Lent Days Post 2017 - Ash Wednesday

We are now stepped into another Lent in our lives, Lent 2017 is here and we are here today entering into the chamber of complete prayer and dedicated lifestyle.

Few aren’t following the lent, there are also many of my friends who aren’t  practicing this. They say, it’s not mentioned in the Holy Bible that we should practice lent and there is no need to do this.

But in my case, am not leaving this tradition away. My relationship with these lent days are always historic. Each and every year, beginning with theAsh Wednesday, I will keep some spiritual goals and took decisions to blog about it daily.

Unfortunately, all those past years were just much  talkative ones and less doer ones, this year, 2017, am going to do what I dreamed about.

Starting from today I will be writing 40 articles, each one daily. I don’t know whether am going to make this or not, but with the grace of Jesus, am up with this. I will be coming up with the inspirational articles and few amazing characters we are going to see in these 40 days.

40 days beginning from today, March 1^st2017 to April 15^th 2017, we will see a new article popping up. I am not a perfect person to preach, it’s all because of the kindness of the Lord God.

40 days aren’t only enough to keep us on track, but 40 days can make a huge difference in our lives. It’s just not these only 40 days we’re following Christ, but all our entire life.

We will also see the importance of the 40 days and the difference a lent can make.

Today Is Ash Wednesday, and this is a very first Lent Days post. I would like to start with the chapter from Isaiah and you will know why I chose this.

^{ISAIAH  53}

^gWho has believed what he has heard from us?¹

And to whom has ^hthe arm of the LORD been revealed?

²  For he grew up before him like a young plant,

ⁱand like a root out of dry ground;

^jhe had no form or majesty that we should look at him,

and no beauty that we should desire him.

^{3  k}He was despised and rejected² by men,

a man of sorrows³ and acquainted with⁴ grief;⁵

and as one from whom men hide their faces⁶

he was despised, and ^lwe esteemed him not.

^{4  m}Surely he has borne our griefs

and carried our sorrows;

yet we esteemed him stricken,

ⁿsmitten by God, and afflicted.

^{5  o}But he was pierced for our transgressions;

he was crushed for our iniquities;

upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,

^pand with his wounds we are healed.

^{6  q}All we like sheep have gone astray;

we have turned—every one—to his own way;

^rand the LORD has laid on him

the iniquity of us all.

⁷  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,

^syet he opened not his mouth;

^tlike a ^ulamb that is led to the slaughter,

and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,

so he opened not his mouth.

⁸  By oppression and judgment he was taken away;

and as for his generation, ^vwho considered

that he was cut off out of the land of the living,

stricken for the transgression of my people?

⁹  And they made his grave with the wicked

^wand with a rich man in his death,

although ^xhe had done no violence,

and there was no deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰  Yet ^yit was the will of the LORD to crush him;

he has put him to grief;⁷

^zwhen his soul makes⁸ an offering for guilt,

he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;

^athe will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

¹¹  Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see⁹ and be satisfied;

by his knowledge shall ^bthe righteous one, my servant,

^cmake many to be accounted righteous,

^dand he shall bear their iniquities.

^{12  e}Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,¹⁰

^fand he shall divide the spoil with the strong,¹¹

because he poured out his soul to death

and was numbered with the transgressors;

^gyet he bore the sin of many,

and makes intercession for the transgressors.

I hope these lent days will build a bridge between us and the Heavenly father, to have a connection with him and restoration of faith.

Let’s do this together.

Prayer:

Holy Father in Heaven, am here surrendering to you and praying for the very first time in this blog. My Lord! Assist me to utter those words which will make us more confident and help us to grow in the faith. We’re falling away from you because of the world’s attractions and the traps, we pray to you to deliver us from all those things. Also Lord, in these lent days, please speak to us with the Holy Scripture and the impact verses. I pray to you in the Holy name of Jesus Christ, Amen!