Day 6: Lent 2024

Lord, thank You for the song of praise I sing in the morning. The joy that spills out of my heart is for You and it encourages me as I start a new day filled with Your goodness and new mercies. Help me to rejoice in all things, no matter the circumstances, no matter my mindset. The old hymn says ‘There's within my heart’s a melody’ and I know that melody is Your Holy Spirit that lives in me to celebrate Christ. Another hymn says ‘Tune my heart to sing thy praise’ and I pray that you keep on tuning my heart so that praise is my first response, my first behavior I choose no matter what my day may bring. I loathe the blue and down times that inevitably hit me and regret that I don’t always respond in a positive way to life’s challenges and troubles. Help me to cry out to you when trials come because I know that You hear my pleas. Comfort me with Your presence.

Ash Wednesday

 Beginning this Wednesday, Ash Wednesday, I will be posting daily a series of prayers to coincide with the season of Lent. I pray that this season God will refresh all of us with the presence of His Holy Spirit as we consider the power of Jesus's life, death and resurrection. These posting have no spiritual magic to them, just heartfelt thoughts and prayers as we join together with all the saints over the world and time itself in preparing for Easter. Those of us that are believers, I challenge to step deeper into our walk of faith as He call us. For others that are still seeking to fill a void in your life that only His Son can rightly fill, I invite you to trust Him so He can rescue you from a life without meaning and eternal death.