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| Bridwell Heights Presbyterian Church PCA |
Larry E. Ball | Kingsport, Tennessee
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 Our Father in Heaven, we live by faith. Help us when our faith is small. We remember your words, that if we only have faith the size of mustard seed, we can say to this mountain. - Be moved and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for us. Our Lord, help us in our feeble prayers when our faith is small and fragile. As life takes it toll on all of us, give us the faith that sees the loving hand of God who will never allow us to be tempted without a way out of that temptation. For no temptation has overtaken us but such as it common to man, and God is faithful who will not allow us to be tempted beyond what we are able to endure. But with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that we will be able to endure it. Help us to remember that as your children, every pain, every disappointment, every illness, every failure on our part - is only God's loving providence to sanctify us and to make us more useful that we might be a comfort to others. If we have walked in the shoes of those who cry, we can cry with them. If we have lived through the darkness of depression, we can bring light to those who suffer with this dreadful burden. If we have fought the temptation of immorality, we can give wisdom to others on how to beat this cursed enemy. If we never grieve, how can we minister to those who grieve? If we have never been poor, how can we minister to those who are poor? If we have never been proud and then humbled to the ground and seen as fools, how can we lift up our brethren? Our God, we confess that we are indeed justified by faith without works. Our works can merit nothing that can contribute to the atonement of Christ that satisfies the justice due to our sins. You have justified us by pardoning all of our sins, and by accounting and accepting us as righteous. This belongs to us not for anything wrought in us, or done by us, but for Christ's sake alone. It is not ours because of imputation of faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience, but by the imputation of the obedience and satisfaction of Christ unto us. Lord, this is a day of rest. We come to rest from the labors of the week. We thank you that life is not simply a rotation of one day after another without any meaning. We thank you that our rest on the Sabbath points us to a final rest in Jesus Christ. We thank you that we come to reaffirm our confidence in that rest. We thank you that because we have received and rested on Christ as our righteousness we can rest from the guilt of our sins. We can rest knowing that all things work together for good for us. Life is not a game of dice where some times our numbers show up and sometimes they don't, where we need not go and hide in a dark room and wait on chance to catch up with us. We boldly live each day, knowing that for each of us, God has a purpose for that day. Today, we rest. Tomorrow, we work. Lord, help us to be good workers. Help us to work hard. Help us to go beyond what others expect of us. Help us to go the extra mile. When others complain about how unfair it all is, how us to keep our mouths closed and to produce even more. More precious in the sight of God is one who suffers under trial, than one who constantly complains about how unfair life is. Our Father, we thank you for our forefathers who came to this country seeking the freedom to worship the true God according to their conscience which was informed by the word of God. Freedom comes with a people who know how to control their lusts and greed. Freedom comes with a people who call upon God to be their helper and guide. Freedom comes with a people who have become slaves to the Lord Jesus. Only a slave of a God who loves us as a benign and gracious Master can truly be free. Make us slaves that we might be free. Hear the prayers of your people today. Lord, only You know the sufferings and the fears deep down in the hearts of your people. You know us better than we know ourselves. Only Your Holy Spirit knows our true weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but he Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. Lord, may we never forget to give you thanks. Over and over again you have answered our prayers. We have been amazed. We have even been overwhelmed with the love of God that has been shed abroad in our hearts as we see you do your work. Help us never to give up on prayer. Prayers of the heart, prayers on our knees, prayers of the moment - Lord it's not so much how we pray, but that we pray. Help us to pray without ceasing. What troubles we bring upon ourselves when we forget to pray. You have healed the sick, you have given grace to the dying, you have increased our numbers, you have grown us in grace beyond what we ever expected. You have taught us how to look to Christ and not unto ourselves - maybe the greatest lesson we have ever learned. Lord, as we look inside ourselves, we see things we do not like. As we look to Christ, we see the perfect Son of God. Hallelujah, what a Savior. Grant that we might look to Him today. We ask all these things in His name. Amen. |
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O Lord our God, Thou art our Father in Heaven. We need to be reassured of Thy love. Not that You have not been plain about Thy love, but we are weak and need You to reaffirm to us how much You love us. Surely, if we can understand how much a...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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Our Father in Heaven, You are worthy of praise and adoration. Blessed is the man whose God is the Lord. We are a blessed people. We know from whence we came. We came from Adam whom You created and placed in the Garden of Eden. We did not...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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, You are our refuge and strength, a very present help in time of trouble. You have given to us wisdom, righteousness and sanctification in our Lord Jesus Christ. You have supplied all our needs according to Your riches in glory in Christ Jesus....[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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Lord, the world is full of troubles. We send our young men to fight wars in foreign lands. We give the blood of our youth to wars that appear that we shall never win. We spend money we do not have. We have created debt that we can never be...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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Our Father in Heaven, we thank You that You have granted us access to Your throne. Not everyone has the right to approach Thee. As Solomon tells us, the prayer of the wicked man is an abomination to the Lord. Not everyone has the privilege of...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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Our Father in Heaven, we grieve over our sin. We cannot live a day without finding sin in our lives. We labor to be holy, but we fall short. We find in ourselves lawless desires, envy, jealousy, and even the longing to seek our own revenge....[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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O Lord our God, Father of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we come before Thee because you have called us to be your people. Once we were not your people, but now we are your people. We have been brought from afar. We were separated from Christ,...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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Our Father in Heaven, we are a needy people. First, we are a guilty people. We have sinned. We have broken Thy law. We have transgressed the Ten Commandments both in deed and in thought. When we sin, we feel dirty. Our conscience condemns us. |
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Our Father in Heaven, we confess that the Church is Your Bride. The Church is Your body. We confess that ordinarily there is no salvation outside of the visible Church. O Lord, how many people never darken the door of a Church and yet believe...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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