Lord, we confess to you our ignorance in our thinking, for the many times we are uncharitable to those who are different from us, for the tolerance of injustice against someone because we are not close to them. Lord, if we have been unkind to strangers, if we have encouraged others to treat them unfairly, accept our repentance Lord. Instill in us the love which casts out all fear, doubt, prejudice and contempt, hatred, and injustice, that we may love one another even as you love us. Amen!

God’s will is not for us to suffer because of what we have done, but that we may turn away from wickedness and live,  that we will all come to acknowledge our sinfulness and repent. God sees and knows all what we have done, there is nothing hidden from him, so when we blot from our minds the evils that we have done, know that in order to accept the free gift of salvation, that we must confess them and lay them at the feet of Jesus.

If pride and arrogance have hindered you from prayer and worship, if other things in your lives have become first place, if you have not made time to give God thanks for what he has done for you, if you have testimonies of God’s goodness that you have not shared, if you have not been trusting God enough for anything, the time for change is here. God will never turn you away, you just have to return to God. Praise the Lord!

There are so many things in our lives that we devote too much time and energy to, when this time could be better spent in the service and worship of the Lord. If you find that there is any one pastime, person or thing that is demanding so much of you that you find little time for anything else, it has become an idol. Give it over to God to direct and control.

When you see others around you who are being blessed, instead of being angry at others and rebellious against God, take comfort in prayer, meditate on God’s word, and remind yourself, that God is the giver of all good things, that he knows your needs before you ask and if you are patient, grateful and thankful, you could be next in line for a blessing.

There are some people who have turned away from me, just stopped being my friend since I gave my life to Christ. Some have judged me wrongly, some have accused me of unjustly, but I made a covenant with my God that I will not allow anything to separate us. So anyone or anything that is determined to come between me and my God will lose. If you are not for me you will be against me, but if God be for us, who can be against us?

My brothers and sisters in Christ, no matter what we have done, or where we have been, through God’s good grace we are able to freely accept the gift salvation, but we must not accept it in vain. Let us accept this gift, while it is still being offered to us, while now is the accepted time, and be reconciled to God, for tomorrow may be too late. Thank you, Lord, for your GRACE and SALVATION so freely offered to us.

It is never too late to confess our misusings of God’s grace, let us come before his presence and acknowledge our sinful, evil ways, and God in His mercy will hear us.

Only God can order our unruly minds, only God can effect much needed changes in our lives, but we must humbly make our confession to him, acknowledge the sins which are grievous unto him, ask for his forgiveness and for him to create a change in you and he will.

Lord, please help us to be not only hearers of your word but doers of your word, teach us how to trust you for everything, removed from us fear, doubt and insecurity, so that we could depend on you at every turn in our lives. Lord, we find it hard to love our neighbors as ourselves because they are difficult, but remind us of how difficult we are ourselves, but that you still love us. We have failed you time and time again, yet you have forgiven us, but we find it hard to forgive those who trespass against us, help us Lord.