After You've Crashed: A Prayer for Pardon

SLIDE 1  
CONFESS  
Psalm 32:3-5 
3 For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away 
    through my groaning all day long. 
4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; 
    my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah 
5 I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; 
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” 
    and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah 
 
SLIDE 2  
THE BACK STORY 
2 Samuel 12:1-14 
5 Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man,  
and he said to Nathan,  
“As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die… 
7 Nathan said to David, “You are the man! 
13 David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” 
 
SLIDE 3 
APPEALS TO MERCY 
Psalm 51:1 
Have mercy on me, O God, 
    according to your steadfast love; 
according to your abundant mercy 
    blot out my transgressions. 
 
SLIDE 4 
DEMANDS CLEANSING 
Psalm 51:2 
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, 
    and cleanse me from my sin! 
 
 
SLIDE 5 
ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY 
Psalm 51:3-4 
For I know my transgressions, 
    and my sin is ever before me. 
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned 
    and done what is evil in your sight, 
so that you may be justified in your words 
    and blameless in your judgment. 
 
SLIDE 6 
PROCEEDS FROM MY NATURE 
Psalm 51:5 
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, 
    and in sin did my mother conceive me. 
 
SLIDE 7 
NOT WHAT YOU DID, BUT WHY YOU DID IT 
Psalm 51:6 
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, 
    and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. 
 
SLIDE 8 
GOD’S POWER TO FORGIVE 
Psalm 51:7 
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; 
    wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 
 
SLIDE 9 
DISCIPLINE 
Psalm 51:8-9 
Let me hear joy and gladness; 
    let the bones that you have broken rejoice. 
9 Hide your face from my sins, 
    and blot out all my iniquities. 
 
 
 
 
 
SLIDE 10 
FOR MY SAKE 
Psalm 51:10-12 
Create in me a clean heart, O God, 
    and renew a right[b] spirit within me. 
11 Cast me not away from your presence, 
    and take not your Holy Spirit from me. 
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, 
    and uphold me with a willing spirit. 
 
SLIDE 11 
FOR THE SAKE OF SINNERS 
Psalm 51:13 
Then I will teach transgressors your ways, 
    and sinners will return to you. 
 
SLIDE 12 
FOR GOD’S SAKE 
Psalm 51:14-17 
Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, 
    O God of my salvation, 
    and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. 
15 O Lord, open my lips, 
    and my mouth will declare your praise. 
16 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; 
    you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. 
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; 
    a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. 
 
SLIDE 13 
FOR THE SAKE OF OTHERS 
Psalm 51:18-19 
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; 
    build up the walls of Jerusalem; 
19 then will you delight in right sacrifices, 
    in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; 
    then bulls will be offered on your altar. 
 
 
 
SLIDE 14 
1 John 1:9 
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins  
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 
 
Psalm 32:1-2 
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, 
    whose sin is covered. 
2 Blessed is the man or woman against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, 
    and in whose spirit there is no deceit.