Basic Scripture Bible Reading 11th December 2025 Prayer Points and Declarations

BASIC SCRIPTURE: JOHN 3: 1-8

Basic Scripture Bible Reading: 11th December 2025

John 3:1-8

(Context: Jesus’ nighttime conversation with Nicodemus, a religious leader, about the necessity of spiritual rebirth.)

1 There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

FINISH READING: Daily Manna ODM Today 11th December 2025 YOUR PROGRESS CANNOT BE EXPLAINED

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Today’s Spiritual Insight: The Miracle of New Birth

This passage reveals the core of the Gospel: a supernatural transformation that begins not with human effort, but with divine initiative. Nicodemus, a respected religious teacher, approaches Jesus under cover of darkness—symbolic of spiritual blindness despite intellectual knowledge. Jesus immediately redirects the conversation from signs and wonders to the state of the soul: “You must be born again.”

The phrase “born again” (Greek: gennēthē anōthen) means “born from above.” It speaks of a spiritual birth orchestrated by the Holy Spirit, as mysterious and sovereign as the wind. Jesus contrasts “flesh” (human effort, religious pedigree) with “Spirit” (God’s life-giving power). No amount of moral improvement or religious observance can substitute for this heavenly birth. It is the exclusive doorway into God’s kingdom.

Today’s Promise: The Holy Spirit is actively drawing hearts to new birth.
Today’s Command: Do not marvel at the requirement, but respond to the invitation.
Today’s Warning: Flesh cannot inherit the kingdom; religion without regeneration is futile.

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Prayer Points for 11th December 2025

1. Prayer for Personal Revelation
   Lord Jesus, as Nicodemus came seeking, I come to You today. Remove any spiritual blindness. Reveal to me anew the necessity and wonder of being born again. Let this truth move from my head to my heart.

2. Prayer for Spiritual Birth
   Heavenly Father, I acknowledge my need for a birth from above. Where I have relied on my own goodness, religious routines, or intellectual understanding, forgive me. Today, I ask for the miracle of regeneration. Breathe Your Spirit into my spirit and make me new.

3. Prayer for Sensitivity to the Spirit’s Movement
   Holy Spirit, You move like the wind—sovereign and powerful. Make me sensitive to Your stirrings in my life, family, and community. Where You are blowing, let me discern and follow. Where You are bringing new life, let me rejoice.

4. Prayer for the Religiously Lost
   Father, I intercede for modern-day Nicodemuses—those in religious systems but lacking spiritual life. Draw them out of darkness into encounters with Christ. Shatter their reliance on position, knowledge, or tradition. Grant them the humility to seek and receive new birth.

5. Prayer for a Fresh Hunger for God’s Kingdom
   Lord, birth in me a renewed hunger to “see” and “enter” Your kingdom. Let my primary pursuit be Your rule and reign in every area of my life. May Your kingdom priorities become my own.

6. Prayer for the Church’s Witness
   Revive Your Church, O God, to proclaim clearly the message of the new birth. Let us not obscure it with moralism or religious jargon. Empower us to testify to the transformative, supernatural work of Your Spirit.

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Declarations for 11th December 2025

1. I declare that I am not limited by my natural birth, heritage, or past. I have been born of the Spirit from above. I am a new creation in Christ Jesus.

2. I declare that the kingdom of God is my native realm. I see it with spiritual eyes and enter it through the power of the Spirit. I walk in the reality of heavenly citizenship today.

3. I declare that the Holy Spirit moves sovereignly in my life. I am sensitive to His direction and yield to His work, even when I cannot trace His full path. His wind carries me forward.

4. I declare that every religious spirit that would substitute ritual for relationship is broken off my life. My faith is not in my performance, but in the finished work of Christ and the regenerating power of the Spirit.

5. I declare that my testimony is one of transformation. Like the wind, the evidence of my new birth is seen in its effects: changed desires, renewed mind, and a life that glorifies God.

6. I declare that the message of the new birth will go forth with power. Hearts bound by religion will be set free. Seekers in the night will find the Light of the World. A harvest of souls born from above is being reaped in 2025.

7. I declare that my family and community will experience the tangible effects of the Spirit’s movement. Where there is spiritual death, new life will spring forth. The breath of God is bringing resurrection.

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

“The miracle of the new birth is not the improvement of your old life, but the impartation of an entirely new life—Christ’s life in you.”
— Receive this truth today. The wind of the Spirit is blowing. Be born anew.