Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Opening Prayer:
Blessed are you, O Lord; teach me your statutes! I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word. Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things in your law.
Confession of Sin & Prayer for Grace
Almighty God: in Jesus Christ you love me, but I have not loved you. You have given me all things, yet I have squandered your gifts. I have grieved you and caused hurt to others, and I am not worthy to be called your child. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am ashamed and sorry for all I have done to displease you. Cleanse me from my sin and receive me again into your household, that I might never stray from your love, but always remain within the sound of your voice. Amen.
Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 48
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
New Testament Reading: John 3:1-21
Prayer of Adoration:
Father: I adore you for sending your Son into the world, that the world might be saved through him. Thank you for the majesty and miracle of the new birth. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for bringing me from death to life and from darkness to light.
Psalm Reading: Psalm 29
Prayer of Consecration
O Lord: I praise you for the power of your voice. You spoke the world into existence with words; your voice is powerful and majestic. MY words are often trivial and ineffective; but YOUR words do things. They break the cedars and shake the wilderness and cause the deer to give birth. And when I remember that the Scriptures are your Word, I am reminded of the power they have to give life and to effect change. Forgive me for treating your word lightly; help me desire it and delight in it and listen to it! Above all, thank you for sending Jesus, the Word made flesh. He is the Way, and the Truth, and the Life, because he is the voice of the Lord in human form. May I listen to Him always.
BENEDICTION
And now may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us now and always, until the day of Christ's return.
