Tuesday, October 15, 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
Merciful Father, I come into your presence with deep gratitude, for I am no longer under the law but under grace. Resting in that truth, I freely confess my brokenness and my weakness before you. Instead of worshiping you, I have put myself at the center of my life. Instead of honoring others, I have withheld words of blessing and spoken words of harm. Have mercy on me, for Jesus' sake. By your Holy Spirit, awaken in me today passionate worship, joyful obedience, and wholehearted love for others. Amen.
Old Testament Reading: Deuteronomy 34
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: Mark 10:17-31
Prayer of Adoration:
Lord Jesus, the cost of being your disciple is steep. Your call is to full obedience, not merely knowledge; a life of holiness, not occasional good behavior. Yet by grace, you have fully paid for all of my sins, and have opened the way to the kingdom of God! How can I repay you? Instead of laboring in toil or languishing in despair, I will rejoice in my freedom as your beloved child.
Psalm Reading: Psalm 16
Prayer of Consecration
Today, Lord Jesus, I choose to “set the Lord always before me.” I choose to believe that your ways are the path of life; that in your presence there is fullness of joy; that at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. This world offers me many temporary pleasures. But none of them satisfy; they cannot bring me fullness of joy. So today, as I battle sin and temptation, let me not merely avoid the wrong; make me zealous for true happiness. Let my whole being rejoice in your satisfying goodness. Give me not just a distaste for sin, but a taste of the fullness of joy, that I may never again be satisfied by anything less.
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.
