Lent is a season where we reflect on the depth of our sin and embrace the hope and strength found only in the cross of Christ. We seek unhurried moments of quiet to read Scripture, pray, confess, and repent. Take some time today to catch up on your reading, make space for prayer, and rest in God’s presence.
“You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.”
—John 15:3
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As I pray over specific requests today I am feeling overwhelmed with love for this community of strong, Godly women. This must be how God feels for his people, an overwhelming, consuming love ❤️
Thanks Gwineth52, your words touched my heart Indeed, thanks be to God!
I’m I’m so glad that Jesus has made us all clean. I’m glad I don’t need to make myself clean.
Thanks Morgan for bringing us around to that old favorite hymn … “nothing but the blood of Jesus”…The Book of Ezekiel is indeed a hard, hard read. That’s intentional, deliberate, unrelenting & demanding. We are meant to experience the tragedy of sin. Arrogant, detestable, destructive behavior by both women & men. But as our SRT mantra goes…”keep opening your Bible”…and our Lord of reconciliation & redemption meets us there. Entering in with heads bowed in humility & leaving with faces radiant in hope. Thanks be to God.
Claire B I saw your post from yesterday I will try and have someone post!! Thank you for praying ❤️❤️❤️
Amen Stephanie. I love this whole chapter in John, may we abide in Jesus. These grace days are so needed, this study is difficult yet I know it is needed! In my other study we were going through Hosea, the double dose of wrath was almost too much. But Jesus bore that for us, praise Him. I don’t see a ton of that highlighted just yet in the Ezekiel study but we know it is coming. Sometimes the focus on the sins and punishment makes me despair and want to give up, yet I know that is not the intent. Praying for you Rebecca and your son, Heidi for your family, Rhonda J for your niece. Sandi and GramsieSue , praying for your husbands.
Asking for prayers today please. Heading over the mountain to Reno to pick up my mother. Please pray for a safe trip and a harmonious time. I’m having some trouble being obedient in this. Thanks y’all. Will be praying for all of you as I’m on the journey (husband doing the driving).
It’s a beautiful day in the west. Bright and sunny reflecting off the snow covered lawn. I agree with you Churchmouse that it is an honor to journey alongside such amazing women.
I am a work in progress and will be until the day I die. I am so thankful for a righteous God that loves me enough to send His perfect son to pay the price for my idolatry, selfishness, anger, bitterness, indifference, impurity, and so much more. Because of His word I am clean. Every time I stray he pursues me and draws me back to the sweet sweet goodness of His embrace. Thank you, thank you, thank you Abba for loving even me. Thank you for Jesus.
Congrats Cindy Hanna!!! My prayers for all who requested.
I forgot to mention in my previous post, I got to FaceTime with Finley and mom, Monica, last evening, I was at a friends house at the time. My friend, Angie, has a pug and I showed her the dog and it made her evening. Then Finley and I sang a couple of songs together — ones with hand movements — they made Mom and Dad laugh (the songs are cute, kinda funny songs). They are trying to give her Tylenol and very small doses of valium to keep Finley’s back spasms to a minimum and allow Finley to stay still. Monica says so far it’s working — we have about 8 – 10 more hours to go before she can get up.
Good morning Shes. It’s a bright sunny day here, especially with the snow that fell last night (and covered all my blooming daffodils!). Lifting up everyone’s requests and asking for continued prayer for my son. He is feeling so hopeless and turned again to drink for comfort, which of course brings only more sadness. He’s living with my husband and me and we sat down with him and let him know that to stay with us he can’t drink and needs to go to AA. But I’m not very good with tough love so pray for God’s guidance as we handle this. My husband has been more than patient but it’s beginning to cause stress between us as well. Yesterday when I was reading our scriptures it jumped out to me that God had to punish people because they were so sinful and their hearts were hardened. I know that my son has turned away from God but would/could find forgiveness if he’d just turn back to Him.
Thank you for listening. This is breaking this mama’s heart, but so grateful to have Jesus with me. I do covet your prayers. ❤️
Here in the Mid Atlantic, we are having plummeting temperatures, blustery winds, snow falling down and piling up. Perfect day to snuggle under my blanket in my favorite chair and pray for all my SRT sisters. Thank you for this Grace Day where I forego studying and spend that time praying. The list is long but what a privilege to intercede, knowing God is already meeting needs and calming any anxiousness. I’m praising God for His goodness and His loving kindness. I’m thanking God that His mercies are new every morning. And I’m humbled by this community of believers who love Jesus and are His hands and feet. What an honor to journey alongside you all, following Jesus, until we’re all Home.
What a blessed reassurance today’s verse is!
It’s a beautiful Saturday morning, b/c I’m getting ready to go spend some time with my son and d-i-l and all my fur grandbabies. I have decided if you can’t have human grandbabies fur grandbabies are the next best thing. I now have feathered grandbabies, too — they have baby chicks, which I will meet for the first time today. My son and d-i-l live near my maternal aunt so tomorrow the three of us are going to see her in the afternoon — can’t wait it’s been a while.
Be blessed and do something or see someone you haven’t in done or seen in a while, sisters.
In agreement with your prayers. Searching. Also, I just saw the prayer request for the little girl with cancer. May God give her family peace and strength. May she be healed and be a walking testimony of God’s power, goodnesses and Sovereignty. Amen
The Lord speaks and I am clean. Not because I say so but because HE says so! Beautiful words on a beautiful morning. Celebrating our 34th wedding anniversary today in sunny Phoenix where we are vacationing. Have a wonderful grace filled Saturday SRT sisters!❤️
Happy Saturday She’s! As much as I try to sleep in, I still wake up early. I managed to make myself stay in bed till 6 AM. @TAYLOR, I read something here this morning that made me go back to yesterday’s comments. I’m so sorry to hear of your accident. Thanking God right now that you are safe! I’m old enough to be your mother. And as a mother I’m grateful that you are OK. After my accident almost 2 years ago, almost every time I get into now my new car, I pray for safe travels and for the Lord to keep me and the other drivers safe. My son and I still cringe at the site to where the accident happened but we are grateful that we are alive and the Lord blessed us with a new to us car. I’m praying for you Taylor.
Prayers for six year old Daphne that has cancer and her family with their new baby boy.
Thank you for always being there for me Jesus! I lift up all the prayers on this page. Father, help everyone and provide them their requests made unto you! I love you! Amen!
GM! Thank you for the prayers, I made it safely after a long 11-hour drive (Hard to believe I only went one state!)! But seeing everyone and holding my 3 mo. great-niece was worth it! I am so thankful and grateful for my family and the means to see them! We will leave in the early morning to continue to Ky to see my dad, and my 21-year-old will meet us there too! Prayers again please, for my niece’s anxiety traveling first time with baby, and snow coming through!
This study is so prudent right now with all the sin overflowing from our country as a whole and our individual lives. I hum the song “Draw Me Close To You,” never let me go, I lay it all down again, to hear you say I’m your friend. You are my desire….
Lord draw me close to you and never let me go!! It can be so overwhelming and downright scary when we see where the world is going and the judgment will come, and even the individual judgment before the Lord one day, but if we are repentant and stay near to Him, there is no need for fear. He cleanse us clean.
(On John 15:3) The Word cleanses. As we are the branches, growing from the true Vine, we bear fruit. Glorious grapevines along valleys in the wilderness. The fruit weighs down the branches, fruit lying in the dirt sometimes. Our Husbandman lifts, prunes, and washes clean. Our Father overseeing the vineyard. We are cultivated and cared for. The grapes are growing, ripening to perfection under His care. Loving grace and mercy washing me each day. Beautiful cleansing power in the Word of God. In Jesus. Happy grace day.
One of my favorite hymns, thanks for sharing.
Thankful for you all and your commitment to keep openning your Bibles, especially in Ezekiel. Praying the Lord will continue to open our eyes to sin and hearts to His mercy and grace in the Cross.
REMEMBER resurrection is coming!
John 15:4 is also a good reminder – we NEED Jesus! “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
Chapter 15 is an all red-letter chapter – so good.
Praying for:
VICTORIA E – safe delivery and healthy baby boy
RHONDA J – safe travels and for your family to see Jesus in you
LYNNE FROM AL & GRAMSIESUE – healing and recovery for your husbands, strength and faith for all
DOROTHY – Finley’s recovery and being able to stay still as needed
HEIDI – your niece and successful detox and recovery, that she will see the hope we have in Jesus. I was so moved by you texting outside the facility, shows her how much you love her.
SHAENA ELIZABETH – your son and the young man that was sentenced, that they would turn to Jesus and turn their lives around, that the sentenced young man would be helped and not hardened while in jail.
TAYLOR – car repairs and thankful no injuries
FOSTER MAMA – for whatever your life needs right now ❤️
MARTHA HIX – hugs to you this weekend
TERANY GARNETT, JENNIFER LOVES JESUS, TRACI GENDRON, CHANGED LIFE – and me. So thankful for forgiveness, Christ’s love and salvation, that the Lord has forgiven and forgotten those awful years of my life and yours. Even now, decades later, the evil one still whispers in my ear from time to time … remember when, wouldn’t you like to do that again … A resounding NO. Lord, help my memory to keep only that short list of sins that CHURCHMOUSE mentioned, and only long enough to seek forgiveness, and to always seek Your Word, Your ways and Your will.
Thank you Lord for always pursuing me, forgiving me and loving me.
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Thank You Jesus, for all that You have done for me, as if the Cross wasn’t enough, You continue to pour blessing over my sinful life. Father I truly repent for all of the wickedness inside of me. Give me a new heart, put a new Spirit within me. Help me flee from all evil and temptation. Thank You Jesus. Amen.
“What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
O precious is the flow
that makes me white as snow;
no other fount I know;
nothing but the blood of Jesus.”