✨✨Saturday, March 2✨✨ ✨✨✨18th Day of Lent✨✨✨ The hymn for this season of Lent is: “Lord Jesus, You Shall Be My Song” by The Little Sisters of Jesus 1. Lord Jesus, you shall be my song as I journey;
I’ll tell ev’rybody about you wherever I go; you alone are our life and our peace and our love.
Lord Jesus, you shall be my song as I journey. 2. Lord Jesus, I’ll praise you as long as I journey.
May all of my joy be a faithful reflection of you.
May the earth and the sea and the sky join my song.
Lord Jesus, I’ll praise you as long as I journey. 3. As long as I live, Jesus, make me your servant, to carry your cross and to share all your burdens and tears.
For you saved me by giving your body and blood.
As long as I live, Jesus, make me your servant. 4. I fear in the dark and the doubt of my journey; but courage will come with the sound of your steps by my side. And with all of the family you saved by your love, we’ll sing to your dawn at the end of our journey. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Life is a journey. It is full of ups and downs, twists and turns, exhilaration as well as disappointment. Sometimes we follow the Word of the LORD and it feels amazing. Sometimes we get distracted by the people or things around us that pull us away from God. The authors of this hymn reflect the reality of life in each verse. Verse 1 begins with hope as we seek to sing the song of Jesus to the world. Verse 2 steps into full praise mode. Verse 3 seems to show the stumble in the journey. Our call is not to pride, but to servanthood and cross-bearing. Verse 4 takes us to the darkness of doubt and fear and fills us with courage that, even in that low place, God is with us. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Please hear our prayers and do not ignore our petitions, dear LORD, for Scott (Multiple Myeloma; battling since 2020), Erica (stage 4 breast cancer), Graham (brain cancer; surgery week of 2/25/24; 7 years old), Lori Frybarger (liver cancer returned), Cassandra Travis (needs treatment plan to be made quickly and pain medicine management), Sharon Harlee, Amy (skin cancer and now rectal; married with 3 children), Luis from Mexico (52-year-old battling cancer for years; had back surgery on 2/27/24; married with 3 sons), and all cancer patients who we don’t know their names, but You do! Bless them, their families and friends with Your peace that is beyond all understanding as You guide them down the journey they are traveling. In Jesus’ mighty name, amen! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ We reflect the light of God, not through our perfection and perpetual brightness. No. We reflect the light of God when we remember that God’s love is faithful throughout all our journey. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ God of Promise, we thank You for the ups and downs of our lives. Thank You for being with us through it all. May we never forget that You are with us and for us. In Jesus’ mighty name, amen!🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️✨✨✨ ♥️♥️♥️

Amen and amen, dear Resting in His Grace! Praying in agreement with you for the Lord to bless everyone known and unknown on this post! Let them feel Your love, dear Lord!🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️✨✨✨ ♥️♥️♥️

Thank you, dear GCOGA, for your beautiful prayer! May the Lord Jesus Christ intercede your petition and plead with our Father Almighty to grant your request. God bless!🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️✨✨✨♥️♥️♥️

✨✨✨Monday, March 4✨✨ ✨✨✨20th Day of Lent✨✨✨ God’s story and God’s people have always been on the move, going somewhere. Along their journey the Israelites found that things were not a they imagined they would be, and their patience was tested. They were tired, crabby, angry, and doubtful. They cried out, complained, and blame God responded, as always. God responded because the Israelites were God’s beloved. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Praying Numbers 21:4-9 over all Your children today and always, dear Lord, especially those battling cancer: “They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!” Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.“ ‭✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Please hear our prayers and do not ignore our petitions, dear LORD, Scott (Multiple Myeloma; battling since 2020), Erica (stage 4 breast cancer), Graham (brain cancer; surgery week of 2/25/24; 7 years old), Lori Frybarger (liver cancer returned), Cassandra Travis (needs treatment plan to be made quickly and pain medicine management), Sharon Harlee, Amy (skin cancer and now rectal; married with 3 children), Luis from Mexico (52-year-old battling cancer for years; had back surgery on 2/27/24; married with 3 sons), JP (had surgery to remove cancerous tumor; being treated for metastatic cancer; issues with good healthcare and possible mental health), renojudy (renal carcinoma; surgery scheduled 3/5/24), Hanna (breast cancer; 28 years old; from Sweden), Salla (breast cancer; 55 years old; from Åland), Matt (brain tumor), and all cancer patients who we don’t know their names, but You do! Bless them, their families and friends with Your peace that is beyond all understanding as You guide them down the journey they are traveling. In Jesus’ mighty name, amen! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ In 2024, we are on the move as well. Navigating next steps, seeking to find ourselves in God’s narrative, and hoping to make sense of our own stories that are at the heart of our daily journey. Just like those who have gone before us, our exhaustion, hunger, pain, fear, anger, and doubt cause us to cry out, complain, and blame. Our cries evoke a response from God because we too are God’s beloved. The Lenten season and this story invite our return to God, who is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ God of mercy and love, when we are impatient and angry because things are not going how we imagined, remind us that there is another way, another space to lean into. Help us to breathe and give us strength and patience to recognize Your constant gracious presence. In Jesus’ mighty name, amen!🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️✨✨✨♥️♥️♥️

Thank you, GCOGA, for continuing to add your prayers for our brothers and sisters who are suffering from the devastating disease of cancer! Your support is greatly appreciated! God bless you and keep you! 🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️✨✨✨ ♥️♥️♥️

Thank you, Resting in His Grace, for your continued support, prayers and encouragement for our siblings who are battling for their lives! You are a blessing to this prayer wall! May God bless you greatly!🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️✨✨✨♥️♥️♥️

God bless you, Resting in His Grace, for your loving kindness shown to our brothers and sisters battling cancer! You and your prayers are greatly appreciated!🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️✨✨✨♥️♥️♥️

✨✨Thursday, March 7✨✨ ✨✨✨23rd Day of Lent✨✨✨ Today we begin with a flashback. Jesus reaches into the past to remind Nicodemus of the Moses story, recalling the serpent in the wilderness which by God’s promise was lifted up in order to save the people from death. Now Jesus states that by God’s promise He, too, will be lifted up to save people from death. Jesus’ narrative propels Him forward to show us He is the great link between what was, what is, and what is yet to come. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Praying John 3:14-21 over all Your children today and always, dear Lord, especially those battling cancer: ”Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.” For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.“ ‭✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Please hear our prayers and do not ignore our petitions, dear LORD, for Scott (Multiple Myeloma; battling since 2020), Erica (stage 4 breast cancer), Graham (brain cancer; surgery week of 2/25/24; 7 years old), Lori Frybarger (liver cancer returned), Cassandra Travis (needs treatment plan to be made quickly and pain medicine management), Sharon Harlee, Amy (skin cancer and now rectal; married with 3 children), Luis from Mexico (52-year-old battling cancer for years; had back surgery on 2/27/24; married with 3 sons), JP (had surgery to remove cancerous tumor; being treated for metastatic cancer; issues with good healthcare and possible mental health), renojudy (renal carcinoma; surgery scheduled 3/5/24), Hanna (breast cancer; 28 years old; from Sweden), Salla (breast cancer; 55 years old; from Åland), Matt (brain tumor), gruvers5 (stage-4 breast cancer), Sandra (cancer has spread to brain; husband is Glenn), Athanase (stomach cancer; wife is Hortense; 4 children), Humble Pi’s aunt S (last stages of colon cancer; on morphine to help relieve the pain), Humble Pi’s cousin K (overseas getting treatment), Harry (Merkel cancer spread throughout his body; wife is Susan), Jennifer (from PA; undergoing surgery), Brian (from GA; starting treatment), Alice (stage 4 ovarian cancer; age 56), and all cancer patients who we don’t know their names, but You do! Bless them, their families and friends with Your peace that is beyond all understanding as You guide them down the journey they are traveling. In Jesus’ mighty name, amen! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ As His crucifixion nears in our Lenten story, He points to the purpose and end of that story. The Good News for today is that Jesus came to demonstrate God’s love for the world. It’s been that way since the beginning, when God created everything. The love God has for His people has always been at the heart and center of all God does – past, present, and future. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ God of all times and places, lift up what we need to hear, to see, to feel, to embrace, and to love. Help us in the times, places, and opportunities for love, to raise up and build up Your people. Strengthen us for the journey. In Jesus’ mighty name, amen!🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️✨✨✨♥️♥️♥️

✨✨✨Friday, March 8✨✨✨ ✨✨✨24th Day of Lent✨✨✨ It takes courage and a willingness to admit our brokenness. Light reveals the ways in which we have fallen short, hurt others, and lived only for ourselves. We might find it much easier and more comfortable just to hide in the darkness, because sometimes the light feels like judgment. But when we are honest and vulnerable about ourselves, we are convicted. Because of God’s grace we are given another chance, and then another, and another. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Praying John 3:14-21 over all Your children today and always, dear Lord, especially those battling cancer: ”Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.” For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.“ ‭✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Please hear our prayers and do not ignore our petitions, dear LORD, for Scott (Multiple Myeloma; battling since 2020), Erica (stage 4 breast cancer), Graham (brain cancer; surgery week of 2/25/24; 7 years old), Lori Frybarger (liver cancer returned), Cassandra Travis (needs treatment plan to be made quickly and pain medicine management), Sharon Harlee, Amy (skin cancer and now rectal; married with 3 children), Luis from Mexico (52-year-old battling cancer for years; had back surgery on 2/27/24; married with 3 sons), JP (had surgery to remove cancerous tumor; being treated for metastatic cancer; issues with good healthcare and possible mental health), renojudy (renal carcinoma; surgery scheduled 3/5/24), Hanna (breast cancer; 28 years old; from Sweden), Salla (breast cancer; 55 years old; from Åland), Matt (brain tumor), gruvers5 (stage-4 breast cancer), Athanase (stomach cancer; wife is Hortense; 4 children), Humble Pi’s aunt S (last stages of colon cancer; on morphine to help relieve the pain), Humble Pi’s cousin K (overseas getting treatment), Harry (Merkel cancer spread throughout his body; wife is Susan), Jennifer (from PA; undergoing surgery), Brian (from GA; starting treatment), Alice (stage 4 ovarian cancer; age 56), Megan (breast cancer: age 38; new site found on left side; depressed and needs Jesus), Lola (in hospital getting transfusion; cancer has metastasized, needs Jesus), Zflsil (stage 1 prostate cancer), Zflsil’s wife (stage 1 breast cancer; tumor being removed 3/15/24), and all cancer patients who we don’t know their names, but You do! Bless them, their families and friends with Your peace that is beyond all understanding as You guide them down the journey they are traveling. In Jesus’ mighty name, amen! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ That is what God’s love does for us; it creates new beginnings in us. Death and darkness do not have the last word. God loves the world, wants the very best for the world, and has such abundant grace and compassion for the world that God sent God’s only Son to be lifted up in order that we might have new life. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ God of light, may we use today to examine the ways which have separated us from You. Help us to be vulnerable and brave and with all that we are, return to You and Your forgiving grace. In Jesus’ mighty name, amen!🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️✨✨✨♥️♥️♥️

✨✨✨Sunday, March 10✨✨ ✨✨✨26th Day of Lent✨✨✨ “Lord Jesus, You Shall Be My Song” by The Little Sisters of Jesus (Verse 3) 3. As long as I live, Jesus, make me your servant, to carry your cross and to share all your burdens and tears.
For you saved me by giving your body and blood.
As long as I live, Jesus, make me your servant. Verse three of “Lord Jesus, You Shall Be My Song” invites, beckons, and draws us into the ways we live as servants of Jesus. Sharing the space of suffering, burdens, and tears with others is how we connect to Him. The Good News is that Jesus’ saving act on the cross has already been accomplished for us. Now we are invited to continue to lean into, embrace, and respond to Christ’s deep love for the world with each step of our life’s journey. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Please hear our prayers and do not ignore our petitions, dear LORD, for Scott (Multiple Myeloma; battling since 2020), Erica (stage 4 breast cancer), Graham (brain cancer; surgery week of 2/25/24; 7 years old), Lori Frybarger (liver cancer returned), Cassandra Travis (needs treatment plan to be made quickly and pain medicine management), Sharon Harlee, Amy (skin cancer and now rectal; married with 3 children), Luis from Mexico (52-year-old battling cancer for years; had back surgery on 2/27/24; married with 3 sons), JP (had surgery to remove cancerous tumor; being treated for metastatic cancer; issues with good healthcare and possible mental health), renojudy (renal carcinoma; surgery scheduled 3/5/24), Hanna (breast cancer; 28 years old; from Sweden), Salla (breast cancer; 55 years old; from Åland), Matt (brain tumor), gruvers5 (stage-4 breast cancer), Athanase (stomach cancer; wife is Hortense; 4 children), Humble Pi’s aunt S (last stages of colon cancer; on morphine to help relieve the pain), Humble Pi’s cousin K (overseas getting treatment), Harry (Merkel cancer spread throughout his body; wife is Susan), Jennifer (from PA; undergoing surgery), Brian (from GA; starting treatment), Alice (stage 4 ovarian cancer; age 56), Megan (breast cancer: age 38; new site found on left side; depressed and needs Jesus), Lola (in hospital getting transfusion; cancer has metastasized, needs Jesus), Zflsil (stage 1 prostate cancer), Zflsil’s wife (stage 1 breast cancer; tumor being removed 3/15/24), joycecummings46 (incurable cancer according to earthly MD’s), Marsha (from MN; pancreatic cancer; has metastasized to lungs 3/24), Rachel (kidney cancer; has 2 children age 8 & 12), and all cancer patients who we don’t know their names, but You do! Bless them, their families and friends with Your peace that is beyond all understanding as You guide them down the journey they are traveling. In Jesus’ mighty name, amen! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Today, we get ready to sing with a servant heart, inhale, hold space, and exhale, ready to enter into all that is to come. As we sing even in the midst of our own and others’ suffering, burdens, and tears, we also sing expecting to be restored, lifted up, and have our tears wiped away. In our journey with Jesus, the song carries and reminds us we are not alone. Our servant heart beats with a rhythm that leads us to love. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Thank you, Jesus, for the gift of song. Help us to lean into whatever melodies or rhythms we need to pay attention to in this day and time. May love always lead us in our song. In Jesus’ mighty name, amen!🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️✨✨✨♥️♥️♥️