There are never enough Sundays in the month to unpack all the righteousness verses we’ve written in our Write the WORD study. Therefore, on this final Sunday of March, let’s approach these last few days of the month by surveying some powerful scriptures and praying the WORD together today.
Because so many of the women reading this are wives, mothers, and/or grandmothers, let’s specifically frame our prayers as intercession for our precious ones.
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,
your justice like the great deep.
You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.
Psalm 36:6
Lord Almighty, I praise You for the height and depth of Your righteousness. Your power knows no limits. You are mighty to save. I pray Your righteousness — and Your love — would be known by my children and grandchildren, and that they would worship and adore You.
The righteousness of the upright delivers them,
but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.
Proverbs 11:6
Jesus, may my loved ones be declared righteous by placing their faith in You. I pray their identity in You would both call and equip them to live righteous, upright lives and that those good choices would protect them and bring them joy. Deliver my children and grandchildren from evil. May their desire to live for You and please You be greater than any desire for evil. Holy Spirit, call them to live faithfully for You!
In the way of righteousness there is life;
along that path is immortality.
Proverbs 12:28
God, thank you for the eternal life we have because of Your gift of grace. Jesus, thank you for Your sacrificial death that makes immortality possible for mortal humans. Holy Spirit, draw my children, and their children, and future generations of our family, to place their faith in You — to walk in the way of righteousness and find the “life that is truly life.”
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst
for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Matthews 5:6
O Lord, make us hungry and thirsty for You! I pray that nothing and no one besides You would bring satisfaction in my life, or the lives of my loved ones. Let every other gift pale in comparison to the greatest gift of knowing You and abiding in You. As we know You more, make us want to live more for You, in You, and through You. Make the way of righteousness be not a way of drudgery or duty, but one of delight and joy!
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given to you as well.
Matthew 6:33
Lord, bless our family with a single-minded focus on You. I pray that advancing Your kingdom and Your righteousness would consume our hearts and minds. As we choose to daily seek and serve You, may all other blessings flow in and be kept as far-distant seconds, thirds, fourths, etc. I pray our chief aim — the overriding, consuming focus of our thoughts and desire of our hearts — would be for You.
For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—
a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,
just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
Romans 1:17
O Jesus, let them know — let me model — that righteousness is only found by faith. Forgive us for venturing off the path to counterfeit, manufactured righteousness that really isn’t righteousness at all. Allow us to reject both legalism (the “have-to” list) and liberalism (the “don’t have to” dismissal of the list). Allow my children, and our entire family, to live in that sweet spot of abiding in You. Call us to live righteous lives … not to earn Your favor, but because “by faith we have been saved by grace.” Reveal this truth. Let them see it, embrace it, and walk in it! Let the truth they have been taught in our home become the reality of their lives!
November may be synonymous with “giving thanks,” but every month — every day — is a good time to thank God. Our list of reasons to thank Him is unending, with each day bringing new blessings. In this week’s teaching video, Laura shares a suggestion (prompted by King David) for another reason to praise Him. We hope you’ll enjoy her thoughts, inspired by this month’s Write the WORD bookmark.
