My Vision of God’s Commands-Lent 11, 2020

Prayer Focus: Why We Should Honor God’s Commands

Almighty God, Father in heaven, forgive me for those times when I view Your commands as being restrictive, limiting, and too hard to obey. Help me to see there is freedom in Your commands. There is peace with You and peace within as I obey them. Your commands are always worth honoring and all of mankind could save ourselves tremendous heartache and a world of problems by having obeyed them back in the Garden of Eden and today. Open my eyes to the life and light in obeying You. Give me a heart to know that Your commands are a discipline of love. Thank You, for forgiving me when I fail, for taking me back when I’ve wandered, and for seeking me when I was lost. There is no hiding from You when I’ve failed to live up to Your commands. There is no such thing as a secret sin. Help me to fear Your judgment, knowing all things of my life will be laid bare before You as they are already known by You. I deceive only myself when I try to hide. Please help me to keep short accounts with You, repenting quickly when Your Holy Spirit brings things to mind. I want to follow Jesus and to live as He did. Help me to find life in Your commands. 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.