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Our Heavenly Father,

Hallowed be your name.  You are holy and good.  In you, there is no imperfection or blemish or fault.  Father, you are so good, both in your nature and in all that you give to us.  We praise and thank you for your kindness and generosity towards us.  God, you are love.  And we thank you that your love overflows towards us.  Please help us to find joy and satisfaction in who you are.  

Father, thank you for giving us your Son.  Thank you that Christ denied himself and took up his cross for us.  Thank you that he endured the shame and agony of the cross.  In the cross, we see you wrath towards sin and your love towards us.  

Lord, we confess today that we are so often prone towards pride.  We think ourselves big and important.  We struggle to humble ourselves.  We don’t love others as you love us and sometimes we cause other people to stumble.  We confess that we struggle with ongoing sin and often love darkness instead of coming into the light.  Father, please forgive us.  We are sorry for all the ways that we wrong you and others. Help us to truly repent and change. 

We ask you, Lord, to please convict us of our sin and enable us to repent.  Please melt us with your love and grace.  Help us to deny ourselves and take up our cross and follow you.  Help us to willingly endure suffering to put off sin.  Help us to see ourselves and others in light of who you are and what you have said.

We pray this, in the name of your glorious Son, 

Amen

For The Kids

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Bible Reading (included): Matthew 17:24-18:14

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For The Kids

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Bible Reading (included): Matthew 17:14-23

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Almighty God, thank you for all your gifts of healing and forgiveness, for the grace to love and care for each other.

So move our ears to hear and receive your word today.

Forgive us for possessing the Bible, but rarely reading it.

For reading it, but rarely thinking about it.

For thinking about it, but rarely putting it into practice.

Restore the joy of delight in reading your word, pondering its meaning, and applying it’s teaching to our daily lives.

We pray for those who are struggling as a result of this current global crisis.

For those who have lost their jobs.

For those who are fighting the virus.

For those who are reliant on ventilators.

For those who are fearful.

We lift them up to you, Lord, and pray for all they are facing in their lives right now.

Thank you for that powerful moment in the Gospel when the disciples are shaking with fear, and then fall down with their faces in the dirt. Jesus comes to them, touches them, and says, “Get up and do not be afraid.” Matthew 17:6-7

Jesus hear our prayers for all who are afflicted.

Lay your healing hands on them, deliver them from mental anguish, reduce their physical pain, restore them to health.

Impart your grace and strength and peace, and help them to know you.

Thank you that by your living, dying, rising, you made a way for sins to be forgiven.

Convince us in our hearts by your Holy Spirit that the Gospel is true.

Open our eyes

Heal our hearts

Set us free

Thank you Heavenly Father for the precious gift of your Son.

Amen.

For The Kids

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Bible Reading (included): Matthew 17:1-13

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