Tuesday, November 12, 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: I confess that I often honor you with my lips while my heart is far from you. I am content to appear righteous instead of truly being righteous. I repent of my sin and my self-love. Please search my heart, examine my motives, and forgive my faults. Awaken me to your glory, and send your Spirit to renew and change my heart. Help me to hear your voice today above the clamor of this world, and follow only you. Amen.
Old Testament Reading: Genesis 6:9-22
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: Romans 3:21-31
Prayer of Adoration:
I adore you, O God, because you have manifested your righteousness in the person and work of your Son Jesus. There is no distinction - all have sinned and fallen short of your glory, and are saved only by grace through faith in Jesus. Thank you for the redemption that is in Christ Jesus!
Psalm Reading: Psalm 27
Prayer of Consecration
O Lord: in the midst of great danger, David found courage and confidence in communion with you. How often I allow the circumstances of my life to dictate my feelings, rather than resting in the fact that You are my light and my salvation. No evil that befalls me in this life can remove your steadfast love from me, or threaten my union with Christ. You have not promised me peace, prosperity, and safety; my life may be filled with hardship and struggle. But You will not forsake me, or hide your face from me. O Lord, give me the grace to seek your face even when my heart is pounding and my thoughts are scattered. Strengthen my confidence that I’ll see your goodness in the land of the living. Teach me what it means to abide in you, so that communion with you becomes my daily habit.
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.
