Pray for yourself: Father of Glory, take me into more of Christ today.

Pour out the Holy Spirit on me, bringing me the wisdom and revelation that comes through the knowledge of your Son. Reveal and unveil the beauty of Jesus in whole new ways.

Father, open the eyes of my understanding that I might know so much better all that your beloved Son truly is today, sitting at your right hand as my Redeemer. Cause me to live every day in the full light of his supremacy over my life.

I step into this journey with great expectations! May the Lord of Heaven go before me each step of the way, bringing me into more of the fullness of life found in his spectacular supremacy.

Pray for yourself: Father, take me into more of Christ today.

I ask that you show me greater manifestations of his glory, especially the many wonders displayed by his spectacular supremacy!

Take me beyond keeping him simply at the center of who I am, where I’m headed, what I’m doing, and how I get blessed.

Instead, take me into the full extent of his supremacy, where I am always living at the center of who HE is, where HE is headed, what HE is doing, and how HE gets blessed.

Show me new ways to give him the supremacy—the preeminence, the singular allegiance, and the decisive devotion—in every area of my life.

Pray for yourself: Loving Father, take me into more of Christ today.

Glorify your Son to me and then through me so that he might glorify you in me and through me!

Draw me into the eternal circle of love the two of you have always shared in fellowship with the Spirit.

Spread abroad in my heart that love of the Trinity by the ministry of the Holy Spirit!

Father, may my love for your Son overflow with the same delight, honor, and affection you have for him!

Bring me into deeper and deeper intimacy with him in the fullness of his supremacy, starting this very moment.

Pray for yourself: Father, take me into more of Christ today.

I thank you for everything you have already given me in your Son, even when I didn’t deserve such blessings. With Augustine, I can testify to Jesus:

Now, Father, by the Holy Spirit, continue this transforming work in my life.

Continue to shatter my deafness with the authority of his voice.

Continue to scatter my blindness with the blaze of his majesty.

Continue to fill my soul with the aroma of his sovereign, saving reign.

Continue to breathe into my spirit his person and presence and power.

Father, I desire to drink deeply from the river of riches found in Christ Jesus, now and forever. Let all of this happen for Jesus’ praise.

Pray for yourself: Holy Father, take me into more of Christ today.

As Malachi prophesied, from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, make the name of your Son great in every place on the earth.

But let this come to pass right now in my walk with Jesus as you fulfill the promises found in the many names given to him in your Word.

May his nature and his works revealed in his many names be seen in and through me. I ask for the spread of his name and his fame to increase through me where I live.

Show me how to live in a way that reveres what the many names of Jesus proclaim. May my devotion to him reveal that he is as infinitely treasured to me here on earth just as he already is in heaven.

Empower my daily journey under his lordship so that I cause the name of the Lord to be praised everywhere I go!

Prayer for yourself: Gracious Father, take me into more of Christ today.

I ask that your Son, the Living Word, would open up the written Word of the Scriptures and cause my heart to burn within me as it fills me with the purposes and promises that are fulfilled in him!

Jesus said that all you have now belongs to him. So, I invite the Holy Spirit to take all that is included in the reign of Jesus and make it known to me by how the Spirit illuminates your Word to show me more of the glories and wonders of Christ.

I don’t just want to read about your Son in your Word, Father. Rather, I want to encounter the one who is both the author and the subject and the reason of your Word—who himself is called the Word of Life!

Pray for yourself: Father of all grace and mercy, take me into more of Christ today.

Reveal to me more of his majesty as my alpha and omega, my beginning and end, my first and last in everything, now and into all ages to come.

Deepen my passion for him as I give myself to him as my true identity and thus my everlasting destiny—the one who is the source of all things and the culmination of all things!

More and more, Father, I want to live and move and have my being in your precious Son alone! Truly, he is my great reward, my total satisfaction, my inexhaustible treasure, my all in all!

Expand my capacity to see him and savor him as fully as he deserves—with all my heart and soul and strength.

Pray for yourself: Mighty Father, take me into more of Christ today.

I ask for this because I see my Lord Jesus high and lifted up, seated at your right hand on the Throne of Glory, worthy of all praise in the majesty of his supremacy. That’s why I want more of him in my life, and even more, why I want him to have more of me.

Therefore, please increase within my soul the kind of praises heard from the armies of heaven who are even now singing to my Redeemer King: “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth is full of your Glory!”

Reveal to me greater depths and breadths of who my exalted Savior is and what his kingdom is all about.

In my daily commitments, may he have no rivals. In all my relationships, may he have no equals! In all that I desire, may he remain forever the Incomparable One—in a class by himself with no duplicates or substitutes.

By your Spirit, cause his infinite significance to eclipse the claims that any others might make on me.

Thrill me increasingly with how he outranks every other being in Heaven, earth, or hell.

May he retain the singular focus of my praises, just as he will be the focus of all praise from all creation for all ages to come.

Magnify him to me afresh this day as both sovereign and supreme! Lift him up in my heart so powerfully that I continually delight in him—not only as all I need or as all I want but for what he truly is: ALL I HAVE.

Your precious Son is my everything!

Pray for yourself: God and Father of my salvation, take me into more of Christ today.

Take me into more of the wonders of the saving work of his incarnation.

As I review some truths about that miracle of the Son of God’s incarnation shared in this video text below, I ask you to impact my heart with them.

As I go line by line, my prayer is that the realities to which these words point will come alive in me as never before to begin transforming my whole walk with Jesus.

Forgive me for how little I have appreciated all that it means to say that your dear Son was willing to become flesh of our flesh, bone of our bones—not for a moment but forever and ever.

As you reflect on these next insights, pray that the Holy Spirit will give you a much deeper revelation of the power of the truths declared by each one. Then, ask the Father to shape your relationship with Jesus today based on the impact and implications of his incarnation.

Start by spending a couple of minutes taking a fresh look at the sacrifice of Jesus. For example:

• Behold how the gory cross is the everlasting glory of God’s Son, slain for the sins of the world.
• Behold how his earthly agony provides insights into holiness and the love that’s at the heart of the Trinity.
• Behold how his crucible gives us insights into the depth of our curse, requiring nothing less for our redemption.
• Behold the full extent of the costs and the benefits of his death for us.
• Behold how his spectacular supremacy is displayed and magnified in all of its power by the victories obtained by his sacred sufferings—by all he achieved for us out of his dying in our place.

Then, pray for yourself: Father, take me into more of Christ today.

Take me into more of the redeeming work of his cross until I understand more fully what it means to be crucified with him so that more of the victories achieved at the cross might be lived out through me as he lives in me.

Pour out within me clearer, deeper insights into the sufferings of the Lamb who was slain. Show me his wounds, something like Thomas experienced. Show me how every wound bleeds with saving glory.

Pierce my heart with the revelation of the one who was pierced through for my transgressions.

Then fill me with the praises of heaven, where saints and angels proclaim: “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain . . . to the Lamb be all praise and majesty and honor and riches and power forever and ever.”

Spend a couple of minutes reflecting on our Master’s resurrection victory over the powers of death. For example:

• The resurrection is the outbreaking of something utterly new. In Christ alive, the future has arrived. His resurrection is the first fruit of a whole new heaven and earth. Christ himself embodies this new creation as he walks and works among his people right now.
• Furthermore, in God’s eyes, we have already been raised from the dead with Christ. The Bible says we’re seated with him in heavenly places, so that today, we participate in the victorious life of the new creation that still awaits its fullest revelation at the end. Already, the risen one has breathed his everlasting life into our spirits.
• The resurrection guarantees that none of our labors for the glory of Christ will ever be futile. Every struggle—the exalting of his name, the spreading of his fame, the extending of his reign—will bear fruit that remains. Therefore, Peter says, “In his great mercy, God has given us a new birth, and a hope that is alive, and it is alive because Jesus Christ rose from the dead. Paul says, “So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ reigns.”

Then, pray for yourself: Father, take me into more of Christ today.

Open up to me more experiences of living in his victory over all the forces of death and darkness.

Show me how to walk in the newness of life as one who has been crucified, buried, and raised with your Son—united with him forever.

The Lord Jesus Christ is alive forevermore! He holds the keys of death and Hades. He is the mighty conqueror. Therefore, I pray that the same Spirit that raised him from the dead in a glorious body would give resurrection power to everything I am called to do for Jesus’ kingdom.

Father, lead me every single day in Jesus’ triumphal procession that emerged from the tomb and has marched on through the centuries. Do so in a way that spreads through me the matchless message of the gospel—the truth that proclaims, “Christ lives, and therefore you can live also!”

May my life and my words manifest to everyone: “It is no longer I who live, but the risen, reigning Christ who lives in me.”

Start by spending a few minutes reflecting on the ascension, coronation, and enthronement of our Redeemer King. For example:

• Today, Jesus sits at God’s right hand. His ascension was the official inauguration and installation of the King of the Universe. It was the ratification of ALL aspects of his redemptive work. It was the proof of his incomparable dignity and total supremacy. It was the proclamation that he has no competitors and no successors.
• From that moment forward, Jesus became the locus of ultimate honor, power, and authority. From that moment forward, Jesus also became the focus of God’s activity in the Church and among the nations. Today, Jesus is not waiting to be crowned as King; he’s waiting only to be recognized as King.
• When we talk about the coronation of his ascension, we must remember this is the same Jesus we read about in the Gospels. “The dust of the earth resides on the throne of heaven” (John Duncan). What the incarnation united, the ascension sealed. Even though he sits at God’s right hand in the fullness of his deity, he is still, at the same time, a real human being, bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh.
• Christ is Lord of the entire universe. As Redeemer of the world, the ascended Lord is the goal of human history, the focal point of the longings of the human race, and the answer to the yearnings of every heart.

Then, pray for yourself: Father of eternal love, take me into more of Christ today.

Pour into me fresh revelations of your Son as the King of kings and Lord of lords!

Teach me how to live for him as one who, united to him, has already been seated with him far above all rule and authority and over every other power.

I surrender my all to him, who has total authority in heaven and on earth.

I no longer live in fear—fear of death, fear of judgment, fear of the demonic—because you encompass me in Jesus’ kingdom, full of grace and glory.

Therefore, cause him to rule over me so fully that everything within me that might oppose him will be put down and vanish.

Therefore, cause my heart to bow more fully before him the way one day every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord!

Empower me to lift his name above every other name—by my words and obedience to all he asks of me.

Release my tongue to openly confess his saving kingship before all.

Unleash within me more of the joyous celebrations going on around his throne as saints in heaven and on earth declare:

Reflect on Christ’s fourfold revolution by worshiping Jesus using the music and words of Charles Wesley’s hymn “And Can It Be.” Click here.

Declare out loud the words below as one form of a prayerful response for all Jesus has done for you.

Pray that the reality of these words might revolutionize the life of God’s people in a genuine Christ awakening—first among Christ followers where you live, then for believers throughout the Church worldwide, and finally through the expanding impact of the gospel among the nations.

Pray for yourself: Father, take me into more of Christ today.

First, give me a glimpse into the magnitude and magnificence of your creation. Then, fascinate me with your creative genius extended through my Savior!

Cause me to stand back in awe at all you have done and are continuing to do throughout the material universe. Then, expand my capacity to become even more awestruck with the Savior who made it all. Inspire me to live every day in increasing awe of all he is, in whom is the life that is the light of those made in your image.

By your creative Word, speak into me and fill me with more and more of the riches of Jesus—in the same way that you simply spoke your Word and created everything that exists.

Out of nothing, you brought forth this entire cosmos through your eternal Son by whom all things were created in heaven and earth, visible and invisible. Even so, now create in me a new heart of passion for exalting the glory of and serving the purposes of my ever-living Creator Redeemer.

Speak into me a much bolder faith in Christ so that, like all creation around me, I too may thrive and be productive for your kingdom—trusting you to fulfill your promises to me in him.

As you did in the beginning of the old creation and will do again when you bring forth the new heaven and earth, transform my daily walk so that I may truly flourish for your praises, becoming increasingly fruitful in how I show and share Jesus and the transforming re-creation of his saving grace.

Just as all visible nature declares your glory, may the wonders of who I am—as both created and re-created in the image of God—manifest the glories of the reigning Redeemer who has made it all possible.

Just as your Son upholds the entire universe right now by his powerful Word—holding everything together at this hour by his universal authority—even so by the full force of his supremacy, please uphold and hold together every facet of my daily life in him. Every day when the sun rises anew, may the SON rise anew within my heart.

Pray for yourself: Father of all the ages, take me into more of Christ today.

Hallelujah! I thank you that your Son inhabits time and eternity, declaring the end from the beginning!

Even so, I want him to fully inhabit my life and reign supreme—every day, every minute, every hour.

I want him to take charge of the direction of my life—from the beginning to the end and on into the coming ages.

Therefore, Father, cause my “history” to become fully wrapped up in “His Story” so that you may fulfill every facet of the place you have decreed for me within your eternal plan—a plan to sum up everything under Jesus as Lord.

Hallelujah! Ruled by his sovereign direction, the path of world history is moving toward its grand culmination, the consummation of what you designed before anything came into being.

Therefore, I pray that you will ensure that my life also fulfills my ordained destiny in Christ more with every passing day, leading to the fulfillment of your grand intentions for why you created me and saved me to begin with.

Hallelujah! The Lord Jesus Christ is truly the Preeminent One, the Supreme One—in time, space, and history. It is all about him.

Accordingly, please ensure the same is true for me in my union with Jesus. May those who later read the record of my life clearly see that I was all about Jesus!

Pray for yourself: Sovereign Father, take me into more of Christ today.

Right now, your Son holds full sway as the “ruler of kings on earth!”

Even so, by your Spirit, please deepen and expand his reign over my daily walk with him.

Right now, Jesus’ claim to be Lord of lords places limits on all human authorities, whether they realize it at this moment or not.

Even so, by your Spirit, may his reign fully become the center and circumference of my life, placing limits on all that I do so that everything I do is focused exclusively on glorifying his name.

Right now, Jesus is calling all earthly authorities to account before the throne of heaven, whether they hear his voice at this moment or not.

Even so, by your Spirit, make me aware of anything in my life resisting his lordship, avoiding obedience to his will, or failing to give him the devotion he rightfully deserves.

Right now, the King of kings is challenging, even subverting, the schemes of world rulers, pushing back against their claims of ultimate power. He is doing so primarily through the advance of the gospel as it proclaims the irrefutable, supreme declaration of his saving reign among the nations, whether they recognize him at this moment or not.

Even so, by your Spirit, fill my heart with the truths of the gospel and empower me for the work of the gospel so that, for Jesus’ sake, I might be fully involved in advancing the gospel right where I live.

One day, all the crowns of all world rulers will reside upon Jesus’ head alone. In that hour, his right to reign that has been prevailing all along will finally be recognized, understood, affirmed, and certified by every ruler and every authorityin heaven and on earth and under the earth.

Therefore, at this very moment in your presence, I want to swear my total surrender to my Lord. I pledge my total commitment to him, saying:

I pledge my allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, Lamb of God, King of kings, Lord of lords, our Creator and Redeemer, and the sole purpose for our existence. And I pledge allegiance to the kingdom over which he reigns, one family in heaven and on earth, reconciled by his blood and bound together by his Spirit, summoned to live for his reigning glory forever and ever. Amen!

Pray for yourself: Dear Father, from whom the whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name, take me into more of Christ today.

I know that earth’s peoples have become my Savior’s inheritance, according to your Word. In turn, he also has become their ultimate destiny. He holds the final word on the outcome of all humankind. The entire human race will appear at his feet for his final decisions.

Even so, I rejoice at belonging to him and being destined in him.I ask you to guide my journey until I stand before him face-to-face.

No legitimate activity of human existence escapes his claims. Christ points to every square foot of the earth and declares, “That is mine.” And the same is true of every one of earth’s nations and peoples. He says, in essence, “They are mine.”

That is why I am asking you to work by your Spirit in my heart to ensure that every fiber of my being keeps saying all day long, “I am yours!”

Christ’s reign engages every human domain: Finance, commerce, entertainment, education, industry, labor, arts, sciences, family, and culture. Christ’s reign encompasses all the conditions of the human race: The least—socially, culturally, economically; and above all, the lost—morally and spiritually.

My prayer, therefore, is that by your Spirit, the Lord Jesus may take charge of every domain and every facet of my daily existence in union with him.

Right now, his ministry from the Throne continues to press forward to achieve justice for the oppressed and deliverance for the poor. Just as he was in the day of his flesh, he continues today to be concerned for all those without God and without hope—physically, socially, economically, and above all, spiritually.

By your Spirit, place in me a heart of compassion so that I am just like Jesus in his sacrificial service as I minister to every person I meet.

Right now, Christ’s redeeming reign is becoming increasingly visible among the peoples of the earth as he penetrates the nations with multiplied manifestations of the triumphs of his grace through the gospel’s impact on individuals and peoples and nations. He is bringing forth from all the nations a multitude that cannot be numbered to follow and serve him forever in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit and to the greater glory of his Father.

Even so, by your Spirit, please incorporate me more fully into this grand, expanding, saving mission so that through my life, many others near me and also in other places and among different peoples may enter into the great salvation that awaits them through my Lord Jesus Christ.

Pray for yourself: Glorious Father, dispel any darkness in me by your holy light and take me into more of Christ today.

Hallelujah! Father, I praise you that the Lamb on the Throne defies all human categories; there is no language that can adequately describe him. He is the Incomparable One! He outranks every other being in heaven, earth, or hell. He holds a position of unrivaled distinction, prestige, and majesty. He is the joy of all peoples, the desire of all the nations. He is the Victorious One.

I praise you that none of his enemies—visible or invisible, principalities or powers—will ever prevail against him. Today, he is defeating all his foes—both human and demonic—and doing so unconditionally. He will ultimately emerge triumphant, permanently unthreatened, unhindered, and unopposed by all opposition! He will reign FOREVER over all the powers of darkness.

This is why I seek your face. I pray that by the ministry of your Spirit, my Lord Jesus would destroy the works of the devil wherever they are coming against my life—to render Satan powerless, crushing him under my feet.

Almost as if he were physically present, may my conquering Savior be actively at work in my life day by day, just like he is doing among the nations as he continues to subdue his enemies, dethrone evil rulers, and bring them out at his feet for final disposal.

Hallelujah! I praise you, Father, that the impact of Christ’s authority over the hosts of wickedness shines most tangibly where the gospel spreads among the nations. His triumph over Satan is magnified right now wherever he engages evil powers by the truth of the gospel proclaimed and claimed by sinners like me.

Wherever hope in Christ is heralded and believed, a limit is set on the devil’s deceptions. Wherever the Church is planted and begins to thrive, we witness the breakthrough of Jesus’ reign as battlefields become harvest fields.

Even so, by your Spirit, please engage me fully with Jesus in this marvelous mission of salvation so that through my witness and the spreading of the gospel through my life, your Son might display the defeat of Satan’s armies as he brings more and more of the redeemed out of the domain of darkness into the kingdom of truth and grace.

Pray for yourself: Loving Father,take me into more of Christ today.

Right now, your reigning Son is the head of the Body, the Church! He is the foundation, the rock upon which every facet of the Church is built.

That’s why I join with all your people to submit to his lordship, his will, his blueprints, and his purposes for us as his people!

At the same time, I join myself to your people as we function together to build ourselves up in Christ and in his love.

Therefore, I ask you to enable me to be a healthy member of my own community of faith, serving the Lord Jesus as I use the gifts the Spirit has given me to bring other believers into more of the fullness and supremacy of Christ and his kingdom purposes.

Even more marvelous is the truth that right now, Christ is the head over all things for the sake of the Church, the fullness of him who fills all things in all ways. Therefore, from him, the whole body derives its life and growth.

As our head, he defines us, inspires us, guides us, sustains us, coordinates us, energizes us, directs us, defends us, and builds us.

Therefore, Father, by your Spirit, fully involve me, whatever it may cost me, to help my fellow believers become wholly alive to the whole work of the whole Christ in our midst.

May I play a greater role in how Jesus inspires, sustains, and strengthens the transforming work going on among all his people all the time.

In addition, right now, the Church provides the primary manifestation of the reign of your Son in this age by both our inward light and our outward mission.

The Lord Jesus Christ expresses his continuing presence and activity among the nations most visibly and most tangibly through his people. The Church is his base of operations. It’s his beachhead for kingdom advances in our communities as well as nations.

Because of this, Father, please teach me and empower me to encourage your people to embrace this high and holy calling. Begin by causing my own life to become a mini “base of operations” for spreading the saving reign of Christ to others.

But even more, cause me to be so joined with other Christ followers where I live that together we might share him and his gospel with the world around us, doing so as a team—doing so as a way of life.

Pray for yourself: Wonderful Father, the God of all hope, take me into more of Christ today.

I come before you in this moment with joyful expectation! I’m convinced you are doing something more in response to my prayers these past twenty days than I could ever imagine! I believe something truly good is coming from you—coming my way!

Fill me today with abounding joy and peace as I trust in your glorious Son, my Savior—so that I may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit throughout all the days ahead!

Your Word teaches me that with Christ, there is always so much more. It says we should rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. It says that Christ in the midst of your people—at work in my life—is the hope of all the glorious things to come.

Father, this is why I ask you to cause me to abound more and more with hope in Christ.

Your Word says we’ve been “born again into a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” Your Word says we should understand the present time and wake up because our salvation is nearer. It says that because the day is almost here, we should put on the armor of light by clothing ourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Father, this is why I ask you to cause me to abound more and more with hope in Christ.

Your Word says we should continue in Christ so that we may be confident when he appears because we will be like him; we will see him as he is. Therefore, we are told that those with this hope in him keep purifying themselves even as he is pure.

Father, this is why I ask you to cause me to abound more and more with hope in Christ.

May your Spirit build in me a growing anticipation of the Consummation so that every day I keep striving to walk with Jesus in a way compatible with and preparatory for all that is yet to come by the cosmic revelation of the saving reign of Jesus.

Your Word says I should rejoice in the Lord always. Why? Because the Lord Jesus is near. That means he is at this very moment coming upon me. He’s invading me. He’s ready to breakthrough to me in new ways.

Father, this is what I want. This is what I long for. Bring it to pass.

This much your Word makes clear: With the Lord Jesus Christ, there is always so much more because where sin abounds, through his saving work and redeeming reign, your grace abounds so much more—every time—up to and long after the end of this age.

Therefore, reveal to me how wonder-filled and promise-filled your Son truly is. Keep me always ready to receive and enter into his surprising, unprecedented, inexplicable, and always amazing interventions in my life as well as in my generation.

Take me into a life in Jesus filled each day with fresh anticipations of seeing more of the power and glory of his righteousness and love at any moment.

Congratulations! You have made it to the end of our
“21-Day Journey Into More of Christ.”

How fully prepared are you to participate in the reign of Christ when it breaks through in all his glory at the consummation of the ages?

At the same time, how much do you really want—even long for—his reign to come down upon us right now, right where we live, in our daily walk with him?

Are you living daily in openness to receive and become fully involved in the Spirit’s work to give increasing approximations of the consummation in Christ Jesus—in your own life, church, city, nation, or among the peoples of the earth?

Are you faithfully praying—are you seeking, watching, and waiting—for nothing less than fresh revelations of Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit to awaken God’s people to the fullness of the supremacy of Christ? Are you faithfully seeking God’s face for Jesus’ reigning glory to be manifested to us, for us, over us, before us, within us, and through us?

Are you willing to invite him to come upon you to conquer you, doing so as needed over and over again—doing so in ways that foreshadow how he will one day come upon and conquer the entire universe to bring to completion the saving fullness of his kingdom?

With those reflections in mind, why not end your journey by proclaiming this final declaration to Heaven. Try praying it out loud, even if you are alone. It might feel more personal if you do. Or seek out someone else to pray it with you, either doing so in unison or responsively. Another possibility: Invite your small group or your congregation to join in this prayer, with one person reciting the parts in bold and the others responding.