miraculous things through us today.
Please shout or the rocks may have to!!
JV
Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon
Peter’s brother, spoke up, “Here is a boy with
five small barley loaves and two small fish, but
how far will they go among so many?”
- John 6:8-9
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Day 2
My prayer for you today is that God would help you
to see yourself as He sees you. You are saved and
covered by His grace and truth. You are valuable
and precious and there is no shame associated
with you or your name. You have been redeemed
and cleansed and put in a place of honor. Yes, you
are an honored ambassador of Heaven. Are you
Godly proud yet?
JV
Then he showed me Joshua the high priest
standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan
standing at his right side to accuse him. The Lord
said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, Satan! The
Lord, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is
not this man a burning stick snatched from the
fire?”
Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he
stood before the angel. The angel said to those
who were standing before him, “Take off his filthy
clothes.”
Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have taken away
your sin, and I will put fine garments on you.”
- Zechariah 3:1-4
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Day 3
May the Sovereign God bring order into your
chaos. May you begin to see the fact that yes, He is
in control. He does all things well. May you see that
all things do work together for the good. Blessings
upon my Cavetime brothers today.
JV
God saw all that he had made, and it
was very good. And there was evening,
and there was morning—the sixth day.
- Genesis 1:31
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Day 4
May you begin to know Him better. And may the
eyes of your heart be enlightened in order that you
may know the hope to which He has called you, the
riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints and
His incomparably great power for us who believe.
JV
Jesus is
“‘the stone you builders rejected,
which has become the cornerstone.’
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no
other name under heaven given to mankind by
which we must be saved.”
When they saw the courage of Peter and John and
realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men,
they were astonished and they took note that these
men had been with Jesus.
- Acts 4:11-13
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Day 5
My prayer for you today is that the things that have
been confusing you would be made simple
because of your relationship with THE omniscient
God. He knows all and is confused by nothing. So,
may the peace that "passes understanding rule in
your heart and mind in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 4:7).
JV
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true,
whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is
pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is
admirable—if anything is excellent or
praiseworthy—think about such things.
Whatever you have learned or received or heard
from me, or seen in me—put it into practice.
And the God of peace will be with you.
- Philippians 4:8-9
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Day 6
I pray that you realize that God has "gifted you".
Not in the sense that you are thinking. Yes, He has
given you gifts, but you too are a gift my friend. He
has "gifted you" to someone as well. May you be
distinctly aware of that. You are a priceless
possession, who bears the image of the living God
of Creation. Treat yourself worthy of that honor and
extend it to the other "gifts" with whom you do life.
Selah
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After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan
became one in spirit with David, and he loved him
as himself. From that day Saul kept David with him
and did not let him return home to his family. And
Jonathan made a covenant with David because he
loved him as himself. Jonathan took off the robe he
was wearing and gave it to David, along with his
tunic, and even his sword, his bow and his belt.
1Samuel 18:1-4
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Day 7
Lord Jesus please help us to know your strategy for
our day. We know that you have a plan and it would
be helpful if you would give us some insight as to
how to approach our appointment calendars and
"to-do" lists. What should we do to be right in the
middle of seeing your Kingdom come and your will
being done in our lives.
JV
Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked
up and saw a man standing in front of him with
a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to
him and asked, “Are you for us or for our
enemies?”
“Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the
army of the LORD I have now come.” Then
Joshua fell facedown to the ground in
reverence, and asked him, “What message does
my Lord have for his servant?”
- Joshua 5:13-14
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Day 8
"There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet
and delightful than that of a continual conversation
with God. Those only can comprehend it who
practice and experience it ..." (Brother Lawrence)
My prayer today is that we can hear God speaking
to us in the myriad of ways that He chooses to do
so. Listen, listen, listen.
JV
As Jesus and his disciples were on their
way, he came to a village where a woman
named Martha opened her home to him.
She had a sister called Mary, who sat at
the Lord’s feet listening to what he said.
- Luke 10:38-40
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Day 9
My prayer for you today is that whatever it is the
devil is using to intimidate you will be dealt with by
Jesus very soon. May He who came to bring life do
so in the areas where the enemy is trying to bring
intimidation, fear and death. Let God arise and the
enemy be scattered my friends. I can hear
scattering enemies already. Blessings to you.
JV
You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the pestilence that stalks in the
darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.
A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
- Psalm 91:5-7
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Day 10
My prayer today is that the presence of God
invades your space. May you feel a palpable sense
of His presence in your home, your car, at school,
at breakfast, at lunch and all throughout your day
and may that presence give you faith that His
Kingdom had come and His will is being done in
your life.
JV
“His master replied, ‘Well done, good
and faithful servant! You have been
faithful with a few things; I will put you in
charge of many things. Come and share
your master’s happiness!’
- Matthew 25:21
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Day 11
My prayer for you today is that you would have a
distinct sense that God is being faithful to you. May
you sense His faithfulness as you are healed,
encouraged, delivered, provided for, empowered
and set free. When He proves Himself as faithful,
make sure that you shout.
JV
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify
you entirely; and may your spirit and soul
and body be preserved complete, without
blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ. Faithful is He who calls you, and He
also will bring it to pass.
- 1Thessalonians 5:23-24
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Day 12
My prayer is that you will be healthy in your mind,
your body and your spirit today. May you feel His
power and virtue actually flowing through your body
so that you can do His will in an effective manner.
May you know that God values you and that you
are special to Him, even when you may not feel
very special to others. Yes, you are special and
valuable and prized. Blessings to you.
JV
Great crowds came to him, bringing the
lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and
many others, and laid them at his feet;
and he healed them. The people were
amazed when they saw the mute
speaking, the crippled made well, the
lame walking and the blind seeing. And
they praised the God of Israel.
- Matthew 15:30-31
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Day 13
May you be convinced that God is totally impressed
with who you are!! He loves you and desires to be
close to you. You are important to Him and His
sentiments towards you are expressed in the
person of Jesus. Jesus to you today. May you get a
glimpse in your spirit of who He really is. May Jesus
be so real to you today that it is palpable.
JV
A week later his disciples were in the house
again, and Thomas was with them. Though the
doors were locked, Jesus came and stood
among them and said, “Peace be with you!”
Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here;
see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it
into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”
- John 20:26-27
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Day 14
May you be fully aware of God's intentions towards
you. They are good and Life-giving. They are well
intentioned. They are Holy Spirit induced. They are
living. They are productive. They are full. They are
Kingdom building. They are uplifting. They are
grace focused. They are redemptive. They are
loving. They are fruitful. They are hopeful. They are
eternal. They are Jesus.
JV
He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will
rejoice because of his birth, for he will be great in
the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or
other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the
Holy Spirit even before he is born. He will bring
back many of the people of Israel to the Lord their
God. And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit
and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the
parents to their children and the disobedient to the
wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people
prepared for the Lord.”
- Luke 1:14-17
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Day 15
I am praying today for you to see tangible results to
your recent prayers. May your faith be built up and
encouraged as the hand of God moves in your life
and the lives of those for whom you are praying.
God is alive and well, living and moving in your life.
You are actively involved in seeing His Kingdom
come and His will being done all around you and
you will see the proof of that very soon. Be
encouraged.
JV
Restore our fortunes, Lord,
like streams in the Negev.
Those who sow with tears
will reap with songs of joy.
Those who go out weeping,
carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
carrying sheaves with them.
- Psalm 126:4-6
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Day 16
I am praying today for the intimidating force of
shame and guilt to be gone from over your life. May
the cloud of your past be an ineffective tool in the
hands of the enemy. You are a "new creation" and
old things have "passed away". You know what that
means don't you? They're dead!!! When something
has "passed away", it's dead and dead things
cannot harm you and you know why? They're dead,
that's why.
JV
“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded
permission to sift you like wheat; but I have
prayed for you, that your faith may not fail; and
you, when once you have turned again,
strengthen your brothers.”
- Luke 22:31-32NASB
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Day 17
Jesus Christ, Son of God, please rule over our
thoughts and minds this day. We want to think like
you do about others. Help us to see them through
your eyes. We want to think like you do about the
world. Help us work to see your kingdom come and
your will be done wherever we are. We want to
think like you do about our enemies. Help us to
pray for them, because it is not natural for us to do
so. Please help us Jesus.
JV
“I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord:
He said to Me, ‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.
‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give
the nations as Your inheritance,
And the very ends of the earth
as Your possession.
- Psalm 2:7-8NASB
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Day 18
May you hear the voice of the Holy Spirit whisper
truth in your ear all day long. May that voice repel
and dispel every lie of the enemy as it relates to
your life and every situation in your life. Remember,
JESUS is REAL!!!
JV
Above the vault over their heads was what
looked like a throne of lapis lazuli, and high
above on the throne was a figure like that of a
man. I saw that from what appeared to be his
waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full
of fire, and that from there down he looked like
fire; and brilliant light surrounded him. Like the
appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a
rainy day, so was the radiance around him.
This was the appearance of the likeness of the
glory of the Lord. When I saw it, I fell facedown,
and I heard the voice of one speaking.
- Ezekiel 1:26-28
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Day 19
May the blood of our precious lamb Jesus Christ
cover you and protect you today. May any strategy
of the enemy be thwarted and turned into a victory
for the Kingdom in your lives. May your families be
blessed and may you sense the peace of Heaven
in your homes, your cars, at work and at school
today. Remember that "God is your refuge and
your strength, a very present help in trouble"
JV
You shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the
blood which is in the basin, and apply some of the
blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two
doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the
door of his house until morning. For the Lord will
pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He
sees the blood on the lintel and on the two
doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will
not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to
smite you. And you shall observe this event as an
ordinance for you and your children forever.
- Exodus 12:22-24NASB
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Day 20
I am praying today that you will be keenly aware of
the positions of influence in which God will place
you. When you are there, speak, act and respond
on His behalf, as you are an ambassador of the
Kingdom. Remember that your life is powerful,
purposeful and precious because you were created
in His image.
JV
Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power,
performed great wonders and signs among the
people. Opposition arose, however, from members
of the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was
called)—Jews of Cyrene and Alexandria as well as
the provinces of Cilicia and Asia—who began to
argue with Stephen. But they could not stand up
against the wisdom the Spirit gave him as he
spoke.
- Acts 6:8-10
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Day 21
May the faith of Jesus Christ rise up in you today.
Faith for healing. Faith for life. Faith for finances.
Faith to get started. Faith to stand. Faith to ask for
help. Faith to show-up. Faith to go on another day.
Faith to get out of bed. Faith to start running. Faith
to stop running. Faith that He will show up. Faith to
give. Faith to love. Faith to smile. Faith to laugh
hard. Faith to have faith. Help us Jesus.
JV
“It has often thrown him into fire or water to kill
him. But if you can do anything, take pity on us
and help us.”
“‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is
possible for one who believes.”
Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do
believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”
- Mark9:22-24
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Day 22
Not only does God provide, he is more faithful than
you could ever imagine. My prayer for you today is
that you would see His faithfulness in crazy ways. I
mean, may God show Himself funny faithful to you
very soon. And when He does, brag on Him.
.JV
Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah:
“Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the
Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. You will
drink from the brook, and I have directed the
ravens to supply you with food there.”
So he did what the Lord had told him. He went
to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and
stayed there. The ravens brought him bread
and meat in the morning and bread and meat
in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
- 1Kings 17:2-6
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Day 23
My prayer for you today is that every ounce of
shame be gone from you because you and all your
stuff are hidden with Christ in God (Col 3:3). That's
right. You don't have to worry anymore because it's
gone. No shame, no gloom, no judgment, no living
in the pit ... only grace in that hidden place, and
now you can live openly and authentically and
freely and peacefully ... somebody might need to
shout!!!!
JV
Then he turned toward the woman and said to
Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your
house. You did not give me any water for my feet,
but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them
with her hair. You did not give me a kiss, but this
woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped
kissing my feet. You did not put oil on my head, but
she has poured perfume on my feet. Therefore, I
tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—as her
great love has shown. But whoever has been
forgiven little loves little.”
Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
- Luke 7:44-48
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Day 24
My prayer for you today is that you get some of
those fresh, healing and life instilling "new mercies"
that God lavishes on His people every morning. So
get in line and get yours. In fact, I will even let you
cut in front of me because I am still living off of the
stuff I got yesterday.
JV
Bless the Lord, O my soul:
and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits:
who forgiveth all thine iniquities;
who healeth all thy diseases;
who redeemeth thy life from destruction;
who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender
mercies;
who satisfieth thy mouth with good things;
so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Psalm 103:1-5 KJV
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Day 25
May the perfect love of Jesus drive out all fear in
your lives today. This means that His complete and
total love for you will be enough to overcome any
situation in which you find yourself. Whether you
have lost your job, are in fear of losing your job,
fighting sickness, or are just plain scared, that stuff
is going to have to leave because Jesus loves you
absolutely perfectly.
JV
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God,
God abides in him, and he in God. We have come
to know and have believed the love which God has
for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love
abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love
is perfected with us, so that we may have
confidence in the day of judgment; because as He
is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in
love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear
involves punishment, and the one who fears is not
perfected in love.
- 1 John 4:15-18
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Day 26
"Create in me a clean heart O God, and renew a
right spirit within me" (Ps. 51:10). We say yes to
this today Lord. Please straighten our crooked
motives and understandings. Please bring a spirit
of humility into our relationships, so that we might
admit and see our wrongdoings. Please help us to
say that we are sorry (and mean it) to you and to all
whom we have wronged. Deliver us from ourselves
O God.
JV
“Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the
altar and there remember that your brother or
sister has something against you, leave your
gift there in front of the altar. First go and be
reconciled to them; then come and offer your
gift.”
- Matthew 5:23-24
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Day 27
I am praying for you to feel saved. I know that you
know that you are saved by faith, but today I want
for you to feel it. I want for you to feel celebrated,
set apart, reserved for Him and desirable. There
are many whom Jesus has saved who just don't
feel as such. By the power of the Holy Spirit, I pray
that your feelings get saved. May you feel like what
you are. May you feel redeemed from head to toe.
Amen
JV
Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but
what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus
Christ of Nazareth, walk.” Taking him by the right
hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man’s
feet and ankles became strong. He jumped to his
feet and began to walk. Then he went with them
into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and
praising God.
- Acts 3:6-9
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Day 28
May the seasoned words that you have spoken
begin to bear fruit even today. May you see
relationships getting healthier in front of your eyes.
May you see the strategies that you have been
given from Heaven advance the Kingdom in your
spheres of influence. The Kingdom of Heaven is
forcefully advancing through you and you are
powerfully and passionately caught up in its force.
Praise to His glorious name!!
JV
Joab said, “If the Arameans are too strong for me,
then you are to come to my rescue; but if the
Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come
to rescue you.
Be strong, and let us fight bravely for our people
and the cities of our God. The Lord will do what is
good in his sight.”
Then Joab and the troops with him advanced to
fight the Arameans, and they fled before him.
- 1Samuel 10:11-13
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Day 29
I am asking God to call those things that have died
in you back to life in honor of Jesus' Resurrection.
May the hopes, dreams and relationships that have
died in you be brought back to life in miraculous
fashion. I know that you thought they were dead,
but rebirths and resurrections are His specialties.
So, when that thing that was once dead begins to
twitch with life, set another place at the table.
JV
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection
and the life. The one who believes in me will
live, even though they die; and whoever
lives by believing in me will never die. Do
you believe this?”
- Luke 11:25-26
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Day 30
Jesus, I know that you are my sustenance, please
forgive me for seeking anyone or anything else
above you. I pray that you will help me to look to
and think of you first. You are the Lord of the
universe; please help me to continually submit to
you as Lord of my life. Please lead me, guide me,
speak to me, cover me, protect me and help me to
stay in the middle of your will for me this day. Amen
JV
Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not
Moses who has given you the bread from
heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the
true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is
the bread that comes down from heaven and
gives life to the world.”
“Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life.
Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and
whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
- John 6:32-35
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Day 31
Today I am praying that you will rest in who He is.
May you be released from the pressure of trying to
be something that you are not and be free to be
yourself in Him. May you sense and feel this very
moment the actual, real, live, personal, thriving,
living, laughing, loving, relationship saving, body
healing, grace giving, smiling at you right now
Jesus. Did you feel that?
JV
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had
said through the prophet: “The virgin will
conceive and give birth to a son, and they will
call him Immanuel”
(which means “God with us”).
- Matthew 1:22
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Month Eight
About noon, King Agrippa, as I was on the road, I
saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun,
blazing around me and my companions. We all fell
to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in
Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It
is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
“Then I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’
- Acts 26:13-15
Words of Legacy
T
Today’s Legacy Word is from Jacob, my
oldest son. It is short, yet profound.
“Keep your eyes open. Do not close them.
He speaks in unconventional ways.”
Jacob Voth, 5/12/14
JV
What words or thoughts come to your mind as you
read these Words of Legacy?
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WORDS Month Eight
Day 1
I am praying this morning that Jesus will exert
Himself as your Lord in an obvious way today. This
will bolster your faith and show you just how
powerful that He is. Jesus is Lord of ALL, Jesus is
Lord of ALL, no sin is too big, no problem too small,
Jesus is Lord of ALL!!!
JV
And He got up and rebuked the wind and said
to the sea, “Hush, be still.” And the wind died
down and it became perfectly calm. And He
said to them, “Why are you afraid? Do you still
have no faith?” They became very much afraid
and said to one another, “Who then is this, that
even the wind and the sea obey Him?”
- Mark 4:39-41NASB
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Day 2
I am praying that God will reveal Himself to you
today in tangible fashion. May you actually see the
manifestation of that for which you have been
praying and believing. God is powerful, sovereign,
active, living and moving on your behalf. May His
kingdom come and His will be done in your lives
today my friends.
JV
Thus Noah did; according to all that God
had commanded him, so he did….
Then the flood came upon the earth for
forty days, and the water increased and
lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the
earth.
- Genesis 6:22, 7:17NASB
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Day 3
I am praying today that you get a revelation of what
it is that God wants for you to do specifically for the
Kingdom. He has a specific task for you and wants
for you to dive in ... and soon. May you be totally
immersed in seeing His kingdom come and His will
being done in your home, your community.
JV
But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is
my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to
the Gentiles and their kings and to the people
of Israel. I will show him how much he must
suffer for my name.”
- Acts 9:15-16
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Day 4
Today I am praying that God will exert Himself as
Lord of your relationships in a fresh and a new way.
May He blow fresh wind into your marriages, your
relationships with your kids, your parents and your
friends. May the power of the Holy Spirit invigorate
you and empower you and refresh you and all of
those around you.
JV
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness and self-control. Against such
things there is no law. Those who belong to
Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its
passions and desires. Since we live by the
Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us
not become conceited, provoking and envying
each other.
- Galatians 5:22-26
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Day 5
May you see in living color that Jesus is your
sufficiency. May you know beyond a shadow of a
doubt that He will care for you and see that you are
secure in every aspect of your life. He is the image
of the invisible God and He holds "ALL THINGS"
together (Col. 1:17). Oh praise the One who saves
may soul!!!! Can I get some help in here?
JV
“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who
kill the body and after that can do no more. But I
will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who,
after your body has been killed, has authority to
throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. Are not
five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of
them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of
your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you
are worth more than many sparrows.”
- Luke 12:4-7
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Day 6
May the Holy Spirit cause you to come alive in
ways that you hadn't dreamed possible. I am
praying that your mind will be renewed. That your
body will be renewed. That your relationships will
be renewed. May things that you thought were
beyond Hope be brought to life and be oozing with
the HOPE and LIGHT and LIFE that come only
from Heaven.
JV
God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your
wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her
name will be Sarah. I will bless her and will surely
give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she
will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will
come from her.”
Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to
himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred
years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of
ninety?”
- Genesis 17:15-17
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Day 7
God is moving. He is strategizing even while you
sleep. You are on course to be involved in bringing
about His Kingdom where you do life. Listen to His
still small voice as He leads you directly to specific
people and places and away from others. Be alert
my friends. The conflict is real. The adversary is
formidable; but Jesus will laugh in his face today
through you. I can hear Him snickering already.
JV
But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am too
young.’ You must go to everyone I send you to
and say whatever I command you. Do not be
afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue
you,” declares the Lord.
Then the Lord reached out his hand and
touched my mouth and said to me, “I have put
my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint
you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and
tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build
and to plant.”
- Jeremiah 1:7-10
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Day 8
May you sense today that the Lord has turned His
face towards you and is smiling. I am praying for
each of you to know that God is pleased with you,
proud of you and wants to spend time with you.
May any sense of shame, guilt or condemnation be
gone as you realize that His opinion of you is a very
high one. Shalom.
JV
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his
Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to
redeem those under the law, that we might receive
adoption to sonship. Because you are his sons,
God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the
Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no
longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are
his child, God has made you also an heir.
- Galatians 4:4-7
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Day 9
May you truly sense that Jesus is your Wonderful
Counselor, your Mighty God, your Everlasting
Father and your Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). And
because He is all of these things, may you realize
that you are provided for, cared for, looked after
and protected. Selah.
JV
Of the greatness of his government and peace
there will be no end.
He will reign on David’s throne
and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
with justice and righteousness
from that time on and forever.
The zeal of the Lord Almighty
will accomplish this.
- Isaiah 9:7
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Day 10
"Only in God is my soul at rest, in Him comes my
salvation. He only is my Rock, my strength and my
salvation." (Psalm 62:1) May His strength sustain
you and overcome all fear and anxiety and
depression in your life today. He is your Rock! He is
unmovable, unshakable and unalterable. I can't get
no help in here today.
JV
You continued looking until a stone was cut out
without hands, and it struck the statue on its
feet of iron and clay and crushed them. Then
the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the
gold were crushed all at the same time and
became like chaff from the summer threshing
floors; and the wind carried them away so that
not a trace of them was found. But the stone
that struck the statue became a great mountain
and filled the whole earth.
- Daniel 2:34-35NASB
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Day 11
May you KNOW in whom you have believed and
that HE is not only able, but that He will complete a
good work in you. My prayer is that you really feel
that good work happening in you today. Do you feel
it? If not, just wait a little bit and check again.
JV
Who are you to judge the servant of
another? To his own master he stands or
falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able
to make him stand
- Romans 14:4NASB
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Day 12
My prayer for you is that when Saul throws a spear
at you, like David, you will escape to the cave and
see what God will do. God is always ready to fight
your battles for you and make things right in the
context of His Kingdom. His Kingdom come and His
will be done in your lives today and tomorrow and
the day after and ...
JV
I sought the Lord, and he answered me;
he delivered me from all my fears.
Those who look to him are radiant;
their faces are never covered with shame.
This poor man called, and the Lord heard
him;
he saved him out of all his troubles.
The angel of the Lord encamps around
those who fear him,
and he delivers them.
- Psalm 34:4-7
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Day 13
Jesus is Lord of ALL creation. May He create a new
sense of His presence in you that literally
empowers you to go to new places in your faith. I
mean that I believe that He is going to show
Himself so strong in you that you will know He is in
you, with you and for you.
JV
So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you
have?”
“There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered. “He
is tending the sheep.”
Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down
until he arrives.”
So he sent for him and had him brought in. He was
glowing with health and had a fine appearance and
handsome features.
Then the Lord said, “Rise and anoint him; this is the
one.”
So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in
the presence of his brothers, and from that day on
the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David.
Samuel then went to Ramah.
- 1Samuel 16:11-13
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Day 14
I am asking God today for your hopes to be
resurrected. Your thoughts to be resurrected. Your
faith to be resurrected. Your plans to be
resurrected. Your health to be resurrected. Your
potential to be resurrected. Your visions to be
resurrected. Your dreams to be resurrected. Your
relationships to be resurrected. Your desire to be
resurrected. May the Resurrected One resurrect
these things. Hallelujah and Amen.
JV
So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is
dead, and for your sake I am glad I was not
there, so that you may believe. But let us go
to him.”
- John 11:14
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Day 15
May the God of creation help us with our "busy"
lives. We struggle with the stresses of our
schedules and relationships and paying bills and
doing our taxes.... But He created the planets and
calibrated the earth's axis and set gravity in place
and started your heart pumping. I am thinking that
He might be able to maximize our day if we asked
Him to. Help us Oh God.
JV
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would
not have spoken later about another day.
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the
people of God; for anyone who enters God’s
rest also rests from their works, just as God did
from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to
enter that rest, so that no one will perish by
following their example of disobedience.
- Hebrews 4:8-11
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Day 16
May Jesus smile at someone through you today. I
challenge you to think about the fact that you could
be a conduit for the love of God today by the way
that you look at them. Let them see Jesus in your
face and your eyes and your smile. Be cognizant of
how powerful an intentional look on behalf of
Heaven might be.
JV
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water,
Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His
disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew
and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me
for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with
Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God
and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would
have asked him and he would have given you living
water.”
- John 4:7-10
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Day 17
His Kingdom come in your mind, your body, your
spirit, your business, your home, your relationships,
your finances, your marriage, your thoughts, your
dreams, your goals, your visions and every aspect
of your existence. He is your all-encompassing God
and He is able to provide for you, care for you and
lead you. May you be blessed with the faith today
to submit to His leadership.
JV
It is better to take refuge in the Lord
than to trust in humans.
It is better to take refuge in the Lord
than to trust in princes.
All the nations surrounded me,
but in the name of the Lord I cut them down.
They surrounded me on every side,
but in the name of the Lord I cut them down
- Psalm 118:8-11
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Day 18
Today I am praying that you will feel the wisdom of
the Holy Spirit in a powerful way. I am believing that
the difficult and the stressful will be made easy by
the omniscience of God being available to you by
Him. As you listen, may you be led towards His will
in your finances, your relationships, your business,
your school work and every other area of your lives.
Wisdom to you my friends.
JV
“I have much more to say to you, more than you
can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth,
comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will
not speak on his own; he will speak only what he
hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He
will glorify me because it is from me that he will
receive what he will make known to you. All that
belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the
Spirit will receive from me what he will make known
to you.”
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- John 16:13-15
WORDS Month Eight
Day 19
My prayer for you today is that God would renew
your mind, heal your body and bring a fresh
passion in your spirit. May He do this so that you
might be involved in a new Kingdom work in your
spheres of influence. May you speak new life to
your family and friends. And in the name of Jesus,
may you bring hope and light and life everywhere
He leads you this day. Now let's go and git-er-done!
JV
Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but
the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.
He called out to them,
“Friends, haven’t you any fish?”
“No,” they answered.
He said, “Throw your net on the right side of the
boat and you will find some.” When they did, they
were unable to haul the net in because of the large
number of fish.
- John 21:4-6
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Day 20
This morning I feel impressed to pray for my friends
who are suffering physically. May you be healed
and comforted in the name of Jesus. May He who
raised from the grave to gain power over the
human condition, exercise that power in your mind,
your body and your spirit. Healing to you my
friends. Would all of you who are not suffering right
now please pray for someone who is?
JV
Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked,
“Why are you thinking these things in your
hearts? Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are
forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? But I
want you to know that the Son of Man has
authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to
the paralyzed man, “I tell you, get up, take your
mat and go home.” Immediately he stood up in
front of them, took what he had been lying on
and went home praising God.
- Luke 5:21-25
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Eight
Day 21
I want you to know today that GRACE eradicates
the old sins in your life and stands ready to be a
remedy for the new ones as well. Please do not
allow yourself to be defined by your past failures,
mistakes and problems. Remember that "HE casts
your sins as far as the east is from the west" (Ps.
103:12) In the name of Jesus, the Lord of Grace,
may you feel clean and accepted, loved, redeemed,
valuable and wanted.
JV
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went
out to where his own people were and watched
them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian
beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
Looking this way and that and seeing no one,
he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
- Exodus 2:11-12
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Eight
Day 22
I am praying today that God would help us to hear
Him clearly. May we be able to sort through the
clutter that is ever-present in our culture (religious
and secular) and hear the true, clear, focused and
living word of God. Then, once we hear, may He
empower and equip us to do what He says. Selah.
JV
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and
cummin, and have neglected the weightier
provisions of the law: justice and mercy and
faithfulness; but these are the things you
should have done without neglecting the
others.”
- Matthew 23:23
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Eight
Day 23
I am praying today that you will receive a specific
word from the Lord. I am praying against all
confusion and interference from the enemy and that
you would realize that God's intentions towards you
are good. He is not mad at you and He wants for
you to flourish and to prosper. Peace and life and
light and hope and rest and assurance and
Sabbath to you all.
JV
The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the
strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s
hand. Am I not sending you?”
“Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can
I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh,
and I am the least in my family.”
The Lord answered, “I will be with you, and you will
strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.”
- Judges 6:14-16
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Eight
Day 24
Jesus, please help us have a change of mind to go
along with the change that you have brought in our
hearts. We want to think like you, react like you and
then speak like you. Please forgive us for our
hurtful words and redeem relationships that have
been damaged due to our stupid speech. Your
kingdom come and your will be done in our mouths.
JV
Or take ships as an example. Although they are so
large and are driven by strong winds, they are
steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot
wants to go. Likewise, the tongue is a small part of
the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what
a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The
tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts
of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the
whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on
fire by hell.
- James 3:4-6
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Eight
Day 25
May the details of your life that are causing you the
most grief be dealt with by your Sovereign Lord. He
is neither intimidated nor worried about your issues
and He will deal with them soon my friends. Yes,
He is the Lord of the universe and He holds "ALL
things together" (Col. 1:17). Let's give Him some
praise!!!!!!
JV
Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his
mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary
Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and
the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he
said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” and to the
disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on,
this disciple took her into his home.
- John 19:25-27
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Eight
Day 26
My prayer for you today is that you would realize
your inherent value because you bear the image of
God. In some form or fashion you resemble your
Creator. May you not only resemble Him today, but
go ahead and act like Him, Speak life or
encouragement to someone. Bless someone, help
someone. or do something for someone just for the
sake of doing it. Blessings to you today as you act
like the God you resemble.
.JV
When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the
two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he
was not aware that his face was radiant because
he had spoken with the Lord. When Aaron and all
the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant, and
they were afraid to come near him. But Moses
called to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the
community came back to him, and he spoke to
them.
- Exodus 34:29-31
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Eight
Day 27
May the Holy Spirit do His redeeming work in your
mind. May you get a glimpse of what He thinks of
you. He thinks that you were worth the sacrifice that
was made to redeem you. He thinks that you are an
amazing creation, in whom Christ dwells. He thinks
that you are strong and gifted and talented and
endowed with purpose.
JV
Date:
Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude,
like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of
thunder, shouting:
“Hallelujah!
For our Lord God Almighty reigns.
Let us rejoice and be glad
and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
and his bride has made herself ready.
Fine linen, bright and clean,
was given her to wear.”
(Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of God’s
holy people.)
- Revelation 19:6-8
My Notes:
WORDS Month Eight
Day 28
My prayer for you today is that you would be
overtaken by a Heavenly induced passion to do the
work of Jesus. No performance. No hollow works;
but a real and life-changing, hope stirring power
that can't be mustered up by human force. Let's be
about bringing about His Kingdom and His will in
our homes, on our jobs and at our places of
influence. Fire of God please consume us!!!
JV
King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know
you do.”
Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Do you think that in
such a short time you can persuade me to be a
Christian?”
Paul replied, “Short time or long—I pray to God that
not only you but all who are listening to me today
may become what I am, except for these chains.”
- Acts 26:27-29
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Eight
Day 29
May you realize deep in both your mind and your
heart that you are not a failure. Even if you have
made some major mistakes (and who hasn't?), God
is in the process of flipping them and turning them
against the one who lured you into them in the first
place. You are a success and a champion. You are
a child in whom the Father is well pleased. You are
an amazing creature in whom Christ dwells. Glory
to His name.
JV
One of the servants answered, “I have seen a
son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to
play the lyre. He is a brave man and a warrior.
He speaks well and is a fine-looking man. And
the Lord is with him.”
- 1Samuel 16:18
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Eight
Day 30
May the Lion of the Tribe of Judah Roar over your
life today. May you feel protected and guarded by
Jesus Himself. May you feel an awesome presence
of the Kingdom of Heaven working on your behalf,
just because you are an esteemed family member.
JV
And they sang a new song, saying:
“You are worthy to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
because you were slain,
and with your blood you purchased for God
persons from every tribe and language and
people and nation.
You have made them to be a kingdom and
priests to serve our God,
and they will reign on the earth.”
- Revelation 5:9-10
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Eight
Day 31
Once again I am praying that God will miraculously
multiply our time. May He who caused the Sun to
stand still and time to come to a halt, do the same
for us today in some form or fashion. May our
efforts be miraculously multiplied and may our work
be effective beyond what we ever imagined. His
Kingdom come and His will be done through us
today exponentially. God help us.
JV
Awake, awake, arm of the Lord,
clothe yourself with strength!
Awake, as in days gone by,
as in generations of old.
Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces,
who pierced that monster through?
- Isaiah 51:9
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Eight
Month Nine
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water
will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I
give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give
them will become in them a spring of water welling
up to eternal life.”
- John 4:13-14
Words of Legacy
T
his Legacy Word from middle son Caleb hints
of Pascal’s “God shaped hole ...”
As we draw nearer to the Creator, He
continues to carve the reservoir of our soul
deeper and deeper in order to satisfy our
temporary wants but never enough to keep
us content with where we are. There is a
hole He created that only He can fill. God
created you incomplete so that in Him you
are full.”
Caleb Voth, 8/30/12
JV
What words or thoughts come to your mind as you
read today’s Words of Legacy?
Date:
WORDS Month Nine
WORDS Month Nine
Day 1
I am praying today that God would help us to do
what we know is right relationally. That He would
give us the strength to make the first move towards
those who have done us wrong. May the Spirit of
Jesus infuse us with His supernatural power of
forgiveness to override our fleshly desire for
revenge and retribution. We cannot grow in God
and have ill feelings towards our brothers and
sisters. Help us Jesus.
JV
Two other men, both criminals, were also led out
with him to be executed. When they came to the
place called the Skull, they crucified him there,
along with the criminals—one on his right, the other
on his left. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for
they do not know what they are doing.” And they
divided up his clothes by casting lots.
- Luke 23:32-34
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 2
I know that for many of you it is financially tight and
the current economic recession has brought about
an attitude of fear and doubt, therefore, my prayer
today is that will God quickly show Himself to you
as your Provider, your Redeemer, your Helper,
your Strategist, your Comforter, your Healer, your
Giver of Peace and your closest friend.
JV
“How great you are, Sovereign Lord! There is
no one like you, and there is no God but you,
as we have heard with our own ears. And who
is like your people Israel—the one nation on
earth that God went out to redeem as a people
for himself, and to make a name for himself,
and to perform great and awesome wonders by
driving out nations and their gods from before
your people, whom you redeemed from
Egypt?”
- 2Samuel 2:22-23
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 3
“O Thou that asketh much of Him to whom thou
givest much, have mercy. Remember me not for
the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed. Help
me to be not just the old and foolish one thou seest
now, but once again a fool for thee. Help me to
pray. Help me whatever way thou cans't, dear
Christ and Lord. Amen." (The Prayer of Godric,
taken from Godric, by Fredercih Buechner)
JV
A bruised reed he will not break,
and a smoldering wick
he will not snuff out.
- Isaiah 42:3
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 4
May God help you to stand strong today. In the
name of our Lord Jesus, may you have the strength
to stand alone, even when it seems too difficult or
unbearable. And as you do stand, may you be filled
with the power of the Holy Spirit to draw others to
stand with you. You may have to stand alone first,
but you will not have to stand alone long. Strength
to you today my friends.
JV
Jonathan said to his young armor-bearer,
“Come, let’s go over to the outpost of those
uncircumcised men. Perhaps the Lord will act
in our behalf. Nothing can hinder the Lord from
saving, whether by many or by few.”
“Do all that you have in mind,” his armor-bearer
said. “Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul.”
- 1Samuel 14:6-7
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 5
May the Hope and Light and Life that are in Jesus
invade your space today. May you feel encouraged
and lifted by the fact that regardless of your
circumstance, Jesus is the ROCK. He is that one
real, substantial and immovable presence in your
life that will always BE. Hope, peace, light, life,
direction, encouragement and rest to you today
through Jesus.
JV
The Lord said to Moses, “Take the staff, and
you and your brother Aaron gather the
assembly together. Speak to that rock before
their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will
bring water out of the rock for the community
so they and their livestock can drink.”
So Moses took the staff from the Lord’s
presence, just as he commanded him.
- Numbers 20:7-9
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 6
May you feel and act fully alive in Christ today. I am
praying that you will actually feel as alive as you
really are in Him. He came to give you life, and
more life (John 10:10), so let's go and get some of
it today. Go and live life in Him, with Him, for Him
and through him. Smile, laugh, give something
away, tell somebody about Jesus, buy them a meal
or ask to pray for them, just go and BE FULLY
ALIVE!!!
JV
Benaiah son of Jehoiada, a valiant fighter from
Kabzeel, performed great exploits. He struck
down Moab’s two mightiest warriors. He also
went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed
a lion.
- 2Samuel 23:20
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 7
May you know that God is totally aware of your
circumstance and moving on your behalf. You are
not alone my friends and there is one who "sticks
closer than a brother" who is working things out for
your good. It may seem like He has forgotten you,
but that couldn't be farther from the truth. God is
getting ready to wink at you real soon.
JV
So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly
brought from the dungeon. When he had shaved
and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh.
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no
one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you
that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
“I cannot do it,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but
God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.”
- Genesis 42:14-16
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 8
May you know with absolute certainty that Jesus is
alive and working in your life today. I am praying
that you will see His activity in your life in a
pronounced way. May you know that you are
valuable, desirable, pivotal, strategic and vital to
His Kingdom efforts right there where you live.
Blessings to you today my friends.
JV
He said to them: “It is not for you to know the
times or dates the Father has set by his own
authority. But you will receive power when the
Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my
witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and
Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
- Acts 1:7-8
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 9
"He is before all things and in Him all things hold
together" (Col. 1:17) He is able to do this and you
are not. What are you trying to hold together that
you need to turn over to Him? He is Lord and you
are not. My prayer is that you let Him be Lord of all.
Peace to you my friends.
JV
March around the city once with all the armed men.
Do this for six days. Have seven priests carry
trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the
seventh day, march around the city seven times,
with the priests blowing the trumpets. When you
hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have
the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of
the city will collapse and the army will go up,
everyone straight in.”
Date:
My Notes:
- Joshua 6:3-5
WORDS Month Nine
Day 10
My prayer for you today is that His eternal
Kingdom, His insurmountable power, and His
incomparable glory be apparent and obvious to you
and yours. May you be astonished at the fact that
all of the arsenal of Heaven is unleashed on your
behalf. Be blessed today.
JV
In my distress I called to the Lord;
I cried to my God for help.
From his temple he heard my voice;
my cry came before him, into his ears.
The earth trembled and quaked,
and the foundations of the mountains shook;
they trembled because he was angry.
Smoke rose from his nostrils;
consuming fire came from his mouth,
burning coals blazed out of it.
He parted the heavens and came down;
dark clouds were under his feet.
- Psalm 18:6-9
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 11
Today I am praying for relational breakthrough in
your lives. Where progress has seemed impossible,
may the Holy Spirit of God melt the ice from cold
hearts and calloused minds. Jesus died for these
types of things and either He is Lord of our
relationships or He is not. May He exert Himself as
the healing, melting, warming, blessing, peacebringing and love infusing Savior that He is.
JV
“Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had
been here, my brother would not have died.
But I know that even now God will give you
whatever you ask.”
Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise
again.”
- John 11:21-23
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 12
May you have a strong sense that Jehovah Jireh is
providing for you. I mean that I am praying for you
to have a knowledge that your God is really paying
your bills, putting food on your table and taking care
of your family. I want you to know that He cares for
you.
JV
Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he
saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over
and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt
offering instead of his son. So Abraham called
that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this
day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it
will be provided.”
- Genesis 22:13-14
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 13
I am praying today that ALL fear will be eradicated
from your heart and replaced with hope, by faith.
May you have the faith of Jesus operating in your
life because "In Him we live and move and have
our being" (Acts 17:28) and last time I checked,
Jesus isn't scared of anything!!!!
JV
I am still as strong today as the day Moses
sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to
battle now as I was then. Now give me this hill
country that the Lord promised me that day.
You yourself heard then that the Anakites were
there and their cities were large and fortified,
but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out
just as he said.”
- Joshua 14:11-12
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 14
Jesus Christ, maker of Heaven and earth, you are
Lord of ALL. We need for you to be Lord of time in
our lives and please redeem it and make it like we
have more than 24 hours. It seems that there is too
much to do and too little time. We know that this is
a season Lord, so please give us the grace to be
fully present and effective so that we might see
your Kingdom come and your will be done. Amen
JV
Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day
when the Lord delivered up the Amorites
before the sons of Israel, and he said in the
sight of Israel,
“O sun, stand still at Gibeon,
And O moon in the valley of Aijalon.”
So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped,
Until the nation avenged themselves of their
enemies.
- Joshua 10:12-13NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 15
I pray that God gives you a glimpse of what you
mean to Him. You need to know that He doesn't
just love you because He has to, He is really
enamored with you. He loves you and He likes you.
HE loves you and HE likes you and He is proud of
you. He loves you and He likes you and He is
proud of you and He wants to be with you. Do you
get my drift?
JV
Enoch walked faithfully with God; then
he was no more, because God took him
away.
- Genesis 5:24
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 16
I want for you to know that God thinks that you are
amazing, capable, up to the task, called, equipped,
set apart, prepared and gifted (in Him). You are
Giant killers who are on this planet for such a time
as this. His kingdom come and His will be done,
right now now!!!! Can I get some help in here?
JV
Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our
men and go out to fight the Amalekites.
Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the
staff of God in my hands.”
So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses
had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went
to the top of the hill.
- Exodus 17:9-10
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 17
Jesus Christ, Son of God, we know that you are
Immanuel, God with us. Would you please speak to
us while you are with us? Would you give us words
today? Words of direction? Words of comfort?
Words of peace? Words of faith? Yes, I know we
have the Bible, but would you converse with us at
breakfast? Over a cup of coffee? Do you like
coffee? Let's talk, soon.
JV
Thus says the Lord,
“The people who survived the sword
Found grace in the wilderness—
Israel, when it went to find its rest.”
The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying,
“I have loved you with an everlasting love;
Therefore I have drawn you with
lovingkindness.
- Jeremiah 31:2-3NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 18
I am praying today that your levels of peace, joy
and happiness are not based on others'
perceptions of you. God's opinion of you is that you
are an amazing creation, a possessor of His image.
And yes, there is a fight to be had with the enemy,
as he will try and tell you that you are less than
what you are, but you win because of Jesus every
time. Now, because God is WITH you, go out and
live today like He is. Live like the amazing, Christlike, image of God bearing, snakebreath scaring,
Kingdom building force in Him that you are.
JV
But Peter, taking his stand with the eleven,
raised his voice and declared to them: “Men of
Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, let this
be known to you and give heed to my words.”
- Acts 2:14-15NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 19
May the "peace on earth" of which the angel spoke
(see Luke 2:14) be alive in you this instant. It can
be so, because this peace is living and breathing
and has a pulse. He brings the peace of Heaven. A
peace that sets things in order, exposes and
disarms all lies and makes all wrongs right ... even
in the chaos and secular tsunami that is our culture.
It is a peace that will never be totally understood,
because it is grace based and bought with innocent
blood, but, it is a peace that He owns, and He can
bring IT, because He is IT.
JV
Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the
Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with
that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the
Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins
are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not
forgiven.”
- John 20:21-23
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 20
May the reality of Immanuel, "God WITH us", in
Jesus, be so imposing that you feel as if you are
being watched, because you are. But the watching
is not for the purpose of Him keeping track of your
mistakes or to hit you with His cosmic Taser gun
when you screw up, He is too full of grace for that.
In fact, He loves to say "Fear not, for I am WITH
you." Actually, He is quite enthralled with seeing
His Kingdom come and His will be done in your
skin.
JV
After this, the word of the Lord came to
Abram in a vision:
“Do not be afraid, Abram.
I am your shield,
your very great reward.”
- Genesis 15:1
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 21
Jesus gets absolutely giddy when He is able to be
right there WITH you as together the two of you
kick the devil's butt through acts of random
kindness and grace. So, go ahead and take a good
kick at snakebreath today by moving towards those
whom society has deemed as untouchable and
leprous. And while he is down, stomp real good on
his snaky face by praying for your enemy or
someone who has wronged you the most. You and
Immanuel, kicking and laughing and kicking and
laughing.
JV
And He said to them, “I was watching Satan fall
from heaven like lightning. Behold, I have given
you authority to tread on serpents and
scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy,
and nothing will injure you. Nevertheless do not
rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to
you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in
heaven.”
- Luke 10, 18-20NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 22
Today I am asking for Jesus to bring peace to the
storm raging in our cluttered minds. May He who is
the Prince of Peace, shed some serious Shalom on
us right now. May the jumbled, garbled and
scattered messes and messages that are our
thoughts, be de-jumbled, de-garbled and descattered. May His command of "Peace be still",
spoken to the raging storm years ago, still resonate
to the tempest blowing in our heads this day, right
now, this second. Oh Prince of Peace, do that
peace-thing that you do. Amen.
JV
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again:
Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The
Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but
in every situation, by prayer and petition, with
thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And
the peace of God, which transcends all
understanding, will guard your hearts and your
minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:4-7
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 23
Today I am asking for God to speak the truth to you
about your blind spots, so that you will stop
offending unknowingly. There are things about you
of which you are unaware, that are offensive and
don't allow for people to fully appreciate the life of
God in you. Be prepared however, for Him to speak
such truth through someone who rubs you the
wrong way and therein lies your first blind spot.
God help us. Deliver us from ourselves.
JV
David burned with anger against the man and
said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the
man who did this must die! He must pay for
that lamb four times over, because he did such
a thing and had no pity.”
Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man!
This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I
anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered
you from the hand of Saul.
- 2Samuel 12:5-7
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 24
Today I feel especially earthy and bound by my
humanity. I feel that I am bound to this world. I
know that within me exists the life of the Eternal
One, Jesus, but I was born here and today I feel
like there is more of me in me than He and here
pulls as strongly as there. This is the bane of
humanness: the fact that while there is hope, there
is the reality of the battle and the casualties that the
smoke of war deposits upon the earth. Yet, in that
smoke and among those deposits, walks Jesus and
He says, "In this world you will have trouble, but
take heart, I have overcome the world."
JV
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His
great love with which He loved us, even when we
were dead in our transgressions, made us alive
together with Christ (by grace you have been
saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us
with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus
Date:
- Ephesians 2:4-6NASB
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 25
May our passion for God consume the trash and
waste that clouds and clutters our minds and our
lives. O fire of God please burn in our thoughts and
souls, so that anything that is not like you, nor of
you, will be incinerated into oblivion, never to
plague us again. Let our words and our deeds be a
tinderbox. A place wherein a fire might be sparked,
burning so white-hot that our feeble, sinful, greedy
and self-absorbed ways, might be swallowed up in
the back-draft of your irresistible love. Burn us,
consume us and swallow us O incendiary love of
God.
JV
But who can endure the day of his coming?
Who can stand when he appears? For he will
be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap. He
will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will
purify the Levites and refine them like gold and
silver. Then the Lord will have men who will
bring offerings in righteousness,
- Malachi 3:2-3
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 26
My prayer today is that Christ would be formed in
you. That you would begin to act like Him and
confront judgmental and pious religious systems.
That you would begin to feel like Him and be
moved to tears as you enter the plight of hurting
people. That you would begin to walk like He did,
that being on the side of the street to which lepers
had been banished and upon bodies of water and
regions where natural men feared to tread. That
you would laugh like He did when a little taxcollector like Zacchaeus became a big man on the
inside, giving back four times the amount that he
had stolen...
JV
When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his
disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax
collectors and sinners?”
On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy
who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn
what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
- Matthew 9:11-13
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 27
May you dance today like He did when he rose
from the dead and showed up in the devil's own
house, with an army of Patriarch's and Saints who
had been waiting on Him, with music that sounded
like Coldplay's Viva la Vida playing in the
background. He is alive in you. He is being formed
in you. Let Him confront and cry and walk and
laugh and dance through you this day.
JV
The Lord your God is in your midst,
A victorious warrior.
He will exult over you with joy,
He will be quiet in His love,
He will rejoice over you with shouts of
joy.
- Zephaniah 3:17NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 28
May God ignite a passion in you today that will jerk
you out of that complacent place where you have
been living. Let a fire be kindled in you like a
lightning strike from Heaven, that it might burn
away the heaviness that lays upon you like dead
wood. Burning away habits, attitudes, sorrows and
regrets, to free you to be the liberated ball of
Kingdom focused life that you were intended to be.
JV
They replied, “Let one of us sit at your right and the
other at your left in your glory.”
“You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said.
“Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with
the baptism I am baptized with?”
“We can,” they answered.
Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink
and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized
with, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to
grant. These places belong to those for whom they
have been prepared.”
- Mark 10:37-40
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 29
Today I am praying for you to be happy and to have
fun for the sake of Jesus. I am asking God to cause
the joy that is in your heart to get to your face and
your mouth and your feet. Smile at people
randomly, sing in public and dance in line at the
store. Do it because Jesus defeated the devil, the
forces of darkness and stripped them naked. Laugh
at them in their nakedness. Laugh at a defeated
and naked enemy. Go where he is trying to steal
people's life and with a smile on your face sing loud
and happy praise while dancing.
JV
And I heard a loud voice from the throne
saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now
among the people, and he will dwell with them.
They will be his people, and God himself will be
with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every
tear from their eyes. There will be no more
death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old
order of things has passed away.”
- Revelation 21:3-4
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 30
Please know that this last chapter is not the end of
the story, only an interval between books in a
volume, a grander story. He is the author, yes the
writer of your story and with Jesus, it is never over,
until He says it is. He is the Alpha and the Omega.
That means that He starts and finishes this thing,
not you. You are not finished and all is not lost. He
will turn what seemed like backsliding, mistakes,
failures and losses into progress and forward
motion in the Kingdom, often in a manner that
makes no sense at all to the natural mind. So wait,
trust, praise and please hold on. This is what "ll
things work together for the good means (Rom.
8:28).
JV
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,
always offering prayer with joy in my every
prayer for you all, in view of your participation
in the gospel from the first day until now. For I
am confident of this very thing, that He who
began a good work in you will perfect it until
the day of Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 1:3-6NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Day 31
God is going to re-calibrate everything and bring a
new context and make some sort of sense out of
the pain, the craziness and the distress of your life.
He is the Great Author of this book and the entire
volume of your life and He signs all of His work in
His blood, not some earthly ink that fades, nor on
pages that rot and turn to dust. He will rule and
reign over your circumstances this day as
Sovereign Lord and Author of the victorious story
that is YOU. Praise His glorious name for His story
in YOU!!!
JV
Then I began to weep greatly because no one
was found worthy to open the book or to look
into it; and one of the elders *said to me, “Stop
weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe
of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so
as to open the book and its seven seals.”
- Revelation 5:4-5NASB
Date:
My Notes:
WORDS Month Nine
Month Ten
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a
great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything
that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.
And let us run with perseverance the race marked
out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer
and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he
endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat
down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Hebrews 12:1-2
Words of Legacy
oday’s Legacy Words are from the young old
one, Cody Voth. He is a man who seeks to
find God’s purpose for his life, regardless of
the obstacles, and these words encourage us all to
do the same.
T
Purpose is not a task. It’s heart, actions, the
way you fulfill your job to represent Jesus
Christ. Know it and show it! Be bold! Stand
up! Rise up! Show up!
Cody Voth, 2/15/14
JV
What words or thoughts come to your mind as you
read these words of legacy?
Date:
WORDS Month Ten
WORDS Month Ten
Day 1
I am praying that you will have an undeniable
assurance deep in your heart that everything will be
alright. It may not look like it right now, but the one
who is outside of time will undoubtedly show up,
just in the nick of it. And He will show Himself
faithful to you this day, very soon. May you be
astounded and even a bit confounded as He
blesses, covers and provides for you in ways that
seem improbable and impossible. May our
improbable, faithful, timely, powerful, able and
unflappable God prove to you this day (once again)
that He is involved, interested and engaged in the
events of your life.
JV
“But so that we may not cause offense, go to
the lake and throw out your line. Take the first
fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find
a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them
for my tax and yours.”
- Matthew 17:27
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 2
I know that we can't base our relationship with
Jesus on feelings, but my prayer today for you is
that you feel His life inside of you. May you feel
saved. I want for you to really feel redeemed!
Bought and paid for. Valuable. Worth a whole lot. A
precious heirloom put on His mantle as a trophy for
all who come into His house to see. You are both
honored and honorable, respected and respectful.
You also walk with a resurrection swagger. A
saunter in your gait that says that there is
absolutely nothing in this world or the next that can
keep you down. Thank God for Jesus in you. Now
go out today and swagger a little bit.
JV
For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life.
- John 3:16
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WORDS Month Ten
Day 3
May the peace of Heaven flood your soul. I am not
talking about some hippy-esque wishful thinking.
No, I am asking for the blood bought, battle foughtfor peace that was won by the Prince of it. Jesus
Christ, The Prince of Peace, the living Shalom of
Heaven. Ruler. Royalty. He is the One who
purchased the rights to peace with His own blood
on Calvary and then went to the devil's house and
took his keys. He can therefore do whatever He
wants to with His peace, and I have it on good
authority that He wants to give it to you right now if
you will come to Him. Peace to you, rest to you,
burden free day for you. Amen.
JV
Come to me, all you who are weary and
burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke
upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and
humble in heart, and you will find rest for your
souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is
light.
- Matthew 11:28-30
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 4
Jesus Christ, son of God, would you please love
people through me today. May I realize that, like
you, I exist for the sake of others. Help me to serve
them, touch them, hear them and love them well.
Please help me to be transparent and life giving as
I interact with them and may I stop using them for
my own gain as if they were some object created
for my pleasure.
JV
When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha,
“Tell me, what can I do for you before I am
taken from you?”
“Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,”
Elisha replied.
“You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said,
“yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it
will be yours—otherwise, it will not.”
- 2Kings 2:9-11
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 5
Lord, I really need your help to truly, deeply and
wholeheartedly forgive those who have wronged
me, as I realize that I cannot walk in the
forgiveness that you want to give me unless I have
released their offenses towards me. Please
eradicate all unforgiving thoughts, actions and
words from my being right now and stop me dead
in my tracks if I go back to them. Amen.
JV
“Then the master called the servant in. ‘You
wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that
debt of yours because you begged me to.
Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow
servant just as I had on you?’ In anger his
master handed him over to the jailers to be
tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.
“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each
of you unless you forgive your brother or sister
from your heart.”
- Matthew 18:32-35
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 6
Today I am thankful for the following: First, for
God's faithfulness to me expressed in Jesus. Thank
you O God for Jesus. Second, for His provision of
food, shelter and all of the necessities of life, with
many non-necessities as well. Thank you for your
faithfulness O God as you provide the necessities
(food, shelter and clothing) and non-necessities
(new shotguns, decoys, trucks and John Wayne
movies). Third, for His love for me, expressed
through my amazingly gorgeous wife Lori. Fourth,
for my family. Thank you O God for Jacob, Hannah,
Caleb and Cody and the way that you express
yourself to me and to the world through each of
these amazing people. Finally, for my friends.
Thank you O God for those whom I am blessed to
call friend and to have call me friend. If a man is
measured by his friends I am surely rich beyond
measure. You are an awesome God, by whom I
have been blessed with much. Thank you, thank
you, thank you.
JV
Then on that day David first assigned Asaph
and his relatives to give thanks to the Lord.
Oh give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name;
Make known His deeds among the peoples.
Sing to Him, sing praises to Him;
Speak of all His wonders.
- 1Chronicles 16:7-9NASB
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 7
For those of you who are having trouble even
arriving at that small "faith-spark" of hope as it
relates to something or someone in your life ... quit
trying so hard and focus on Jesus. Jesus IS that
HOPE. When and where you cannot are the realms
in which He lives. He is bound neither by time nor
by circumstance, so allow Him to be your hope.
Jesus to you my friend. May His thoughts be your
thoughts. May His life in you eradicate the
disenchantment and darkness that plague you and
say that it will never be. May the Hope and
radiance that is Jesus' bright and smiling face,
cause hopelessness, despondency and heaviness
to leave you now, as morning fog dissipates under
the warming rays of a brilliant sun.
JV
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he
said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever
follows me will never walk in darkness, but will
have the light of life.”
- John 8:12
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 8
Today I am praying that Jesus would laugh at the
enemy through you. May He laugh as that snake
tries to steal your joy. So, when you sense him
trying to steal it, do something for someone else
that would bring them joy. Take them to lunch.
Send them an email or a text and make them
laugh. Be Heaven bent on putting a smile on their
face. Let the snake know that his attempts to steal
your joy will work towards building up someone
else's, every single time that turd sets out to rob
you of yours. His efforts at thievery will work
towards goodness. May Jesus' joy overwhelm,
swamp and capsize your boat today.
JV
When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon,
“Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for
a catch….”
When they had done so, they caught such a large
number of fish that their nets began to break….
When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees
and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful
man!” For he and all his companions were
astonished at the catch of fish they had taken
- Luke 5: 4,6,8
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 9
Today I am asking that Jesus would cause that
faith-spark of hope to ignite in you and bring the fire
of faith where the dank and dark pallor of
hopelessness abounds. May it burn for your lost
loved ones. Yes, let it burn for a living, passionate
and vibrant faith to be ignited in the darkest and
most desperate of their hearts; burning so intensely
with the white-hot coals of Jesus' love through your
heart towards them, that they might not help but be
warmed as well. Jesus, O spark of hope, please
infuse us with your faith for the faithless, that we
might see them come to know you and follow you
and burn for you as we do.
JV
While Jesus was still speaking, some people
came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue
leader. “Your daughter is dead,” they said.
“Why bother the teacher anymore?”
Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him,
“Don’t be afraid; just believe.”
- Mark 5:35-36
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 10
I am praying for the life of Jesus to get all over you
today, especially where the fear of death has been
working it's nasty mojo. Death did not scare Him, in
fact He danced the Jesus dance on its ugly face.
So, make the first move and dance the Jesus
dance back into a dead relationship today and
watch it start to quiver with life. Don't worry if the
resurrection is not instantaneous, just dance harder
and the quiver will become a twitch, the twitch a
spasm and then what was once a twitching and
spastic carcass will be alive and dancing the Jesus
dance with you. Dance the Jesus dance today my
friends.
JV
When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy
lying dead on his couch. He went in, shut the door
on the two of them and prayed to the Lord. Then he
got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth,
eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched
himself out on him, the boy’s body grew warm.
Elisha turned away and walked back and forth in
the room and then got on the bed and stretched out
on him once more. The boy sneezed seven times
and opened his eyes.
- 2Kings 4:32-35
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 11
I pray that you would be motivated to bring Heaven
to earth today. I mean that you would get fired up
about seeing His Kingdom come and His will being
done here and now. None of those cutesy hopeyou-do-something-later-God prayers, where you do
nothing and He does everything. My God people,
GO and do something for Jesus today! Touch
somebody. Go and ask God to heal a sick person
and then be committed to stay around long enough
to see that it happens. Find a problem somewhere
and fix it in the name of Jesus. Look for darkness
and take some light there. Find the devil, and kick
his ass by introducing someone to Jesus for the
first time.
JV
Then Philip began with that very passage of
Scripture and told him the good news about
Jesus. As they traveled along the road, they
came to some water and the eunuch said,
“Look, here is water. What can stand in the
way of my being baptized?”
- Acts 8:35-36
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 12
I am praying today that you would be free. Free
from past definitions of who you are. Definitions
that say that you don't measure up, can't measure
up and never will. These definitions have plagued
you with the remembrance of past defeats and they
suggest that you will most assuredly lose, fail or not
measure up in the future. They assure you that it is
a done deal, you will fail. Well, I want you to know
that it is not a done deal, in fact, it is a new one. It is
a deal based on the definition of who Jesus says
that you are and how He defines you. He says that
you are FREE. Why? Because He says so. Be
FREE my friends. Dance the dance of freedom and
shout because you can, you are free to do so.
JV
So Naaman went with his horses and chariots and
stopped at the door of Elisha’s house. Elisha sent a
messenger to say to him, “Go, wash yourself seven
times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored
and you will be cleansed.”
- 2Kings 5:9-10
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 13
Today I am reminded of the eternal winds of the
Holy Spirit that blow in our lives. May those winds
stir you up and renew your years. May you have
more zest for the Kingdom than ever before. If
there are things in your mind that need to be blown
away--pains, failures, losses and regrets, may
those things be blown away with such force that
they be lost forever. Renewed thoughts to you,
Refreshed mind to you. Redeemed past to you.
The wind of God blow over you, in Jesus' name.
JV
The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John,
do you love me?”
Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third
time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know
all things; you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Feed my sheep. Very truly I tell you,
when you were younger you dressed yourself and
went where you wanted; but when you are old you
will stretch out your hands, and someone else will
dress you and lead you where you do not want to
go
- John 21:17-18
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 14
I am praying today that you would get your song
back. The enemy has stolen the melody from your
heart that God gave you as a young child and it is
time to get it back. Through the pursuit of success,
stuff and status, you have stopped singing.
Because of the noise that permeates our culture,
you have become one who sings what he is told to
sing and not what's on your heart. I am talking
about singing that song in your heart that is a song
to the Lord of your life. To the God of your soul. To
The Giver of all that is good. Sing your individual
songs to Jesus. Sing loud and strong and long and
together we will lift up an anthem of praise that will
bring a shout!
JV
I will sing a new song to you, my God;
on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to
you,
to the One who gives victory to kings,
who delivers his servant David.
- Psalm 144:9-10a
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 15
My prayer today is that you would get a sense for
what the enemy of your soul is trying to steal from
you, and how the power of Jesus will arrest him.
The enemy wants to steal your joy, but Jesus will
put a smile on your face that is contagious. The
enemy wants to pervert your thoughts, but you
have the mind of Jesus at work in you and Jesus
cannot conceive of anything perverted. The enemy
wants to bring darkness to your doorstep, but Jesus
is that light shining in darkness that can never be
dimmed. Jesus cannot be held down or depressed
because He has all the life of God in Him and when
that much life is packed into skin it cannot help but
dance and praise and yell and scream of eternal
life!
JV
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow
of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy
rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence
of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil;
my cup runneth over.
- Psalm 23:4-5KJV
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 16
I am praying that Jesus would be Lord of our
thoughts today. Jesus, please help us to think
cleanly, purely and righteously. May the lusts of the
flesh be executed and die a quick death in our
minds, before they become reality. May there not
even be a funeral for them. Please kill them and
dispose of their bodies in unknown locations, never
to be found. And may those nasty thoughts be
replaced by your thoughts. Please help us to think
about people like you think about them. Meaning
that our new thoughts will lead us towards actions
that will bless, not how we might use individuals for
our own purposes, pleasures or gain.
JV
As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she
began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she
wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured
perfume on them. When the Pharisee who had
invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man
were a prophet, he would know who is touching him
and what kind of woman she is—that she is a
sinner.”
- Luke 7:38-39
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 17
Please deliver us from judging anyone based upon
their outward appearance, by giving us a case of
blurred vision. Blind us. We are asking to be
delivered of that inherent mechanism in our minds
that categorizes people because of their physical
appearance. Please help us and deliver us from
those thoughts that are not like you, the ones that
we don't even know that we are thinking. We have
thought them so many times that they have
become part of us. Deliver us from ourselves. Save
us from ourselves. Think your thoughts through us
Jesus. Give us your mind.
JV
The Lord told him, “Go to the house of Judas on
Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus
named Saul, for he is praying. In a vision he has
seen a man named Ananias come and place his
hands on him to restore his sight.”
“Lord,” Ananias answered, “I have heard many
reports about this man and all the harm he has
done to your holy people in Jerusalem. And he has
come here with authority from the chief priests to
arrest all who call on your name.”
- Acts 9:11-14
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 18
My prayer for you today is that you would be healed
deep in your mind. I am not sure what you need
healing for, but I am asking Jesus to touch you.
May He reach through the years of emotional pain
this morning and do what even the most brilliant
therapist could not do and that is to create
something new in you. He is the Creator of new
things that did not previously exist. He does not
mimic nor does He copy. He specializes in making
things brand new. A new hope. A new thought. A
new relationship. A new vision. A new marriage. A
new dream. A new day.
JV
God saw all that he had made, and it was very
good. And there was evening, and there was
morning—the sixth day. Thus the heavens and
the earth were completed in all their vast array.
- Genesis 1:31-2
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 19
Today I am believing that you will take the back
relationships that the enemy has stolen from you. I
mean it, go out and do something to take them
back. Let's launch an all-out reclaiming of
relationships assault. Go for it! Charge the hill!
Pray, call, email, write, text, invite to dinner, send
flowers, just attempt to make it right and then ask
Jesus to bless it with His grace ... resurrection
grace that is. The spit in your face and die for them
anyway kind of grace
JV
We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying
to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you
persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the
goads.’
“Then I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’
“ ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord
replied. ‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have
appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as
a witness of what you have seen and will see of
me.
- Acts 26:14-16
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 20
Forgive everyone. "But they did me wrong", you
say. I say, all the more reason to make the first
move, because that first move brings resurrection
grace to the table and when that kind of grace is at
the table, weird stuff happens. People change their
minds. Blows turn into blessings and insults into
compliments. Venom becomes impotent and harsh
statements turn into repentant and tear-filled
apologies. Dead relationships can't help but get up
out of the grave when this type of grace shows up. I
don't know about you, but I am ready to get some
resurrection grace flowin' up in here.
JV
But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear
God,” he said, “since you are under the same
sentence? We are punished justly, for we are
getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has
done nothing wrong.”
Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you
come into your kingdom.”
Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will
be with me in paradise.”
- Luke 23:40-43
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 21
I am praying today that you would sense Jesus
smiling at you. May you know that His smile is due
to His love for the color of your eyes, He picked it
out Himself. He snickers at your little habits that
make others upset, like the way you chew your
food too loudly or slurp your drink, He chews like
that too. His biggest and last laugh comes however,
when at the end of your life, it seems as if death
has crushed your body, only for you to dance into
Heaven doing something that looks like a cross
between the salsa, square dancing and a break
dance. Dance and laugh now my friends for you will
need to be proficient at the Heavenly break dance.
JV
But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice
before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol
him that rideth upon the heavens
by his name Jah,
and rejoice before him.
- Psalm 68:3-4KJV
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 22
May you only believe the truth about yourself today
and none of the crap that the enemy tries to use to
intimidate, shame and demean you. You are not a
failure, you are only one faith-move away from
doing glorious, powerful and successful things for
the Kingdom of Heaven. You are not a lost cause. If
you were lost it would mean that there is no hope in
relation to your destiny, but I can tell by looking at
you that there is much hope in your future. There is
so much hope when it comes to you that there is
hope slopping off of you. That is because Jesus,
The Blessed Hope and the Hope of Glory Himself is
alive in you, you Hope slopping maniac. I think that
someone needs to start dancing the dance of
HOPE up in here!!!!
JV
Instead, they were longing for a better
country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not
ashamed to be called their God, for he has
prepared a city for them.
- Hebrews 11:16
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 23
May you be empowered by the Spirit of God to do
the right thing and not that which is easy. For the
pursuit of that which is easy is the spirit of this age
and the enemy of true life. May your integrity not be
worn down by the relentless assault of the cultural
lie that political correctness is best and to be
preferred. May your goal be that which God prefers
and nothing else, period, because what He prefers
will always be right. May you get so close to Him
that you know His preference intuitively, being so
emboldened by that closeness that you become
haughty in Him, "holy haughty" that is. Yes, may
you be so proud of who He is, that the pressure of
this age to compromise in order to make people
feel good is not even a consideration for you and
doesn't even cross your mind.
JV
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate
and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and
many enter through it. But small is the gate and
narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few
find it.
- Matthew 7:13-14
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 24
May your desire to make God feel good overwhelm
you. May it be all over you. May you be covered in
it. May it flood your boat and soak you to the skin.
Soak us to the skin Lord. Please drench us with a
passion to please You and only You, This is our
desire.
JV
For this finds favor, if for the sake of
conscience toward God a person bears up
under sorrows when suffering unjustly. For
what credit is there if, when you sin and are
harshly treated, you endure it with patience?
But if when you do what is right and suffer for it
you patiently endure it, this finds favor with
God.
- 1Peter 2:19-20 NASB
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 25
Lord, please help us to stay wholeheartedly
committed to you. May we never be totally satisfied
with the status of our relationship, lest we become
complacent and neglectful, taking you for granted.
Oh God. Please help us to remember that although
we want to be like Peter, John, James and Paul, we
possess in our DNA the potential to be Judas and
not even know that it is happening. Oh God, may
that never ever happen, so please save us from
ourselves and that Iscariot potential in us this very
instant. When we pray, your Kingdom come and
your will be done, we implore you to conquer us,
every single inch of us. Take total possession of us.
JV
“The heart is more deceitful than all else
And is desperately sick;
Who can understand it?
“I, the Lord, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give to each man according to his ways,
According to the results of his deeds.
- Jeremiah 17:9-10NASB
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 26
My prayer is that you would realize that Jesus can
fix the mess in which you find yourself. This is His
specialty you know, mess fixing that is. To Him, a
Samaritan is good. A tax collector can be trusted. A
dead girl is only sleeping. A naked demoniac is a
model citizen. A leper just needs a hug and an
adulteress can find unadulterated forgiveness. For
He is the One Who Holds All Things Together, the
very Creator of the Universe, the Great Counselor,
the Mighty God, the Calmer of Storms, The Lion of
the Tribe of Judah and the Bright and Morning Star.
May His perspective become your reality today.
JV
Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse,
And a branch from his roots will bear fruit.
The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him,
The spirit of wisdom and understanding,
The spirit of counsel and strength,
The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
And He will delight in the fear of the Lord,
And He will not judge by what His eyes see,
Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;
But with righteousness He will judge the poor,
And decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth;
And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.
- Isaiah 11:1-4NASB
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 27
I am praying today that you would be set free from
the issues that are plaguing, dogging and mocking
you. There is no place for plagues where the mind
of Christ is in operation. So, may the hope, light
and life that is Jesus invade your mind and take up
the space that was previously occupied by plague.
There is also no place for demonic dogs and
devilish mockers where Jesus dwells. Therefore,
may those incessantly barking demonic dogs that
rattle around in your mind be chased back to the
abyss by the Great Hound of Heaven whose bark is
that of a roaring lion. Dance and shout my friends.
Dance and shout with Jesus as He does His
resurrection dance that rids you of the plague and
chases away foolish mockers and barking dogs.
JV
and the people went out to see what had
happened. When they came to Jesus, they found
the man from whom the demons had gone out,
sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind;
and they were afraid. Those who had seen it told
the people how the demon-possessed man had
been cured.
- Luke 8:35-36
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 28
Cavemen, let's pray this prayer together for our
people this morning: "Father, would you please
cover all of my people in the blood of Jesus, the
blood that protects and cleanses. I thank you that
you will keep the enemy of their bodies from
harming them. I thank you that you will keep the
enemy of their minds from tormenting them. And I
thank you that you will keep the enemy of their
spirits from haunting them. Thank you that you are
the true WALL in their lives and that you will use
me to help them know that this is true. You are our
WALL oh God and I praise you for that fact. You
are our WALL through Christ Jesus and may your
kingdom come and your will be done through Him
and in us this day. Amen and Amen."
JV
Later, knowing that everything had now been
finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled,
Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of wine vinegar was
there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the
sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it
to Jesus’ lips. When he had received the drink,
Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his
head and gave up his spirit.
- Mark 10:37-40
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WORDS Month Ten
Day 29
I am praying this morning for you to be free. Free
from all heaviness. May there be nothing holding
you back. Yes, in the name of Jesus, may you fly
today. May your spirit, mind and body get above it
all and soar. You were made to be free, so today
may you do what you were made for. Freedom to
you. Life to you. Altitude to you. Amen and so be it.
JV
Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to
him from the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall
say to the house of Jacob and tell the sons of
Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to
the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’
wings, and brought you to Myself.
- Exodus 19:3-4NASB
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 30
A poem inspired by a fire-filled sermon delivered by
Cliff Graham:
Live Strong and Die Well
"Live Strong and die well", that is our song,
singing it loud, singing it long.
We sing in the dark, we sing in the night,
stalking the things that bring people fright.
Never to cower, not shrinking back,
demons and dragons, we will attack.
Swinging our swords, foul creatures come down,
fight for the King, honor the crown.
A wall to our people a wall in the night,
we sing in the darkness, we sing in the light.
"Live strong and die well", this is our song,
singing it loud, singing it long.
Thanks for the inspiration Cliff!!!
JV
They triumphed over him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death.
- Revelation 12:11
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Day 31
Lesson learned from David's epic victory over the
pagan Giant Goliath? Tend to the small things,
when no one is watching (i.e. sheep) and you will
be ready for big things when everyone is. Giants
will die today because you are tending to small
things.
JV
“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are
worried and upset about many things, but few
things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary
has chosen what is better, and it will not be
taken away from her.”
- Luke 10:41-42
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Ten
Month Eleven
The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
- Psalm 23:1
Words of Legacy
M
ore old words that that reverberate deep
truths ...
Rained all day again and the southeast
wind has blown for a long time. We are
becoming quite depressed. We have little
kindling for fuel. The cattle have no dry
place to lie down. The chickens have no
shelter except under the house and they are
chased and killed by rodents. The fields are
flooded. I am becoming rebellious and
prone to complaining. The only way I can
find victory is through prayer. The Lord
granted me peace and composure. I could
again with confidence cast all my burdens
on the Lord and have victory through Him.
When evening came, the Lord sent us some
fuel.
Johan C. Voth, Monday & Tuesday, October
22 & 23, 1883
JV
WORDS Month Eleven
What words or thoughts come to your mind as you
read today’s Words of Legacy?
Date:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 1
My prayer today is that the forces of Heaven would
be on the offense against darkness, fear and pain
in your life. Because of Jesus, you will be chased
and victimized no more!!! May the havoc wreaked
against you by the forces of evil be reversed.
Where once there was confusion, shock and
duress, let there be HOPE, LIGHT and LIFE. May
the Great Hound of Heaven be at work in you, with
you and for you today. Praise Him!!!! Praise Him
forever!!!!
JV
On his robe and on his thigh he has this
name written:
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
- Revelation 19:16
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 2
Today I am praying that you would soar above the
prattle, the rattle and the gloom. May God lift you
above it ... all of it. No getting trapped in the muck
that would hold you back and keep you down. God
is a God of deliverance and redemption, so may He
deliver and redeem on your behalf, to the glory of
His name. Somebody needs to get excited up in
here!!!
JV
But now, this is what the Lord says—
he who created you, Jacob,
he who formed you, Israel:
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze.
- Isaiah 43:1-2
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 3
I am praying for the life of Jesus to get all over you
today. Redeemed, hope filled, real, authentic and
non-religious. Contagious life. Life that breeds life.
Darkness dispelling. He is Lord of that type of life
and will give it to those who ask Him. I was
presumptuous and asked Him to give that kind of
life to you ... you're welcome.
JV
So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to
you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came
before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep
did not hear them. I am the door; if anyone enters
through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out
and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and
kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and
have it abundantly.
- John 10:7-10NASB
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 4
May you hear the melody of His deliverance song
all day today. May its music bring peace to your
storm and joy to your troubled soul. May the very
voice of your God, singing over you heal every
ailment in your being and cause you to sing too.
Yes, sing the song of deliverance today my friends.
Sing in unison with your Maker. Maybe even dance
a little bit as well.
JV
Therefore let all the faithful pray to you
while you may be found;
surely the rising of the mighty waters
will not reach them.
You are my hiding place;
you will protect me from trouble
and surround me with songs of deliverance.
- Psalm 32:6-7
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 5
May God's incomprehensible peace descend upon
you all day long. May the storms, struggles and
troubles be overtaken by a peace that is palpable.
Palpable peace to you, yes, a peace that you feel
and know and live in. In the name of the Prince of
Peace, Jesus. Amen.
JV
A furious squall came up, and the waves broke
over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped.
Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion.
The disciples woke him and said to him,
“Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”
- Mark 4:37-38
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 6
In these uncertain and fearful times, I am asking for
God to bring clarity, specificity and His best into
your day. Yes, you can know for sure, because He
does. He is the Ancient of Days, has seen many of
them and has an opinion as to how yours could be
lived best. So, may you know God's best today in
all areas of your existence. Best to you my friends.
Life and more life. Much laughter, peace and
rollicking. God is smiling on you. Laugh with Him.
JV
while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had
seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift
flight about the time of the evening sacrifice. He
instructed me and said to me, “Daniel, I have
now come to give you insight and
understanding. As soon as you began to pray, a
word went out, which I have come to tell you,
for you are highly esteemed. Therefore,
consider the word and understand the vision
- Daniel 9:21-23
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 7
I am praying that the Spirit of Jesus would enliven
you today. Yes, come alive my friends. May life,
grace, peace, faith and joy be all over you. And
may you have so much of these things on you, that
they splash off of you and onto those with whom
you do life. Get close enough for some splashing to
happen. Splash away today. Do some life splashing
people. Splash grace, slosh peace and create a
wake of life that will roll over folks and get them
drenched in the life of God. Bring some water to a
parched and thirsty land. Amen and amen.
JV
Now on the last day, the great day of the feast,
Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is
thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who
believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his
innermost being will flow rivers of living
water.’” But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom
those who believed in Him were to receive; for
the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was
not yet glorified.
- John 7:37-39
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 8
My friends, Jesus is your light in a dark time. He is
your day, yes your new dawn. His name is Hope.
His life flows through your veins and Heaven is in
you now. Eternity pulls you along and He who is
older than eternity is your guide. You have no need
to fear today, for He is with you and fear is afraid of
Him.
JV
But the path of the righteous
is like the light of dawn,
That shines brighter and brighter
until the full day.
- Proverbs 4:18NASB
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 9
May the same Spirit that covered David as he slew
Goliath cover you this day. Giants will fall. Those
foul, intimidating and evil forces that have sought to
beat you down will be felled today as you sling
God's Word at them. Sling the Word. Sling prayer.
Sling worship of King Jesus and watch them fall,
dust rising in their wake. You are a champion in
Christ Jesus and you were made for this day. Step
up and sling away my friends ... sling away ...
giants will go down by your hand. Your hand in
God's hand.
JV
Praise be to the Lord my Rock,
who trains my hands for war,
my fingers for battle.
He is my loving God and my fortress,
my stronghold and my deliverer,
my shield, in whom I take refuge,
who subdues peoples under me.
- Psalm 144:1-2
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 10
I am asking our Lord to free you from all fear. May
the things that have awakened you in the night and
hounded you during the day cease and desist from
their awakening and hounding activities ... NOW.
And by cease and desist, I mean STOP!!! I am
asking the Good Shepherd to raise His Shepherd's
staff and beat the fire out of those taunting and
haunting entities that taunt and haunt you. Yes,
beat the flaming fire out of them and fix and redeem
the damage that they have wrought. Green
pastures, still waters and the restoration of your
soul are in store for you today in His matchless
name ... Jesus ... Jesus ... Jesus.
JV
You will keep in perfect peace
those whose minds are steadfast,
because they trust in you.
Trust in the Lord forever,
for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.
Date: My Notes:
- Isaiah 26:3-4
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 11
May the Lord cover you ... and I mean cover you.
May you know that He has not only got your back,
but your front, sides, below and above you as well.
May you be confident of the fact that regardless of
the circumstance, He is with you and on your side.
You are not alone!!!!
JV
Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron
pillar and a bronze wall to stand against the
whole land—against the kings of Judah, its
officials, its priests and the people of the land.
They will fight against you but will not
overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue
you,” declares the Lord.
- Jeremiah 1:18-19
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 12
Today I am praying for your health. May you be
healthy in your body, your mind and your spirit. May
you be blessed in all of who you are. Health to you
as you think. Health to you as you drive and as you
walk. Health to you as you sit and as you move.
Health to your soul. May you laugh today. Yes, may
you burst out with peals of laughter that strike all
around you and electrify your surroundings with joy
unspeakable. May the joy of Heaven descend upon
you and rest there, in the name of Jesus our living
and joyful Lord, Amen!!!
JV
He took her by the hand and said to her,
“Talitha koum!” (which means “Little girl, I say
to you, get up!”). Immediately the girl stood up
and began to walk around (she was twelve
years old). At this they were completely
astonished.
- Mark 5:41-42
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 13
I am praying today that you would walk in the light.
That you would have some serious discernment for
the serious situations in which you find yourself.
May the wisdom of Christ Jesus be in you and all
around you. May His will be brutally obvious to you
and may you have peace about moving in that
direction. Peace to you, discernment to you and
strength to you. In the name of the Prince of Peace,
Jesus.
JV
Good and upright is the Lord;
therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.
He guides the humble in what is right
and teaches them his way.
- Psalm 28:8-9
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 14
I am praying for God to give you a very tangible
sign that He cares about your current struggle. You
are not alone. Whether physical or emotional, I am
believing at this moment that you will know this day
that He is on it and has not forgotten you. Hold on
my friend. Latch on with your faith and don't let go. I
am holding on with you right now, in the name of
Jesus. Blessings to you.
JV
Trust in the Lord and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
Take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him and he will do this:
He will make your righteous reward shine like
the dawn,
your vindication like the noonday sun.
- Psalm 37:3-6
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 15
I am praying today that life for you would be good
and full. That you will have a sense that God is in
control and that He is working out all things for the
good. That He loves you deeply and is interested in
even the minutest of details concerning you. You
matter to Him. You have immense worth and you
are unspeakably valuable in His eyes. In fact His
eyes are fixed on you, not to catch you doing bad
things and scold you, but because He loves looking
at you. You bring Him pleasure.
JV
For the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.
He found him in a desert land,
And in the howling waste of a wilderness;
He encircled him, He cared for him,
He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.
Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
That hovers over its young,
He spread His wings and caught them,
He carried them on His pinions.
Date: My Notes:
- Deuteronomy 32:9-11
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 16
God is fully engaged in your life. He did good work
when He created you. Rembrandt and
Michelangelo would have been jealous. You my
friend are a masterpiece. You are full of His
creative glory. Give Him praise!!! Glory to God for
His life in you!!! Glory to God for Jesus in you.
Praise Him with a life well lived ... fully spent on
making Him known.
JV
So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
- Luke 7:38-39
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 17
You are free. You are released. You are thought of.
You are on God's radar. You are substantial. You
are one of His favorite people. You are called and
chosen. You are His image in your body, Imago dei
in thee. Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty,
thinking of thee ... O the thought of it amazes and
blesses me!!!
JV
So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God
through faith, for all of you who were baptized into
Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is
neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor
is there male and female, for you are all one in
Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are
Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the
promise.
- Galatians 3:26-29
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 18
I am praying today that God would ease the pain.
There is a deep and residual pain that many are
carrying. It is a pain to which you have grown
accustomed and have resigned yourself to living
with. A pain in your soul. May God give you some
soul care today. May the pain in your soul be eased
and dealt with by the One who not only saves
souls, but can make them feel better too. God,
please make us feel better today. Touch us deep in
our souls. Heal us deeply. We need you deep in us.
All in our stuff. No pain. Jesus bear our pain and
heal our stuff.
JV
When they hurled their insults at him, he did not
retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats.
Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges
justly. “He himself bore our sins” in his body on
the cross, so that we might die to sins and live
for righteousness; “by his wounds you have
been healed.”
- 1Peter 2:23-24
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 19
May you realize that you are an image bearer of the
Most High. The Most High has left His mark on you,
in you and all about you. There is something about
you that is other worldly. You are made for here but
meant for there. You are already, but not yet. You
are a work in progress, yet the work is finished in
Jesus. You have an earthly assignment, but a
Heavenly authority. In Jesus, you are in, but not of.
All of this means that you will be ultimately
victorious in your life here, because you are seated
with Christ at the right hand of the Father, there.
His Kingdom come and His will be done in your
lives, here today, as it is in Heaven, there, for all
eternity. Amen
JV
To the one who is victorious and does my will to the
end, I will give authority over the nations—that one
‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash
them to pieces like pottery’—just as I have received
authority from my Father. I will also give that one
the morning star.
- Revelation 2:26-28
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 20
I am praying today that the works of the enemy in
your life that have been robbing you of joy and
peace would be arrested, yes, given a beat-down
by God. In Jesus' name, let the works of Hell and
the powers of darkness be apprehended and
incarcerated. May you be free. May unfettered joy
and relentless peace chase you down everywhere
you go. May you be so joyful that you explode with
smiling and laughing, dancing and praise; and may
you have enough peace inside of you for three
people. Joy to you. Peace to you. Exploding to you.
JV
Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of
Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and
blood, but by my Father in heaven. And I tell you
that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my
church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome
it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven;
whatever you bind on earth will be bound in
heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be
loosed in heaven.”
- Matthew 16:17-19
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 21
I am in the cave this morning and I am getting
nothing specific. When one is getting nothing
specific, it is best to just sit and know that He is
God. God. The true focal point of all reality,
essence and existence. He is real. He is real life.
He is real truth. He is real faith. He is real GOOD. I
don't know about you, but I could use some real
goodness today. I could use some real faith today. I
could use some real life today, and I have it in my
God and His name is Jesus. Jesus is specifically
God. May my God, be your God and may His
Kingdom come and His will be done specifically in
you and yours today. Praise be to His name!!!
JV
I will extol the Lord at all times;
his praise will always be on my lips.
will glory in the Lord;
let the afflicted hear and rejoice.
Glorify the Lord with me;
let us exalt his name together.
- Psalm 34:1-3
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 22
I am praying this morning that you would hear
Jesus call your name, very soon. Not the end of
your life, job well done calling of it, but a fresh call,
on this side of glory, in real time . Whether it be in a
still small voice, or a dream in the night, through the
voice of a friend or a stranger, my prayer is that you
will know that you know that you know it is Him.
Jesus, speaking your name, just because He loves
to hear it. You are one of His favorite people.
JV
The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for
that was the most important high place, and
Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on
that altar. At Gibeon the Lord appeared to
Solomon during the night in a dream, and God
said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give
you.”
- 1Kings 3:4-5
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 23
May you hear with your heart and see with your
soul. Know that your ability to hear has nothing to
do with your ears, but is about Him speaking to
you, deep in your heart. And your sight is not really
about your eyes, but His work in your soul and in
the souls of others. Listen, watch and wait. Then
listen, watch and wait again. His word will not be
conventional, nor will it be clamorous. Still, small,
soft and reverberant. He is speaking and moving.
Are you listening and watching?
JV
He said to them, “Do you bring in a lamp to put
it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put
it on its stand? For whatever is hidden is meant
to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is
meant to be brought out into the open. If
anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.”
- Mark 4:21-23
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 24
I prayed that the offenses waged against you would
be turned into a grace filled reservoir inside you.
Grace to you, grace from you, grace over you. No
hurt, no longing and no offense will be able to
breathe, stand against or survive as it will be
drowned, swamped, drenched and swept away by
an overwhelming surge of grace ... a Jesus riptide.
JV
His brothers then came and threw themselves
down before him. “We are your slaves,” they said.
But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in
the place of God? You intended to harm me, but
God intended it for good to accomplish what is now
being done, the saving of many lives. So then, don’t
be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.”
And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.
- Genesis 50: 18-21
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 25
Heart-Chord
Listening for God trying to hear,
noise, rattle, fray.
Speaking, I notice, stop, listen,
heart chord, He plays it all day.
Song, He sings it, in me and over,
worship through who I am,
Instrument, play me, make some music,
Oh God come down now in this man.
JV
David, together with the commanders of the army,
set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman and
Jeduthun for the ministry of prophesying,
accompanied by harps, lyres and cymbals. Here is
the list of the men who performed this service:
- 1Chronicles 25:1
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 26
My prayer today is that the fire of God would be
kindled in your heart. And may the swift wind of His
Spirit stoke those mysterious flames, that burn
away impurity and warm frozen places. Be cleaned,
be warmed and be moved. O kindling fire of God
burn in us now!!!
JV
Has any other people heard the voice of God
speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?
Has any god ever tried to take for himself one
nation out of another nation, by testings, by
signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand
and an outstretched arm, or by great and
awesome deeds, like all the things the Lord
your God did for you in Egypt before your very
eyes?
- Deuteronomy 4:33-34
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 27
May the Lord bring you peace ... deep peace. And
may it be so deep that you have to sigh a sigh of
restful hope as it comes. May it come like the long
lost friend you have been expecting, whom you
grab and hug and sit with for hours on end upon his
arrival.
JV
The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
for his name’s sake.
- Psalm 23:1-3
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 28
Praying for Hope to rise up in you. And may it rise
up in ways unexpected and in places unforeseen.
Then may the two of you ... you and Hope, spend
the entire day together ... laughing and dreaming,
then laughing some more. Have a Hopeful day my
friends.
JV
Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
- Psalm 42:5
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 29
I pray today that you will be attuned and ready in
the Spirit, so that you will know when to strike the
enemy. Pray against the evil one and then prey
upon him. Yes, he seeks whom he may devour, but
I challenge you to devour him first. Rescue those in
fear. Take back and tend to those whom he has
wounded. You are a lion hunter, that's what you do.
Listen, pray and move towards the roar.
JV
If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
and you make the Most High your dwelling,
no harm will overtake you,
no disaster will come near your tent.
For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
- Psalm 91:9-13
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 30
Christ in you means that ... He is here. He is now.
He is living. He is moving. He is breathing. He is
walking. He is talking. He is looking. He is holding.
He is healing. He is saving. He is Christ in you, the
Hope of all glory. Now go out and be some hope
and some glory somewhere today.
JV
Then the Lord God formed a man from
the dust of the ground and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life, and the
man became a living being.
- Genesis 2:7
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Day 31
Praying for deep healing in you ... now. Not a
healing that's to be waited for any longer, but a
heart healing. A sudden, deep, warm, restoration. A
restoration that obliterates and does away with
years of pain, heartache and brokenness.
Wounded and battered hearts will be healed today.
O Jesus, healer of hearts, please do what you do.
Selah
JV
A second time they summoned the man who
had been blind. “Give glory to God by telling
the truth,” they said. “We know this man is a
sinner.”
He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I
don’t know. One thing I do know. I was blind
but now I see!”
- John 9:24-25
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Eleven
Month Twelve
Fifty men from the company of the prophets went
and stood at a distance, facing the place where
Elijah and Elisha had stopped at the Jordan. 8
Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up and struck the
water with it. The water divided to the right and to
the left, and the two of them crossed over on dry
ground.
When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell
me, what can I do for you before I am taken from
you?”
“Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,”
Elisha replied.
- 2 Kings 2:7-9
Words of Legacy
T
his last Legacy Word is one that stands as an
encouragement to us all as we endeavor to
raise our children to know God.
Was at home all day with my family. In the
evening I heard my son pray with deep
interest. This gave me much hope for the
future. May the Lord grant us the grace to
direct him in the right way.
Johan C. Voth, Saturday January 19th,
1884
JV
WORDS Month Twelve
What words or thoughts come to your mind as you
read these Words of Legacy?
Date:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 1
May you know that God is focused upon you today.
He is interested and He cares. He cares
relentlessly and intensely. You are worth it. And as
He hones in on you, may the shame and the pain
and the hurtful baggage of the past be burned away
and vaporized … GONE! His gaze is penetrating,
surgical and healing. Once again, on this day, you
will be made new by the Maker of New Things. I
rejoice with you … the new you.
JV
And He who sits on the throne said,
“Behold, I am making all things new.” And
He said, “Write, for these words are faithful
and true.” Then He said to me, “It is done. I
am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning
and the end. I will give to the one who
thirsts from the spring of the water of life
without cost.
- Revelation 21:5-6NASB
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 2
Today I am praying for those of you who just don't
know where to start. May He who is outside of time
help we who are bound by it. May He who can
suspend, multiply or expedite time, deal with ours in
miraculous fashion. Shalom to your time today. In
the name of the Lord of All Time, Jesus.
JV
As God’s co-workers we urge you not to
receive God’s grace in vain. For he says,
In the time of my favor I heard you,
and in the day of salvation I helped you.
I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is
the day of salvation.
- 2Corinthians 6:1-2
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 3
Fogwhisper
God is faithful, always and when,
the pallor of fog falls and sets in.
Can't understand, can't see the way.
Where should I go? What should I say?
Fog is too heavy, mist all around,
But Listen, listen, I hear a sound.
Faintly a whisper calls to my soul,
tugging, pulling, taking control.
A whisper, yet loud, reverberates deep.
Illumines my way, shakes me from sleep.
Sounds that illumine, there in that bog,
The voice of my Father dissipates fog.
JV
How sweet are Your words to my taste!
Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
From Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false way.
Your word is a lamp to my feet
And a light to my path.
I have sworn and I will confirm it,
That I will keep Your righteous ordinances.
- Psalm 119:103-106NASB
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 4
Stand
Stand in the good times, stand in the bad.
Stand when you're winning, stand when you're had.
Stand when you feel it, stand when you don't.
Stand with there's others, stand all alone.
Stand for your people, stand for our Lord.
Stand against evil, bring on the hoard!!!
Stand without fear, stand, stand some more,
God send your covering, we'll take up your war.
JV
May the Lord answer you when you are in distress;
may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.
May he send you help from the sanctuary
and grant you support from Zion.
May he remember all your sacrifices
and accept your burnt offerings.
May he give you the desire of your heart
and make all your plans succeed.
May we shout for joy over your victory
and lift up our banners in the name of our God.
May the Lord grant all your requests.
- Psalm 20:1-5
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 5
Stand There
Be a wall for your people, stand day and night,
Care for them always, ready to fight.
Fight for their honor, fight for their peace.
Relentlessly stand there, attacks never cease.
Stand there and watch, cover and guard.
Stand when it's easy, stand when it's hard.
Stand for your people, be one of the few,
Who stands for his people, because that's what
men do!!
JV
Therefore I stationed some of the people behind
the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places,
posting them by families, with their swords, spears
and bows. After I looked things over, I stood up and
said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the
people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the
Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your
families, your sons and your daughters, your wives
and your homes.”
When our enemies heard that we were aware of
their plot and that God had frustrated it, we all
returned to the wall, each to our own work.
- Nehemiah 4:13-15
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 6
Escape
Assaulted and bruised? Escape to the cave.
To fight on your own, means only the grave.
Escape to the cave, your life begins new.
To hide with the One who gave life to you.
To hide with the One who whispers and guides,
To be with the One who stays on your side.
The One who will stay from birth to the grave, is
faithful to meet you there in the cave.
JV
In you, Lord, I have taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame.
In your righteousness, rescue me and deliver me;
turn your ear to me and save me.
Be my rock of refuge,
to which I can always go;
give the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
- Psalm 71:1-3
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 7
This morning I am praying that you would feel alive,
yes fully alive! May the life of God resound in your
heart and resonate in your soul. May you sense
throughout the day that He is in control of you and
that eternity has come down to inhabit and invade
every aspect of your space. May you hear Him, feel
Him, sense Him and breathe Him. God in you, you
in Him. Full of Glory, full of Him. Glory to His
name!!!
JV
that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are
in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so
that the world may believe that you have sent me. I
have given them the glory that you gave me, that
they may be one as we are one—I in them and you
in me—so that they may be brought to complete
unity. Then the world will know that you sent me
and have loved them even as you have loved me.
“Father, I want those you have given me to be with
me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you
have given me because you loved me before the
creation of the world.
- John 17:21-24
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 8
I pray a fire be kindled in your heart. A consuming
fire. One that warms the cold and melts the frozen.
A fire that instills a passion to live and love without
bounds. A boundless living and loving that incites
others to follow, yes a fire that kindles fire. Fire in
you, on you and around you today in the name of
the one who gives God's fire ... Jesus.
JV
By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar
of cloud to guide them on their way and by
night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that
they could travel by day or night. Neither the
pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by
night left its place in front of the people.
- Exodus 13:21-22
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 9
I am praying for you to feel what you know. May
you feel Jesus saving you. May you feel grace
covering you. May you feel the love of the Father
holding you. May you feel the Holy Spirit guiding
you. May feel angelic hosts attending you. May you
feel the Host of Heaven behind you. Yes, may you
feel today. May you feel real good too.
JV
For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me,
Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on
his prey,
when a multitude of shepherds is called forth
against him,
he will not be afraid of their voice,
nor abase himself for the noise of them:
so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight
for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend
Jerusalem;
defending also he will deliver it;
and passing over he will preserve it.
- Isaiah 31:4-5KJV
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 10
May you sense the hand of God holding you today.
Holding you tight enough to be secure, yet loose
enough to move. Yes, to live and move and be. To
live and move and be full of Jesus ... not religion.
Religion is tight and suffocates and kills. God
holding you in Jesus is living and breathing … real
and total life; and then more life upon that life ...
more life than any one body can contain. So much
life that it will take an eternity and then some to live
it. There's an infinite amount of life in Jesus. Yes,
enough to go around and then some. God, please
hold us in Jesus today, all day and every day.
Amen.
JV
When he falls, he will not be hurled
headlong,
Because the Lord is the One who holds his
hand.
- Psalm 37:23-24
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 11
If you feel assaulted by the enemy of your soul,
strike back with a vengeance … do something
intentional for the Kingdom of Heaven. I mean, get
a vision from God and do something that will
advance the cause of Jesus. Thrust your standard
into the ground and charge the hill. Yes, that will
make today a good day for you. His Kingdom come
and His will be done in you all. Amen and amen.
JV
As the Philistine moved closer to attack
him, David ran quickly toward the battle line
to meet him.
- 1Samuel 17:48
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 12
May you have a bona fide experience with Jesus
today. May you have no doubt that He is vitally and
integrally involved in your life. May you know at
your core that you are covered, kept, being
watched and surrounded by the King of Kings. He
is your rear guard and the Sentry of Your Soul. May
you know that He watches you out of love and not
to keep track of sin and fault. You are redeemed by
Him, for Him and to Him. Redeemed you are and
safe you be.
JV
I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber;
indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
The Lord watches over you—
the Lord is your shade at your right hand;
the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
The Lord will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;
the Lord will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.
- Psalm 121
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 13
A Morning Prayer
Thank you for this day, thank you for this life.
Free my soul from sin, darkness, death and strife.
Fill my heart with joy, Holy Spirit play,
Dance your dance of life, say what you will say.
Speak through me at will, use me for your good,
lifting Jesus up, every time you could.
JV
Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and
power, performed great wonders and signs
among the people. Opposition arose, however,
from members of the Synagogue of the
Freedmen (as it was called)—Jews of Cyrene
and Alexandria as well as the provinces of
Cilicia and Asia—who began to argue with
Stephen. But they could not stand up against
the wisdom the Spirit gave him as he spoke.
- Acts 6:8-10
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 14
I am praying that you would be protected today.
That you and your people will sense that the Great
Shepherd is tending you and keeping the enemy at
bay. And not only will he keep the enemy at bay,
but your Shepherd will beat the fire out of him if he
dares come close. Safety to you. Rest to you.
Smiles for you as you watch the enemy get
pummeled, thrashed and beaten upon. Amen
JV
“See, it is I who created the blacksmith
who fans the coals into flame
and forges a weapon fit for its work.
And it is I who have created the destroyer to
wreak havoc;
no weapon forged against you will prevail,
and you will refute every tongue that accuses
you.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
and this is their vindication from me,”
declares the Lord.
- Isaiah 54:16-17
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 15
I am praying that you would begin your week with a
deep and abiding peace. One that defies logic and
is deeper than a fleeting emotion. Peace to you.
May your whole person be covered in it and
influenced by it. May it reside with you all day like
an old friend and be there with you when you lay
your head down on the pillow tonight. Shalom to
you. Shalom to you all.
JV
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the
people of God; for anyone who enters God’s
rest also rests from their works, just as God did
from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to
enter that rest, so that no one will perish by
following their example of disobedience.
- Hebrews 4:9-11
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 16
I am praying today that you will hear a word from
God. I mean a real word! Not some cutesy, bunny
rabbit, soft, politically correct word. But may you
hear God speak your name and fire you up to do
war on behalf of the Kingdom of Heaven. May you
be so fired up that you go looking for the enemy
and take it to him. Don't just sit there and do
nothing. How dare he come after your people. How
dare he try and ruin their lives and how dare he
come against God's plan in your homes. Get a
word and get it done!!!! Be a wall for your people
this day!!! Now that's a word!!!
JV
That same night the Lord said to him [Gideon],
“Take the second bull from your father’s herd, the
one seven years old. Tear down your father’s altar
to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
Then build a proper kind of altar to the Lord your
God on the top of this height. Using the wood of the
Asherah pole that you cut down, offer the second
bull as a burnt offering.”
- Judges 6:25-26
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 17
I am praying today that you would be blessed. I
mean that you would know that you have been
touched and winked at by the Creator of Heaven
and Earth. That you would be blown away by the
fact that God would do something so amazing and
powerful, for you. Be ready. Be poised. And when
your blessing comes (and it will come), just know
that you have been noticed, picked out and focused
upon by your Maker. Yes, the Supreme Creator of
ALL that is GOOD, singled you out and moved
towards you this day. Someone needs to give Him
a little praise up in here!!!!
JV
Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah: “Go and
tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of
your father David, says: I have heard your prayer
and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your
life. And I will deliver you and this city from the
hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
“‘This is the Lord’s sign to you that the Lord will do
what he has promised: I will make the shadow cast
by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down
on the stairway of Ahaz.’” So the sunlight went back
the ten steps it had gone down.
- Isaiah 38:4-8
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 18
A Psalm of Truth
By a sinful little man
Lord, I am empty, You are Full.
Lord, I am confused, You are my Straight Path.
Lord, I am tired, You are my Life.
Lord, I am lost, You are my Light.
Lord, I am filled with lust, You are my only true
satisfaction.
Lord, I make excuses, You breathe Truth.
Lord, I am ashamed, You give me grace and more
grace.
Lord, I run away, You relentlessly pursue me.
O my God!!!
You are too Big and too Beautiful to ignore.
So, I lift my face to you and you clean it off.
You are the cleaner of my soul.
The lifter of my head. The one who dances the
dance of life over me. I praise your name!!!
JV
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of
God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you
would have asked him and he would have given
you living water.”
- John 4:10
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 19
In the middle of the prattle and rattle of our clanging
culture, I am asking that God send you a real and
substantive Word. May it be directive, peaceful and
life-giving. This will set it apart from the sensual,
base and consumeristic noise that permeates every
area of your existence and constantly vies for your
attention. May it bring real hope and not some lame
promise thrown at you that is just that ... a lame
promise. Real hope to you, real life to you and a
real Word to you. Listen intently my friends as your
Word may have already left the lips of God and
been spoken over your life.
JV
Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go home and do
as you have said. But first make a small loaf of
bread for me from what you have and bring it to
me, and then make something for yourself and your
son. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel,
says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the
jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord
sends rain on the land.’”
- 1Kings 17:13-14
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 20
A Kindled Fire
Love is like a kindled fire, it must be rightly tended,
too many move to other things,
attention swiftly ended.
The fire just flickers, barely burning,
heat is faintly felt,
if left alone, no feeling shown,
a death blow may be dealt.
So, feed love's fire, stoke it good,
much pleasure it will yield, and when you need its
heart-felt warmth, against life's cold will shield.
JV
When Solomon finished praying, fire came down
from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and
the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the
temple. The priests could not enter the temple of
the Lord because the glory of the Lord filled it.
When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down
and the glory of the Lord above the temple, they
knelt on the pavement with their faces to the
ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the
Lord, saying,
“He is good;
his love endures forever.”
- 2Chonicles 7:1-3
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 21
My prayer is that you will rightly tend your
relationships today. Husbands tend wives and
wives your men. Fathers your sons and mothers
your daughters. Sons, tend your brothers and
sisters. May the Lord of love inhabit your lives
through rightly tended loving relationships, in the
name of love incarnate, Jesus Christ.
-JV
You husbands in the same way, live with
your wives in an understanding way, as with
someone weaker, since she is a woman; and
show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace
of life, so that your prayers will not be
hindered.
- 1Peter 3:7NASB
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 22
May you have no doubts about God's love for you.
His is a large love. May it fill every square inch of
you. His is a hopeful love. May it allow you to see
the light in a dark time. His is a curious love. May it
drive you to live and love in places about which you
thought you would only dream. His is a deep love.
May it carry you ... through times that you thought
would kill you. His is a funny love. May it breathe
into you a laughter so uproarious and soul
cleansing that you sleep with a smile on your face.
Amen
JV
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may
strengthen you with power through his Spirit in
your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in
your hearts through faith. And I pray that you,
being rooted and established in love, may have
power, together with all the Lord’s holy people,
to grasp how wide and long and high and deep
is the love of Christ, and to know this love that
surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled
to the measure of all the fullness of God.
- Ephesians 3:16-19
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 23
If sin is "crouching at your door" (i.e. at Cain's in
Genesis 4:8), then don't go through that door. Stay
away from it. Don't even touch the doorknob. Too
many of us just want to crack the door a wee little
bit and take a peek. No! Absolutely not! No
touching, no peeking, no just one stepping through
the door. I am praying for those of you who have
your hand on the doorknob, to release it now and
step back, or, as the Lord told Cain, "It will master
you." Essentially, "You will be its slave." You will be
owned by it. Too many slaves. Let go of the knob.
JV
Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I will
give this piece of bread when I have dipped it
in the dish.” Then, dipping the piece of bread,
he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan
entered into him.
- John13:26-27
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 24
May the fires of lust that burn in us be extinguished.
May their ravaging effects be averted as we get a
sense of the darkness, the stench and the pain that
their fulfillment would bring. May our appetites for
people and things and power be satiated by Jesus
and Him alone. May the evil hold of the flesh be
crucified and entombed, never to be resurrected.
May freedom be our cry. Yes, a free people we will
be. Free to be fully alive in Christ. Jesus, be Lord of
us. Make our lusts bow to You and then slay them.
Amen.
JV
Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be
my disciple must deny themselves and take up
their cross daily and follow me. For whoever
wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever
loses their life for me will save it. What good is
it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet
lose or forfeit their very self?
- Luke 9:23-25
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 25
Be free from fear, right now, in the name of Jesus.
Be free from shame, in the name of the one who
died because of it. Be free from the regular
beatings that you inflict upon yourself because of
stupid decisions; He died for those too. He
redeems stupidity, shame, regret, pain, fear, all of
their cousins and any distant family members. Let
Him hide you, heal you and hold you. Jesus is good
and big and able to deal with all that you have been
trying to handle yourself. May He show you how
able He is today.
JV
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.
- Psalm 51:10-12
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 26
May Jesus Christ, the face of Grace, look straight
into yours today. May you know that He is not mad
at you. May you know that He wants you close.
May you sense that your shame is not from Him
and that you have a place at His table. Yes, you
belong there. His is also not worried about "How
you are going to turn out". He has the utmost
confidence in His ability to keep you and finish his
purpose in you. He has no doubt that you will do
mighty things for the cause of the Kingdom, but
that's not why He loves you. He loves you because
He does. He just does. That's Grace.
JV
Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies.
Your righteousness is like the highest
mountains,
your justice like the great deep.
You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.
How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!
People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
They feast on the abundance of your house;
you give them drink from your river of delights.
For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.
- Psalm 36:5-9
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 27
Jesus was a manly man. Possessor of the X and Y
and then some. That's why I follow Him. He is a
man's man, a real tough guy. Yet He had children
clamor to sit on His lap. He loved on widows and
lepers and then took a whip after people who
cheated poor people. I especially love that about
Him. I wish I were there to see that scuffle in the
temple. Coins rolling around on the ground, animals
squawking, cheaters being whipped, dust flying,
people screaming and a wild-man ranting about
someone disrespecting His Father's house. He
hung out with, redeemed and gave jobs to the
worst of sinners; then called out religious thuggery
and wanted nothing to do with it. What a man. What
a wild-man. What a friend. What a Lord. Good, but
not safe. Possessor of the X and Y and then some.
JV
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,
because the Lord has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor
and the day of vengeance of our God,
- Isaiah 61:1-2
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 28
A Manly Man is a counter-cultural man. He doesn't
give a rip about contemporary culture. In fact. he
has a bit of a disdain for it. Why? It's fickle...he
hates fickle. Fickle voice, fickle fancy. He even
hates those words. Another voice ... a whisper; he
listens for that voice. Nothing fickle about it. Primal
and ancient, yet young, fresh and newer than
today's dawn. It made the dawn. The sound of
Creation's Maker. The Great Singer of redemption's
song. An ancient and masculine song, sung by the
Maker of Men . He is The Word. Manly men, stand
and listen to Him.
JV
Therefore I will give him a portion among the
great,
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Isaiah 53:12
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 29
My prayer is that you would not listen to the bad
news today, for it is not the real news. The real
news is that God is in control. His kingdom come,
means just that. Yes, there is a very real hope that
is for another day, but Jesus is Lord of today as
well. In fact, He is Lord all day, every day. Our faith
is in Him and His Kingdom ... NOW. Go and live on
behalf of your very now, very real, very much alive
King, Jesus. He is Hope, He is Light, He is Life.
Hallelujah and glory to His substantive and weighty
name. There is no other name like it.
JV
Zacharias said to the angel, “How will I know this
for certain? For I am an old man and my wife is
advanced in years.” The angel answered and said
to him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of
God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to
bring you this good news. And behold, you shall be
silent and unable to speak until the day when these
things take place, because you did not believe my
words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”
- Luke 1:18-20NASB
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 30
Peace to you my friend. I really mean that. May the
hustle and bustle and the rattle and clatter just stop.
May your spirit settle. Shalom to you. All of you. I
mean, to all of your person. Every inch of you.
Peace to your hair, your face, your feet and every
cell that is who you are. The insanity of this weird,
wonderful, wild and bewildered world has taken its
toll and today I ask that Jesus, Lord above it all,
breathe on you. O breath of God, please breathe
life and peace and rescue and rest to all of my
friends today. Amen. So, rest now.
JV
On the evening of that first day of the week, when
the disciples were together, with the doors locked
for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and
stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”
After he said this, he showed them his hands and
side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw
the Lord. Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As
the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And
with that he breathed on them and said,
“Receive the Holy Spirit.
- John 20:19-21
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Day 31
Show Up
Show up, make it,
gotta get there, can't fake it.
The Cave's callin',
a whisper in the dawn,
it's morning, I yawn.
Can't get up, more sleep.
Start to fall, gotta sleep,
hear the call, to be a Wall.
To be a wall, for my people,
They need cover, I gotta make it,
to be a wall, I can't just fake it.
Gotta get there and pray,
show up and stay,
get some stones,
be a wall in my home.
JV
Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the
second time, while he was still confined in the
court of the guard, saying, “Thus says the Lord
who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to
establish it, the Lord is His name, ‘Call to Me
and I will answer you, and I will tell you great
and mighty things, which you do not know.’
- Jeremiah 33:3NASB
Date: My Notes:
WORDS Month Twelve
Epilogue
“Look, he is coming with the clouds,”
and “every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him” and all peoples on
earth “will mourn because of him.”
So shall it be! Amen.
- Revelation 22:13
Last Words …
I have entitled this epilogue “Last Words”. And
while these are the last words of this particular
volume, we humans can never really utter last
words. “Why”? You may ask. It’s because, Jesus is
the last word.
And He always has the last word too. He said so, “I
am the Alpha and the Omega ... the Lord God, who
is and was and is to come” (Rev. 1:8). You can’t
ever get the last word on Him. He is always before
and after everything you and I can and might say,
no matter how beautiful, eloquent and elegant.
Therefore, if we wish for our words to mean
anything, and have any lasting, reverberating
effects, they must be founded, grounded upon and
inhabited by Him. So my prayer for your words, my
words and the words uttered by those with whom
we live, move and have our being, is that they be
instigated, kindled and sustained by Him who
always has the last word ... The Word Himself. It is
in His name this volume is humbly placed in your
hands.
Jeff Voth, written on the deck next to my cave,
5/27/14
WORDS Epilogue
Ancient Words
Ancient words, old in time
kindle yours, breathe on mine.
Forming, guiding, help to see,
eternal verbiage
speak through me
JV
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