Scripture: John
12:12-19 & Matthew
26:1-27:66
Having had this reading earlier in the week, please resist
the temptation to skim it over (although if you have time for nothing more,
please skim!) and take your devotion time to re-read the Gospel lesson slowly.
Pray for the Holy Spirit to teach you as you read the
Scripture lesson, and ask him to teach you to pray, opening your heart and mind
to pray according to God’s will.
Prayer
On Fridays you will be encouraged to pray for a variety of
prayer requests. The hope is that through these prayer requests we will,
obviously, intercede for those need prayer, and that we will learn to think
more broadly in our prayers. If time is short, you could simply pray the Lord’s
Prayer.
Pray for proper sorrow over you
sin and full confidence in Christ’s sacrifice for you.
Pray for pastors who will, this
week, be preaching and teaching about these most holy events; that they preach
the Word in truth and purity to help people know Jesus’ salvation.
Pray for the many visitors who
will come to church across the upcoming week that the Spirit of God would work
in them to create faith in them.
Pray for music directors,
musicians, and all who will participate in worship services this week that
their service would be a joy to them and a blessing to those whom they serve.
Pray for our hearts to be
receptive to the Passion of Christ, that our ears would be open to hear the
account again, that our minds would be attentive, and our souls filled with
faith and hope.
Pray for our brothers and
sisters who will celebrate Holy Week under persecution, in prison, in the
military, and are otherwise far from their brothers and sisters in Christ and
their loved ones.
Pray the Lord’s Prayer.
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