MON,  APR 15

Call to Worship (Hear God call you to worship through His Word) - Psalm 100

Adoration (Pray this praise to God:)

We praise you, O God, we acknowledge you to be the Lord. All the earth worships you, the Father everlasting. To you, all angels cry aloud, the heavens and all the powers in it. To you, cherubim and seraphim continually cry, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts." Heaven and earth are full of the majesty of your glory. The glorious company of the apostles, praise you. The good fellowship of the prophets, praise you. The noble army of martyrs, praise you. The holy church throughout all the world, acknowledges you. The Father of an infinite majesty. Your honorable, true, and only Son. Also, the Holy Spirit, the Comforter. You are the King of glory, O Christ. You are the everlasting Son of the Father. When you took upon yourself to deliver man, you did not abhor the virgin's womb. When you overcame the sharpness of death, you opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers. You sit on the right hand of God, in the glory of the Father. We believe that you will come to be our judge. We therefore pray, help your servants, whom you have redeemed with your precious blood. Make them to be numbered with your saints, in glory everlasting. O Lord, save your people, and bless your heritage. Govern them, and lift them up forever. Day by day we magnify you. And we worship your name evermore, world without end. O Lord, have mercy upon us; have mercy upon us. O Lord, let your mercy shine upon us, since our trust in in you. O Lord, in you have I trusted; let me never be confounded. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer 1552)

Prayer for Illumination (As you read God’s Word, ask Him to enlighten your mind and heart)

Blessed Lord, you have caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning - grant us that we may in such a way hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them; that by patience and comfort of your holy Word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer, 1552)

Scripture Reading

Prayer of Intercession (As you make requests to God, pray this prayer:)

Grant, Almighty God, that as you constantly remind us in your word, and have taught us by so many examples, that there is nothing permanent in this world, but that the things which seem the firmest tend to ruin, and instantly fall and of themselves vanish away, when by your breath you shake your strength in which men trust - O grant that we, being really subdued and humbled, may not rely on earthly things, but raise up our hearts and our thoughts to heaven, and there fix the anchor of our hope; and may all our thoughts abide there until at length, when you have led us through our course on earth, we shall be gathered into that celestial kingdom which has been obtained for us by the blood of your only begotten Son. Amen. (John Calvin)

Further Petition and Intercession:

• Personal
• Church
• World

Lord’s Prayer (Pray the words that Jesus taught us to pray)

Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name;

your kingdom come;

your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

For yours is the kingdom, and the power,

and the glory, forever. Amen.