Read Genesis 15:5-6: He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” And he believed the Lord; and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness. Read Psalm 27: The Lord is my light . . .
Category: Lenten Devotionals
From Security to Generosity — Murl Baker Lenten devotional for March 13, 2022
Read Deuteronomy 26:1-11: When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it, you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from the land that the Lord your . . .
Giving and Receiving — Murl Baker Lenten devotional for March 12, 2022
Read Matthew 6:1-2: “Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. “So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may . . .
Change Ain’t Easy — Murl Baker Lenten devotional for March 11, 2022
Read Joel 2:12-17: Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing. Who . . .
Seek God’s Ways — Murl Baker Lenten devotional for March 10, 2022
Read Isaiah 58:1-2: Shout out, do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet day after day they seek me and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake . . .
Sharon Vander Meer Lenten devotional for March 9, 2022
Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together. Psalm 34:3 We have many reasons to be thankful and celebratory. Our life lessons come in many forms. We learn persistence and excellence through trials and failures. Nothing is lost to us as long as we don’t cave into temptation or doubt. . . .
Sharon Vander Meer Lenten devotional for March 8, 2022
Let all you do be done with love. 1 Corinthians 16:14 We don’t think God talks to us, not in the way the Bible indicates he talked to patriarchs of the past, but does he? I read a recent devotional from a woman who responded to spiritual nudging to share homemade soup with people. She . . .
Sharon Vander Meer Lenten devotional for March 7, 2022
The giftsand the calling of Godare irrevocable.Romans 11:29 What amazing news!Don’t abuse,misuse,or deny your gift.It is yours.A gift from Godto be used to his gloryand the good of others.Make best use of your gifts,and yes,most of us have more than one.What a world this would beif we used God’s giftsin the best ways we know . . .
Sharon Vander Meer Lenten devotional for March 6, 2022
I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10 Jesus didn’t show up out of the blue, and nothing about his time on earth was a cake walk. Christ came – and is come – so we, frail and flawed humans, may live abundantly. Not next . . .
Sharon Vander Meer Lenten devotional for March 5, 2022
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7 NIV AT THE DOOR Doors open and close By an unseen hand, Beckoning us to The other side, In or out. Opening the door We find moments With Him Time alone . . .
