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40 Prayers of Lent 7 Prayers for the Sundays in Lent Write Your Own Prayers a Lenten Prayer Experience! Repent and Believe the G 40 Prayers of Lent 7 Prayers for the Sundays in Lent Write Your Own Prayers A Lenten Prayer Experience! Repent and Believe the Gospel! February 16 – April 4, 2021 February 16, 2021 – Fat Tuesday—Mardi Gras—Shrove Tuesday—Pancake Day! Sanctification: Growing with God One Step and Prayer at a Time! Mardi Gras (French for Fat Tuesday), Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day, is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday which is the beginning of the 40 Day Season of Lent…Lent is a time of Giving Up Something, fasting, self-sacrifice that will have a spiritual significance in your life, bringing you closer to God and closer to the people of God…Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Pancake Day, is the last day before the fast on which each household rids itself of the items to be fasted, often referred to as the last feast before the fast (often sugars, fat, eggs, as well as non-food items to be fasted) hence many folks have a festival meal of pancakes on Fat Tuesday as a symbolic final preparation for the Fasting and Discipline of the Lenten Season…Shrove Tuesday is another name given to Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Pancake Day, which brings to light the need for self-examination, confession, and repentance, and the taking on of spiritual practices that help us turn back to the ways of God…Indeed, Confess, Repent and Believe the Gospel…May our Fat Tuesday yield to the Holy Season of Lent, which guides us to the Foot of the Cross of Good Friday, which will carry us to the Empty Tomb and Resurrection of our best Easter, yet! What will you give up for Lent?! May you give up “Not Praying!” What will you take on for Lent?! May you take on “Praying!” "Repent and believe in the gospel.” “God! Please hurry to my rescue! GOD, come quickly to my side! GOD, don’t lose a minute.” "God, have mercy on me, a sinner." “Let every living, breathing creature praise GOD! Hallelujah!” (Mark 1:15 NKJV; Psalm 70:1,5 MSG; Luke 18:13 NIV; Psalm 150:6 MSG) Write your own prayer for Shrove Tuesday: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Let’s Play/Pray: Almighty God and Loving Father, God of Shrove Tuesday…thank you for this final day of preparation before the Season of Lent…forgive me, God, have mercy on me, a sinner…help me praise you with resounding Hallelujah…God of Shrove Tuesday, Loving Father and Almighty God, I Love You! Amen, Make It So, Love All Around, Hallelujah… February 17, 2021 – (Ash Wednesday) Sanctification: Growing with God One Step and Prayer at a Time! [Jesus proclaims] "Repent and believe in the gospel.” (Mark 1:15 NKJV) Today is Ash Wednesday and begins our 40-day Season of Lent (not counting Sundays) …Our Lenten Journey is a pilgrimage of faith with fellow believers toward the Cross of Good Friday concluding on Waiting Saturday…Then with the dawn of Easter Sunday morning we will declare “Christ Is Risen! He Is Risen, Indeed!... The Season of Lent invites you and me to be intentional about growing our relationship with God, furthering our commitment to loving and serving the people of God, and maturing in our faith…The Season of Lent invites you and me to self-discipline and self-sacrifice in matters of the spirit which will heighten our experience of Easter… Lent invites us to “give up” something for 40 days (self-sacrifice) that will help us experience life and living abundantly (i.e. Give Up: Fear of Failure, Your Comfort Zone, Feelings of Unworthiness, Impatience, Retirement, People Pleasing, Comparison, Blame, Guilt, Over Commitment, Lack of Counsel, Impurity, Entitlement, Apathy, Hatred, Negativity, The Spirit of Poverty, Going Through the Motions, Complaint, The Pursuit of Happiness, Bitterness, Distraction, Giving up, Mediocrity, Destructive Speech, Busyness, Loneliness, The Quick Fix, Worry, Idolizing, Resistance to Change, Pride, Small View of God, Envy, Ungratefulness, Selfish Ambition, Self-Sufficiency, Sorrow, My Life…you get the idea)… Lent invites us to “take on” something for 40 days (self-discipline) that will become part of our being as a child of God (i.e., Take On: Luxurious Prayer, daily…Leisurely Bible Reading, daily…Lovingly Worship, Personal Meditation Daily; The Gathered Community, Weekly…Lifetime Learning, Daily…Laughingly Play, Daily…Lavishly Serve, Daily…Liberally Give, Daily…again, you get the idea) … Contemplate that if these self-disciplines and self-sacrifices can work for 40 days, what if they become part of who we are for a lifetime, and indeed we become like Jesus growing in wisdom and stature…However, if we try to do these things on our own, it would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, but, with God’s help all things are possible, even our Lenten “Giving Up” and “Taking On”… Today, may we choose wisely what we will “Give Up” and “Take On” and we will travel this Lenten Pilgrimage Path together, our long obedience in the same direction toward God, to the Cross of Good Friday and the Empty Tomb of Easter, and experience our best Easter yet!!! Consider giving up “Not Praying” and taking on “Praying!” Then immerse yourself in prayer and praying, guided by the prayers and scriptures that will follow on these days of/in Lent…Indeed, let us pray! Let us Play/Pray: Almighty God and Loving Father, God of Ash Wednesday…thank you for reminding me of my mortality and my need for a savior…forgive me when I think I can “pull off” saving myself…help me submit to you in all my self-sacrifice and self-discipline…God of Ash Wednesday, Loving Father and Almighty God, I Love You! Amen, Make It So, Love All Around, Hallelujah… February 17, 2021 – (Ash Wednesday) Prayer #1 Sanctification: Growing with God One Step and Prayer at a Time! (#1) UMH #268 – Lent: “O God our deliverer, you led your people of old through the wilderness and brought them to the promised land. Guide now the people of your church, that, following our Savior, we may walk through the wilderness of this world toward the glory of the world to come; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, One God, now and forever. Amen.” "Repent and believe in the gospel.” “God! Please hurry to my rescue! GOD, come quickly to my side! GOD, don’t lose a minute.” "God, have mercy on me, a sinner." “Let every living, breathing creature praise GOD! Hallelujah!” (Mark 1:15 NKJV; Psalm 70:1,5 MSG; Luke 18:13 NIV; Psalm 150:6 MSG) Write your own prayer for Lent Day #1: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ February 18, 2021 – Prayer #2 Sanctification: Growing with God One Step and Prayer at a Time! (#2) The Lord’s Prayer: “Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. "Repent and believe in the gospel.” “God! Please hurry to my rescue! GOD, come quickly to my side! GOD, don’t lose a minute.” "God, have mercy on me, a sinner." “Let every living, breathing creature praise GOD! Hallelujah!” (Mark 1:15 NKJV; Psalm 70:1,5 MSG; Luke 18:13 NIV; Psalm 150:6 MSG) Write your own prayer for Lent Day #2: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ February 19, 2021 – Prayer #3 Sanctification: Growing with God One Step and Prayer at a Time! (#3) John Wesley – UMH #607 A Covenant Prayer in the Wesleyan Tradition (Modern): “I am no longer my own, but yours. Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will; put me to doing, put me to suffering; let me be employed for you, or laid aside for you, exalted for you, or brought low for you; let me be full, let me be empty, let me have all things, let me have nothing: I freely and wholeheartedly yield all things to your pleasure and disposal. And now, glorious and blessed God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, you are mine and I am yours. So be it. And the covenant now made on earth, let it be ratified in heaven. Amen.” "Repent and believe in the gospel.” “God! Please hurry to my rescue! GOD, come quickly to my side! GOD, don’t lose a minute.” "God, have mercy on me, a sinner." “Let every living, breathing creature praise GOD! Hallelujah!” (Mark 1:15 NKJV; Psalm 70:1,5 MSG; Luke 18:13 NIV; Psalm 150:6 MSG) Write your own prayer for Lent Day #3: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ February 20, 2021 – Prayer #4 Sanctification: Growing with God One Step and Prayer at a Time! (#4) Lift Every Voice and Sing – UMH #519: “Lift Every Voice and Sing, till earth and Heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of liberty; Let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, let us march on till victory is won. Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet, come to the place for which our fathers sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered; Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
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