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Prayers
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1 Kings 8:60-61
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O Lord our God, even though we know in our hearts that there is no other,
yet we have not always been loyal to You to walk in Your statutes and to
keep Your commandments.
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Ezra 9
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O God, we are ashamed and blush to lift our faces to you, our God, for our
iniquities have risen higher than our head, and our guilt has mounted up to
the heavens.
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Psalm 1:2
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We do delight in Your law, O Lord, in Your revealed will, in the Bible. For
give us for the times in which we have not meditated upon it. Forgive us for
the times when its message has not guided and enriched our thoughts.
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Psalm 82:5; Proverbs 4:19
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O Lord, apart from Your grace, we walk about in darkness and do not know
what makes us stumble. We sin against You in thought, word and deed.
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Isaiah 2; Jeremiah 31
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O Lord, Your law has gone forth out of Zion and Your word from Jerusalem.
You have taught us Your ways that we might walk in Your paths.
You have written Your law on our hearts and made obeying Your revealed will
our deepest desire. Yet indwelling sin still taints all that we think, say
and do.
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Isaiah 5:20-21
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We confess our sins, O Lord, for at times we become wise in our own eyes and
prudent in our own sight. We call evil good and good evil. We put darkness
for light and light for darkness. We put bitter for sweet and sweet for
bitter.
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Jeremiah 2:22
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Though we want to please You, O Lord, and to walk in Your statutes, yet we
do sin against You daily. We transgress Your law in heart, speech and
behavior. We cannot wash away our sin, O Lord.
Though we wash ourselves with lye and use much soap, yet our iniquity is
marked before You, O Lord.
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Jeremiah 5:23
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O Lord, though our hearts are full of Your praise, yet we still hear the
call of temptation and feel the lure of sin. Apart from Your grace, our hearts
would be defiant and rebellious,
and we would have joined the ranks of those who have revolted against You
and departed from You.
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Jeremiah 23:23-24
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O Lord, we confess our sins to You, for we cannot hide them from You. You are
a God near at hand and not afar off. You fill heaven and earth, and we
cannot hide in secret places so that You will not see us.
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Ezekiel 14:1-8
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O Lord, we are tempted to set up idols in our hearts, idols which cause us
to stumble into iniquity. O Lord, seize us by the heart and recapture us
lest we separate ourselves from You and be estranged from You by our idols,
such that You set Your face against us and cut us off from Your people. We
repent of our idolatries, O Lord. We turn away from our idols and turn our
faces from all our abominations.
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Matthew 9; Isaiah 53
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O Lord, we are weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. We like
sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way.
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Luke 15:18-19
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Father, we confess our sins. We cry out with the prodigal son, "Father, we
have sinned against heaven and before You, and we are no longer worthy to
be called Your sons."
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John 17; Romans 14:15
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We confess, O God, that we Your people have fallen short of the pattern and
example of holy love found in the triune Godhead. We are not one as You
are one.
We have too often failed to walk in love with our brother for whom Christ
died.
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Romans 5:12,19; Genesis 5:3
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We confess, O Lord, that our forefather Adam fell into sin, and that we his
children sinned in him and fell with him. We were begotten in his sinful
image and after his sinful likeness,
and we daily follow his sinful example by transgressing Your holy laws.
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Romans 7:19,23-25
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O Lord, we confess that sin still dwells within us and wars against the law
of our mind such that we practice the evil which we will not to do. O
wretched people that we are! Who will deliver us from this body of death?
We thank You, O God, for our deliverance through Jesus Christ our Lord!
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Romans 7:22-23
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O Lord, we delight in Your revelation according to the inward man, but we
see another law in our bodily members, warring against the law of our mind
and bringing us into captivity to the law of sin.
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1 Corinthians 15:17
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O Lord, we need this saving, redeeming work of atonement, for we sin against
You in thought, word and deed and daily earn Your just judgment and
righteous indignation.
And if Christ be not risen, then our faith is futile and we are still in our
sins. But, O Lord, He is risen, and the tomb where they laid His body is
empty.
mpty.
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Hebrews 11:25
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O Lord, we confess that we at times have lacked the faith to esteem the
reproach of Christ as greater riches than the treasures of this world.
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2 Peter 2:19
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O Lord, we freely confess that we were slaves of corruption, overcome by
our sins and brought into bondage.
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1 John 1
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Father, we know that if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and
the truth is not in us. We freely confess, O Lord, that we have sinned in
thought, word and deed; in heart, speech and behaviour; in thinking, speaking
and doing.
We also rejoice, O God, that you have promised that if we confess our sins,
you are faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness.
We who now confess our sins with contrite hearts ask you to pardon us for
the sake of Christ and His perfect sacrifice.
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1 John 4:11; Matthew 18:33; Ephesians 4:32;5:1
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Father, we know that if You so loved us, then we also ought to love one
another. As You have had pity on us, we ought to have compassion on one
another.
As you have forgiven us in Christ, we ought to bear with one another and
forgive one another. Forgive us, O Lord, for the many times we have failed to
imitate You as dear children.
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