My Vision of Your Humility-Lent 30, 2020

Prayer Focus: With humility comes rest

Almighty Father, thank You for sending Jesus to be our Deliverer. In these times of restless days and sleepless nights, remind us that Jesus saves. If only we would repent of our sins and look to You, we would find rest in You. Not only rest, but peace, comfort, mercy, and forgiveness! I want to learn from You, Lord Jesus. I need Your gentleness and to be handled with care for my fragile spirit which feels so broken right now. It’s hard to let go of the familiar yoke of oppression, to bravely let You break these shackles of dependence upon any but You, to risk having our hearts truly exposed for our dependence upon self, and to know the uncertainty of pure freedom for our souls once this time of testing has passed. Are we in the tribulation or is this a time of isolation to enter the inner chambers of our own hearts awaiting a Passover of sorts as this plague passes by? May we have Your wisdom, Lord, to put into practice the things You have commanded so we can learn how to endure to the finish line. We are weary. We are burdened. How we need Your rest! Strengthen us with the power of Your Holy Spirit. Show us the light at the end of the tunnel and prepare our hearts to be found obediently serving You when Your time of return comes. I want to live expectantly. For Your glory alone. 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.