My Vision of Serving-Lent 31, 2020

Prayer Focus: What serving is all about

Lord Jesus, thank You for setting before us an example–the best example, the purest example, the ultimate example–of what serving really means. To lay down our lives for our fellow man. To love one another unconditionally. To do what is necessary and helpful for others when they cannot do it for themselves. To carry one another’s burdens. To pray without ceasing, for the prayers of righteous people accomplish more than we could ask or imagine. Help me to understand the incalculable blessing of seeing acts of service as the intangible of love displayed visibly by human hands. Help me to serve willingly, not begrudgingly, and to honor others’ service above my own. May I be every bit as gracious as a receiver of kindness and hospitality as a regular giver of it. I pray that just as You supply seed to sowers and bread for food , You will also supply and increase our store of seed to enlarge the Kingdom harvest of Your righteousness. May we be generous on every occasion, so that our generosity will result in thanksgiving to You. When we love unconditionally and serve others, we are not only supplying the needs of the Lord’s people, but You receive glory as overflowing expressions of thanks. May our service display our confession of the gospel of Christ so many hearts will soar in the surpassing grace God. We give thanks to You, O Lord, for Your indescribable gift of Jesus Christ! (Adapted from 2 Corinthians 9:10-15)

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Lent 2013 looked at The Letter to the Romans: Paul’s Masterpiece to reclaim foundations of our Christian heritage and began February 13, 2013.
A very special and ever popular offering was Lent 2014’s Be Still and Know that I AM God which can be obtained through the archives beginning in March 2014.
Lent 2015 began on February 18, 2015 with a series entitled With Christ in the Upper Room: Final Preparations. We explored what is often called “The Upper Room Discourse” found in John chapters 13-17.
ReKindle, the Lent 2016 series, began on February 10, 2016 and encouraged us to rekindle our spiritual lives.
Light: There’s Nothing Like It was the 2017 Lent series and explored this metaphor often used to portray Christ. It is archived beginning March 1, 2017.
Lent 2018, we explored the questions of Pi and Chi (the Greek letter beginning the word Christos, which means Christ, Messiah, the Anointed One). We asked and answered the questions “Why?” from the movie Life of Pi as we discovered the uniqueness of Jesus Christ in a world of many faiths.
Lent 2019 gave us a deeper window into Easter “More to the Easter Story” since we miss so much when we rely only on a superficial understanding of the work of Christ. These devotionals are archived beginning March 6, 2019.