Heavenly Father, Lord of All, We worship in response to your holiness. Thank you that prayer and praise are vehicles to express our love and adoration for The Great I AM - the One, True, Living God. Sweet Savior, we confess that we often fail to practice genuine love for others, especially in sharing personal warmth and in meeting needs. Many of us admit to having a very low mercy factor. Help us to remember that Jesus’ plans changed constantly to accommodate someone else. He taught us humility and the ministry of interruption. Forgive us when we attempt to justify ourselves to You and others for falling short in Christian character.
You ask us to love You with everything we have - heart, mind, soul, strength - and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. You know that the moment we start stapling exceptions to Your second great commandment, we are not committed to obeying it. Thus, we quench the Holy Spirit. Forgive us, Mighty God, for diminishing the power Your Spirit gives to any and all who claim You as Lord and Savior. Teach us to love as You love. Your love is the spontaneous overflow of a heart that forgets itself in the face of human need. Your love stirs us up to respond with grace for we have experienced the forgiveness and compassion of God through the Cross of Jesus Christ. How blessed we are to gaze now upon Your beautiful cross, the symbol of our hope & salvation.
When I survey the wondrous Cross
On which the Prince of Glory died
My richest gain, I count but loss
And pour contempt on all my pride
On which the Prince of Glory died
My richest gain, I count but loss
And pour contempt on all my pride
See from His head, His hands, His feet
Sorrow and love flow mingled down
Did ever such love and sorrow meet?
Or thorns compose, so rich a crown
Sorrow and love flow mingled down
Did ever such love and sorrow meet?
Or thorns compose, so rich a crown
Oh the wonderful Cross, oh the wonderful Cross
Bids me come and die and find that I may truly live
Oh the wonderful Cross, oh the wonderful Cross
All who gather here by grace, draw near and bless Your name
Bids me come and die and find that I may truly live
Oh the wonderful Cross, oh the wonderful Cross
All who gather here by grace, draw near and bless Your name
Were the whole realm of nature mine
That were an offering far too small
Love so amazing, so divine
Demands my soul, my life, my all
That were an offering far too small
Love so amazing, so divine
Demands my soul, my life, my all
Oh the wonderful Cross, oh the wonderful Cross
Bids me come and die and find that I may truly live
Oh the wonderful Cross, oh the wonderful Cross
All who gather here by grace, draw near and bless Your name.
Bids me come and die and find that I may truly live
Oh the wonderful Cross, oh the wonderful Cross
All who gather here by grace, draw near and bless Your name.
(Chris Tomlin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylihJUH0gP4
Heal this land, O Mighty God. Heal our world.
In Jesus' name, Amen
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