Father, I want to thank you for sending me to your sanctuary tonight. I battled with thoughts of tiredness especially toward the end of my work day. I am really glad I made it. Thank you! Thank you for speaking so clearly to me, and us all tonight.
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
~Romans 1:18-32 (ESV)
Most righteous and holy God, your wrath is being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness. Your judgment O, God is being poured out continuously till it reaches its fulness on your appointed Day and all through eternity. I am a sinner against you and my neighbours for I had chosen time and again in my weaknesses and sinful hearts to disobey you and to live in ungodliness and unrighteousness.
Your silence and allowance of me to live such life is your judgment upon me. Therefore God, you gave me over and up to the lusts of my hearts, to dishonorable passions, and to a debased, corrupt and defiled mind. I am without excuse O God!
Merciful and wrathful Father, I come before you to be cleansed, to surrender for your holiness, for You are holy. Sanctify me through and through by Your Truth. Your Word is truth! Instill in me godly fear and holy hatred for sin that I may live blameless and holy life before You and You alone. And I know that "... You who began a good work in me will carry it on to completion until the Day of Christ Jesus...(Philippians 1:6)" To the glory of Your Son Jesus Christ. Amen!
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