Lent Day 11. Today and tomorrow, and many days to come, I desire to engage in a different type of fast: FASTING from WASTE! Our Cuba trip first solidified this in me. It began years ago, during our first…
Lent Day 10. Today: Just this. PS…No, I’m not Catholic, but thought these words of the Pope were practical and worthy of consideration…after all, the purpose of fasting is really to draw us nearer to the heart of God.…
Lent Day 9. Think on these words of the Lord regarding “fasting” today. I am praying the Holy Spirit will interpret them in your heart and leave an impact that is convicting and response-worthy. Sometimes God’s Words need to…
Lent Day 8. Week 1 of Lent, I felt led to focus on just one central aspect of “doing” Lent in preparation for Easter’s-Celebration-Dance. The first facet was prayer (as you know, if you’ve been following)… Another stop along…
Lent Day 7. Lent serves to keep my mind off self. That’s what prayer accomplishes when you start receiving an attitude adjustment. Having a Jesus-mind means others interests come before my interests. Self seems less important; Living a Jesus-like-life…
Lent Day 6. A central focus of Lent is prayer, as we “re-set our souls for Easter’s Celebration.” To date spending concentrated time on prayer has reminded me: 1) Prayer is the way to spiritual aliveness and renewal. 2)…
Lent Day 5. Yesterday, I leaned into the prayer we know as The Jesus Prayer (Luke 18:13). It became my 1 Thessalonians 5:17 prayer. You know the “pray without ceasing” prayer. It is convicting…and humbling to pray The Jesus Prayer.…
Lent Day 4. “But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ Luke 18:13 Lent reminds me…
Lent Day 3 My Lenten goal: to “re-set” my soul prior to Easter’s celebration In my research on Lent, and the history of it, I bumped into this following prayer written by St. Ephrem the Syrian, sometime during his…
LENT DAY 2 Lent. It’s meant to be a season-of-Sabbath, of sorts. A follower-of-Jesus-Reset. A time to take a deep, cleansing, Spiritual breath and get back to Biblical basics. The Early Church Fathers saw it as a time to…