Confession Prayer Week of October 19, 2025

Call to Confession: 

As we enter into a time of confession together, a way we regularly take seriously our sin and lay it before God, let’s prepare our hearts by hearing these words from John 13:

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

Prayer of Confession: 

Loving Heavenly Father, have mercy on us. Although we have all received your unending love and unfailing forgiveness, we often find it hard to love each other well. Instead of cultivating a love that gives grace, we hold on to the sins of others in an effort to justify ourselves. Father, forgive us.

Lord Jesus, you came to earth as a man and allowed the very creatures you made to sin against you in the deepest way. You lived a life of perfect goodness and loved others well, yet you were mocked, beaten, and despised. In all of this, you prayed for the forgiveness of the ones who abused you most. Holy Spirit, teach us to love like that.  

May the deep love of our Father, and the sacrificial love of our Savior, transform us from the inside out. We ask this in the name of Christ alone, and for the sake of his glory. Amen.

Assurance of Pardon: 

In the scriptures we find assurances of our forgiveness and encouragement in our walk.  So hear these words from 1 Thessalonians 3 and rest in their truth for us…

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you, and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you, so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.