Lent for God’s Love Series
The series Lent for God’s Love is all about how we experience God’s love during the season stretching from Ash Wednesday to Easter. Lent is a liturgical season that encompasses about seven weeks where we use our time to draw close to God and focus on repentance, prayer, fasting, and giving to the needy. This year, God’s love is the theme as we explore these focus points and the story of our salvation through Jesus.
The Challenge
Over the next seven weeks, leading up to Easter, I will post one devotional and Bible art journaling tutorial each week on Tuesday nights. Read the devotional or watch the video and respond to what God is saying to you. You can create art in your Bible or a journal and post a pic in the Devotion in Action Facebook group. You can write your thoughts out and post on Facebook or in the comments. Let’s share what God is saying with each other as we delve into the facets of God’s love during the Lenten season!
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Lent for God’s Love Series Posts:
In this chapter the people of Israel are in sackcloth and fasting. It tells of the repeated rescues of God and the repeated disobedience of the people. Verse 17 highlights the mercy and love of the LORD in spite of the Israelites turning from Him again and again.
2/20 – Week 2 – Change Your Mind – Job 38:36 (top view of brain with remote inside)
Repent means to change your mind – to bring it into alignment with God’s thoughts and words. God’s wisdom is so far beyond our own. We must kneel to it. We change rather than expecting Him to change.
2/27 – Week 3 – Purpose in Fasting – Ezra 8:21-23 (Place setting with word purpose)
Fasting is a demonstration of us humbling ourselves before God and we also fast for breakthrough on a request. This passage shows the people doing both these things.
https://www.devotioninaction.com/2024/03/05/refreshing-generosity-proverbs-1125/3/5 – Week 4 – Refreshing Generosity – Proverbs 11:25 (coke in glass bottle)
Giving as a part of the Lenten season. God gives incredibly generously to us.
3/12 – Week 5 – Call on the Name of the Lord – Genesis 4:26; Psalm 71 (Woman praying)
The Beginning of Prayer: People began to call on the name of the Lord.(Gen 4:26) – Psalms are full of different kinds of prayer – let’s look at Psalm 71 and the different kinds of prayer in it.
3/19 – Week 6 – Christ Crucified – Isaiah 53:1-6 (Cross and scroll)
The Old Testament speaks of the suffering of Jesus. We will look at what is coming during the Passion week through the eyes of the prophet Isaiah.
3/26 – Week 7 – Christ Resurrected – Hosea 6:1-3 (Jesus)
Pressing in to know the Lord and the resurrection foreshadowing
3/31 – EASTER – Sing praise to the Lord! – Psalm 147 (Easter Lilies and Music)
Look what the Lord has done for us!