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Opening Psalm (Psalm 93)
The Lord reigns;
he is robed in majesty;
the Lord is robed;
he has put on strength as his belt.
Yes, the world is established;
it shall never be moved.
Your throne is established from of old;
you are from everlasting.
The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their roaring.
Mightier than the thunders of many waters,
mightier than the waves of the sea,
the Lord on high is mighty!
Your decrees are very trustworthy;
holiness befits your house,
O Lord, forevermore.
Song of Adoration (O Father, You Are Sovereign)
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. e.g. Daniel 4:34-35)
What character or attribute of God can I focus on and give Him praise for? (e.g. His Sovereignty, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Wrath, etc.)
Call to Confession (Ephesians 4:25-32)
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
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,
Much corrupt talk has come out of our mouths; and little of that which is good for building up and giving grace to those who hear.
If people will give account for every careless word they speak,
and if by our words we will be justified and by our words we will be condemned, woe to us!
For we are lost; for we are of unclean lips and dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.
If you should mark the iniquities of our mouths, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.
Set a guard over our mouths, O Lord, and keep watch over the door of our lips, so that we can have cleansed lips which declare Your praises.
In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.
Assurance of Grace in Christ (Romans 8:1-4)
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Song of Thanksgiving (Let us Love and Sing and Wonder)
Reading of God’s Word (Hebrews 3:12-13; 1 Thessalonians 4:18, 5:11)
Message from God’s Word (Pastor Andrew Jacobson)
Song of Response (Holy Spirit, Living Breath of God)
Prayer for the Church and the World
Pray that God would give light to our political leaders and church leaders on the most wise path forward regarding opening up the state and meeting together again for worship.
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 that God would equip you with humility and boldness as you seek to live out His command to exhort one another.
Pray that God would equip you with sympathy and compassion as you seek to live out His command encourage one another.