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A Prayer For The Departed, Address To The Nation After The World Trade Center Attacks, September 14, 2001
We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who love them...
On this national day of prayer and remembrance, we ask Almighty God to watch over our nation,
And grant us patience and resolve in all that is to come.
We pray that He will comfort and console those who now walk in sorrow.
We thank Him for each life we now must mourn, and the promise of a life to come.
As we have been assured, neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers,
Nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, can separate us from God's love.
May He bless the souls of the departed. May He comfort our own. And may He always guide our country.
Amen.
- President George W. Bush
Prayer
Father God, we thank you that your amazing unfathomable love
Has been poured out for us at the cross and poured into us by the Holy Spirit.
We want to taste and experience more of the depth and breadth and length and height of your amazing love.
Help us to walk by faith. Help us to endure in suffering. Help us to own our need of you.
Help us to fully embrace your Son, Jesus Christ, our Redeemer.
So, pour out your love into our hearts, in increasing measure by the power of your Holy Spirit,
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. It is in his name that we pray.
Amen.
- Inspired By Romans 5:1-11
A Short Grace For Use Before Meals
O Lord, bless this food to our use,
And us to your service;
Make us grateful for all your mercies,
And mindful of the needs of others.
Amen.
David's Prayer for Pardon and Confession of Sin
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness:
According unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight:
That thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts:
And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation:
And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:
A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness,
With burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
- Psalm 51