Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Lent Gets My Mind Off Me.

Lent Day 7.

Lent serves to keep my mind off self. 


That's what prayer accomplishes when you start receiving an attitude adjustment.
Having a Jesus-mind means others interests come before my interests.
Self seems less important;
Living a Jesus-like-life is more...
It's no wonder this verse comes before the passage I printed out yesterday.


So, this morning, as I journaled, I asked the Lord to give just one "other" to focus on each day in prayer until Lent passes. I randomly wrote down a category of people-I-know as thoughts came to my mind. Here's my list:

March 7th (today): Those who've recently lost a loved one.

March 8th: Your pastor and his family.

March 9th: Our President and his family.

March 10th: Our national government leaders.

March 11th: World leaders.

March 12th: Our military and their families (selfishly, would you pray for our son, Adam & his family).

March 13th: State and local government.

March 14th: Our police men and women.

March 15th: Firefighters.

March 16th: Teachers and administrators.

March 17th: People who serve you daily (postal workers, grocery store clerks, bank tellers, etc).

March 18th: Your parents (if still living).

March 19th: Your siblings.

March 20th: Your children.

March 21st: Your extended family.

March 22nd: Close friends.

March 23rd: Missionaries you know personally.

March 24th: Those who may "despise and speak poorly of you".

March 25th: Those who wish to do you harm.

March 26th: Folks who think differently than you do.

March 27th: Doctors and nurses.

March 28th: Veterans.

March 29th: Those struggling with mental illness.

March 30th: People you know who have recently had to "die to a dream".

March 31st: Children (& adults) who struggle to fit in.

April 1: Those who have lost, and are struggling to find, a job.

April 2: The unborn.

April 3: The newborn.

April 4: The many who silently battle with addictions.

April 5: Those who have been divorced, betrayed, abandoned in marriage.

April 6: Families trying to successfully blend in re-marriage.

April 7: Those who are aging and struggling with loss of independence.

April 8: Immigrants.

April 9: The many who live in poverty and face fear daily.

April 10: The marginalized.

April 11: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Ps 122:6) and all Israel.


April 12: The lost who intersect your world and who need to know Jesus...that they may have ears to hear.

April 13: The sick.

April 14: The hungry.

April 15: Those who are religiously blinded to the truth of the gospel.






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