Lent 2019

Lent is a season of forty days, not counting Sundays, which begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday.

During this time Christians often sacrifice something in our lives and replace it with extra time in fellowship with God preparing ourselves to celebrate Easter.

Your fellow church members have written some devotionals for each day to help get your extra time with God started. The focus of this year’s Lent readings are the spiritual disciplines of giving, praying and fasting. Matthew 6:1-19 says when you give…..when you pray….when you fast……. Ecclesiastes 4:12 says; A threefold cord is not quickly broken. Giving, Praying and Fasting used together in the life of a Christian makes a strong powerful connection to God. Enjoy your extra time with God!

March 6th, 2019

Posted on Mar 6, 2019 in Lent 2019 |

PRAYER

1 Kings 19

11 And he said, “Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

12 And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound,

A low whisper. [a]

13 And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

So many of us are intimidated by the idea of prayer. We have an idea in our mind of what the right kind of prayer should sound like. Usually there is a person in our past who epitomized this idea of what a prayer should sound like: it was eloquent, followed the right form, maybe most importantly in our mind it was long. While there is a place for prayers like that. Some of the most powerful prayers

we can have are about saying less rather than more. In that emptiness and silence, we might just hear that still small voice.

Pastor Ian Butler