Devotional for the Third Sunday in Lent

Rubber key chain cross

 

We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in our prayers for you. We thank God because we have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all of God’s people. … For this reason we have not stopped praying for you since the day we heard about you. We ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through every kind of spiritual wisdom and insight.  We ask this so that you will live the kind of lives that prove you belong to the Lord. Then you will want to please him in every way as you grow in producing every kind of good work by this knowledge about God. We ask him to strengthen you by his glorious might with all the power you need to patiently endure everything with joy. You will also thank the Father, who has made you able to share the light, which is what God’s people inherit.      

—Colossians 1:3-4, 9-12 (GOD’S WORD Translation)

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“As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.” 

Martin Luther

 

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