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A Prayer Prompted by John 1

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Heavenly Father,

We thank you for sending Jesus Christ your Son, the eternal and living Word of God, to reveal you to us.  We also gladly trust in him as the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.  As those who believe, we thank you for giving us the right to become children of God.

We thank you for the new birth that comes to us by faith in Christ. We thank you for this new eternal life.  We also see our need to be true disciples of Jesus and to be disciple-makers ourselves.  Help us to be part of the movement to multiply committed followers of Christ, the Messiah.

We receive the life that you offer and we pray that you would allow us to see many others come to faith in you.

And we pray all of this through Jesus Christ our Lord,

Amen

A Prayer Prompted by the Resurrection in Luke 24

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Lord Jesus,

It is truly amazing that you could lay down your life for our sake, knowing that you would rise from the dead shortly after.  We do not want to be slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.  Help us to understand, just as you helped those early disciples, all that is written in the Scriptures concerning yourself.

We believe that everything written about you in the Low of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.  Much of that was fulfilled by you in your first coming.  We await all that has yet to be fulfilled with eagerness.

Help us now also to be fully engaged in the work of proclaiming repentance and forgiveness of sins to all nations.  Please clothe us with power from on high, the power of your Holy Spirit as we now give our lives completely to serving you.

We trust you as our Savior and worship you as our Lord,

Amen

A Prayer Prompted by the Crucifixion in Luke 23

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Lord Jesus,

We thank you for enduring the cross in our place so that our sins can be forgiven.  We thank you for humbling yourself beyond anything we can imagine for our sake.  Teach us now to live for you and teach us to live like you did, to the glory of the Father and for the benefit of others.

Help us to love even as you did, even to the point of death. And help us to forgive those who sin against us, even as we have been forgiven.

We want to be like you, Lord Jesus.

Amen

 

Luke 22 – Verse by Verse

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This chapter, in which Jesus institutes the Lord’s Supper shows us four important things.  They are Judas’s betrayal, Peter’s denial, Christ’s prayer and Christ’s covenant.

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Luke 22.mp3

Here is a link to the livestream video: