My Vision of God’s Giving Nature-Lent 16, 2020

Prayer Focus: God as the Giver of Good and Perfect Gifts

We praise You, Lord, as the Father of the heavenly lights, that every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from You. We praise You that You do not change like shifting shadows. You send abundant showers and shower us with gifts of many kinds–health, wealth, joys, peace, food, clothing, housing, friends–and especially that You chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all You created. May we learn to be grateful people, even in the midst of life’s crises and strife. For You are with us. You have not forsaken us. Everything good in our lives comes from You. Please do not let us get discouraged in our daily circumstances, for even our sorrows have passed first through Your hands of love so that we might learn Your comfort and to rely upon You. Give us the gifts of grace and gratitude. For it is in Christ’s 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.