Advent is about waiting – waiting for the birth of Jesus. It’s the magical time when heaven intersects earth through the lives of ordinary people who are part of God’s extraordinary plan to redeem the world.
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Holy Week is a time for us to praise, pray, and prepare ourselves for Easter Sunday. Mary and I would like to invite you to join Only By Prayer as we spend some time together this week doing just that.
Each day this week starting on Palm Sunday, we will post a scripture from the Psalms for you to meditate on. We will use this same post for the entire week, so we will simply add the new scripture to this post each day. Be sure to check back each day. We are taking the suggested reading from the LectionaryPage.net .
Here is a possible way you could interact with each day’s scripture, but feel free to let the Holy Spirit lead you.
Thank you for joining us. You’re more than welcome to invite others to journey along with you this week too! We’ll be praying for us all that God will prepare our hearts for Jesus’ Resurrection Sunday.
Blessings,
Jane & Mary of Only By Prayer
The scripture for today: Palm Sunday-Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29
The scripture for today: Psalm 36:5-11
The scripture for today: Psalm 71:1-14
The scripture for today: Psalm 70
The scripture for today: Psalm 116:1, 10-17
The scripture for today: – Psalm 22
The scripture for today: Psalm 31:1-4, 15-16
The scripture for today: Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24
Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, ‘Son, your sins are forgiven you.’ Mark 2:3-5
The healing of the paralytic man is an incredible story. Jesus is in Capernaum, where so many healings happened. Not coincidentally, the people in this region had a strong faith. That realization made me stop and ask myself this question: [Read more…]
When it was time for Elizabeth’s baby to be born, she gave birth to a son.” Luke 1:57
Elizabeth and Zacharias had waited a lifetime for their son to be born. In fact, they were both past the childbearing years. Elizabeth thought the Lord had denied her the blessing of being a mother. Yet God had big plans for them–they were just in His timing, not hers. [Read more…]
Today’s verse is Nehemiah 9:31, but if you have time, read all of Chapter 9.
It helps to know a bit of Israel’s journey to the promised land as we discuss this reflection.
