Praying the Scriptures
Sunday Morning Prayer
September 14, 2025
This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, “Know the LORD,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more. (Jeremiah 31:33–34)
Lord God,
On this morning of Holy Cross Day, I awaken with gratitude that You have written Your covenant upon my heart. No longer is Your law something distant or unreachable, but it lives within me—shaping my thoughts, guiding my steps, and reminding me that I belong to You. I rejoice that I am counted among Your people, embraced by a love that knows me fully and forgives me completely.
As I lift my eyes to the cross, I see not only the weight of my sin but the greater weight of Your mercy. In that sacred wood I behold both suffering and salvation, the place where forgiveness flowed and Your love was forever proven. The cross stands as the sign that my past no longer binds me, for You have remembered my sins no more.
Renew me, O Lord, through the power of Christ’s sacrifice. Transform my heart so that this day I may live faithfully within the covenant of grace, loving You with all that I am and loving others as You have loved me. Strengthen me to bear my own cross with humility and hope, knowing that You are with me from morning until night.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen.
May the God who has written His covenant upon our hearts bless us with grace, strength, and peace as we walk in the light of the Cross this day.
The Bible passages come from the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Bible, copyrighted © 1989, 1993 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America and are used by permission. All rights reserved. Praying the Scriptures is penned daily by Kenny Sallee, ThM.
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