Prayer: Lord, give me the grace to live beyond fear. To remember the spirit that you have given me that stands always in the space of truth, power, love and a sound mind. You are my victory over fear.
Prayer: Lord, thank you for leaving us with so many directives from the first followers that give us guidelines for life. Help us to wait upon you and the power of the Holy Spirit within us to guide us where you want us to go. Have your way with us in spite of ourselves.
Prayer: Lord, guide me into the training ground so that I am prepared for the trials in life. Help me to live in the thrill of the surrendered life so that my knowing that you are with me overrides all fear, self-doubt and worry.
Prayer: Lord, show me how to take back the power I give to other people’s behavior. It is for freedom that you have set me free. This Lent I want you to guide me into the freedom from the attachments I have made to this world like caring so much about what people think and do. Help me to let them and let you show me how you want me to navigate through it all.
Prayer: Lord you are sovereign. I give you permission to shift my focus from the things of the world back to you alone, knowing, as St. Augustine declared, when I love you above all, I can do as I please.
Learning Objective: Billy Graham was one of the most influential evangelists in the world. Millions of people came to know Jesus through the seeds he planted. Learn in today’s podcast some of the wisdom he would share when he preached. Learn who Jesus is and why you should care.
Scriptures: John 1:2-3 | John 6:69 | 1 Peter 2: 21-22 | Matthew 9:6 | Luke 4, 5 | John 6, Mark 8 | Luke 7:11-18 | Philippians 2:7-8 | Isaiah 7:14, 53:3-8 | Luke 1: 30-31 | John 12:27 | Matthew 2:28 | Romans 3:24 | 1 John 2:2, 4:10 | John 20:1-10 | 1 John 2:1 | 1 Timothy 2:5 | Acts 4:12 | Hebrews 7:25 |Romans 10:9-10 | Acts 1:11 | 1 Corinthians 15: 51-58
Dear Lord, as your servant Billy Graham would often declare: “I’ll go where you want me to go and I’ll be what you want me to be.” Come into my life and make me your own. Do with me what you will, you are my good Shepherd, my Savior who died to set me free and draw me into your love. Thank you Jesus for not giving up on me and seeking me out when I hide in the shadows of this world. I love you, help me to know and respond to your love for me more today than yesterday.
Learning Objective: Discover what you are enslaved to, what has mastered you. Learn what behaviors to put off and on in order to up your peace in the Lord’s love for you.
Scriptures: Samuel 4:19 | Colossians 3:5-14 | 2 Peter 2:19
Dear Lord, walk with me as I enter these 40 days before Easter and prepare my heart to encounter you…your unconditional love, mercy and power. Holy Spirit, show me what has mastered me in my life and give me the desire, fortitude and wisdom to rid myself of all such things to make room for God’s mighty work in and through me.
Ignite your faith to believe and be free. Commit to specific behaviors that support your choice for Freedom in Christ including a negativity detox.
Dear Lord,
You alone can free us from sin, selfishness, past pain, regret, envy, resentment, suspicion, taking offense…ALL of it that creates our yoke of slavery in life…we want to be FREE to grab ahold of all that you have already grabbed ahold of us for on this journey of life. Forgive us for our lack of belief. For giving more authority to the shiny objects in the world than to the POWER of your RISEN SPIRIT that courses through our entire being. IGNITE our desire and ability to resurrect who we are in the FREEDOM you died to give us. Give us eyes to see, ears to hear and a heart to respond this week to your voice alone and along with it the ability to respond to it quicker today than yesterday.
