Prayer Focus: What it cost Lord Jesus, there are no words, only tears today as I remember Your sacrifice. Be glorified, Lord. Be glorified. Amen. === Tomorrow concludes our 2020 Lent Devotional Series “Be Thou My Vision.” Thank you for joining me. I write regularly between Lent and Advent, so if you’re already signed up […]
Prayer Focus: Humility and Compassion Capped Jesus’ Life Lord Jesus, Your Word tells us “It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” It […]
Prayer Focus: Sorrow Lord Jesus, that Your soul was overwhelmed with sorrow makes me really sad. Angry, too, at sin and truly grieved that human sin made You suffer to redeem us from it. Your sadness, Your sorrow, Your distress and trouble–all of these remind me that You didn’t go to the Cross as a […]
Prayer Focus: No building is the temple or the church Lord Most High, we praise You that You do not live in houses made by human hands. No temple can contain You. Heaven is Your throne, and the earth is Your footstool. Therefore during these times when we’re separated from gathering in worship, especially on […]
Prayer Focus: Old Jerusalem, New Jerusalem Lord Jesus, Scripture doesn’t record Your weeping often. You wept over the pain Lazarus’ death left in its wake. And You wept over Jerusalem, Lord, they were so blind to the peace You were bringing! Lord God, as we’ve been warned that death hangs heavy in coming days due […]
Meditation Focus: Triumphal Entry to Triumphal Suffering Rather than leave today’s Lent 2020 Sabbath rest as silent meditation, I beg your indulgence. It’s important to gain that 2020 clarity of seeing things correctly and from God’s perspective, to let Him “Be Thou my Vision.” The Triumphal Entry (as Palm Sunday is often called) was Triumphal […]
Prayer Focus: Seeing You as the Messiah I need, not the Messiah I think I want Lord Jesus, forgive me for all my wrong understandings of You as the Messiah. For all the ways I’ve placed expectations upon You than I have no right to expect with my incredibly limited knowledge. I know that You […]
Prayer Focus: Unpleasant as the thought may be, God’s wrath is real Father God, I know Your wrath is real. But if I’m honest, I prefer to see You as “God is love.” Yet the two are equally weighted sides of love. Your love without Your holy wrath would be meaningless. Your wrath without unconditional […]
Prayer Focus: Unconditional and Absolutes are two sides of the same attribute Thank You, Father, that in Your eyes with Your 2020 vision, love is unconditional. It is absolute. It is firmly grounded in Your Image and displayed as perfect and holy in Your Son Jesus. During the stresses of our days as we are […]
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 […]
