Week 2
Theme: Know Yourself to know God
8th-14th March
The challenge of scripture to shed our old “false” self to live authentically in our new “true self” in Christ is the core of our discipleship (Peter Scazzero)
Sunday 8th March
Prayer: Living in our true self, and identity in Christ.
Jesus, I am so grateful that you understand what it is like to feel pressure from the expectations of others. It can feel crushing at times. Lord, help me to love others well while at the same time remaining faithful to you.
SCRIPTURE - Mark 1:33-38
The whole town gathered at the door, and Jesus healed many who had various diseases… Jess replied, “let us go somewhere else……That is why I have come.”
Monday 9th March
Prayer: Removing all false layers or barriers
Lord, grant me the courage of David to resist the temptation to live a life that is not the one you have given to me. Deliver me from the “Goliaths” in front of me, and from the negative voices I hear so often.
Help me to listen and obey your voice today.
SCRIPTURE - 1 Samuel 17:38-40, 45
Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic… “I cannot go in these”, he said to Saul… David said to the Philistine, “you come against me with…but I come against you…whom you have defiled”.
Tuesday 10th March
Prayer: Chosen for a special purpose
Lord, I come this day inviting you to cut those deeply entrenched chains that Keep me from being faithful to my true self in Christ. In doing so, may my life be a blessing to many.
SCRIPTURE - Psalm 139:13-16
For you created my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother’s womb…before one of them came to be.
Wednesday 11th March
Prayer: Loving ourselves as God loves us.
Lord, strengthen me with your power that I might grasp how wide, long, high, and deep is the love of Christ that surpasses human knowledge. May I love you, for you alone and not for your gift or blessings. May I live in deep experience of your tender love today.
SCRIPTURE - Ephesians 3:14-19
For this reason, I kneel before the Father… that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Thursday 12th March
Prayer: His call, my obedient response
Lord, crack the hard shell over my heart that obscures and buries my true self in Christ. Transform me into the kind of person you desire me to be.
SCRIPTURE - Mark 10:26-31
The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, “who then can be saved”?... But many who are first will be last, and the last first.
Friday 13th March
Prayer: Cultivating my inner life through solitude.
Lord, help me to turn down the volume of the voices that tell me I have little worth unless I am wealthy, influential, and popular. Grant me the grace today to experience your voice, which tells me I am your child, whom you love and well pleased with me.
SCRIPTURE - Matthew 4: 1-3, 8-11
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil…He was hungry. The…left him, and angels came and attended to him
Saturday 14th March
Prayer; Praying against “burnout”
Jesus, you know my tendency to say yes to more commitments than I can possibly keep. Help me to embrace the gift of my limits physically, emotionally, and spiritually. May you also be glorified in and through me today.
SCRIPTURE - 1 Kings 19:1-5
Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done…All at once an angel touched him and said “Get up and eat”.