Our Father and God, You have established Your Church as a royal priesthood in this world, and so we intercede for the nations of men now, confessing on their behalf so that the grace of Your forgiveness will soon be extended to them all.
Father, we confess to You now that our nation has been diligent in its pursuit of Mammon, and while we no longer worship the calf, we still worship the gold. We confess our nation’s lust for riches, and for the covetous overreach that has result in the collapse of so many of our financial institutions. We confess the justice of Your chastisements, and we pray that our confession on our nation’s behalf will be used to help us to receive those chastisements.
We know, Father, that if we regard iniquity in our own midst, or in our own hearts, this prayer will be ineffectual
. So we confess to You now, asking Your to purge from our midst any undue attachment to material things. Wash us, we pray, and restore us for Jesus’ sake.
And also Father, we confess our private and individual sins to You now—and Selah . . . We do this in the great name of the Lord Jesus, and amen.
God loves to receive His people when they come in genuine contrition. You have done so, and so He has heard your prayer and answered it completely. As a minister of Jesus Christ, I declare that your sins are forgiven through Christ.
Congregation: Thanks be to God!