Pray through your creeds...

--I believe in God, the Father Almighty
Thank you God that your are my Father. You adopted me and called me your own. You called me from darkness and death, and you breathed new life into me, marking me as your own, and giving me inheritance in heaven! You are mighty and you alone are God, there is none like you, and there is no other! You are a God perfect in all of your ways, and infinitely above me. You are the strong man who keeps me safe.
--Maker of heaven and earth
All of creation is yours, and you made everything perfect! From something so large as the space and all the stars within, to something so small as the atom and all the parts within. All of creation praises your name and stands as proof of your goodness and your perfection. A grand, majestic designer who intimately created everything and knows all his creation by name!
--And in Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ! The name above all names! The man who was fully man and fully God! Perfect in all his ways. All the prophets and patriarchs looked forward to him, and now we look back to him! Oh, so sweet a name, the embodiment of your love for us!
--His only begotten son, our Lord
While we are adopted children, Christ Jesus is the only son who shares the full likeness of you our Father! We are mere humans, mortal and created. But Jesus is not like us in that regard! He alone is the Son of God who has the essence of our Father! He is Lord and we serve him! Though he sympathizes with our humanness, he is God incarnate, and when we see Him, we see you, God!
--Was conceived by the holy spirit
While he is a man, he is not like us. He is the only begotten of God! While we are born from fleshly fathers, Your Spirit came upon Mary and from You he was conceived! Fully man, yet fully God! Emanuel, God with us!
--Born of the virgin Mary
Such special privilege that was bestowed on Mary! Found lovely before God and was blessed by bringing fourth our Lord! Thank you Lord for keeping your promise to Eve, in that even though childbirth will be marred by sin, through childbirth your Redemption will come! Mary was the vessel you chose, pure as a virgin, never known by a man, and in that innocence you thwarted the wisdom of man and by your Spirit brought fourth our King!
--Suffered under Pontius Pilate
Your only begotten, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, was subjected to death by one of your magistrates! A man who should have bent the knee and taken his place as subject to his Lord, that was the man by which Your son suffered! May we (as we will when we purely follow you) suffer for Your namesake, and know that this suffering is temporal. May we know that as our Lord suffered and was hated by men, so we will suffer and will be hated by men! Thank you that our suffering is not what we deserve, and may we bless those who persecute us, even as our Lord cried our forgiveness as he hung in our place!
--Was crucified, died, and was buried
This was the death we deserved! Thank you so much for your grace and mercy! May we never forget that is was not free, but our Lord payed for it dearly! He was crucified for us, died our death, and was buried in our grave! May we rejoice and praise your name and never forget this pure love!
--He descended into hell
It was hell that we deserved, and the just punishment for our sin was poured unjustly on the innocent lamb! May we never forget this! We deserved hell and we were snatched from is grasp by innocent blood, the blood of the Son of God!
--On the third day he rose from the dead
Praise God that death could not hold our Lord! Because Jesus conquered hell and death, so we shall never die and never taste the fires of hell! Without the resurrection Jesus would have saved no one, but to finish his work, and display his deity and establish his authority over sin and death, he DID rise from the dead!
--He ascended into heaven
Now that the plan of redemption has been accomplished, he awaits us in heaven, and is preparing our new home! He returned to You and has rejoined his triune fellowship! Because he is in heaven, and he intercedes for his adopted, blood bought, children, we can now fully apply His salvation and we are being sanctified into a pure, spotless bride!
--And sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty
The King of Kings and Lord of Lords, our Lord, now sits upon the throne of David! He has all authority in heaven and on earth! Our King has established his kingdom, and now sits in glory, adorned by the throne He alone deserves, and with the crown of thorn transformed into the crown fitting the King of Kings!
--From there he shall come again to judge the living and the dead
As our King and our Lord, he will judge all mankind. For those who do not believe, he will judge them justly and they will be condemned and sentenced to hell. For those who do believe, their condemnation he has taken upon himself, and he will reward us according to our deeds! All men, alive or dead, will stand before Christ Jesus, and every knee will bow and every tongue confess that He alone is Lord! Thank you God that confession will be one of joy for those of us who know you!
--I believe in the Holy Spirit
Your Spirit! The person who awakens us from our death, the breath of life that calls and regenerates us! The Spirit of life that sanctifies us and works in all of your adopted children and creates in us what was accomplished on the cross! The One who convicts us from our sin and causes us to repent and love you! Thank you for your Spirit!
--The holy catholic church
We as Christians have one universal church, and all of us, though we may disagree on doctrine because we see through the glass darkly, we all have one Lord, one baptism, and one salvation! Your church, Your bride, can cling to your son, and because of this we are brothers and sisters who will eventually in heaven love one another perfectly and see you perfectly! Cause us to love one another as we are family, and give us unity as we hope in the same Savior!
--The communion of the saints
We are a community! No man is an island, and no man was intended to be so! As it was not good that Adam was alone, and so you gave him Eve, neither is it good for us to be alone! We are a community, and we are called to love one another, building one another up and encouraging and edifying one another, bearing each others burdens, and spurring each other on to Your Son! Thank you for the family you have brought us into, and help us to be a family!
--The forgiveness of sins
Praise God that our sins are forgiven! We no longer have to fear you as judge, and we can love you as Father! Christ payed once and for all the punishment for our sins, and because of this we are no longer slaves to sin, but we are now alive in Christ! We were born slaves and now we are set free! We will sin until the day we die, but now that we know you, our sins are washed by the blood of the lamb, and we can now please you and do good!
--The resurrection of the body
We may die, but we will not stay dead! We will never taste the second, eternal death! We will be resurrected with perfect bodies, no flaws and no pain! We will not be disembodied spirits floating around as some naively believe, but just as you created us with bodies, so we will have bodies again! All those who died before us and trusted in you, and each of us who will likely die as well, we will once again have our bodies, but they will be perfect and flawless and we will praise you eternally with them!
--And the life everlasting
We are mortal, and we have a beginning, but we will have no end! We will praise and worship our Lord and our God, seated on his throne, forevermore! Time will not enslave us in bondage as it does now, but we will be so enraptured in worship and praise, and we will see purely what we see so dimly now, we will have everlasting rest, everlasting peace, everlasting praise! Thank you for all these gifts and all these truths, and we will have eternity to do so!

AMEN

Preach the gospel to yourself

Rom 7.21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. Rom 8.1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

This is something I need, more than breath in my lungs, I need to realize this personally and intimately. Guilt and condemnation from my past seems to loom over me. I fear God, but not as I ought. I fear him as a judge about to recall all of my sin and sentence me to death. I should fear and revere God as God, for I am but a man. But as a child of God, purchased from hell and death by the precious blood of Gods begotten Son, Jesus Christ, I should be moved as a lover to his beloved. I should bask in grace and bathe in the smile of my Father. When The Apostle says "Wretched man that I am! Who will save me from this body of death?" I cry out with him. I am a man who is tainted and marred by sin. I breathe sin and it flows through me. For me to say that theres "no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus", I know that so well in my mind. But believing that is the key to freedom. Owning that truth is my crucial need at the moment. I need to believe that "the law of the Spirit of life has set (me) free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death", and upon believing this true freedom will be mine. I am pained when I hear people say that theology makes no difference in your life, and all these doctrines are great in theory, but it doesn't effect your life. They say that the point of Christianity is to live a good life. But who is good? What man apart from a forgiven man can do good? Without owning these doctrines, the Christian life is futile. This futility I have tasted, but at a time I have also tasted pure freedom. Satan is a master of bringing up your past. Sin that was crucified to Christ on Calvary, sin that has been washed by blood and removed as far as the east is from the west. This is what our Beloved accomplished for us. Freedom from sin and death. And while I have mental assent to this, my flesh is weak and I have been consumed with my past, and now I need to desperately to believe genuinely in Christ's atoning death and the freedom that flows from that death. Doctrine matters. Faith impacts your life. As I sit here now, I have confessed this need to friends, and my spirit cries out (as the father of the demon possessed boy) "I believe, help my unbelief!" My God has obeyed the law perfectly on my behalf because I could not because He is a righteous God who demands perfect obedience, and because of that I have been adopted as a child of the King! This is my life, this is my value: the blood of Christ. Who will save me from this body of death? Christ has saved me! I believe Father, please help my unbelief. Liberate me from this improper condemnation, for it has no place in my life as you condemned Christ on my behalf! Doctrine matters, and believing certain doctrines is the means of believing in what is true, namely that I am freed from my sin and saved from hell. Cause me to believe.

Ps. 42.5Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.