Daily Devotional from Pastor Mary 4-18-19

April 18, 2019

John 13:1-17, 33-35 New Living Translation (NLT)

 

Today is the thirty-eighth day of our 40-Day Lenten Series, “Praying for a Kingdom Heart.”  Lent should be a time of prayerful reflection, repentance, and restoration as we draw closer to the heart of God. This is Holy Thursday and it is a perfect time to focus on the loving heart of Jesus; a pure Kingdom heart.  Jesus is God in the flesh and he came to teach us the ways of love.  He came to serve us and make us ready as fellow servants for the work of the Kingdom. Do you have a servant’s heart?

 

There are a lot of people who want to be leaders in this world, but according to Jesus a true leader is a humble servant who knows how to love others.  To love sacrificially like Christ requires action.  Jesus was a living example of God’s love and now we are to be living examples of Christ’s love.  So, the kind of love Jesus commissions his disciples to share sets them apart from the world.  Christ did not call just some of his disciples to be servants; he calls every one of us to take a humble posture and be a blessing to others.  

 

During Lent, we will be using the acronym P.R.A.Y. as we pray for a Kingdom Heart.  P=praise, R=repent, A=ask, and Y=yield.  May God bless you as you spend time in God’s Word and in prayer today.

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