APRIL 17 - WEDNESDAY

Whatever we most strive after in our life is our god.  What has been your god this week?  Productivity?  Achievement?  Appearance?  Fitness?  Success?  Performance?  Relationships?

Confess these things to God and ask for his forgiveness. 

Invite God to be your first love. 

Ask him to give you more of a desire for his presence in your life.

MARCH 27 – WEDNESDAY

In what areas has it been difficult to trust God this past week?

In what areas have you experienced conflict, discontent, or temptation?

Confess these things to God and ask for his forgiveness.

Assume whatever posture feels appropriate and end with this prayer –

Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked will I return.

The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away.  Blessed be the name of the Lord.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever.  Amen.

Lord, have mercy.  Christ, have mercy.  Lord, have mercy.

I confess Almighty God that I have sinned through my own fault, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do.  Lord forgive me.

Lord, have mercy.  Christ, have mercy.

MARCH 20 – WEDNESDAY

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

See if there is any wicked way in me and lead me in your way of life.

Psalm 39:23-24

Pray for God to reveal the ways that you have brought darkness rather than light into the world this week.  Where have you chosen to live for earthly pleasure or personal agenda rather than to bring God’s Kingdom to earth?

Have you numbed, avoided or tried to satisfy your desires with something other than God?

Psalm 32  (NIV)

¹ Blessed is the person
    whose transgressions are forgiven,
    whose sins are covered.
² Blessed is the person
    whose sin the Lord does not count against them
    and in whose spirit is no deceit.

³ When I kept silent,
    my bones wasted away
    through my groaning all day long.
⁴ For day and night
    your hand was heavy on me;
my strength was sapped
    as in the heat of summer.

⁵ Then I acknowledged my sin to you
    and did not cover up my iniquity.
I said, “I will confess
    my transgressions to the Lord.”
And you forgave
    the guilt of my sin.