Lord, Let us see your holy face and move our eyes beyond just staying at ourselves. Let us feel the grossness of sin and be repulsed by it, as you are. Expose and forgive! Flood this place with refreshing and awakening joy of full pardon.

Worldly sin

• Expose outright unbelief, pleasure-seeking hedonism, idolatry, false gods, and materialism.
• Expose hearts that scoff at you, that are unwilling to acknowledge your authority, that are hateful of you because you threaten the illusion that they have a right to sit on the throne of their lives.
• Expose false religions that do not exalt Jesus Christ as your only Eternal Divine Son.
• Soften hard hearts by turning them to the goodness and joy of the truth. Give the gift of repentance, to resurrect those who are dead in their transgressions to become for the first time truly alive!

Christian sin

• Holy Spirit help us see all the hidden iniquity that we excuse as normal.
  • Putting ourselves before others
    • Buying something truly unnecessary for ourselves and trying to forget about the brother or sister we know about who is in true need.
    • Cleaning our own clothes and dishes first, and running out of time to clean for our loved ones.
  • Harboring covetous thoughts
    • Adulterous thoughts; nurturing emotional and sexual fantasy yet excusing overly flirtatious behavior as “just being kind” and ignoring that we aren’t as kind to those we aren’t attracted to.
    • Allowing rivalry and anger toward a coworker when they get an opportunity that you weren’t given or able to successfully acquire.
  • Pride
    • Calling ourselves “humble” in our own minds, all the while looking down with self-exalting contempt on anyone we perceive as less gifted than us
    • Forgive us for not going “all in” with our faith, but trying to “play it cool” on the sidelines because we secretly don’t really trust you.
    • Hidden tendencies to racism
    • Religious pride, more like the pharisee than the tax collector
• Holy Spirit, in addition to hidden sin, many of us have sinned in obvious ways.
  • Help those trapped in the clutches of sexual sin, addictions to lust, addictions to substances, addictions to money.
  • Help those wallowing in guilt, and give forgiveness!
• Help us see the futility of hiding the sin we are so potently aware of and hate to think about.
  • Help us to realize that we cannot hide from you
  • Help us! Speak psalm 32 into the cave of hidden guilt and help us realize that the only thing tying us to the emotional anguish of shame is our fear!
  • Show us that covering our sin is death, but exposing it is life because you are the only one who can truly cover it.
• Holy Spirit, apply the blood of Jesus to cover our sin so completely that we let it go and cling to you, and nothing else.

We praise all of this in the name of Jesus, Amen.