You are from everlasting to everlasting

Restorer and Righteous Father, You are from everlasting to everlasting. You are worthy of all our praise and thanks! Once again, we rejoice and revel in Your great goodness toward us all throughout the previous month. You guided us. Guarded us! Gladdened our hearts with Your very presence!

You gave us all we needed

You gave us all we needed to live and honor You in the passing month. O Lord, You also graciously and gallantly defended and delivered us from our enemies both in the spiritual and physical realms.

May Your glorious name be blessed

“O may Your glorious name be blessed and exalted above all blessing and praise! You alone are the LORD. You have made the heavens, the heaven of heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all of them and the heavenly host bows down before You. You are the LORD God” (Nehemiah 9:5b-7a).

You deserve all honor and glory

Indeed, You deserve all honor and glory for Your continuous care and concern for us. We are glad and grateful that You want Your very best for us in this life and in the life soon to come.

We confess we often fail

Lord, we confess that we often fail You. We miss the mark. But we are thankful that “You are a God of forgiveness, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness” (Nehemiah 9:17b) In Your love and compassion for us, You do not forsake us or fail us. Such is Your great goodness and grace toward us throughout our lives, yes, even through the first quarter of this year.

You have brought us into a new month

Now, in Your faithfulness and favor, You have brought us into a new month, April 2021. While we do not know all that will be happening in April 2021, we do know that in it, Lord willing, we will be celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. These two events changed the course of human history and destiny.

Oh how great a sacrifice was the death of Christ

Oh how great a sacrifice was the death of Christ, our Lord, on our behalf! “For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person-though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die-but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:6-8).

Thank You Father

Thank You Father for demonstrating Your supreme act of unwavering love for us at the time when we were at our most undesirable.

Oh how glorious is the resurrection of Christ

Oh how glorious is the resurrection of Christ from the dead “on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:4)! Because Christ was indeed raised from the dead, we have unshakable and unwavering confidence that our preaching is not in vain. Our faith is not in vain. We are not still in our sins. Those who have fallen asleep in Christ have not perished. We are of all people not most to be pitied (see 1 Corinthians 15:13-19).

Holy Father, we thank You

Above all, Holy Father, we thank You that the resurrection of Christ our Lord, provided proof that You had fully accepted His sacrifice on behalf of sinners of all ages. No other sacrifice is needed for sin. Moreover, the resurrection is the one proof You have  given to all men and serves as a solemn reminder to all humanity that You will one day judge the world in righteousness through Jesus Christ (see Acts 17:31).

We Look forward to celebrating the death and resurrection of our Lord

With glad and grateful hearts, we look forward to celebrating the death and resurrection of our Lord on April 2-4, 2021. Gracious Lord, we acknowledge that You know all things and are in control of all things that will happen in April 2021. As such, we humbly and heartily dedicate it to You in the precious and powerful name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, One God in Three Persons.

Father, accomplish what concerns us

Our heavenly Father, in Your mercy and might, please accomplish what concerns our families, our friends and fellow-believers, and us; Israel – Your chosen people; Your Church – that is, Your called-out people, and Your world – made up of all the continents and the lands You created under the heavens – for the glory of Your holy name.

We surrender to You

We surrender to You to direct our path into Your greater purposes for our lives in April 2021. We need You desperately in such a time as this. Please, let Your good hand be upon us as it was on Ezra and Nehemiah of old – making them successful in their service for You. Abba Father, reveal more of Yourself to us in April 2021!

Refine us

Refine us! Revive us! Renew us! Restore us to our first love! Refresh our hearts in Christ! Redeem us from all evil (see Genesis 48:16)! Rescue us from perverse and evil men; for not all have faith (see 2 Thessalonians 3:2). Rule and reign in our hearts! Remember us and act graciously on our behalf in April 2021!

Dear Father, we look to You

Dear Father, we look to You to turn the evil that is meant against us into good for us (see Genesis 50:20) in April 2021. Be pleased, also, O Lord, to turn the curse that is meant against us into a blessing for us (see Deuteronomy 23:5; Nehemiah 13:2). Bless all those who bless us (see Genesis 12:3)!

Gracious Lord, please bestow Your favor upon us

Gracious Lord, please bestow Your favor upon us! We thank You for the blessed privileges of knowing You and making You known in such a time as this! We pray all these things in the matchless and marvelous name of Jesus Christ our Lord! Amen!