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Prayers
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Now, O heavenly Father, as we prepare to worship You on this Lord's Day
assembled as Your people, send Your Holy Spirit upon us. Come, O Holy Spirit,
as divine breath and quicken us.
Come, O Holy Spirit, as water from above and cleanse us. Come, O Holy
Spirit, as fire from heaven and purge us. Come, O Holy Spirit, as wind beyond
our control and empower us.
Come, O Holy Spirit, as heavenly light and enlighten us. Convict, convert
and consecrate us so that we may here worship You in spirit and in truth and
so that we may leave this place to serve Him whose service is perfect
freedom.
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Now, O Lord, pour out Your Holy Spirit upon us in fullness, strengthen and
confirm our faith in Christ, draw us to Yourself and enable us to walk with
You this morning in the close communion of worship.
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Genesis 2:7; Ezekiel 37
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Also, O Lord, even as You breathed into our forefather Adam's nostrils the
breath of life, even so breath upon us today Your Holy Spirit that we might
have spiritual life and that we might worship You today in spirit and in
truth.
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Exodus 19; Gen 3; Acts 1; John 4
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O Lord, we have assembled before You today to hear Your Word even as Israel
assembled before You at Mt. Sinai.
We desire to fellowship with You even as Adam in his innocence walked with
You in the garden in the cool of the day.
We are anticipating Your presence through the outpouring of Your Holy
Spirit, even as did the one hundred twenty who met to pray in the upper room
in Jerusalem.
Pour out Your Holy Spirit upon us today in abundance until we are filled
with Your Spirit so that we may be able by Your grace to worship You today
in spirit and in truth.
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Psalm 1:3
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Now, O Lord, the season of worship is upon us. Enable us to bear the fruit
of sincere praise, earnest adoration and heartfelt devotion.
Use our time of worship to strengthen and confirm our faith in Christ that
our leaf might never wither and that we might prosper in all that we do.
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Psalm 10:17-18; Zechariah 12:10
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Now, O Lord, as we prepare to worship You today, pour out upon us the Spirit
of grace and supplication. Through the power of Your Holy Spirit, work in
our hearts the grace of humility
that we may bring before You our prayers and praise, our worship and
supplications, in a way that pleases You. Prepare our hearts, O Lord,
and cause Your ear to hear.
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Psalm 51:10,12
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Create in us a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within us.
Restore to us the joy of Your salvation, and uphold us by Your generous
Spirit. Strengthen our faith even now and enable us today to worship You in
spirit and in truth.
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Psalm 80:18-19
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Revive us. O Lord, and we will call upon Your name. Restore us, O Lord of
hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, and we shall be saved that we may
worship and praise Your name.
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Isaiah 63:15-64:1
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We thank You for forgiveness, but we also ask for spiritual renewal and
revival. O Lord, look down from heaven, and see from Your habitation,
holy and glorious.
Rend the heavens, O Lord, and come down among us today in power through Your
outpoured Holy Spirit that the very mountains might shake at Your presense.
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For You, O Lord, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
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Jeremiah 30:20-21
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Enable us now to draw near to You and permit us now to approach You in
worship. Establish our congregation before You in strength, and fulfill the
promise of Your covenant with us that we shall we Your people and You will be
our God.
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Ezekiel 36:26-27
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O Lord, give us a new heart and put a new spirit within us. Take the heart
of stone out of our flesh and give us a heart of flesh. Put Your Spirit
within us and cause us to walk in Your statutes that we may keep Your
judgments and do them.
And enable us to worship You today in spirit and in truth
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Ezekiel 37:10
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Now, O Lord, blow upon us the breath of Your Holy Spirit and raise us up as
Your living army. Enable us now to worship You in spirit and in truth.
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Luke 24:13-31
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O heavenly Father, as we prepare for worship today, we think of the two
disciples on the road to Emmaus on the Sunday of Jesus' resurrection. O
Lord, even as Jesus walked with them, may He today come to us and be with us.
O Lord, even as Jesus expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things
concerning Himself, may He speak to us today through the preaching of His
word. O Lord, even as Jesus sat at table with them, took bread, blessed and
broke it, and
gave it to them, may He today dine with us and we with Him. O Lord, even as
their eyes were then opened such that they knew Jesus, may we today as we
break bread see Him more clearly with the eyes of faith and know Him more
dearly
in the bonds of love.
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Romans 6:18-19
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O Lord, now that You have set us free from sin, we are Your slaves, O Lord.
Enable us to present our bodily members to You, O God, as slaves of
righteousness unto holiness.
May our lips sing Your praises. May we work with our hands what is good.
May our feet walk in paths of rightousness for Your name's sake. For Your
worship and service is our truest freedom.
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Romans 8:5-6
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Now, O Lord, enable us to set our minds not on the things of the flesh but
on the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be
spiritually minded is life and peace.
Enable us at this time, O Lord, to worship You in spirit and in truth.
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Romans 15:5-6
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O God, grant us this morning that we may be like-minded toward one another,
according to Christ Jesus, that we may with one mind and one mouth glorify
You, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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1 Corinthians 1:18,20,31
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Deliver us, O Lord, from the foolishness of worldly wisdom. Work faith in
our hearts and call us to Yourself that we may this morning know Christ as
wisdom from You, that we may this morning know Christ as power from You,
that we may this morning obey Your command, "He who glories, let Him glory
in the Lord."
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1 Corinthians 6:19-20
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O Lord, we are no longer our own; we were bought at a price. Therefore, O
Lord, we want to glorify You in our body and in our spirit, which are both
Yours.
Fill us with Your Spirit, O Lord, and strengthen our faith in Christ that
we might in this hour of worship sing forth with our lips Your praise from
the depths of our grateful hearts.
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Galatians 4:6; 1 John 3:1
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And now, O Lord, send forth the Spirit of Your Son into our hearts, crying
out, "Abba, Father." Fill our hearts with gratitude that we have been born
a second time and have been adopted into Your family. Enable us today to
worship
and adore You for the love You have bestowed upon us, that we should be
called the children of God.
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Ephesians 5:2
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Now, O Lord, strengthen our faith in Christ and conform us to His image that
we may walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us,
an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
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Ephesians 5:18; Col 3:16; Psa 21:13
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Now, O Lord, as we are assembled together here on the Lord's Day, the new
covenant Sabbath, pour out Your Spirit upon us in abundance until we are
filled with Your Spirit,
let the word of Christ dwell richly in our hearts, and empower us to
magnify Your name and to sing praises to Your power.
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2 Timothy 3:16-17
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Now, O Lord, through the teaching of Your inspired Word in the power of Your
Holy Spirit, work in us today: teach us Your doctrine; reprove our errors;
correct our wayward ways; and train us in righteous living,
that we Your people may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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Hebrews 12
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O Lord, by the power of Your Holy Spirit, through the faith which He works
in our hearts, enable us to come to Mount Zion, to Your city, the heavenly
Jerusalem, that we may now worship You, the Judge of all,
and Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and that we may do so together
with the innumerable company of the angels and the church of the firstborn
who are registered in heaven.
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James 4:8; Galatians 4:19
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Now draw near to us that we may draw near to You. By our worship today,
increase our faith in Christ and thus quicken and refresh our hearts and renew
and increase our strength, so that Christ may be formed in us
and so that we may be enabled better to serve You in our daily lives.
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1 Peter 2:25, John 10
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Have compassion upon us, O Lord. May we today with renewed faith return to
the Shepherd and Overseer of our souls. May we today hear Jesus' voice with
the ears of faith as He speaks to us through the Scriptures.
May we today recognize His voice as the voice of our Good Shepherd. May we
today hear Him, know Him and follow Him through the obedience of our
sincere worship and willing service.
For those who are truly His sheep hear His voice and follow Him, and He
gives them eternal life, and they shall never perish.
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Revelation 5:9-10
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And now, O Lord, enable us this morning to sing to Jesus a new song, saying,
"You are worthy, for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your
blood, and have made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign on
the earth."
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Revelation 5:14
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Now, O Lord, unite us to the risen Christ through the mystical work of Your
Holy Spirit that we may in faith may join with the four living creatures
and the twenty-four elders in heaven
as they worship the Lamb who was slain and yet who lives forever and ever.
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