Welcome to a Lent daybook for these 40 days of prayer. Click through the title link to see the full post.
Look: Meteors, 2017, Nicolas Sanchez - Source
Listen: “Abraham” from Seven Swans, Sufjan Stevens - Spotify | YouTube | Lyrics
Read: Psalm 75, 76; Jeremiah 5:20-31; Romans 3:19-31; John 7:1-13
Pray & Do: Read, reflect, and repent with An American Lent (Week 3).
Read More“God brings death and God brings life, brings down to the grave and raises up.
God brings poverty and God brings wealth; he lowers, he also lifts up.
He puts poor people on their feet again; he rekindles burned-out lives with fresh hope,
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Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born. Sarah said, ‘God has blessed me with laughter and all who get the news will laugh with me!’
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Remember what Isaiah wrote: Rejoice, barren woman who bears no children, shout and cry out, woman who has no birth pangs, because the children of the barren woman now surpass the children of the chosen woman.
Isn’t it clear, friends, that you, like Isaac, are children of promise?”
— 1 Samuel 2:6-8a (MSG), Genesis 21:5-6 (MSG) & Galatians 4:27 (MSG)
Read More“When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive. I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together, that they may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.”
— Isaiah 41:17-20 (ESV)
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