A prayer based on 2 Chronicles 9.

<aside> 🙏🏻 Our Lord and our God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – great and awesome You are; majestic and holy; powerful and wise. We worship You, we lift up our voices in praise to You, for you are worthy. We love You our God with all that we are. We bless your glorious Name.

You, our Lord, are good to all You have made; but You have been especially good to us who are Your people; who You have saved by Your grace, who have received Your mercy, and who can rejoice because they have been forgiven. And this forgiveness is truly astonishing.

Because of Christ’s death, when we come to Him in repentance and faith, no matter what we’ve done, however, vile it may be, You cast all our sins behind Your back and remember them no more. We thank You that this true. That even though Satan may make use despair or doubt, we have the assurance of the promises You have made in Your Word, as well as the examples of those who have experienced this for themselves.

We thank You for the forgiveness Solomon received after years of backsliding, and the hope this offers. We thank You for the encouragement this gives to us, to continue praying for those we know who have responded to the gospel in the past, but who have fallen away, and who are currently resisting and rebelling against Your law. Lord, by Your Spirit, bring them back to Yourself, as You did for that wise king acted so foolishly. May they remember and consider what they have drifted and turned from – the great salvation that Jesus has secured – and come to their senses. Open their hearts so that they respond to Your work. Grant them a deep and lasting repentance. Bring back into the fold those lost sheep.

Gracious God, May we remain faithful in our devotion to You. To not neglect our worship of You. To offer the spiritual sacrifices that our required of us. The sacrifice of lives lived for You. Of voices that profess Your name. Of acts of love and kindness towards others. To use whatever God has given us as the opportunity arises to build up and serve one another. And to not think that anything is too much to do, suffer, or give up for our Saviour – because the love that He has shown us is so amazing, so divine, that it demands our souls, our lives, our alls.

Amen.

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