Lent: Journey According To LukeSample

THE LORD GIVES WHAT YOU NEED

DEVOTION
This passage is the most powerful key for believers. Jesus teaches his disciples how to pray and gives three important points for how to approach our Heavenly Father. He teaches how to start our prayer with worship; how to learn to receive the daily living word for our life, receiving the bread of life. He also highlights the importance of asking for forgiveness and releasing forgiveness through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. The whole passage is about a relationship with God through Jesus. We may use the intimate word Abba to speak to God who is eager, in contrast to the reluctant friend, to give good gifts to his children. Such a relationship leads us naturally to be people who are asking, seeking and knocking. This is one of the most powerful passages in the Bible. Our generous God will give his Holy Spirit to those who ask. This all springs out of our relationship with him. The passage highlights not only our friendship with the Lord Jesus Christ but that also we may shamelessly request and joyfully receive the Holy Spirit to empower and equip us for service. In this way we will walk from glory to glory, from victory to victory in our daily Christian life.

FOR REFLECTION
What is more important: what to pray or how to pray?
Are you the friend of Jesus Christ; does it make any difference in your life?
Are you willing to step to another level in this relationship?

PRAYER
Heavenly Father! I confess the poverty of my worship and I am willing to establish a prayer life according to your teaching through Jesus Christ—to establish a daily covenant with you through worship. Please teach me how to enter into the heavenly tabernacle through prayer to experience a daily fellowship with you. Amen! Soli Deo Gloria!