What difference is God making in your house and in your heart in this season?.How are you seeing and sensing your house becoming a house of prayer?.What’s changed in the way you think about church?.Your house is becoming a house of prayer. God is being glorified as husbands and wives and kids and neighbors and life groups and DMD groups and Men’s groups and women’s groups and 20 Something’s groups are gathering in new ways, smiling, laughing, blessing, learning, loving and praying. In a season of fear and anxiety, conversations are happening pointing heavy hearts back to our Healer. Some are worshipping throughout the week, some are tuning in on Sunday’s at 9:15 or 11:00. Some are praying throughout the day, some are praying at 7:00 p.m. But it’s not happening in the church building that sits vacant. The banner outside Sanctuary says, “We are praying for you.” Some people look at it when they drive by, some people ignore it. “My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.” God’s little house on Mars Hill and Due West Road largely sits empty. Not only were the religious leaders robbing the people financially, but because of this they had also robbed them spiritually by stealing from them the opportunity to come to know God genuinely.” Thomas Constable notes, “In this statement, Jesus is speaking on two levels. Jesus is now in Passion Week, just days before His crucifixion, and he makes this same statement, and he makes it dramatically. Seven hundred years prior to the arrival of Christ, God spoke through the prophet Isaiah.Ī house of prayer for all nations.” – Isaiah 56.7 He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’” Matthew 21.12-13 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. If you would like to support the work of Gospel in Life, please consider making a gift.Tuesday, April 7 By Amanda Decarreau Lent Devotional 2020 Help us to trust and obey you as our righteous king, and may your name be forever praised. Do you know that the King truly cares for you and all of your needs? Have you called on his name?Īlmighty God, we praise you that your Son is the king we all want and need that his compassion far outweighs anything we have ever seen. We can know that in Christ, prayers for the flourishing of his name and reign will mean peace and blessing for all. We can know that in Christ, we have a king who is not only concerned with our needs and suffering, but compassionately identifies with them. As followers of Christ, we can know that God has given us the One in whose name the needy, poor and helpless will truly find deliverance. Today many have lost faith in our leaders and distrust them all, while others spend their lives and money promoting this name or that name as the one who will finally save us. Prayers for the endurance of the king’s name were based on that expectant hope, that the king would fulfill his commitment to the weak, so prayers for him meant safety and happiness for all.įrom then until now, however, no king or leader has ever been able to fulfill these divine standards. The God of Israel is by nature a rescuer and helper to the helpless, so must the king be. Looking to the king for compassion and deliverance for the weak was not naive or wishful thinking, but a hope rooted in the character of the one who had anointed him. The king was viewed as the means by whom blessings came to the people from God and he was expected to uphold divine standards of justice and righteousness. This prayer was not only an acknowledgement of the king, but also expressed a set of expectations and criteria for their leader. May the whole earth be filled with his glory!Īt the inauguration of a king of Israel, the Israelites would offer a prayer like Psalm 72. On the tops of the mountains may it wave May there be abundance of grain in the land From oppression and violence he redeems their life,Īnd precious is their blood in his sight.Īnd blessings invoked for him all the day!
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