Father, You are the God of justice. You love uprightness and truth. You desire to see justice flowing through the earth, like a mighty river.  Lord are you a ‘religious’ God? Is all You want from us: to spend some time in church each week, to sing a few songs, to read a few chapters […]

Father, You are a God of justice. Your desire is to see justice among Your people, and justice upon the earth. As You love justice, we too should love justice. But forgive us for seeing justice as ‘political’, and as ‘unimportant’ to our Christian life. Forgive us for the times we have been cold and

Father, what is Agape Baptist Church that You are mindful of her? Thank You for choosing us. Planting us. Setting Your love on us. And leading us to the gospel of Your Son. We are by no means the mightiest, the most numerous, the most wise, or the most noble of people. Still, You have

Father, we want to thank You afresh for saving us. Sin – our sin – has really messed everything up. Our lives, our loves, and our world are so messy. Even saving us is so messy: Blood had to be spilt. The death penalty had to be paid. Saving us included nakedness, betrayal, rejection, and

Father, You are righteous in all Your ways and kind in all Your works. You give peace to those who serve You and obey Your commandments. But we think our ways are higher than Your ways. When times are good, instead of drawing near to You, we become complacent. We forget that every good and

Our Father in heaven, You are worthy of our continued, fervent, and lasting prayers. Yet we confess how inconsistent our prayers have often been.  We confess that our prayers have too often been temporal, reactive prayers for daily bread. We pray primarily out of our needs, and not out of Your vision and promises.  Too

Heavenly Father – it is our priceless privilege to address You as “Father”! We ask for Your compassion upon us. That Your mercy might be made new this morning. Father, forgive us for making light of Your love for us. Forgive us for still trying to come to You, on account of anything aside from

Father, we confess our prayerlessness before You. Your word calls us to pray without ceasing, but at times we go days without praying. Forgive us! Forgive us also for praying wrongly! The times we have prayed from a place of pride and self-righteousness. The times we have prayed to impress other people.  The times our

Father,  All authority in heaven and earth has been given to Jesus. His authority is good and perfect. His authority is life giving and sacrificial. His authority is love incarnate. Why do we not submit to such divine authority? Why do we forget that we are Your servants and rebel against You as our Master?

Father,  You chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before You. We are fearfully and wonderfully made by Your loving hands. But we forget how precious we are in Your eyes. We find our identities in our social economic status. We look for our identities