Day 4: Lent 2024

God, I come before this morning knowing that You alone are God. I confess that I at times put other things before You, family, money, vacations, and other pursuits. You know this and my wandering heart for the things of this world. Draw me back by Your Holy Spirit through conviction and confession so that I might once again walk in one accord with You. I know that Your good pleasure gave me free will in this brief life that You have granted me. Help me to be mindful that I can use that gift to freely worship and walk with You each day, each moment. I know my own weakness, my own selfish self, and I realize that Christ came to not only deliver me from death but also self and sin. May that knowledge continue to transform me more and more into the likeness of my Savior, for His glory and my good.

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.