Jesus, as I look again at the parable You gave me, let me learn all You want to teach me from it. Each of the first two guys received a valuable coin and did something with it. That coin not only represents the human life I was given, it also represents the right of passage I was given into the Kingdom of God. So, help me decide to allow God to empower me to be born AGAIN. Make me like the first man; help me take this new power life God gives me and share it with at least ten other people. Help me be just like the first guy and use my human life and my power life and multiply my life and new birth by helping at least ten other people into the Kingdom of God.

Jesus, the second guy, in Your parable, multiplied his life by helping five others get into the Kingdom of God. But, the third one was only concerned about his own personal safety; help me not be like him. He just wanted to make sure he maintained a favorable relationship with his boss; so, he did nothing to help anyone else. Show me that salvation (the right of passage into the Kingdom) is being made available for everyone; make it clear to me that no one got left out. You died on the cross for EVERYONE; but, it has to be accepted on an individual basis. Teach me that it is a sad thing that some people reject the greatest gift known to man.

Jesus, You were raised from the dead to provide EVERYONE with eternal life; it is mine. If I decide to accept You and Your Kingdom, I will have one extremely valuable coin in my hand. Since You made this valuable coin of salvation available to every person, everywhere, each of us has to decide what we are going to do with it. Are we going to accept it and put it to work; or, just wrap it up in a napkin and leave it untouched until You come back to see what we did with it? Help me take FULL advantage of everything You give me.

Jesus, help me decide to accept Your healing and helping power into my own life. And, help me learn how to use spiritual principles to be very successful in relationships, marriage, family, friendships, business, and my career. Then help me decide to invest in the lives of other people by sharing what I have received from You with them. As I receive Your salvation and am healed from my problems with spirituality, my life won’t be the only one that becomes better. My breakthroughs in all these areas will become the tools for me to able to use to help my friends with their life’s issues and their successes. Show me that, THAT’S how I will be able to let others in on these wonderful principles.

Jesus, when You come back, I will be able to present all those lives You have helped me invest in; and, this is where it gets exciting. Help me teach others how to be successful in relationships, marriage, family, friendships, business, and their career; that will be an exciting life for me and them. Help me remember those ten cities the first guy got. Those are eternal opportunities to reign with You over actual, assigned places; no boredom for me. I am going to be having a very exciting life using God’s principles of relationships, as I rule over all the places He gives me. Help me remember the last sentence in Revelation 22:5. It says: “And they will REIGN for ever and ever.”  That will be me, because I want to and am willing to “do what it takes.”