Thursday, November 7, 2024
Opening Prayer:
O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.
Confession of Sin & Prayer for Grace
O Lord of heaven and earth, remember me, cold of heart and impure, in your Kingdom. Deliver me from every ignorance and heedlessness, from pettiness of the soul and stony hardness of heart. O Lord, save me from temptation; receive me in repentance; grant me pure thoughts; that I may love You with all my heart and soul and that I may obey your will in all things to the glory of your name. Amen.
Old Testament Reading: Proverbs 11
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: Colossians 1:11-20
Prayer of Adoration:
King Jesus - Creator, Sustainer and Redeemer of all things: I worship you with my whole being. As the source of my existence, I honor you. As the source of my salvation, I praise you. As the source of my peace, I glory in the wonder of your cross.
Psalm Reading: Psalm 33:1-12
Prayer of Consecration
O God: you are worthy of enthusiastic, wholehearted worship. The psalm calls this kind of praise “fitting for the upright.” It’s good and right that your people know you so deeply and admire your goodness so much that they greet you with shouts of joy! So today, move me toward that sort of worship. I know that my worship is often tepid, distracted, derailed by various objections and doubts. So teach me that my worship is not remedied by improving myself; it can only be set right by gazing at you. Expand my capacity to understand you. Stretch my comprehension and stir my hunger. I want eyes to see and ears to hear your faithful work, your steadfast love. Amen.
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.
