You are preparing your heart.
Easter to me, and to many of us is a familiar "routine" in our lives.
BUT EASTER IS more than a routine in the Christian Calendar
this is THE DAY.
THE BENCHMARK OF OUR FAITH
ETERNAL LIFE overcame death and evil FOR ALL OF US
This is the CELEBRATION DAY
the day most churches get it RIGHT!
It is a day of pagentry and beauty
How can you be a blessing to someone who does not know this reality?
Think for a moment today of what Easter might mean to them if they do not know Christ.
Easter is also a day when many people who don't have a home church
WONDER
It is a day when those prodigals who feel shunned by the church they left
WONDER
It is a day when those who long to belong
WONDER
It is a day FOR YOU TO SEEK OUT someone
and STOP THEIR WONDERING....
Who do you KNOW that
does not have a home church
feels hurt and lost with no church home to receive them
that have never felt the Love of GOD?
We all know people, or know of someone....
sometimes
it is people we work with,
it is people in our own families
it might BE US!
AS YOU ARE FASTING OR PRACTICING THE TASK GOD HAS GIVEN YOU
- are you open to HOW HE IS LEADING YOU?
I was going to write about something completely different today,
BUT GOD STIRRED ME to bring this up.
YES HE wants you to draw closer and be more intimate with HIM...
BUT WHO DO YOU KNOW that doesn't know how to receive HIS LOVE?
WHO SHOULD YOU BE PRAYING FOR?
Today I challenge you to get on your knees
It is a challenge to add on to your lenten practice to
DILIGENTLY PRAY FOR SOMEONE -
and I ask that you ask the LORD TO NARROW IT DOWN TO JUST ONE,
and then for them consistanly through Easter and perhaps beyond
and name them to GOD EVERY DAY
and pray that
GOD WILL MAKE A WAY IN THEIR LIFE RIGHT NOW.
Will you do this with me?
It's certainly not for me,
It's not even for you,
It's for someone who is hurting and longing
to connect with someone who LONGS TO HEAL THEM!
It's about a journey through trials,
It's about Christ enduring for ALL THE SINS OF THE WORLD on that CROSS,
BUT IT'S NOT EVEN ABOUT THE SINS will be covered,
ITS ABOUT THE LOVE that covers us all
THAT NONE OF GOD'S LOVE WOULD BE WASTED...
THAT ALL IN HIS IMAGE WOULD BE DRAWN TO COME TO HIM...
“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them" John 6:44a
a prayer,
Lord, I know how i fall short and in my journey towards you I just feel overwelmed by my sins and how YOUR LOVE is so amazing. Thank you for a love I cannot earn covering a debt I can never repay...
Help me Holy Spirit to know who else needs to know that LOVE that covers all.
Lord, today I pray for ______________. I ask that they would be open to the love that you are drawing them toward. I pray for You to show me how to pray for them for the next weeks each day, that you would increase their awareness of their need for YOU. That you would guide myself and others to simply show them LOVE and be a freind that through serving you, they might see and know their need for more of you. Lord in our praying for them we seek no Glory but your GLORY to shine in the hearts of all. LORD WE JUST THANK YOU FOR ______________ in our lives and we remember YOUR LOVE as we seal this prayer in JESUS NAME AMEN...
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