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21 DAYS OF PRAYER - DAY 10

Heavenly Father,

I praise You, God, that You are the same yesterday and today and forever, and that You are our solid Rock, our Fortress, our Rescuer, our Shield, our salvation, and our place of safety.

I confess that I have not always followed Your will and Your ways. I have not loved You with my whole heart. I have not kept the Sabbath day holy and have allowed other activities to take priority over gathering to worship You and I have not loved my neighbor as myself.

 

(take a moment to reflect on the past day and confess your sins.)

 

I am sorry for my sins and pray for Your great mercy. For the sake of Jesus Christ, please forgive me of all my sins.

Amen.

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 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us;
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.

Amen

Prayer of the Day:

Dear Jesus,

I thank You for the blessing of worship. In worship You bless us incredibly. You forgive our sins. You strengthen us with Your Body and Blood. You increase our knowledge and faith through Your Word as well as guide us through that same Word.

In worship You also strengthen the bonds of Your people and unite us in You. You hear our prayers and calm our souls. In response, we praise Your holy name and offer our thanksgiving.

Lord, may Your people not grow weary of gathering together for worship. May we always see the rich blessings You give us in worship and hunger for them.

May we also see the needs of our brothers and sisters in the faith which can be met in the meeting together and desire to show them love by helping to meet those needs.

I ask that You would bless the worship at Faith Lutheran Church. Guide Pastor Kurt and give Him wisdom and true understanding of Your Word that he may faithfully proclaim Your Word each week. Be with every member of Faith that they would welcome all who come, be fed by Your Word and sacraments, and be strengthened in their service.

Bring others, as well, to worship, especially those who do not, yet, believe in You. May they hear Your Word, experience Your love, and receive faith.

I pray this in Jesus name.

Amen.

The Psalms:

The Psalms have long been considered the prayer book of the Bible and have been used as prayers by countless Christians over the centuries. So, we join them in this practice and pray a Psalm.

Psalm 95

1 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;
let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving
and extol him with music and song.

3 For the Lord is the great God,
the great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the depths of the earth,
and the mountain peaks belong to him.
5 The sea is his, for he made it,
and his hands formed the dry land.

6 Come, let us bow down in worship,
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;
7 for he is our God
and we are the people of his pasture,
the flock under his care.

Today, if only you would hear his voice,
8 “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,
as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 where your ancestors tested me;
they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
10 For forty years I was angry with that generation;
I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’”

(Take a few minutes to add your personal prayers, now.)

Conclude your time of prayer with either Luther’s morning or evening prayer, depending on what time of day it is.

Luther’s Morning Prayer:

I thank you, my Heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that You have kept me this night from all harm and danger; and I pray that You would keep me this day also from sin and every evil, that all my doings and life may please You. For into Your hands I commend myself, my body and soul, and all things. Let Your holy angel be with me, that the evil foe may have no power over me. Amen.

Luther’s Evening Prayer:

I thank You, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that You have graciously kept me this day; and I pray You to forgive me all my sins where I have done wrong, and graciously keep me this night. For into Your hands I commend myself, my body and soul, and all things. Let Your holy angel be with me, that the wicked foe may have no power over me. Amen.

In Christ’s Service,

Pastor Kurt