Opening Prayer Lord, You have loosed my bonds; lead me in Your ways. Amen. Text: Romans 6:19-22 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of…

Opening Prayer Lord, let Your blessing be upon us. Amen. Text: Mark 8:1-9 In those days, the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples to Him and said to them, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with Me three days and have nothing to…

Opening Prayer Lord, incline my heart to Your testimony and not to covetousness. Amen. Text: Isaiah 58:9-11 “Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, If you…

Opening Thought I will pay my vows to the LORD Now in the presence of all His people. (Psa 116:14) Text: Isaiah 58:5-8 Is it a fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread out sackcloth…

Opening Prayer Lord, let my soul live and praise You, and let Your uprightness help me. Amen. Text: James 2:10-17 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do…

Opening Prayer O God, let the truth of Your Word permeate us and sanctify us. Amen. Text: Psalm 15 LORD, who may abide in Your tabernacle? Who may dwell in Your holy hill? He who walks uprightly, And works righteousness, And speaks the truth in his heart; He who does not backbite with his tongue,…

Opening Prayer God, renew our hearts according to Your holy Law. Amen. Text: Matthew 5:17-19 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will…

Opening Prayer Lord, teach us to believe Your justifying grace. Amen. Text: Romans 3:23-28 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth to be a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate…

Opening Prayer Lord, grant us grace through Your death and resurrection. Amen. Text: Romans 6:3-11 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead…