Jesus, Almighty God of All Good, how majestic is your name in all the earth, Your name is Jesus for You save Your people from their sins, these are our sins that we confess, cleanse us from them.
We thank You that grace and truth came by Jesus Christ; teach us to see in them Your loving purposes and the joys and strengths of our souls.
You have prepared for us a feast; and though unworthy to sit down as guests, we wholly rest on the merits of Jesus, and hide ourselves beneath His righteousness; Hearing His tender invitation and seeing His wondrous grace, we cannot hesitate, but must come to You in love. Help us to quit praying selfishly and be spent for others as the bond servants of Jesus. After all, in reality, that is the meaning of being made broken bread and poured out wine.
May Your Holy Spirit enliven our personal faith rightly to discern and spiritually to apprehend the Savior. While we gaze upon the emblems of our Savior’s death, may we ponder why He died, and hear Him say, “I gave my life to purchase yours, presented myself an offering to atone for your sin, shed my blood to blot out your guilt, opened my side to make you clean, endured your curses to set you free, bore your condemnation to satisfy divine justice.”
O may we rightly grasp the breadth and length of this design, draw near, obey, extend the hand take the bread, receive the cup, eat and drink, testify before all men that we do for ourselves, gladly, in faith, reverence and love, receive our Lord, to our lives, strength, nourishment, joy, and delight.
In this supper we remember your eternal love, boundless grace, infinite compassion, agony, cross, redemption, and receive assurance of pardon, adoption, life, and glory.
As the outward elements nourish our bodies, so may Your indwelling Spirit invigorate our souls, until that day when we hunger and thirst no more, and sit with Jesus at His heavenly feast,
Thank You for this bread which symbolizes your broken body, we eat it, and remember Your death until you come again to receive us unto Yourself. Amen.
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