How are you to examine yourself before partaking of the Lord´s Supper?

I am to examine myself before partaking of the Lord’s Supper, and to ask myself before God,

1. Do I confess that I have earned God’s condemnation because of my sins?


2. Do I believe that God is merciful to me because of Christ, and that He assures me of this with His Son’s true body and blood in the Lord’s Supper?


3. Do I sincerely intend, and do I desire, with the help of God’s grace, to forsake sin and to improve my life?