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September 13 - Evening


Thursday Evening

Good Evening, Lord!

Words of Comfort

May the LORD give strength to His people! May the LORD bless His people with peace! (Ps. 29:11 ESV)

Prayer of Confession

Forgive my sins, O Lord – forgive me the sins of my present and the sins of my past, the sins of my soul and the sins of my body; the sins which I have done to please myself, and the sins which I have done to please others. Forgive my rebellious and lazy sins, forgive me my serious and deliberate sins, forgive me those sins which I know and those sins which I don’t know, the sins which I have tried to hide from others and the sins that I have hidden from myself. Forgive them, O Lord, forgive them all. Of Your great mercy let me be forgiven, and in your loving kindness set me free from the bonds of sin. Please do this, O heavenly Father, for the sake of Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord and Savior. Amen.[1]

Memory Verse

[There is …] one Lord, one faith, one Baptism. – Ephesians 4:5

A Catechism Reading

Maroon Cover – p. 209: Second and Question 248
Black Cover – p. 292: Second and Central Thought

I.T.C.P. Prayer

Use the I.T.C.P. formula to guide you in prayer.
Instruction:     What did I learn? What was the reading about?
Thanksgiving: For what does this reading teach me to be thankful?
Confession:     With what sin was I confronted? Was I comforted with God’s forgiveness? How?
Petition:          What does this reading teach me to pray about?

Petitions of the Lord’s Prayer

“And forgive us our trespasses and we forgive those who trespass against us.”
Heavenly Father, do not look at our sins, or deny our prayer because of them. We are neither worthy of the things for which we pray, nor have we deserved them, but we ask that You would give them all to us by grace, for we daily sin  much and surely deserve nothing but punishment. But You have given Your Son, our Savior, Jesus to bear our sins in His body on the cross and given us forgiveness for His sake. For Jesus’ sake help us to sincerely forgive and gladly do good to those who sin against us. Amen.

Verse of Benediction

To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. (1 Tim. 1:17 ESV)

[1] Slightly adapted from Doberstein, Minister’s Prayer Book, p. 33. He cites Thomas Wilson’s Sacra Privata.

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