Minister: Lift up your hearts!
Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord!
Great God of wonders, God of our risen Lord Jesus, God of the new creation, we worship You now in the powerful name of Jesus Christ.
You gave the breath of life to our father Adam, and You gave new life and resurrection power to the last Adam. We are earthly in the first, and heavenly in the latter. We have bodies now that are natural and subject to decay. In the resurrection we will have spiritual bodies, bodies that will be truly glorious and that will never die. In that day, Father, we will worship You perfectly, and we rejoice that today we worship You in the name of Jesus, and that therefore our worship today is received as perfect in Him. We glory in the fact that we are a justified people, and that His perfections are ours. Receive our worship today on that basis, we pray.
And so, gracious Father, we worship You now through Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end, amen
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