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 the Islamic nations of the world have resisted Your plain revelation of the divine nature as triune, and have consequently adopted a religion of brute force, directed particularly against women. Father, we pray that Your Spirit would be at work in those parts of the world, bringing cleansing, forgiveness of sins, and times of refreshing.
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 our sins before You now, especially our compromises with our culture’s contempt for womankind, from enjoyment of the degradation of much popular entertainment to the heresies of feminism.
And also Father, we confess our individual sins to You—and Selah . . . We do this in the strong name of the Lord Jesus, and amen.
God gives the times of refreshing, and He does so freely. But He gives what He deems refreshing, and not what we manufacture in our imaginations. Because He loves to do this, I declare that your sins are forgiven through Christ.
Congregation: Thanks be to God!