Confession Prayer Week of October 20, 2024

Call to Confession: 

As we enter into a time of confession together, let’s prepare our hearts by hearing these words from Ephesians 2:

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility.

Prayer of Confession: 

God of all peace,

You have saved us with your strength and holiness and we come before you in joyful gratitude. You have destroyed the walls of hostility between us by uniting us to Christ. Lord, forgive us for the ways we create new walls of hostility or judgement between our brothers and sisters.

Holy Spirit, deliver us from our love of self. Free us to serve others joyfully and to seek their peace instead of seeing them as rivals and enemies. Unite us in our love for Christ. When we fall, help us to forgive one another and to find joy at the foot of the cross together. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Assurance of Pardon: 

In the scriptures we find assurances of our forgiveness and encouragement in our walk. So hear these words from Ephesians 2 and rest in their truth for us…

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.