High Priestly Prayer and Praying at Gethsemane John 17: 1-26; Matthew 26: 36-46; Mark 14:32-42; Luke 22: 40-46 This is Jesus final prayer to God. Jesus wants us to know and to show us His deepest desire to pray to our Heavenly Father. This prayer shows us as ministry leaders, pastors, parents, friends how to pray for others. We should pray over these subject matters, as Jesus did: that they may know the Lord intimately, that God with protect them, and they will constantly have the full joy of the Lord serving him, that they live by God’s standards of purity and truth in thoughts, actions, and character, be unified…
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Passion Week: Devotions
Thursday John 14:1-16:33 Jesus Comforts His Disciples Jesus is saying a few last remarks before the chaos of events begin, the surreal moment. In chapter 14, the main points are he is the way, the truth, and the life. We are not to be troubled but to believe in God and Jesus. Jesus is going to go to prepare a place in heaven for all believers. When it is done, he will come back for us. Jesus asks us to keep his commandments. If we truly love God, will be in obedience to his commandments. Next, Jesus promises while he is gone, the Holy Spirit will be with us.…
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Passover Supper/Holy Communion
Luke 22:7-23 Matthew 26: 17-29 Mark 14: 12-25 John 13: 1-38 This is the first day of the feast of unleavened bread. The disciples made ready the passover. They prepared this meal as they did every year. John and Peter prepared it. The hour came and they ate. Jesus wanted to eat with his disciples before he suffered. This last supper on earth, was the beginning of us doing communion. For one, we do this because he told us too. We do communion as a remembrance of Jesus (1 Corinthians 11:24). In remembrance, we observe all Jesus did for us in his life, death, and resurrection. He took the place…
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Passion Week: Devotions – Jesus Teaches
Matthew 21: 28-24:51; Mark 11:27-13:37; Luke 20:1- 21:36 Part 3: The Great Commission: This here is a mighty, mighty lesson. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul. God has to be our full focus. He must have all of our love. Then we are to love all people. The mean, the wicked, the people who hurt you, Love all people. When we love God completely and love others unselfishly, then all of our attitudes and actions…
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Passion Week: Devotions – Jesus Teaches
Matthew 21: 28-24:51; Mark 11:27-13:37; Luke 20:1- 21:36 Part Two Yesterday We focused on the Parable of the Two Sons and the Parable of the Tenants. Today let’s focus on more of what Jesus taught. Did you get a chance to read the passages above? I was lucky just to get the first two read. However, let’s try to get through some more lesson’s Jesus taught!! The Parable fo the Wedding Feast: In this passage, Jesus is teaching that many people will seem to accept Christ’s invitation. They claim to…
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Passion Week: Devotions – Jesus Teaches
Matthew 21: 28-24:51; Mark 11:27-13:37; Luke 20:1- 21:36 Part One Throughout Jesus ministry, Jesus taught us great things. He took the last few days that he knew he would be on earth, to teach the people one last time. He talked about many, many things. Read the passages posted above the picture. The Parable of The Two Sons: This parable signifies two different kinds of people. Some who prove better than they promise and others that promise better…
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Passion Week Devotions: The Authority Of Jesus
Tuesday: Matthew 21:23-27, Mark 11:27-33, Luke 20:1-8 And when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, “by what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?” Jesus answered them, “I also will ask you one question, and if you tell me the answer, then I also will tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John, from where did it come?” From heaven or from man? And they discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘from heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Why, then did you not believe him?’…
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Passion Week Devotions: Jesus Clears the Temple
Monday And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money – changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,” but you make it a den of robbers.” Matthew 21: 12-13 Mark 11: 15-18, Luke 19: 45-48 The temple had become a modern-day vendor or farmers market. However, the people set up shop in the temple. To Jesus this was an ungodly activity to do in the temple. He went in and cleansed it. This kind of activity in the…
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Passion Week: Devotions Fig Tree
Monday: Event #1 – Jesus Curses the Fig Tree Matthew 21:18-19 and (Mark 11:12-14 In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once. This section is symbolic verses. In research, fig trees in Jerusalem at this time of year I this passage were usually not in full mature leaves. However, this tree was. When the leaves are fully mature, there should be evidence of fruit.…
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Passion Week – Devotions: Day 3 The Triumphal Entry
Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11, Luke 19:28-44, John 12:12-19 Sunday – Palm Sunday. Mark 11:9-10 – And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, Hosanna, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the coming Kingdom of our Father David! Hosanna in the highest! I have listed next to the picture passages of the Triumphal Entry. Please take the time and read each one. See if you can see what is similar and different. Hosanna, means “save”, the people had a different idea about what salvation meant then what Jesus meant. The people thought that the Messiah would be a social activist and a…