Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. (Luke 5:16)
Be like Jesus. Get alone with your heavenly Father right now and pray.
Here’s today’s prayer suggestion:
Sunday Solitude
Faith and Figs
We’re walking in Jesus’ footsteps to the Cross and beyond.
It’s Tuesday. Jesus is on his way back into Jerusalem. According to eyewitness reports:
Early in the morning, as he was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered.
When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?” they asked.
Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.” (Matthew 21:18-22)
Jesus doesn’t have much time left so he packs two powerful lessons into one.
House of Prayer
We’re walking in Jesus’ footsteps to the Cross and beyond.
What’s the first thing Jesus did after he got to Jerusalem? According to eyewitness reports:
Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.
“It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a ‘den of robbers.’” (Matthew 21:12-13)
Jesus In Your ♥
We continue our 40-day journey with Jesus to the Cross and beyond.
For the past several days we’ve immersed ourselves in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Here’s a little prayer to help us keep his words deeeeeep in our hearts:
DEAR JESUS,
Help us to be more like you
each and every day
through the power
of the Holy Spirit.
God Gives Good Gifts
We continue our 40-day journey with Jesus to the Cross and beyond.
To me, there’s nothing more comforting than today’s words from Jesus:
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
(Matthew 7:7-11)
Sunday Solitude
Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
(Luke 5:16)
We continue our 40-day journey with Jesus to the Cross and beyond.
Be like Jesus. Get alone with your Heavenly Father and pray.
Here’s today’s prayer suggestion. Pray through it with all your heart, soul and mind:
Sunday Solitude
Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
(Luke 5:16)
We continue our 40-day journey with Jesus to the Cross and beyond.
Be like Jesus. Get alone with your Heavenly Father and pray.
Today’s prayer suggestion is straight out of the Bible Jesus read. It’s one of the “penitential psalms” from David, whom God called “a man after my own heart.”
It starts with the same word Jesus used to start the Beatitudes, which we discussed here yesterday: BLESSED.
Pray through it with all your heart, soul and mind.
