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Opening Psalm (Psalm 23)
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness
for his name's sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord
forever.
Song of Adoration (Psalm 23)
Prayer of Adoration
At this point you can pause to offer your own prayer of adoration and praise to God. To help prompt you to pray a prayer of praise ask yourself one of the following questions:
What Scriptural passage about who God is can I turn into a prayer of praise? (e.g. Exodus 34:6-9)
What character or attribute of God can I focus on and give Him praise for? (e.g. His Mercy, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Wrath, etc.)
Call to Confession (1 Corinthians 13:1-7)
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind;
love does not envy or boast;
it is not arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrongdoing,
but rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things.
Reflect on the passage above and ask God to search your heart and try your thoughts and confess the ways that you have fallen short of His glory in thought, word, and deed.
Prayer of Confession
Our Heavenly Father,
We have been very guilty concerning our neighbor; for we have not pursued what makes for peace or for mutual upbuilding.
Contrary to the royal law of love, we have boasted and been arrogant, have been rude and insisted on our own way; we have been irritable, and have rejoiced at wrongdoing.
We have been conceited, provoking one another, envying one another, when we should have considered how to stir up one another to love and good works.
Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins;
let them not have dominion over me!
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart and the motives of my actions toward others,
be acceptable in your sight,
O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.
Assurance of Grace in Christ (Psalm 103:8-13)
The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
He will not always chide,
nor will he keep his anger forever.
He does not deal with us according to our sins,
nor repay us according to our iniquities.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
as far as the east is from the west,
so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
As a father shows compassion to his children,
so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
Song of Thanksgiving (How Deep the Father’s Love For Us)
Reading of God’s Word (John 13:34-35; 1 John 4:9-10)
John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
1 John 4:9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Message from God’s Word (Pastor Andrew Jacobson)
Song of Response (Oh the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus)
Prayer for the Church and the World
Pray that God would guard your heart against anger at those you are being sequestered with, from grumbling at the circumstances, and from despair and anxiety at whatever the future may hold.
Pick some families/individuals out the church photo directory and pray for them. Not sure what to pray about for them? Take one of Paul’s prayers for the churches and adapt them to that family or individual (e.g. Colossians 1:9-14, Ephesians 3:14-21)
Pray for the Governor of the FL and the leaders of Palm Beach County that they would have the wisdom and insight for the decisions ahead of them.