Christ in Our Home devotions Sept 5 - Sept 11, 2016

Christ In Our Home Devotions

17th Sunday after Pentecost

Looking for the lost

1. Make the sign of the cross over yourself and say:

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

2. Pray Luther’s Morning or Evening Prayer:

I thank you, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, your dear Son, that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger. Keep me this day also from sin and every evil, that all my doings and life may please you. Into your hands I commend my body and soul and all things. Let your holy angel be with me, that the wicked foe may have no power over me. Amen.

I thank you, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, your dear Son, that you have graciously kept me this day. Forgive me all my sins, and graciously keep me this night. Into your hands I commend my body and soul and all things. Let your holy angel be with me, that the wicked foe may have no power over me. Amen.

3. Pray the Lord’s Prayer:

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen.

4. Pray the Prayer of the Week

Lord, we pray that your mercy and grace may always go before and follow after us that, loving you with undivided hearts, we may be ready for every good and useful work; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

5. Say the Apostles’ Creed:

     I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.

     I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From there he will come to judge the living and the dead.

     I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

6. Pray the Psalm of the Week: Psalm 51a

Refrain: Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

Have mercy on me, O God,*

according to your unfailing love.

Wash away all my iniquity,*

and cleanse me from my sin.

For I know my transgressions,*

and my sin is always before me.

Refrain

Against you, you only, have I sinned*

and done what is evil in your sight.

Surely I was sinful at birth,*

sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

Hide your face from my sins,*

and blot out all my iniquity.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation,*

and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

Glory be 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.

Refrain

7. Say the Verse of the Week:

Alleluia. Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. Alleluia. (Romans 15:4)

8. Read a Devotion or the Following Suggested Scriptures

M: Proverbs 7-8; 1 Corinthians 14:21-40

T: Proverbs 9-10; 1 Corinthians 15:1-32

W: Proverb 11-12; 1 Corinthians 15:33-58

T: Proverb 13-14; 1 Corinthians 16

F: Proverbs 15-16; 2 Corinthians 1

S: Proverbs 17-18; 2 Corinthians 2

S: Proverbs 19-20 2 Corinthians 3 & Worship in the House of the Lord

9. Prayer of JOY: Jesus; Others; and Yourself

10. Sing or Say the Hymn of the Week: 

304  Jesus Sinners Does Receive

1  Jesus sinners does receive; Oh, may all this saying ponder

Who in sin’s delusions live And from God and heaven wander.

Here is hope for all who grieve—Jesus sinners does receive.

2  We deserve but grief and shame, Yet his words, rich grace revealing,

Pardon, peace, and life proclaim; Here their ills have perfect healing

Who with humble hearts believe—Jesus sinners does receive.

3  Sheep that from the fold did stray Are not by the Lord forsaken;

Weary souls who lost their way Are by Christ, the shepherd, taken

In his arms that they may live—Jesus sinners does receive.

Text: Erdmann Neumeister, 1671–1756, abr.; tr. composite.