Category: Lenten Prayer Challenge Posts
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March 14: Is God With Me?
This post is part of a 40-Day Prayer Journey through the season of Lent. Click here to learn more and read other posts in the series. “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit” (Psalm 34:18). There’s a difference between saying, “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves…
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March 13: Boasting in Weakness
This post is part of a 40-Day Prayer Journey through the season of Lent. Click here to learn more and read other posts in the series. “I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me” (2 Corinthians 12:9). People often take quizzes to find their strengths for work…
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March 12: Strength for Those Who Suffer
This post is part of a 40-Day Prayer Journey through the season of Lent. Click here to learn more and read other posts in the series. “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9). God doesn’t always give an answer for why he allows his children to experience…
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March 11: The Promise That Changes Everything
This post is part of a 40-Day Prayer Journey through the season of Lent. Click here to learn more and read other posts in the series. “Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live” (John 14:19). This promise from our Savior changes everything for…
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March 10: Who Are We to God?
This post is part of a 40-Day Prayer Journey through the season of Lent. Click here to learn more and read other posts in the series. “The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we…
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March 9: Given or Earned?
This post is part of a 40-Day Prayer Journey through the season of Lent. Click here to learn more and read other posts in the series. “To the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness” (Romans 4:5). Is righteousness before God given . . . or…
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March 7: What Does God See?
This post is part of a 40-Day Prayer Journey through the season of Lent. Click here to learn more and read other posts in the series. “If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” (2 Corinthians 5:17). In his commentary on 2 Corinthians in The People’s Bible® series, Professor…
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March 6: Is There a Place for Boasting?
This post is part of a 40-Day Prayer Journey through the season of Lent. Click here to learn more and read other posts in the series. “It is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9). We live in…