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Oh Heavenly Father,

Praise be to the God-head, three in One! Oh that we would receive the true knowledge of Your goodness, and be overawed at Your greatness.

We get such a sense of Your nearness in the Person of Jesus Christ, the Man, the Branch, that we are not driven away in terror, but we draw near with a childlike love and a holy boldness.

Oh how we join in Christ and You do joy in Him too. We desire to glorify Your Son and we know that You delight to glorify Your Son.

We desire to set Him on high, and You have set Him far above the principalities and powers, and every Name that is named.

Lord, help Your children to rejoice today as we sing. May we rejoice in our security in Christ because our sins have been atoned for!

Lord, the law of God gives sin its damning power, Oh but Christ has died for us and paid our ransom.

We rejoice this morning, the Head of the church, the Lord Jesus is alive! May our singing be part of the immortal praise and thanksgiving that ought to be given to You, the God of victory.

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Father, the God of the tax collector, we pray for mercy for our church.

By nature and practice, we’re all as that despised tax collector was. Yet our hearts burst with hope. Our hope is the grace of God. Lord please pour out Your grace upon our church family. All the assurance we’d ever need is supplied by Your plenteous redemption through Christ!

Lord, may Your church be encouraged today with a sense of Your all sufficiency! By faith in Your promises.

May we be encouraged by that dear refuge in which so many have been sheltered from every storm of life.

Lord, in that every refreshing fountain open for sin, may we be cleansed from every defilement.

Those defilements, that You hate and which separates us from You which are removed through the gospel!

Lord, may we consent and delight in Your instruction in the inner man. Lord, may we see that Your yoke isn’t a burden but may we mourn over our lack of conformity to Your Word. May we always esteem and yield to Your commands and ways and patterns, as right and true altogether.

May You be with us as we pray together. In Jesus Name, Amen.

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Father, we rejoice this day in that You sent Your Son to purchase and redeem us from our sin! He came to reconcile us, the very ones who’s sins put Him upon the cross!

Lord, we ask, that as we part and acknowledge that in many ways we are blind so we ask that You be our light!

Lord, we are foolish and ignorant and so we ask You to be our wisdom! As You reveal to our ears the Spirit’s voice through the Word, may grant to us to delightfully run after your beckoning hand!

Lord, may You melt our conscience so that no hardness remains. When Satan approaches us, may we flee to Your wounds and cease from all our fears.

Oh Lord, please reveal Yourself as the good Shepherd to lead us into those green pastures of Your Word and cause us to lie down beside the rivers of its comforts!

We rejoice that sins curse has been crushed through the spilled blood of Christ on our behalf! Oh may we rejoice that those whom the Lord sets free are free indeed!

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Dear Church, May He Who rides a white horse, Who is called Faithful and true.

Whose Eyes are like a blazing fire, and upon his head are many crowns.

Who is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and Whose name is the Word of God.

May He keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus with the peace of God that transcends all understanding.