Almighty God,
Our mouths are feeble and our hearts are frail. We are so sick with sin that all that we do is polluted with its loathsome presence. Even our worship is besmirched with all kinds of awful sins. Yet we come as beggars, knowing that our petty offerings are as rubbish in and of themselves.
And we pray that your grace and mercy would cover all our iniquities. Lord, we know that we ought to be condemned for defiling your worship and for having lived in opposition to you each day up to now. But we ask, O God, that you would have mercy on us. Look upon us with the eyes of compassion, rather than the eyes of justice. And let us have the joy of knowing your forgiveness and love.
Lord, we have no hope of salvation, save in the Name of your dear Son. We cling to him and recognize that his passion is our only means of eternal life.
We praise you for offering him up for sinners like us. And we thank you that he was willing to die in our place. And now we ask that the unthinkable would be done. We ask that our sins would be exchanged for his obedience. Let our fiendish ways die with him on the cross and may seeds of new obedience begin to take root within us.
