Father,
By your grace we are recipients of forgiveness and reconciliation because of Jesus’ death, resurrection and imputed righteousness. How you can consider Jesus’ righteousness to be ours is a mystery, and speaks to the magnitude of Jesus’ sufficiency and your goodness.
Thank you that this gospel received and believed gives us confidence to approach you and to take hold of the hope that exists in it. Thank you that we can have this confidence, and thank you that it enables endurance in our hearts, minds and lives. We are, in many ways, weary. We have much need of hope and endurance.
Please enable us to not grow weary of doing good. May we faithfully endure in sowing to the Spirit, and keeping our eyes on the promised harvest that is to come.
We thank you for Jesus, who makes this possible, who taught us to pray:
Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever.
Amen.