Have mercy on Your Son's Bride, the American Church, O Father. Blot out our transgressions according to your loving devotion and your great compassion. Wash us clean from our iniquity and cleanse us from our sins. For we know our transgressions and our sins are always before us. Against You and You only have we sinned and done what is evil in Your sight so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge. We admit that the American Church was sinful at birth, sinful from the time we were conceived.
Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach the American Church wisdom in the inmost place. Purify us with hyssop and we will be clean; wash us, and we will be whiter than snow. Let us hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice. Hide Your face from the sins of the American Church and and blot out all of our iniquities.
Create in the American Church a clean heart, O Father, and renew a right spirit within us. Cast us not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from us. Restore to us the joy of Your salvation, and sustain us with a willing spirit. Then the American Church will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will return to You.
Deliver the American Church from bloodguilt, O Father, the God of our salvation, and our tongues will sing of Your righteousness. O Father, open our lips, and our mouths will declare Your praise. For You do not delight in sacrifice, or we would bring it; for you take no pleasure in tithes and offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O Father You will not despise.
In Your good pleasure, cause Your Son's Bride, the American Church to prosper; build up the body of the American Church. Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices, as we offer our bodies as living sacrifices, holy pleasing to You as our spiritual service of worship.
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