Call to Worship
Psalm 36:5-9
Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens,
Your faithfulness to the clouds.
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God.
Your judgments are like the great deep, man and beast You save, O LORD.
How precious is Your steadfast love, O God!
The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
They feast on the abundance of Your house,
and You give them drink from the river of Your delights.
For with You is the fountain of life, in Your light do we see light.
Song of Praise & Adoration
Great Is Thy Faithfulness (audio link / guitar chords)
Great is Thy faithfulness O God my Father!
There is no shadow of turning with Thee.
Thou changest not, Thy compassions they fail not.
As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be.
Great is Thy faithfulness.
Great is Thy faithfulness.
Morning by morning new mercies I see.
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided.
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.
Summer and winter and springtime and harvest.
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above.
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love.
Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth.
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide.
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!
Thomas O. Chisholm / William M.Runyan. Public Domain
Confession
Scripture Reading: 2 Corinthians 12:9
But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you,
for My power is made perfect in weakness.”
Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses,
so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Jesus Paid It All (audio link / guitar chords)
I hear the Savior say,"
“Thy strength indeed is small.
Child of weakness watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.”
Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe.
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.
Lord, now indeed I find,
Thy power and Thine alone.
Can change the leper’s spots
And melt the heart of stone.
For nothing good have I,
Whereby Thy grace to claim.
I’ll wash my garments white,
In the blood of Calvary’s Lamb.
And when before the throne,
I stand in Him complete.
“Jesus died my soul to save,”
My lips shall still repeat.
Elvina M. Hall / John T. Grape. Public Domain
Prayer of Confession
To the God Who Bends Down to Reach Us
A puritan prayer by Robert Hawker (c. 1753-1827) From “Piercing Heaven: Prayers of the Puritans”), Robert Elmer, editor
Precious Lord Jesus! O for grace to love You, who have so loved us.
You stoop to call such poor, sinful people Your own, and love them as Your own,
and consider every thing done for them and done to them as to Yourself.
Show my poor heart a portion of that love, that I may love You
as my own and only Savior, and learn to love You to the end,
as You have loved me and given Yourself to me, an offering and a sacrifice to God.
Precious Lord, continue to surprise my soul with the tokens of Your love.
All the tendencies of Your grace, all the evidences of Your favor, Your visits,
Your love-tokens, Your pardons, Your renewings, Your morning call,
Your mid-day feedings, Your noon, Your evening, Your midnight grace.
All, all are among Your wonderful ways of salvation, and all testify to my soul
that Your name, as well as Your work, is, and must be, wonderful.
Jesus You put forth Your hand and touched a leper!
Deal with me the same way, precious Lord. Though I am polluted and unclean,
yet reach down to put forth Your hand and touch me also.
Put forth Your blessed Spirit. Come, Lord, and dwell in me, abide in me,
and rule and reign over me. Be my God, my Jesus, my Holy One,
and make me Yours forever.
Song of Response
Be Thou My Vision (audio link / guitar chords)
Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart.
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art.
Thou my best thought, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.
Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word,
I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord.
Thou my great Father, I Thy true son,
Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.
Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise,
Thou mine inheritance, now and always.
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,
High King of heaven, my Treasure Thou art.
High King of heaven, my victory won,
May I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heaven’s Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all.
Byrne / Hull. Public Domain
Praying for One Another
Matthew 11:28–30 says, “Come to Me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.”
Whether you are reading and singing through this worship service alone or you are with other family members, let’s take a few moments to come before the Lord together in prayer:
- Pray for the health, physical, and financial needs of our church body.
- Pray that we as a church body, when we are heavy laden this week, would call upon His name. “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You because he trusts in You.” (Isaiah 26:3)
- Pray for specific friends, coworkers, and neighbors who may be fearful or anxious during this time and ask God to give you opportunities to share the hope that we have in Christ.
- Pray for Pastor Weyland, Jesse, and our elders as they continue to make decisions for our congregation.
- Pray that God would give wisdom and guidance to our national, state, and local government leaders and that they would seek His face.
Song of Hope & Assurance
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God (audio link / guitar chords)
A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing.
Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.
For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe.
His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate,
On earth is not his equal.
Did we in our own strength confide, our striving would be losing,
Were not the right Man on our side, the Man of God’s own choosing.
Dost ask who that may be? Christ Jesus, it is He.
Lord Sabaoth His name, from age to age the same,
And He must win the battle.
And though this world, with devils filled, should threaten to undo us,
We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.
The Prince of Darkness grim, we tremble not for him.
His rage we can endure, for lo, his doom is sure.
One little word shall fell him.
That word above all earthly powers, no thanks to them, abideth.
The Spirit and the gifts are ours through Him Who with us sideth.
Let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also.
The body they may kill, God’s truth abideth still.
His kingdom is forever!
Martin Luther. Public Domain
Worship in the Word - Psalm 46