Evening Prayers - 16 May 2021

 

O our Father in heaven, we come near to you with all holy reverence and confidence, as children drawing close to a father who is able and ready to help us.

May your name be hallowed by us and all others so that we may glorify you in every way that you make yourself known. Arrange all things – all of our conduct, hardships, desires, marriages, singleness, occupations, as well as all the governmental and civil events of this world and our country – to your own glory. O Lord, hear our prayer.

May your kingdom come. We implore you to destroy Satan‘s kingdom, and advance your kingdom of grace, notably through the prayers and works of your world-wide Church. May we all be brought into your kingdom of grace and firmly kept in it. And here Lord, we pray chiefly for those who have never turned in faith to Christ, or who have strayed away (…). And may your kingdom of glory be hastened – Come, Lord Jesus! O Lord, hear our prayer.

May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven; that you, Lord God, by your grace, would make us able and willing to know, obey and submit to your will in all things, even as the angels do in heaven. We pray this for ourselves, our families, our adult children, our congregation, our Presbytery, and our denomination. O Lord, hear our prayer.

Give us this day our daily bread; that of your free gift we may receive a competent portion of the good things of this life, and enjoy your blessing with them, including health, hope and deliverance. O Lord, hear our prayer.

Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors; This, Lord, we are strongly encouraged to ask, because by your grace we are enabled from the heart to forgive others. Therefore, remembering that we have wronged you far more than anyone has ever wronged us, help us to be quick and ready to forgive those who wrong us, and to be swift and set to ask forgiveness from those whom we have wronged (…). O Lord, hear our prayer.

Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; O God, please keep us from being tempted to sin, and when we are tempted, please support us and deliver us; since your grace has come and saved us and is now training us “to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in the present age (Titus 2:11-12). And Father, beat down Satan under our feet (Romans 16:20). O Lord, hear our prayer.

Yours, O Lord, is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. And so, these prayers we ask in the name of our Lord Jesus, amen. 

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