***Adoration
You are the God of love. Your love melts our resistance to You. Your love permeates our most difficult experiences and propels Your well-timed plans. Your love leads us to face our sin and brings us to a place of repentance and reconciliation. Your love is actively good and reflects Your absolute purity.
***Confession
Forgive us, Lord, when we fail to immediately repent and ignore Your tender call to forsake our sins.
***Thanksgiving
God, thank you for revealing our sins to us, not to shackle us in hopelessness, but to set us free. “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)
***Supplication
Father, we pray You will bring healing to the broken relationships in our homes, churches and communities. Only you can restore what sin has destroyed! Soften hearts; bring repentance; orchestrate your healing, restorative work.
Review of Ephesians:
- Ephesians 1:10 God’s will ….is to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
- Ephesians 1:11 & 12 In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.
- Ephesians 2:14 For Jesus himself is our peace.
- Ephesians 3:18: I pray that you…may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.
- Ephesians 4:32Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.