Prayer: Father, we thank you for your divine plan to give your people one day in seven to be refreshed by your presence. We are blessed beyond measure with your abiding promise to speak to your people through the preached Word. Though we know that you use the preaching of your Word, the living voice of Christ speaking, we also confess to you that we are sometimes negligent in preparing to hear your Word…
Read MorePrayer: Father, your Word tells us not to worry or be anxious about anything, but, instead, to cast all of our cares upon you with thanksgiving, making all of the concerns that affect us known to you. You tell us plainly that you care for us because, as a Father, you love us and work exceedingly and abundantly beyond anything we can imagine or ask….
Read MorePrayer: Our God in heaven, we look out across our land and our world, and we see so many people living in rebellion against you. We witness the depravity of wicked people being exercised in the street. We hear the speech that is laden with vitriol and language that displeases you. We look, and we take note that men made in your image, with the law of God written on their hearts, are living in complete rebellion to your law and your holy demands. We are ashamed of these image-bearers and all of their actions. We know that if not for the glorious gospel, we too would walk as they walk. We, too, would be like these people who are darkened in their understanding…
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