My Vision of Boundaries-Lent 10, 2020

Prayer Focus: Boundaries are an act of love

Thank You, Father, for giving us boundaries for our health and our protection. May we never look at Your commands and requirements as being burdensome or feel a resentment over Your desire for our holiness. May we always see that Your holiness–and desire for us to be holy as well– are the loving reasons behind Your establishing boundaries for mankind. When we might feel tempted to listen to our adversary who points to Your boundaries and hints that You are withholding what is good, strengthen us in Your Word. By the power of Your Holy Spirit may we persevere in holiness, confident that You alone are good. Give us assurance that Your boundaries are an act of love. Be with us this day. Remind us of the consequences of breaking Your commands and the blessings that are ours in Christ. Nothing can separate us from Your love in Christ, and for that we praise You. Any boundaries You have established are for our safety and preservation. We thank You for this display of Your love! Preserve us in the power of Jesus Christ, in whose Name we pray. Amen.

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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.