Paracas, Peru
Opening Prayer Remember your mercies O Lord, and fill my heart with Your grace and teach me to do Your will, teach me to live worthily and humbly in Your presence. You, Lord, are my wisdom. You truly know me as I am, and have known me before the world came to be and before I came into being -Thomas a’ Kempis (1380-1471) (silent reflection) Prayer of the Bible Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly! Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King! Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre! For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation. -Psalm 149: 1-4 (Free expression of praise and thanksgiving to God) Confession of Sin When I have sinned against You, and when I have turned back to You and confessed my sin, hear from heaven and forgive my sin and restore me. Teach me the good way in which I should walk -I Kings 8:33-34, 36 (Time of silence for confession of sin) The Words of Jesus Father, I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth. -John 17: 15-19 (Think deeply on these life-giving words of Jesus) Prayers for Ourselves and Others In all my prayers for others, I always pray with Joy. -Philippians 1:4 (Time to bring before God our own needs and the needs of others) Closing Prayer May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. -2 Peter 1:2-4 
Bruges, Belgium
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