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+Text: Genesis 19:12-26
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+## Prayer
+Father,
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+We come to You now to recognize that we are people of a fallen world.
+In accord with the world that we were born of, we are sinners that seek to
+delight our hearts outside of You and Your prescriptions.
+You are merciful to warn us not to set our hopes on a fallen world and provide
+means of escape.
+We are stubborn, doubting You and clinging to a world who's destruction is
+sure.
+You are again merciful to seize our hearts when we do not listen.
+
+We remain fickle in our conviction of Your warnings though.
+We have a love for the dying world that will inevitably fail us, and we
+continue to ponder what it offers.
+We carry the inclination to again gaze upon that from which we must depart.
+We doubt You and we ponder the hopes of the flesh.
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+Though we often lack contentment, we are complacent.
+We purpose our days to satisfy desires rooted in a world that we must depart
+from.
+We set our cravings and delight on that which is of this world, rather than
+pouring ourselves into eternal good.
+We delight in possessions and entertainment and vacations, and we let the
+eternal weightiness of our brothers' faithfulness fall by the wayside.
+We neglect warning others of the wrath to come.
+We are embarrassed to speak of Your judgment.
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+We live as if these few decades in our fallen bodies are the only years we will
+ever live.
+We live as though all that we ever do, we must do now, having little hope for
+the surpassing majesty of the eternity that You have planned for us.
+We work for advancement in the fallen world, giving insufficient thought to
+investment in the world to come.
+We pay little mind to the rewards of the age to come.
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+We revel in the faded glories of history, seldom recognizing that the glories
+of the great empires of this age and ages past as the paltry things that they
+are compared to the glory of the kingdom to come.
+
+Now, we ask that You forgive us.
+We ask because of the blood of Your Son, which was shed for us.
+You seized our hearts to awaken us to our peril, now keep hold and ensure that
+we press on to the safety that You prescribe.
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+It is in the name Your righteous Son, Christ Jesus that we pray.
+Amen.