Our Father in Heaven,

You have offered us an amazing and unmerited gift: Jesus Christ, who is your Son, the exact reflection and the perfect incarnation of your glory.

He was perfect in His kindness, forbearing towards those who sinned against him, humble in His courageous love and infallible in His wisdom.

You have granted us to acknowledge that He died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, was buried, was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and appeared to many.

You have granted us the favor of turning from our love of self and sin.

Despite that, we sin against you in many things connected with the way of death: sexual promiscuity, impurity, lust, doing whatever we feel like whenever we feel like it, and grabbing whatever attracts our fancy. Such habits are shaped by things and feelings instead of you, O God. It’s because of this kind of thing that you will soon explode in righteous anger, sending Jesus to come back as Lord over all, to judge the living and the dead.

So we pray: please cleanse us from our bad temper, irritability, meanness, profanity, dirty talk and lies.

Father strip us off and help us cast away our filthy set of ill-fitting clothes. Dress us, we pray, with a new wardrobe.

Having been baptized upon our profession of faith, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, we give up, once again, ourselves to Jesus Christ. Please help A.C. and P.C. be burning with zeal this week, in their private times of devotion in prayer and reading of the Bible.

Sustain us, we pray, to work and pray for the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Please help L and J to be peace makers this week.

We pray that you would enable us to walk together in brotherly love, exercise an affectionate care and watchfulness over each other. Please S.Y. and E.C. receive and give faithful admonishing and Gospel-focused encouragement this week.

We pray that you would come to our rescue to gladly cooperate with and submit to the elders of this church for the care of our souls. Please open our hearts to encourage former elders of this church this week.

We pray that you would help those of us tempted to either forsake the assembling of ourselves together or neglect to pray from themselves and others.

Help us, O God, raise the children under our care, in your nurture and admonition, and by a pure and loving example, help us seek the salvation of our family and friends. Please help K and N, N and A as they shepherd their children’s hearts.

We rejoice at each other’s happiness this week and pray that you would help us endeavor with tenderness and sympathy to bear each other’s burdens and sorrows. We praise you for leading many who spent time yesterday singing hymns declaring your love and greatness.

By your aid, we seek to live carefully in the world, this week, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, and remembering that, as we have been voluntarily buried by baptism and raised again from the symbolic grave, so there is on us a special obligation now to lead a new and holy life.

By your great benevolence, help us, with other local congregations such as Del Ray Baptist, Covenant Life and Knox Orthodox Presbyterian church, work together for the continuance of a faithful evangelical ministry, as we sustain worship, ordinances, discipline, and doctrines.

By your never ceasing mercies, open our hearts, we pray, to contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the ministry, the expenses of the church, the relief of the poor, and the spread of the Gospel through all nations.

We love you. Please cause us to responsibly steward our spiritual gifts to the service of Restoration church and the community at large, to make disciples that delight in the supremacy of Jesus our King, in Washington D.C. and beyond. Amen.