Written by Rev. Kazimiera I.H. Fraley and Rev. Christy Gunter Leppert for Mulvane Church of the Nazarene and Trinity Church of the Nazarene.
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Daily Meditation One
Isaiah 50: 4-9
What a wonderful way to live! To know God awakens you each and every morning so you might listen as God speaks and you might learn as God teaches; in order that you might be the person God is calling you to be.
God help you. God will not allow you to be disgraced. God is with you. God is walking alongside of you; journeying with you through each day, teaching you, guiding you, and instructing you. All you need to do is listen, learn, and allow yourself to be guided. Walk with Christ. Follow Christ as he makes the journey toward the cross. He walks close by as you walk the roads of your life.
Reflection Questions
In What ways is God with you today?
How is God teaching you and guiding you today?
Prayer
God, I turn my face to you. Teach me; I am listening.
Thank you for walking alongside of me.
I am completely dependent on you.
Weekly Action
Spend some time thinking and praying about one way which you can give Jesus the glory he alone deserves this week. Set time aside to do this, in this way you can wave your palm branch and sing to the one who brings you salvation.
What a wonderful way to live! To know God awakens you each and every morning so you might listen as God speaks and you might learn as God teaches; in order that you might be the person God is calling you to be.
God help you. God will not allow you to be disgraced. God is with you. God is walking alongside of you; journeying with you through each day, teaching you, guiding you, and instructing you. All you need to do is listen, learn, and allow yourself to be guided. Walk with Christ. Follow Christ as he makes the journey toward the cross. He walks close by as you walk the roads of your life.
Reflection Questions
In What ways is God with you today?
How is God teaching you and guiding you today?
Prayer
God, I turn my face to you. Teach me; I am listening.
Thank you for walking alongside of me.
I am completely dependent on you.
Weekly Action
Spend some time thinking and praying about one way which you can give Jesus the glory he alone deserves this week. Set time aside to do this, in this way you can wave your palm branch and sing to the one who brings you salvation.
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Daily Meditation Two
Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29
Give thanks to God! God loves you and will always love you.
Do you ever really stop and thank God? Thank God for giving you life? Thank God that your belly is full and there is food in your pantry and cupboards? Thank God you do not have to worry about where you will sleep tonight or how you will stay warm?
Thank God because God loves you and has blessed you. God has blessed you and often times we do not pause to think about it. Thank God because God “saves” you. Thank God because God’s love fills your life and because that love blesses you and make you blessed.
Reflection Questions
How has God blessed you today?
How will you thank God for blessing you today?
Prayer
Thank you Lord for loving me; for food, for shelter, for your compassion, and for your salvation. Thank you for who you are—the God who loves boundlessly.
Weekly Action
Give thanks to God! God loves you and will always love you.
Do you ever really stop and thank God? Thank God for giving you life? Thank God that your belly is full and there is food in your pantry and cupboards? Thank God you do not have to worry about where you will sleep tonight or how you will stay warm?
Thank God because God loves you and has blessed you. God has blessed you and often times we do not pause to think about it. Thank God because God “saves” you. Thank God because God’s love fills your life and because that love blesses you and make you blessed.
Reflection Questions
How has God blessed you today?
How will you thank God for blessing you today?
Prayer
Thank you Lord for loving me; for food, for shelter, for your compassion, and for your salvation. Thank you for who you are—the God who loves boundlessly.
Weekly Action
Spend some time thinking and praying about one way which you can give Jesus the glory he alone deserves this week. Set time aside to do this, in this way you can wave your palm branch and sing to the one who brings you salvation.
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Daily Meditation Three
Daily Meditation Three
Philippians 2:5-11
Let the mind of Christ be in you. Think the thoughts of Christ. Out of those thoughts allow the actions of Christ to come forward. You would then be doing the actions of Christ in this world.
If we band together, a group of us, all with the mind of Christ, all of doing the action of Christ, then, then we would be the Church! We would be the church thinking like Christ, acting like Christ, so the world may see Christ in us, living in us, acting in us, so they may know Christ through us. Living this passage in Philippians is what it means to be called by Christ’s name, to be called Christian. This is what is means to be a church; to be the Church.
Reflection Questions
How can you be Christ in your daily routine? How would that change your life? How would that change your church? How would that change your world?
What unselfish thing is God asking you to do—even if it kills you?
Prayer
Lord God, grant us the endurance to be unselfish like you. To give ourselves up, even to death. To follow your call for our lives, even when we feel like nothing—and know we are nothing but ash.
Weekly Action
Spend some time thinking and praying about one way which you can give Jesus the glory he alone deserves this week. Set time aside to do this, in this way you can wave your palm branch and sing to the one who brings you salvation.
Let the mind of Christ be in you. Think the thoughts of Christ. Out of those thoughts allow the actions of Christ to come forward. You would then be doing the actions of Christ in this world.
If we band together, a group of us, all with the mind of Christ, all of doing the action of Christ, then, then we would be the Church! We would be the church thinking like Christ, acting like Christ, so the world may see Christ in us, living in us, acting in us, so they may know Christ through us. Living this passage in Philippians is what it means to be called by Christ’s name, to be called Christian. This is what is means to be a church; to be the Church.
Reflection Questions
How can you be Christ in your daily routine? How would that change your life? How would that change your church? How would that change your world?
What unselfish thing is God asking you to do—even if it kills you?
Prayer
Lord God, grant us the endurance to be unselfish like you. To give ourselves up, even to death. To follow your call for our lives, even when we feel like nothing—and know we are nothing but ash.
Weekly Action
Spend some time thinking and praying about one way which you can give Jesus the glory he alone deserves this week. Set time aside to do this, in this way you can wave your palm branch and sing to the one who brings you salvation.
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Daily Meditation Four
Mark 11:1-11
Who was the crowd greeting that morning? To whom were they blessing and singing praise? Were they greeting a great military conqueror; who would save them from Roman rule with a mighty hand? Were they praising a man who came and did mighty works and spoke great wisdom?
NO this was not who rode the colt that day. Perhaps this was the one they thought they were singing and giving glory; but the one who walked in their midst, Jesus of Nazareth, was not the one they assumed he was.
Jesus was the God/man, journeying on his way to die, on his way to the cross, on his way to give it all up, so we might live.
Let us praise God for who God is and not praise God for who we think God should be.
Reflection Questions
How do you see Jesus?
Is it similar to the conquering hero the people saw in this passage?
Prayer
Lord, I cry Hosanna in my heart. You are the blessed one—who brings the Kingdom of heaven on earth. Hosanna. Hosanna. God saves.
Weekly Action
Who was the crowd greeting that morning? To whom were they blessing and singing praise? Were they greeting a great military conqueror; who would save them from Roman rule with a mighty hand? Were they praising a man who came and did mighty works and spoke great wisdom?
NO this was not who rode the colt that day. Perhaps this was the one they thought they were singing and giving glory; but the one who walked in their midst, Jesus of Nazareth, was not the one they assumed he was.
Jesus was the God/man, journeying on his way to die, on his way to the cross, on his way to give it all up, so we might live.
Let us praise God for who God is and not praise God for who we think God should be.
Reflection Questions
How do you see Jesus?
Is it similar to the conquering hero the people saw in this passage?
Prayer
Lord, I cry Hosanna in my heart. You are the blessed one—who brings the Kingdom of heaven on earth. Hosanna. Hosanna. God saves.
Weekly Action
Spend some time thinking and praying about one way which you can give Jesus the glory he alone deserves this week. Set time aside to do this, in this way you can wave your palm branch and sing to the one who brings you salvation.
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