My Vision of God as Preserver-Lent 14, 2020

Prayer Focus: Ways in Which God Preserves Us

Lord God of all Wisdom, we praise You that it is not in Your nature to be wasteful and not in Your character to make mistakes. You are generous and perfect and holy and just. We thank You for patterns You give us in the Bible by Your design. That You could experience sorrow at having made man given what we did with Your gift of life. When I read that You regretted having made human beings on the earth, and Your heart was deeply troubled, it’s not Your character or design that was flawed. It was human sin that caused both. Yet we rejoice that instead of casting all of earthly creation into destruction, You decided to save some through the great flood. You saved man and You saved animals. Plants weathered the flood as did the fish by Your design. Indeed even Noah and his family found favor in Your eyes. Moreover, we praise You for the pattern of salvation that this established for the deliverance yet to come. We praise You for Your patience and not wanting any to perish. We praise You that Jesus has paved the way for us by faith in Him. You are good, Lord. And we praise You 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.