Week 3
Theme: Going Back to Go Forward
15th-21st March
The power to go forward originates not with us but in communion with Jesus [Peter Scazzero]
Sunday 15th March
Prayer: Lord Jesus, set me free to be the person you have destined me to be. Help me to pause to hear your voice today, and to leave behind the “baggage” I am carrying as I seek to follow you. Help me to discern your hand at work in and through my life, both in the past and the future.
SCRIPTURE - Hebrews 11:24-27
By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as… He left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger.
Monday 16th March
Prayer: Lord, I too prefer to not look at or remember the painful past. Show me, O father, the heavy weights and rafts I am carrying due to my past. Help me to learn what it means to honestly face my past, lift it up to you, and allow you to use it as a way of maturing and growing in Christ.
SCRIPTURE - Luke 9:59-62
Jesus said to another man, “Follow me” but he replied…Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back...”
Tuesday 17th March
Holy Spirit, I invite you to dig through the layers of my being that hinders my relationship and communion with others. Grant me perseverance to allow you to dig deeply, excavating out of me, all that is not of Christ so that I may be filled with your presence.
SCRIPTURE - Mark 3:31-35
Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived…Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister.
Wednesday 18th March
Lord, there is none like you, I want to know you as my ultimate Father, the one whose unfathomable, unconditional love sets me free to live for you – far above all other loyalties and expectations.
SCRIPTURE - Hebrews 12:1-3
Therefore, since we are surrounded by...so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
Thursday 19th March
Father, I affirm with Joseph that you sovereignly placed me within my family, my culture, and my present circumstance Show me how, like Joseph, I can rest in your love and power – even when I can’t see any good that you might be doing.
SCRIPTURE - Genesis 50:15, 19-21
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead…and he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.
Friday 20th March
Lord, lead me through the process of grief and healing that I might offer genuine kindness and forgiveness to those who have not been kind to me. Help me, like Joseph, to become a great blessing to others.
SCRIPTURE - Genesis 45:4-7
Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me”…
Saturday 21st March
Lord, Help, me to trust you with the good as well as the difficult, the success and the failures, the joy and sorrows of the past. I surrender to your voice whispering all is well.
SCRIPTURE - Acts 9: 1-6, 15-16
Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against God’s disciples.