Opening Prayer: Almighty God, open my heart to Your Word this week as I study and pray about Your incredible care for me. Amen.

Read: Ephesians 1:3-14

Reflect: I will be preaching from this passage next week. Please read it prayerfully and ask the Lord to speak to you through His Word this week.

Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself.

Hymn: I Am His, and He Is Mine
Loved with everlasting love,
Led by grace hat love to know;
Gracious Spirit from above,
Thou has taught me it is so!
O this full and perfect peace!
O this transport all divine!
In a love which cannot cease,
I am His, and He is mine.

Things that once were wild alarms
Cannot now disrupt my rest,
Closed in everlasting arms,
Pillowed on the loving breast.
O to lie forever here,
Doubt and care self resign,
Wile He whispers in my ear,
I am His, and He is mine.

His forever, only His!
Who the Lord and me shall part?
Ah, with what a rest of bliss
Christ can fill the loving heart!
Heaven and earth may fade and flee,
First born light in gloom decline;
But while God and I shall be,
I am His, and He is mine.

Closing Prayer: Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen. (Psalm 41:13)