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

Petition 3.7 | NASB

That I 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(NASB) and make me volunteer freely in the day of Your power, Psalm 110:3(NASB) though I am no longer worthy to be called Your son. Luke 15:19(NASB) For how would You set me, who has been rebellious, among Your sons, and give me the pleasant land? But You have said that I shall call You, My Father, and not turn away from following You. Jeremiah 3:19(NASB) Shall I not therefore from this time call to You, “My Father, You are the friend of my youth”? Jeremiah 3:4(NASB)

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

Make an everlasting covenant with me, according to the faithful mercies shown to David. Isaiah 55:3(NASB)

That I may have the favor of God and an interest in His special love.

I seek Your favor, O God, with all my heart; be gracious to me according to Your word, Psalm 119:58(NASB) for Your favor is for a lifetime; Psalm 30:5(NASB) yes, Your lovingkindness is better than life itself. Psalm 63:3(NASB)

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

Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor toward Your people. O visit me with Your salvation, that I may see 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(NASB)

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Pray for Reconciliation with God that you may Know His Peace

Petition 3.6 | NASB

I must likewise pray that God will be reconciled to me, that I may obtain His favor and blessing and gracious acceptance.

That I may be at peace with God and His anger may be turned away from me.

Having been justified by faith, let me have peace with God through my Lord Jesus Christ, and through Him let me obtain my introduction into that grace in which believers stand, and exult in hope of the glory of God. Romans 5:1-2(NASB)

Do not be a terror to me, for You are my refuge in the day of disaster. Jeremiah 17:17(NASB)

In Christ Jesus let me, who formerly was far off, be brought near by the blood of Christ; for He Himself is His people’s peace, who has broken down the barrier of the dividing wall, and, that he might reconcile me to God through His cross, has put to death the enmity, thus establishing peace. Through Him, therefore, let me, who has made myself a stranger and an alien, become a fellow citizen with the saints, and of God’s household. Ephesians 2:13-19(NASB)

You have no wrath: Should someone give You briars and thorns in battle, You would burn them completely; yes, You would burn them completely; but You have encouraged me to rely on Your protection, that I make peace, and have promised that I shall make peace. Isaiah 27:4-5(NASB) O let me therefore yield and be at peace with You, that thereby good may come to me. Job 22:21(NASB)

Heal me, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise. Jeremiah 17:14(NASB) Do not be angry with me forever but revive me again, that I may rejoice in You. Show me Your lovingkindness, O LORD, and grant me Your salvation. Psalm 85:5-7(NASB)

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

Petition 3.5 | NASB

My own misery and danger because of sin.

For Your name’s sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity, for it is great; Psalm 25:11(NASB) for evils beyond number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see. Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; make haste, O LORD, to help me. Psalm 40:12-13(NASB)

O do not remember the iniquities of my forefathers against me; let Your compassion come quickly 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 forgive my sins, for Your name’s sake. Psalm 79:8-9(NASB)

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to Your lovingkindness remember me, for Your goodness’ sake, O LORD. Psalm 25:7(NASB)

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

O let me have the blessedness of those whose transgression is forgiven, and whose sin is covered; of that man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. Psalm 32:1-2(NASB)

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 on me, in all wisdom and insight. Ephesians 1:7-8(NASB) That being in Christ Jesus, there may be no condemnation for me; Romans 8:1(NASB) that my sins, which are many, having been forgiven me, Luke 7:47(NASB) I may go in peace: Luke 7:50(NASB) And no resident will say, “I am sick,” if the people who dwell there have been forgiven their iniquity. Isaiah 33:24(NASB)

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Plead with God His Promises of Pardon

Petition 3.4 | NASB

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 forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and return to the LORD, even to my God, that You will abundantly pardon, Isaiah 55:7(NASB) will multiply to pardon?

To You, the Lord my God, belong compassion and forgiveness, for I have rebelled against You. Daniel 9:9(NASB)

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

Have You not said that if a wicked man 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(NASB)

Have You not appointed that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in Christ’s name to all the nations? Luke 24:47(NASB)

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 solitary land? Leviticus 16:22(NASB) And as far as the east is from the west, so far do You remove my transgressions from me. Psalm 103:12(NASB)

O remember these words to Your servant, in which You have made me hope. Psalm 119:49(NASB)

 

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Plead with God the Merit and Righteousness of Jesus Christ

Petition 3.2 | NASB

The merit and righteousness of my Lord Jesus Christ, which I rely upon as my main plea in my petition for the pardon of sin.

I know that as You are gracious and merciful, so You are the righteous God who loves righteousness, Psalm 11:7(NASB) and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Exodus 34:7(NASB) I cannot say, “Have patience with me and I will repay You everything,” Matthew 18:26(NASB) for I have become like one who is unclean, and all my righteous deeds are like a filthy garment. Isaiah 64:6(NASB) But Jesus Christ has become to me righteousness from God; 1 Corinthians 1:30(NASB) being made sin on my behalf, though He knew no sin, so that I might become the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Corinthians 5:21(NASB)

I have sinned, but I have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, who is the propitiation for my sins; and not for mine only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 1 John 2:1-2(NASB)

God is the one who justifies, who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is even now at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for me, Romans 8:33-34(NASB) and whose blood speaks better than the blood of Abel. Hebrews 12:24(NASB)

I desire to count everything as loss for the sake of Christ, and as rubbish, so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having any righteousness of my own, but that which is through faith in Christ. Philippians 3:7-9(NASB)

This is the name by which I, with Your people, will call Him: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. Jeremiah 23:6(NASB) In Him, Lord, I do believe; help my unbelief. Mark 9:24(NASB)

Remember, O LORD, on David’s behalf, all His affliction; Psalm 132:1(NASB) the Son of David, remember all His offerings and accept His burnt offerings; Psalm 20:3(NASB) and do not turn away the face of Your Anointed, 2 Chronicles 6:42(NASB) who by His own blood has entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for me. Hebrews 9:24(NASB)

Have not You Yourself displayed Your Son, Christ Jesus, as a propitiation in His blood through faith, for the demonstration of Your righteousness at the present time, so that You would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus? Romans 3:25-26(NASB) And I now receive the reconciliation. Romans 5:11(NASB)

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Plead with God His Goodness and Readiness to Forgive Sin

Petition 3.2 | NASB

For the encouraging of my faith and the exciting of my fervency in this petition for the pardon of sin, I may plead with God:

The infinite goodness of His nature, His readiness to forgive sin, and His glorying in it.

You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You. Psalm 86:5(NASB) You are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in covenant love and truth. Psalm 86:15(NASB)

You are a God of forgiveness, gracious and compassionate, Nehemiah 9:17(NASB) who does not always strive with me nor keep His anger forever. Psalm 103:9(NASB)

You, even You, are the one who wipes out my transgressions for Your own sake, and will not remember my sins, which I am here to put You in remembrance of and to declare, in order to plead for mercy in Christ. Isaiah 43:25-26(KJV)

And now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared, saying, “The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression.” Pardon, I pray, my iniquity and the iniquity of Your people, according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You have forgiven us even until now. Numbers 14:17-19(NASB)

For who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of Your possession? You do not retain Your anger forever, because You delight in unchanging love. O that You would have compassion on me and tread my iniquities under foot and cast all my sins into the depths of the sea. Micah 7:18-19(NASB)

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Earnestly Pray for the Forgiveness of your Sins

Petition 3.1 | NASB

I must earnestly pray for the pardon and forgiveness of all my sins.

Lord, I come to You, as the poor tax collector who stood some distance away and was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast; and I pray his prayer, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ Luke 18:13(NASB) The God of infinite mercy be merciful to me.

O wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin; for I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Psalm 51:1-3(NASB) O purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow; Psalm 51:7(NASB) hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Psalm 51:9(NASB)

Be merciful to my iniquities, and remember my sins no more. Hebrews 8:12(NASB) O forgive me that great debt. Matthew 18:32(NASB)

Let me be justified as a gift by Your grace, through the redemption which is in Jesus, Romans 3:24(NASB) from all those things from which I could not be justified through the Law of Moses. Acts 13:39(NASB)

O let not my iniquity be a stumbling block to me; Ezekiel 18:30(NASB) but let the LORD take away my sin, that I may not die, 2 Samuel 12:13(NASB) not die eternally; that I may not be hurt by the second death. Revelation 2:11(NASB)

Wipe out my transgressions like a thick cloud and my sins like a heavy mist; for I return to You, because You have redeemed me. Isaiah 44:22(NASB)

Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, O Lord, for in Your sight no man living is righteous. Psalm 143:2(NASB)

Take away all iniquity, and receive me graciously; heal my apostasy, and love me freely; and let Your anger be turned away from me, for in You the orphan finds mercy. Hosea 14:2-4(NASB)

Though my sins have been as scarlet, let them be as white as snow; and though they have been red like crimson, let them be like wool; that consenting and obeying, I may eat the best of the land. Isaiah 1:18-19(NASB)

I will say to God, “Do not condemn me, Job 10:2(NASB) but deliver me from going down to the pit, for You have found the ransom.” Job 33:24(NASB)

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Introduction to Petition

Petition 3.0 | NASB

Of the Third Part of Prayer, which is Petition and Supplication for the Good Things which I Stand in Need of.

Having opened the wounds of sin, both the guilt of it and the power of it, and its remainders in us, we must next seek unto God for the remedy, for healing and help, for from him alone it is to be expected, and this also he will let us ask him to do for us. Ezekiel 36:37(NASB) And now we must affect our hearts with a deep sense of the need we have of those mercies which we pray for, that we are undone, forever undone, without them; and, with a high esteem and value for them, that we are happy, we are made forever, if we obtain them; that we may like Jacob wrestle with him in prayer, as for our lives and the lives of our souls. But we must not think in our prayers to prescribe to him or by our importunity to move him. He knows us better than we know ourselves and knows what he will do. John 6:6(NASB) But thus, we open our wants and desires, and then refer ourselves to his wisdom and goodness; and hereby we give honor to him as our Protector and Benefactor, and take the way which he himself has appointed, of fetching in mercy from him, and by faith plead his promise with him: And if we are sincere in this, we are, through his grace, qualified according to the tenor of the new covenant to receive his favors, and are to be assured that we do and shall receive them. Mark 11:24(NASB)

And now, Lord, for what do I wait? Truly my hope is in You. Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the foolish. Psalm 39:7-8(NASB)

Lord, all my desire is before You, and my sighing is not hidden from You, Psalm 38:9(NASB) even the groanings too deep for words; for, He who searches the heart knows what the mind of the Spirit is. Romans 8:26-27(NASB)

I do not think that I will be heard for my many words, for my Father knows what I need before I ask Him; Matthew 6:7-8(NASB) but my Master has told me that whatever I ask the Father for in His name, He will give it to me. And He has said, “Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.” John 16:23-24(NASB)

And this is the confidence which I have before Him, that, if I ask anything according to His will, He hears me. And if I know that He hears me in whatever I ask, I know that I have the requests which I have asked from Him. John 5:14-15(NASB)

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Humbly Profess your Sorrow and Shame for Sin

Confession 2.20 | NASB

I must humbly profess my sorrow and shame for sin, and humbly engage myself in the strength of divine grace, that I will be better and do better for the future.

Lord, I repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand, Matthew 3:2(NASB) to which You have exalted Your Son Christ Jesus, to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins. Acts 5:31(NASB)

I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes see You; therefore I retract and repent in dust and ashes; Job 42:5-6(NASB) therefore will I be like a dove of the valley, mourning over my own iniquities. Ezekiel 7:16(NASB)

Oh that my head were waters and my eyes fountains of tears, that I might weep day and night for my transgressions, Jeremiah 9:1(NASB) and might in such a manner sow in those tears as that at last I may reap with joyful shouting; may now go to and fro weeping, carrying my bag of seed, and may in due time come again with a shout of joy, bringing in my sheaves with me. Psalm 126:5-6(NASB)

My iniquities have gone over my head; as a heavy burden they weigh too much for me; Psalm 38:4(NASB) but weary and heavy-laden under this burden, I come to Christ, who has promised that in Him I shall find rest for my soul. Matthew 11:28(NASB)

O knowing the affliction of my own heart, 1 Kings 8:38(NASB) may I look on Him whom I have pierced and may I mourn for Him and weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn. Zechariah 12:10(NASB) That I may have the sorrow that is according to the will of God, that sorrow which produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation; 2 Corinthians 7:10(NASB) and that I may remember and be ashamed and never open my mouth anymore because of my humiliation, when You have forgiven me. Ezekiel 16:63(NASB)

And, O that I may bear fruit in keeping with repentance! Matthew 3:8(NASB) and may never again turn back to folly; Psalm 85:8(NASB) for what more have I to do with idols? Hosea 14:8(NASB) Sin shall not be master over me, for I am not under law but under grace. Romans 6:14(NASB)

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I do not forget Your commandments. Psalm 119:176(NASB)

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Give Glory to God for His Patience and Willingness to be Reconciled

Confession 2.19 | NASB

I must give to God the glory of His patience and long-suffering towards me and His willingness to be reconciled.

O the riches of the patience and tolerance of God! Romans 2:4(NASB) How patient He is towards me, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9(NASB)

You have not dealt with me according to my sins, nor rewarded me according to my iniquities, Psalm 103:10(NASB) but You wait to be gracious to me. Isaiah 30:18(NASB)

Sentence against my evil deeds has not been executed quickly, Ecclesiastes 8:11(NASB) but You have given me time to repent and make my peace with You, Revelation 2:21(NASB) and call even faithless sons to return to You and have promised to heal my faithlessness; and therefore, behold, I come to You, for You are the LORD my God. Jeremiah 3:22(NASB)

Surely the patience of my Lord is salvation; 2 Peter 3:15(NASB) and if the Lord had desired to kill me, He would not as at this time have shown me all these things. Judges 13:23(NASB)

And O that this kindness of God might lead me to repentance! Romans 2:4(NASB) For though I have been unfaithful to my God, yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this. Ezra 10:2(NASB)

You have said it and have confirmed it with an oath, that You take no pleasure in the death of sinners like me, but rather that I should turn and live. Ezekiel 33:11(NASB) Therefore I will rend my heart and not my garments and return to the LORD my God; for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness. Who knows whether He will not turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him? Joel 2:13-14(NASB)