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Pray for Reconciliation with God that you may be in Covenant with Him and Know His Favor

Petition 3.7 | ESV

That we may be taken into covenant with God and admitted into a relationship with him.

Be to me a God, and take me as one who belongs to you, as one who is counted among your people; Hebrews 8:10(ESV) and make me offer myself freely on the day of your power, Psalm 110:3(ESV) though I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Luke 15:19(ESV) For how would you set me, who has been rebellious, among the sons, and give me the pleasant land? But you have said that I shall call you, My Father, and not turn from following you. Jeremiah 3:19(ESV) Shall I not therefore from this time call to you, “My Father, you are the friend of my youth”? Jeremiah 3:4(ESV)

Lord, I hold fast your covenant; Isaiah 56:4(ESV) to you I join myself in an everlasting covenant; Jeremiah 50:5(ESV) O that you would make me pass under the rod and bring me into the bond of the covenant, Ezekiel 20:37(ESV) that I may become yours. Ezekiel 16:8(ESV)

Make with me an everlasting covenant, your steadfast, sure love for David. Isaiah 55:3(ESV)

That we may have the favor of God and an interest in his special love.

I entreat your favor, O God, with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise, Psalm 119:58(ESV) for in your favor is life; Psalm 30:5(ESV) yes, your steadfast love is better than life itself. Psalm 63:3(ESV)

LORD, make your face to shine upon me and be gracious to us; LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon me and give me peace. Numbers 6:25-26(ESV)

Remember me, O LORD, with the favor you show to your people. O help me with your salvation, that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones and may rejoice in the gladness of your nation and may glory with your inheritance. Psalm 106:4-5(ESV)

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Pray for Reconciliation with God that you may Know His Peace

Petition 3.6 | ESV

We must likewise pray that God will be reconciled to us, that we may obtain his favor and blessing and gracious acceptance.

That we may be at peace with God and his anger may be turned away from us.

Being justified by faith, let me have peace with God through my Lord Jesus Christ, and through him let me have access into that grace in which believers stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Romans 5:1-2(ESV)

Be not a terror to me, for you are my refuge in the day of disaster. Jeremiah 17:17(ESV)

In Christ Jesus let me, who once was far off, be brought near by the blood of Christ; for he himself is his people’s peace, who has broken down the dividing wall of hostility between us, that he might reconcile us to God through his cross, thereby killing the hostility, and so making peace. Through him, therefore, let me, who has made myself a stranger and an alien, become a fellow citizen with the saints and a member of the household of God. Ephesians 2:13-19(ESV)

You have no wrath: would that you had thorns and briers to battle? You would burn them up together; yes, you would burn them up together; but you have encouraged me to lay hold of your protection, that I make peace, and have promised that I shall make peace. Isaiah 27:4-5(ESV) O let me therefore agree with you and be at peace, that thereby good may come to me. Job 22:21(ESV)

Heal me, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise. Jeremiah 17:14(ESV) Do not be angry with me forever but revive me again, that I may rejoice in you. Show me your steadfast love, O LORD, and grant me your salvation. Psalm 85:5-7(ESV)

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Plead with God your Misery Because of Sin, Along with the Blessed Condition of Pardoned Sinners

Petition 3.5 | ESV

Our own misery and danger because of sin.

For your name’s sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great; Psalm 25:11(ESV) for evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see. Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me! Psalm 40:12-13(ESV)

O do not remember against me my former iniquities, let your compassion come speedily to meet me, for I am brought very low. Help me, O God of my salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver me, and atone for my sins, for your name’s sake! Psalm 79:8-9(ESV)

Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O LORD! Psalm 25:7(ESV)

The blessed condition which they are in whose sins are pardoned.

O let me have the blessedness of those whose transgressions are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; of that man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. Psalm 32:1-2(ESV)

O let me have redemption through Christ’s blood, even the forgiveness of my trespasses, according to the riches of your grace, which you have lavished upon me, in all wisdom and insight. Ephesians 1:7-8(ESV) That being in Christ Jesus, there may be no condemnation for me; Romans 8:1(ESV) that my sins, which are many, having been forgiven me, Luke 7:47(ESV) I may go in peace: Luke 7:50(ESV) For no inhabitant will say, “I am sick,” if the people who dwell there have been forgiven their iniquity. Isaiah 33:24(ESV)

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Plead with God His Promises of Pardon

Petition 3.4 | ESV

The promises God has made in his word to pardon and absolve all those who truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy gospel.

Lord, is not this the word which you have spoken: that if the wicked man forsakes his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and returns to the LORD, even to my God, that you will abundantly pardon, Isaiah 55:7(ESV) will multiply to pardon?

To you, the Lord my God, belong mercy and forgiveness, for I have rebelled against you. Daniel 9:9(ESV)

Is not this the covenant which you have made with the house of Israel: that you will take away their sins; Romans 11:27(ESV) that you will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more; Jeremiah 31:34(ESV) that iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none, and sin in Judah, and none shall be found? Jeremiah 50:20(ESV)

Have you not said that if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep your statutes, he shall live; he shall not die; all his transgressions shall not be remembered against him? Ezekiel 33:15-16(ESV)

Have you not appointed that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in Christ’s name to all nations? Luke 24:47(ESV)

Did you not promise that when the sins of Israel were put upon the head of the scapegoat, they should be sent away into the wilderness, into a remote area? Leviticus 16:22(ESV) And as far as the east is from the west, so far do you remove my transgressions from me. Psalm 103:12(ESV)

O remember these words to your servant, in which you have made me hope. Psalm 119:49(ESV)