Call to Prayer

Psalm 68:19-23 (ESV)

¹⁹ Blessed be the Lord,
    who daily bears us up;
    God is our salvation.
²⁰ Our God is a God of salvation,
    and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.
²¹ But God will strike the heads of his enemies,
    the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.
²² The Lord said,
    “I will bring them back from Bashan,
I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,
²³ that you may strike your feet in their blood,
    that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe.”

Scripture Lesson

2 Corinthians 5:14-21 (ESV)

¹⁴ For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; ¹⁵ and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

¹⁶ From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. ¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. ¹⁸ All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; ¹⁹ that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. ²⁰ Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. ²¹ For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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In Jesus’ Name, Amen.