Meditation for Lent

"When you have no vision from God, no enthusiasm left in your life, and no one watching and encouraging you, it requires the grace of Almighty God to take the next step in your devotion to Him, in the reading and studying of His Word, in your family life, or in your duty to Him. It takes much more of the grace of God, and a much greater awareness of drawing upon Him, to take that next step, than it does to preach the gospel." Oswald Chambers


Prayer
Lord Almighty, when I feel discouraged, alone, and tired remind me of your grace that gives me all that I need. Amen

A Prayer for Lent

Let my hope be in your Word, which never fades. Amen

Prayer for Lent

From today's Prayer of Confession

God, strengthen my faith in you to help me accept all of my rest comes from you. Give me the courage to refuse compromise in my devotion to you and the willingness to share my faith with others.
Amen

A Prayer for Lent

I pray, dear God, to be one who waits for you actively and with great joy! Amen

Class Discussion for March 4, 2012

GENESIS 17:1-7, 15-16

¹When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless. ²And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will make you exceedingly numerous.” ³Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him, ⁴“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations. ⁵No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations. ⁶I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. ⁷I will establish my covenant between me and you, and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.”

¹⁵God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. ¹⁶I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”

For Consideration
During Lent we are invited to spend 40 days examining the nature of our own covenant with God.
1. Upon what does that relationship depend?
2. What actions do we take to become involved with God?
3. If we could ask God for a new name, what would it be?

A Prayer for Lent

1 Corinthians 1:3-9

New International Version (NIV)

 ³ Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thanksgiving

 ⁴ I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. ⁵ For in him you have been enriched in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge— ⁶ God thus confirming our testimony about Christ among you. ⁷ Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. ⁸ He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Prayer

God, may your grace and peace truly be with us during this Lenten season. 

Amen

Prayer for Lent

God, I long to be a person that knows and shows grace. Amen