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A Liturgy for Your Daily Worship Today from the Psalms
The following is a sample day’s readings from Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing: A Liturgy for Daily Worship with the Psalms, a 31-day liturgical guide rooted in the Psalms, providing content, structure, and rhythms that center hearts on praising and honoring our God.
A Liturgy Focused on the Psalms
The Westminster Shorter Catechism asks the question, “What is the chief end of man?” It provides the answer: “Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.” This liturgy of daily worship aims to help us toward the goal of glorifying God and enjoying him in a time of personal or family worship each day.
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Jonathan Gibson
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing offers a 31-day liturgical guide rooted in the Psalms, providing content, structure, and rhythms that center hearts on praising and honoring our God.
Call to Worship
Hear God call you to worship through his word:
I love you, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies. Psalm 18:1–3
Adoration
Pray this praise to God:
O Lord, you are God and not man; you do not have eyes of flesh; you do not see as man sees. Your days are not the days of man, nor your years as man’s years. As high as heaven is above the earth, so high are your thoughts above our thoughts and your ways above our ways. All the nations are like a drop in the bucket before you, like small dust on the balance. You take up islands and continents as small things; they are as nothing to you and are counted by you as less than nothing. How great and awesome you are; your being and your works are beyond our understanding. Amen. Matthew Henry
Reading of the Law (for Conviction)
Hear God’s law as his will for your life:
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,
and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. Psalm 51:6
Confession of Sin
Confess your sins to God:
O God, we desire to approach you as our kind and merciful Father in Jesus Christ, humbly asking you to wash away our sins in his most precious blood and to give us a sufficient measure of your grace and Holy Spirit to enable us to fight against them. You created man, O Lord, after your own blessed image, but we have destroyed that image and fallen short of your glory; the crown is fallen from our heads, and we are now sinners by nature and by practice; you would be just to swear in your wrath that we shall not enter into your rest. Yet may you allow us and enable us to plead your gracious promise by faith that whoever trusts in the Savior you have provided, and comes to you through him, shall never perish nor fall into condemnation but have everlasting life for his sake. O Lord, we would believe; help our unbelief. Amen. Augustus Toplady
Assurance of Pardon
Receive these words of comfort from God:
But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. Psalm 86:15
Reading of the Law (for Consecration)
Hear God’s law as his way for your life:
Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. . . . You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. . . . Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. . . . Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. . . . So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 5:20, 48; Matthew 6:1, 33; Matthew 7:12
Westminster Creed—Part 1
Confess what you believe about the Christian faith:
I believe man’s chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever;
I believe God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being,
wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth;
I believe there is but one true and living God,
that there are three persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
and that these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory;
I believe God has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass,
that God made all things of nothing, by the word of his power,
in the space of six days, and all very good;
and that God preserves and governs all his creatures and all their actions;
I believe our first parents, though created in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness,
sinned against God by eating the forbidden fruit,
and that their fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery;
I believe God determined, out of his mere good pleasure,
to deliver his elect out of the estate of sin and misery,
and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer;
I believe the only Redeemer of God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ,
who, being the eternal Son of God, became man through a virgin birth, and so was, and continues to be, God and man in two distinct natures,
and one person, forever. Amen.
Praise
Say or sing this praise to God:
Praise and honor to the Father,
Praise and honor to the Son,
Praise and honor to the Spirit,
Ever three and ever one:
One in might and one in glory
While unending ages run! Doxology
Catechism
- What is your only comfort in life and in death?
That I am not my own, but belong—body and soul, in life and in death—to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has delivered me from the tyranny of the devil.
He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven; in fact, all things must work together for my salvation.
Because I belong to him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, also assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him.
Prayer for Illumination
As you read his word, ask God to enlighten your mind and heart:
Most gracious God, our heavenly Father, in whom alone dwells all fulness of light and wisdom—illuminate our minds, we pray, by your Holy Spirit, in the true understanding of your Word. Give us grace that we may receive it with reverence and sincere humility. May it lead us to put our whole trust in you alone, and so to serve and honor you, that we may glorify your holy name and edify our neighbors by a good example. And since it has pleased you to number us among your people, help us to pay you the love and homage that we owe, as children to our Father and as servants to our Lord. We ask this for the sake of our Master and Savior. Amen. John Calvin
Scripture Reading
Read this portion of God’s word:
- Psalms 1–6
Prayer of Intercession
As you make your requests to God, pray this prayer:
O Lord, may we arise and depart henceforth on our journey; may we confess ourselves to be only strangers and pilgrims upon the earth; and declare plainly, too plainly to be misunderstood, that we seek a better country, even a heavenly one. Prepare for us all the allotments of this short, and changing, and uncertain life. May we have a safe passage out of it, and a comfortable passage through it, and be useful while in it. May we continually illustrate in our character and conduct, the representations you have given of your people, as the dew of heaven, the salt of the earth, the light of the world. Amen. William Jay
Further Petition
- Personal
- Church
- World
Lord’s Prayer
In closing, pray the words that Jesus taught us to pray:
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.
This article is adapted from Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing: A Liturgy for Daily Worship with the Psalms by Jonathan Gibson.
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