My Vision of Faith Rewarded-Lent 28, 2020

Prayer Focus: Where is my faith?

Father God, Lord of all, Almighty One, Author of Salvation, we praise You. It cannot escape our notice that You are unchanging even in troubled times. I marvel at Your reliability–You are so deserving of our faith!!! The grievous irony stares us straight in the face that we often make You our last priority and last resort until calamity strikes. And it has. Even now, You demonstrate that all our idols fail to protect us and fall away with a simple coronavirus. Our athletes, sidelined. Our entertainers, quarantined. Our politicians, self-isolating. Our economy, fallen and dormant at present. Our jobs, fleeting. Our families whom we love, social distanced. Our church buildings, empty. These idols–revealed as of perishable worth–are being trampled, one after another. You alone are deserving of our faith. You alone are unchanging. Eternal. From before time and forever. Even when it doesn’t seem like there is any reward anywhere for keeping our faith in You, drive home the reality that You reward our faith. You keep Your promises. May we earnestly seek You and receive Your mercy. In Jesus’ Name. 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.