We start our day in a time of worship and fellowship with our Creator and God. We have come to follow a liturgy for the worship. A spiritual checklist if you will. From our personal experience this is highly recommended.

We have a self-developed liturgy. A First Fruits Qadash (see here). Recently we have been following the liturgy of “be thou my vision” (Gibson/Crossway). It takes between 30 and 45 minutes, roughly the same as our self developed one. Its liturgy is organized as follows:

1. Call To Worship: Hear God call you to worship through His Word.
2. Adoration: Say or sing this praise to God.
3. Reading Of The Law: Hear God’s law as His Will for your life.
4. Confession Of Sin: Confess your sins to God.
5. Assurance Of Pardon: Receive these words of comfort from God.
6. Creed: Confess what you believe about the Christian faith.
7. Praise: Say or sing this praise to God.
8. Catechism: Receive this instruction from one of the church’s catechisms.
9. Prayer For Illumination: As you read His Word, ask God to enlighten your mind and heart.
10. Scripture Reading: Read a portion of God’s Word.
11. Prayer Of Intercession: As you make your requests to God, pray this prayer.
12. Lord’s Prayer: Closing by praying the words that Jesus taught us to pray.

The following excerpt is taken from Day 9 of of be thou my vision (Note 1):

Call To Worship: Who is a God like You, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of His inheritance? He does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in steadfast love. He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as You have sworn to our fathers from the days of old. Micah 7:18–20

Adoration: Great are You, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Your power, and of Your wisdom there is no end. And man, being a part of Your creation, desires to praise You—man, who bears about with him his mortality, the witness of his sin, even the witness that You resist the proud—yet man, this part of Your creation, desires to praise You. You move us to delight in praising You; for You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You. Amen. Augustine

Reading Of The Law: Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:4–9

Confession Of Sin: O Lord, as long as I am apart from You, I am self-satisfied, because I have no standard by which to measure my low stature. But when I come near to You, there for the first time I see myself. In Your light I behold my darkness. In Your purity I behold my corruption. My very confession of sin is the fruit of holiness. Oh! Divine Man, let me gaze on You more and more until, in the vision of Your brightness, I loathe the sight of my impurity; until, in the blaze of that glory which human eye has not seen, I fall prostrate, blinded, broken, to rise again a new man in You. Amen. George Matheson

Assurance Of Pardon: In love He predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will, to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace. Ephesians 1:4–7

Praise: Glory be to God the Father; Glory be to God the Son; Glory be to God the Spirit, ever three and ever one: As it was in the beginning, now and evermore shall be. Gloria Patri

Prayer For Illumination: Blessed Lord, You have caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning—grant us that we may in such a way hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them; that by patience and comfort of Your Holy Word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which You have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Book of Common Prayer (1552)

Prayer Of Intercession: Almighty Lord, our God, whose eyes are in every place beholding the evil and the good, and who sees not only our outward actions, but all our most secret thoughts—we pray You to maintain in us this day a constant sense of Your presence, and to preserve us from sinning against You. We are exposed to dangers by night and by day; our lives are in Your hands, and unto You do we look for preservation from every evil. O Lord, teach us to be ever mindful of You. When we go out and come in, and when we are alone and in company, may we bear in mind that You are continually with us, and that You take account of all we think, and speak, and do. Amen. Henry Thornton

Lord’s Prayer: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name; Your kingdom come; Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

If you were not spiritually and emotionally moved by this worship, you need to have a conversation with God today. Just saying.

Note 1: The creed, catechism and scripture readings are intentionally not included here. The be thou my vision liturgy assumes you read through one or more of the Christian creeds and catechisms in daily bite-sized pieces. And that you will read portions of scripture each day from one of the many Bible reading plans available. More information can be found on Christian creeds and catechisms here and here.