LENTEN DEVOTIONALS
LENTENDEVOTIONALSWestminster Presbyterian ChurchSpring 2021
WEEK ONEWednesday, February 17Ash WednesdayRead the Psalm below, letting God’s Word to be part ofyour breath. Pray in response to your reading.Psalm 130LENTis a season of the church year where we arereminded about intentional relationships with JesusChrist as our Savior. Some people will choose to omit atreat or change a habit during Lent. Others may chooseto add something healthy to their daily routine or allowfor a shift in their schedule for new spiritual disciplines,such as prayer time.This year during Lent we invite you to join us in prayingthe Psalms. The Psalms inform our own prayers oflament, praise and preparation. During this Lentenseason, use this devotional to read through some of thePsalms with intent. Give yourself time to pray over thewords. Use the simple prompts provided each week toreflect on how you may put the Psalm in your own wordsand in your own context.One of the practices which may be new to you is allowingGod’s Word to be part of your breath. This is a practiceyou’ll be invited to do a few times a week throughoutthe devotional, and while it may seem difficult at first,do not give up. Just as you breathe in and out each day,bringing oxygen into your body, you can also breathe inGod’s Word. When we breathe in God’s Word we alsobecome intentional about slowing down our reading,allowing ourselves to pay attention to the words. Breathein, “The Lord is my shepherd.” Breathe out, “I shall notwant.” Breathe in, “He makes me lie down.” Breathe out,“in green pastures.” There is no wrong way to follow thispractice, so feel confident in where your breaths beginand end. Enjoy this time with the Psalms and let thembecome part of your discipleship this Lenten season.2Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!O Lord, hear my voice!Let your ears be attentiveto the voice of my pleas for mercy!If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,O Lord, who could stand?But with you there is forgiveness,that you may be feared.I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,and in his word I hope;my soul waits for the Lordmore than watchmen for the morning,more than watchmen for the morning.O Israel, hope in the Lord!For with the Lord there is steadfast love,and with him is plentiful redemption.And he will redeem Israelfrom all his iniquities.ReflectionReflect on the Psalm, on Ash Wednesday, and yourprayers for Lent. Throughout this journal, there will beblank spaces like below for you to answer questions, makenotes and to write your thoughts and prayers.Thursday, February 18Read the Psalm below, letting God’s Word be part of yourbreath. Pray in response to your reading.Psalm 143Hear my prayer, O Lord;give ear to my pleas for mercy!In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!Enter not into judgment with your servant,for no one living is righteous before you.For the enemy has pursued my soul;he has crushed my life to the ground;he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.Therefore my spirit faints within me;my heart within me is appalled.I remember the days of old;I meditate on all that you have done;I ponder the work of your hands.I stretch out my hands to you;my soul thirsts for you like a parched land.Answer me quickly, O Lord!My spirit fails!Hide not your face from me,lest I be like those who go down to the pit.Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,for in you I trust.Make me know the way I should go,for to you I lift up my soul.Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord!I have fled to you for refuge.Teach me to do your will,for you are my God!Let your good Spirit lead meon level ground!For your name’s sake, O Lord, preserve my life!In your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble!And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies,and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul,for I am your servant.Friday, February 19ReflectionRead Psalm 143 again, either from this devotional orperhaps your personal Bible. Respond to the followingquestion, allowing your notes to become part of yourprayer time today.How would you pray this Psalm in your own words?Saturday, February 20ReflectionLook through your notes from this week. Respond inreflection below using the questions as prompts.How have you been challenged inyour readings this week?As a disciple of Jesus Christ, whathave you learned from the Psalms?3
WEEK TWOSunday, February 21Read the Psalm below, letting God’s Word to be part ofyour breath. Pray in response to your reading.Psalm 51Have mercy on me, O God,according to your steadfast love;according to your abundant mercyblot out my transgressions.Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,and cleanse me from my sin!For I know my transgressions,and my sin is ever before me.Against you, you only, have I sinnedand done what is evil in your sight,so that you may be justified in your wordsand blameless in your judgment.Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,and in sin did my mother conceive me.Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.Let me hear joy and gladness;let the bones that you have broken rejoice.Hide your face from my sins,and blot out all my iniquities.Create in me a clean heart, O God,and renew a right spirit within me.Cast me not away from your presence,and take not your Holy Spirit from me.Restore to me the joy of your salvation,and uphold me with a willing spirit.Then I will teach transgressors your ways,and sinners will return to you.Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,O God of my salvation,and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.Monday, February 22ReflectionRead Psalm 51 again, either from this devotional orperhaps your personal Bible. Respond to the followingquestion, allowing your notes to become part of yourprayer time today.Tuesday, February 23Read the Psalm below, letting God’s Word to be part ofyour breath. Pray in response to your reading.Psalm 43Vindicate me, O God, and defend my causeagainst an ungodly people,from the deceitful and unjust mandeliver me!For you are the God in whom I take refuge;why have you rejected me?Why do I go about mourningbecause of the oppression of the enemy?Send out your light and your truth;let them lead me;let them bring me to your holy hilland to your dwelling!Then I will go to the altar of God,to God my exceeding joy,and I will praise you with the lyre,O God, my God.Why are you cast down, O my soul,and why are you in turmoil within me?Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,my salvation and my God.Wednesday, February 24ReflectionRead Psalm 43 again, either from this devotional orperhaps your personal Bible. Respond to the followingquestion, allowing your notes to become part of yourprayer time today.How would you pray this Psalm in your own words?Thursday, February 25Read the Psalm below, letting God’s Word to be part ofyour breath. Pray in response to your reading.Psalm 32Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,whose sin is covered.Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts noiniquity,and in whose spirit there is no deceit.For when I kept silent, my bones wasted awaythrough my groaning all day long.For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.I acknowledged my sin to you,and I did not cover my iniquity;I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.Therefore let everyone who is godlyoffer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;surely in the rush of great waters,they shall not reach him.You are a hiding place for me;you preserve me from trouble;you surround me with shouts of deliverance.I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;I will counsel you with my eye upon you.Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,which must be curbed with bit and bridle,or it will not stay near you.Many are the sorrows of the wicked,but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in theLord.Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous,and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!Saturday, February 27ReflectionLook through your notes from this week. Respond inreflection below using the questions as prompts.How have you been challenged in yourreadings this week?As a disciple of Jesus Christ, what have you learned fromthe Psalms?Friday, February 26ReflectionRead Psalm 32 again, either from this devotional orperhaps your personal Bible. Respond to the followingquestion, allowing your notes to become part of yourprayer time today.How would you pray this Psalm in your own words?How would you pray this Psalm in your own words?45
WEEK THREESunday, February 28Read the Psalm below, letting God’s Word to be part ofyour breath. Pray in response to your reading.Psalm 150Praise the Lord!Praise God in his sanctuary;praise him in his mighty heavens!Praise him for his mighty deeds;praise him according to his excellent greatness!Praise him with trumpet sound;praise him with lute and harp!Praise him with tambourine and dance;praise him with strings and pipe!Praise him with sounding cymbals;praise him with loud clashing cymbals!Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!Praise the Lord!Monday, March 1ReflectionRead Psalm 150 again, either from this devotional orperhaps your personal Bible. Respond to the followingquestion, allowing your notes to become part of yourprayer time today.How would you pray this Psalm in your own words?Tuesday, March 2Read the Psalm below, letting God’s Word to be part ofyour breath. Pray in response to your reading.Psalm 149Praise the Lord!Sing to the Lord a new song,his praise in the assembly of the godly!Let Israel be glad in his Maker;let the children of Zion rejoice in their King!Let them praise his name with dancing,making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!For the Lord takes pleasure in his people;he adorns the humble with salvation.Let the godly exult in glory;let them sing for joy on their beds.Let the high praises of God be in their throatsand two-edged swords in their hands,to execute vengeance on the nationsand punishments on the peoples,to bind their kings with chainsand their nobles with fetters of iron,to execute on them the judgment written!This is honor for all his godly ones.Praise the Lord!Wednesday, March 3ReflectionRead Psalm 149 again, either from this devotional orperhaps your personal Bible. Respond to the followingquestion, allowing your notes to become part of yourprayer time today.How would you pray this Psalm in your own words?6Thursday, March 4Read the Psalm below, letting God’s Word to be part ofyour breath. Pray in response to your reading.Psalm 34I will bless the Lord at all times;his praise shall continually be in my mouth.My soul makes its boast in the Lord;let the humble hear and be glad.Oh, magnify the Lord with me,and let us exalt his name together!I sought the Lord, and he answered meand delivered me from all my fears.Those who look to him are radiant,and their faces shall never be ashamed.This poor man cried, and the Lord heard himand saved him out of all his troubles.The angel of the Lord encampsaround those who fear him, and delivers them.Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints,for those who fear him have no lack!The young lions suffer want and hunger;but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.Come, O children, listen to me;I will teach you the fear of the Lord.What man is there who desires lifeand loves many days, that he may see good?Keep your tongue from eviland your lips from speaking deceit.Turn away from evil and do good;seek peace and pursue it.The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteousand his ears toward their cry.The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,to cut off the memory of them from the earth.When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hearsand delivers them out of all their troubles.The Lord is near to the brokenheartedand saves the crushed in spirit.Many are the afflictions of the righteous,but the Lord delivers him out of them all.He keeps all his bones;not one of them is broken.Affliction will slay the wicked,and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.The Lord redeems the life of his servants;none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.Friday, March 5ReflectionRead Psalm 34 again, either from this devotional orperhaps your personal Bible. Respond to the followingquestion, allowing your notes to become part of yourprayer time today.How would you pray this Psalm in your own words?Saturday, March 6ReflectionLook through your notes from this week. Respond inreflection below using the questions as prompts.How have you been challenged in your readings thisweek?As a disciple of Jesus Christ, what have you learned fromthe Psalms?7
WEEK FOURSunday, March 7Tuesday, March 9Read the Psalm below, letting God’s Word to be part ofyour breath. Pray in response to your reading.Psalm 137By the waters of Babylon,there we sat down and wept,when we remembered Zion.On the willows[a] therewe hung up our lyres.For there our captorsrequired of us songs,and our tormentors, mirth, saying,“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”How shall we sing the Lord’s songin a foreign land?If I forget you, O Jerusalem,let my right hand forget its skill!Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,if I do not remember you,if I do not set Jerusalemabove my highest joy!Remember, O Lord, against the Edomitesthe day of Jerusalem,how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare,down to its foundations!”O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed,blessed shall he be who repays youwith what you have done to us!Blessed shall he be who takes your little onesand dashes them against the rock!Monday, March 8ReflectionRead Psalm 137again, either from this devotional orperhaps your personal Bible. Respond to the followingquestion, allowing your notes to become part of yourprayer time today.How would you pray this Psalm in your own words?8Read the Psalm below, letting God’s Word to be part ofyour breath. Pray in response to your reading.Psalm 146Praise the Lord!Praise the Lord, O my soul!I will praise the Lord as long as I live;I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.Put not your trust in princes,in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.When his breath departs, he returns to the earth;on that very day his plans perish.Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,whose hope is in the Lord his God,who made heaven and earth,the sea, and all that is in them,who keeps faith forever;who executes justice for the oppressed,who gives food to the hungry.The Lord sets the prisoners free;the Lord opens the eyes of the blind.The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;the Lord loves the righteous.The Lord watches over the sojourners;he upholds the widow and the fatherless,but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.The Lord will reign forever,your God, O Zion, to all generations.Praise the Lord!Wednesday, March 10ReflectionRead Psalm 146 again, either from this devotional orperhaps your personal Bible. Respond to the followingquestion, allowing your notes to become part of yourprayer time today.How would you pray this Psalm in your own words?Thursday, March 11Read the Psalm below, letting God’s Word to be part ofyour breath. Pray in response to your reading.Psalm 25To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.O my God, in you I trust;let me not be put to shame;let not my enemies exult over me.Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame;they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.Make me to know your ways, O Lord;teach me your paths.Lead me in your truth and teach me,for you are the God of my salvation;for you I wait all the day long.Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love,for they have been from of old.Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions;according to your steadfast love remember me,for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!Good and upright is the Lord;therefore he instructs sinners in the way.He leads the humble in what is right,and teaches the humble his way.All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness,for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.For your name’s sake, O Lord,pardon my guilt, for it is great.Who is the man who fears the Lord?Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.His soul shall abide in well-being,and his offspring shall inherit the land.The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him,and he makes known to them his covenant.My eyes are ever toward the Lord,for he will pluck my feet out of the net.Turn to me and be gracious to me,for I am lonely and afflicted.The troubles of my heart are enlarged;bring me out of my distresses.Consider my affliction and my trouble,and forgive all my sins.Consider how many are my foes,and with what violent hatred they hate me.Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me!Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.May integrity and uprightness preserve me,for I wait for you.Redeem Israel, O God,out of all his troubles.Friday, March 12ReflectionRead Psalm 25 again, either from this devotional orperhaps your personal Bible. Respond to the followingquestion, allowing your notes to become part of yourprayer time today.How would you pray this Psalm in your own words?Saturday, March 13ReflectionLook through your notes from this week. Respond inreflection below using the questions as prompts.How have you been challenged in your readings thisweek?As a disciple of Jesus Christ, what have you learned fromthe Psalms?9
WEEK FIVESunday, March 14Read the Psalm below, letting God’s Word to be part ofyour breath. Pray in response to your reading.Psalm 136Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,for his steadfast love endures forever.Give thanks to the God of gods,for his steadfast love endures forever.Give thanks to the Lord of lords,for his steadfast love endures forever;to him who alone does great wonders,for his steadfast love endures forever;to him who by understanding made the heavens,for his steadfast love endures forever;to him who spread out the earth above the waters,for his steadfast love endures forever;to him who made the great lights,for his steadfast love endures forever;the sun to rule over the day,for his steadfast love endures forever;the moon and stars to rule over the night,for his steadfast love endures forever;to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt,for his steadfast love endures forever;and brought Israel out from among them,for his steadfast love endures forever;with a strong hand and an outstretched arm,for his steadfast love endures forever;to him who divided the Red Sea in two,for his steadfast love endures forever;and made Israel pass through the midst of it,for his steadfast love endures forever;but overthrew[a] Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea,for his steadfast love endures forever;to him who led his people through the wilderness,for his steadfast love endures forever;to him who struck down great kings,for his steadfast love endures forever;and killed mighty kings,for his steadfast love endures forever;Sihon, king of the Amorites,for his steadfast love endures forever;and Og, king of Bashan,for his steadfast love endures forever;and gave their land as a heritage,for his steadfast love endures forever;a heritage to Israel his servant,for his steadfast love endures forever.It is he who remembered us in our low estate,for his steadfast love endures forever;and rescued us from our foes,for his steadfast love endures forever;he who gives food to all flesh,for his steadfast love endures forever.Give thanks to the God of heaven,for his steadfast love endures forever.10Monday, March 15ReflectionWednesday, March 17ReflectionHow would you pray this Psalm in your own words?How would you pray this Psalm in your own words?Read Psalm 136 again, either from this devotional orperhaps your personal Bible. Respond to the followingquestion, allowing your notes to become
Monday, February 22 Reflection Read Psalm 51 again, either from this devotional or perhaps your personal Bible. Respond to the following question, allowing your notes to become part of your prayer time today. How would you pray this Psalm in your own words? Tuesday, February 23 Read the Psalm below, letting God’s Word to be part of your breath.
Activities 1. Lenten Crown of Thorns 2. Lenten Calendar 3. Lenten Sacrifice Jar 4. Bury the Alleluia 5. Stations of the Cross craft or coloring pages 6. Lenten Bible Study for Children – The Life of Jesus 7. Make a Paschal Candle 8. Cover up all statues, crucifixes, holy images with purple
Welcome to the third annual Lenten Devotional! It is always a treat to read the entries that members of our parish offer for our Lenten Devotional. By creating this devotional we gather around scripture as a community to reflect on where Jesus is leading us this Lenten season. This booklet has been created to serve as a companion to our parish
We look forward to you joining with us on the journey of Lenten Guided Prayer. Jane Kuepfer, Lenten Guided Prayer coordinator Mennonite Spiritual Directors of Eastern Canada *We are grateful to Leader magazine for permission to use their Winter 2017 issue as a resource in preparing Lenten Guided Prayer sheets for 2017.
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Lent: A Time for Reflection and Growth How Will Your Bulb Grow? Lenten Devotions and Adult Coloring Wednesdays, through March 16 6:00-8:00 pm in the Forum Drop in and join Tai Zimmerman for Lenten devotions and adult coloring together as a small group. Each week a new Lenten spiritual practice station will be added to our small group time,
