Communion Prayer

September 04, 2009

11:00pm

 

Father, as we come not to Your table, here we look directly at the heart of the demonstration of Your grace. The animal killed in the garden to provide covering for Adam and Eve, only a symbol. Every animal offered from Abel on, only a symbol, every lamb, every goat, every bull, every turtledove, every sacrifice only a picture until we come to CALVARY’S CROSS and there’s the reality that everything pointed to. We look at the cross and we see Your magnanimous and stunning grace on display and we are grateful. It all comes down to Christ on the Cross, for there your grace was fully displayed in a SACRIFICE that has no parallel. God the Son, becoming a man, dying for our sins as a substitute so that we might receive grace…GRACE FOR ALL OUR SINS... and it’s in this grace that we stand, WE STAND IN GRACE.

This is the world we live in. physically we may only live, in one universe, all of us the same. Spiritually there are two. People either live in the domain of law, or the domain of grace. They are either under the law with its effects, or under grace with its effects. If in the realm of grace we are blessed with all spiritual blessings because of what Christ has done on the cross. Fill us with GRATITUDE. Help us not to come to this table in a perfunctory way, in a common way, but with a new and afresh grasp of greatness of this grace. May we honestly look at our own lives and if there’s any sin, any deed which we would not be willing in a split second to let go, any word, any attitude, any thought or pattern of thought that displeases You in any way Lord, we would have You to take away. Cleanse us and wash us, make us clean before You so that we can come in a worthy way, and may celebrate the greatest of Your grace.

Because You are gracious, that doesn’t; lead us to sin more that grace may abound. But in GRATITUDE TO RUN, to flee from sin lest we abuse such great grace.

We don’t want to be abusers of grace.

We want to be lovers of righteousness.

So, do a work of cleaning in our hearts, even as we celebrate the death of our Saviour in the bread and cup.

Amen.