leading service 1-19-2025

Prayer

Adoration

almighty God, our Father. how holy, how set apart, how distinct you are. we seek to honnor you name, we seek to bring honor, reverence to your name. for you character, how been shown to us in all of scripture, how you have shown your self to be.

one of your most stubborn prophets knew it Jonah, when confronted with the reality of grace and mercy “I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and one who relents from sending disaster.”

Lord this character, this name is in whom we have hope in, in whom we have a future, in whom there is hop

Confession

Lord though we pray and call you our father, forgive us Lord for how often do we say this things in contmpt, and resntment of you.

how often do we despise you for your kidness and grace that you show the sinners forgetting and neglecting the grace and kindness we have been show

though we call you our father, forgive use for shame we as the church bring upon your name, the the dishonor, repute, the dispise of nations

Lord we confess our unbelife. You call your holy, set apart, righteous. yet we make you lier, for we lie about ourselves.

instead treating each other as family in christ, as those trophies of grace, we gossip, slander, and seek clever ways to abuse the grace we have given

LORD forgive us, we now you have are, for your word says

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Thankfulness

thank you that we can trust you word an know that we have been forgiven.

we are grateful for the mean blessing you have given and provided for us as you chruch

That in HEC we can and do call each other family, and care for each other needs, concerns and problems

that you have given use Huw who week in and week out faitfuly prepares, studies and know the word of God, wich convicts and transforms our lifes

supplication

we ask that the gospel wold go out, would transform lives, would bring the dead to life.

school, mission groups, and church plants, and revitalization

christ-chruch liverpool with there many chruch revitalization throught liverpool

we specifically think of Beechwood

pray for John Norwood and his team there

let the gospel reach that area, let there be Gospel fruit that grows

make them fruitful and in there gospel outreach

we ask the we as HEC may become a an evangelistic church.

we becoem emboldened by the need and beautry of gospel, causing us to be participantes in the work that your doing here in Hoylake.

embolden us, take that same from us, so we can stand with paul and boldly proclame that “i to am no ashamed of the Gospel”

we ask for revival in Hoylake

we have seen you do it in the past all around the world, through so many people. and we are trophy's of your grace

we want to see the Gospel transforming this town, into a beacon, and lightouse of your Gospel,

from the alcoholics, to the golfers, from the nersury work to store front work, lord we know so many people, that we engage daily, christ let your gosple reach them

Lord but first revive use. reform us, transform us into the image of God that we were made in. Lord let us the behold the cross, as Isreal beheld the sank in the wildrness and had life.

teach us to contemplate Christ, every aspect and be transformed into men and women who are not ashamed, who are embolden, who are ready to spread the gospel.

let use not stand in same Criticism that the writers of Hebrews gives, for we have been given so much, lord let us not need to reaturen to milk, but be teachers word, equipped and ready not for the sake of argument and moralism, but for the contemplation of gospel, which is the mystry of God incarnate in Jesus christ and our union with him for all eternity.

in this Gospel we rejoice, rest and have our being.

Lord hear our prayer for we turn to you, our father and our remembered.

in the name of the Father Son adn Holy spirit: amen

scripture reading Nehemiah 2. 9-20

Nehemiah 2:9–20 ESV

9 Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen. 10 But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel. 11 So I went to Jerusalem and was there three days. 12 Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode. 13 I went out by night by the Valley Gate to the Dragon Spring and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that were broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire. 14 Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal that was under me to pass. 15 Then I went up in the night by the valley and inspected the wall, and I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned. 16 And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, and I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, and the rest who were to do the work. 17 Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.” 18 And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, “Let us rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work. 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they jeered at us and despised us and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?” 20 Then I replied to them, “The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim in Jerusalem.”