Christ in Our Home devotions February 22-28, 2016

Christ In Our Home Devotions

3rd Sunday in Lent

Our Lenten journey must be one of repentance.

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

Almighty God, look with favor on your humble servants and stretch out the right hand of your power to defend us against all our enemies; through Jesus Christ, your Son, 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 38

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

O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger*

or discipline me in your wrath.

For your arrows have pierced me,*

and your hand has come down upon me.

My guilt has overwhelmed me*

like a burden too heavy to bear.

Refrain

All my longings lie open before you, O LORD;*

my sighing is not hidden from you.

I wait for you, O LORD;*

you will answer, O Lord my God.

Come quickly to help me,*

O Lord my Savior.

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:

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.  (John 3:14,15)

8. Read a Devotion or the Following Suggested Scriptures

M: Numbers 7; Mark 4:21-41

T: Numbers 8-10; Mark 5:1-20

W: Numbers 11-13; Mark 5:21-43

T: Numbers 14-15; Mark 6:1-32

F: Numbers 16-17; Mark 6:33-56

S: Numbers 18-20; Mark 7:1-13

S: Numbers 21-23; Mark 7:14-8:10 & Worship in the House of the Lord

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

10. Sing or Say the Hymn of the Week: 

CW 302  Lord, to You I Make Confession

1  Lord, to you I make confession: I have sinned and gone astray;

I have multiplied transgression, Chosen for myself my way.

Led by you to see my errors, Lord, I tremble at your terrors.

2  Yet, though conscience’ voice appall me, Father, I will seek your face.

Though your child I dare not call me, Yet receive me to your grace.

Do not for my sins forsake me; Do not let your wrath o’ertake me.

Text: Johann Franck, 1618–77, abr.; tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1827–78, alt.