Table of Contents

Day 1 - The Great Communion Blood Revival – Lou Engle 4

Day 2 - You Can Climb This Mountain – Lou Engle 5

Day 3 – Pray Ekballo – Lou Engle 6

Day 4 - Behold the Lamb – Jason Hubbard 8

Day 5 - Bridal Love Fast – Lou Engle 10

Day 6 - The Lamb’s Desire – Jason Hubbard 11

Day 7 - The Lamb’s Covenant of Redemption – Jason Hubbard 12

Day 8 – Revival Preceded by Prayer and Repentance - Sammy Tippit 14

Day 9 – If My People – Graham Power, South Africa 16

Day 10 – The Revival We Need – Oswald J. Smith 17

Day 11- A Deep Work of Repentance – Chris Ngai 19

Day 12 – Power of the Blood – Dean Briggs 20

Day 13 – Resetting Your History – Dean Briggs 22

Day 14 - The Great Exchange – Rev. Ann Low, Malaysia 24

Day 15 – Come Holy Spirit – Chan Ah Kee, Malaysia 25

Day 16 - A Movement of Faith for the Fulfillment of Jesus’ Prayer – Jonathan Fritz 26

Day 17 - Yeshua/Jesus Fast – Grant Barry 28

Day 18 – No Greater Love – Wanda Fost, Canada 30

Day 19 - Poured out like water – Dr. Rev Suzette Hattingh, Indonesia 31

Day 20 – Significance of Celebrating the Passover – Austen Ukachi, Nigeria 33

Day 21 – The Blood of the Passover Lamb in Retrospect – Austen Ukachi, Nigeria 34

Day 22 - The Lamb’s Blood – Jason Hubbard 35

Day 23 : A Different Kind of Praying – David Smithers 38

Day 24 – In One Accord – Thai Lam 39

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Day 25 – A Prayerful Generation – Dr. Glenn Sheppard 40

Day 26 – Will You Watch and Pray? Nathan Cole 41

Day 27 – Desperate For Heaven to Come – Chris Ngai 43

Day 28 – Fire on the Altar – Jason Hubbard 44

Day 29 – The World Prayer Assembly 2 - Daniel Pandji, Indonesia 46

Day 30 - The Lamb’s Supremacy – Jason Hubbard 47

Day 31 - The Lamb’s Gospel – Jason Hubbard 49

Day 32 - The Lamb’s Finest Hour – Jason Hubbard 51

Day 33 - The Lamb’s Bride, One Thing – Jason Hubbard 52

Day 34 – The Lamb’s Bride Part 2 – Jason Hubbard 54

Day 35 - The Lamb’s Selection Day – Jason Hubbard 55

Day 36 - The Lamb’s Fire – Jason Hubbard 57

Day 37 - The Lamb’s Surrender – Jason Hubbard 61

Day 38 - The Lamb’s Cross – Jason Hubbard 63

Day 39 - The Blind-folded Lamb – Jason Hubbard 65

Day 40 - The Glory of the Lamb – Jason Hubbard 68

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Welcome to the Global Jesus Fast 2022 40day Prayer Guide

We invite you to join us in 40 days of prayer and fasting between March 7th and April 15th.

Wherever I go and with whomever I speak, there seems to be a burgeoning expectation

concerning 2022. We discern this will be a time of trouble and upheaval, but also a pivotal time for
international breakthroughs unto spiritual awakening, and a global harvest. I believe the days we
are entering into demand a global response of an ardent pursuit of the Lord in prayer and fasting
and a pressing forward in an all-out challenge to the principalities and powers that seek to assert
their influence over the control centers of the earth.

Our theme is “Come to the Table, Behold the Lamb.” We are encouraging believers around the
world to prayerfully read through the daily devotional provided by different global prayer leaders,
engage in a Daniel/partial fast as the Lord leads you and consider taking communion each day.
We have provided a You Tube Playlist of songs focused on ‘Beholding the Lamb’ to help combine
your prayer with worship!

We also are asking you to consider praying for one strategic, unreached city each day during
these 40 days to be reached with the gospel of Jesus Christ. We have provided some specific
prayer points for these cities in the month of March and April, www.gopray.world

“May the Lamb who was slain receive the due reward of his suffering” – Moravians

“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might
and honor and glory and blessing!” – Rev. 5:12

Lou Engle
Jason Hubbard

gopray.world

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Day 1 - The Great Communion Blood Revival – Lou Engle
“When I see the blood I will Passover you” -Exodus 12:13
On a 40 day fast this past spring of 2021 the Lord clearly spoke to me “Next year in Jerusalem.”
This was what the Jews in the diaspora would say every Passover as they longed to celebrate the
Feast in their homeland Israel. I felt deeply that the gentile church needed to celebrate Passover
with the Jewsish believers in Jerusalem and Israel and that 2022 would be significant for
mobilizing intercession for a salvation of Israel, for America and for the harvest in the nations.
Pondering this word, I walked into IHOPKC prayer room. Suddenly the worship leader began
singing,”What about next year in Jerusalem?” Lights went off inside me. I began to be stirred by
the Lord to call 40 days of Daniel fasting centering on the global church taking daily communion
leading up to Passover and applying the blood to the doorposts of our national guilt, our own
hearts, our homes and Israel.
For years We have been dreaming about the coming of the Great Communion Blood Revival that
will far eclipse every other revival. A prophet dreamed he was taken up into the great cloud of
witnesses. There he saw a woman mystic saint with a treasure box. Words were rising like
incense from the box and were saying,”Lou Engle now has the gift of faith for the Great
Communion Blood Revival!” Again we received a dream in which Jesus was saying,”It would
honor my body and blood if every evening before the sun sets you would remember My Israel.
Friend, I I have that gift of faith because it’s in the Bible: Rev. 12:11, “They overcame him by the
Blood!”
With this in view we are calling the church to 40 days of fasting, as the Lord leads, in which we will
take daily communion and center on three Beholds.
Behold the Man. In communion draw near to Jesus. Behold inwardly his love, his wounds, his
union with you. May the blood remove the veil that covers our hearts.
Behold the Blood. This is directed to the Father. Here we will apply the blood to the sins of our
hearts, our homes, our homelands. Jesus we plead your blood! God says, “When I see the blood
I will Passover you”. What if thousands in communion would cry to God, “Behold the blood!
Passover us! Mercy!” Would not God bring deliverance and salvation.
Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. The last words of John when
Jesus first came into view was a command,”Behold the Lamb!” What if thousands, fasting and
praying and taking communion daily, began to command the lost in authoritative faith in their
neighborhoods and nations to “Behold the Lamb!” Would not veils be torn from their eyes. Would
not the lost begin to dream of Jesus, and be sovereignly drawn to him.
From March 7-April 15 forty days let us ascend the Mountain of the Lord and feast with our
Bridegroom and His brethren on Passover. May this day be a day the Blood of Yeshua covers the
nations and a divine prophetic pre-enactment of that great day when “On this Mountain the veil
that covers all nations will be destroyed.” Isaiah 25:6-8.

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Day 2 – You Can Climb This Mountain – Lou Engle
“No one climbs Everest without a mesmerizing motivation of passion.” - Lou Engle
“And the angel of the Lord came back the second time, and touched him, and said, "Arise and eat,
because the journey is too great for you." So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the
strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God” -1 Kings
19:7-8
“Immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness” - Mark 1:12
Elijah needed spiritual food, supernatural strength, and motivation to climb the mountain of the
Lord, the mountain of the 40-day fast. “I should fast'' or “I need to fast” will never bring about the
kind of motivation required to subdue the appetites of the flesh. Legalism and law will not liberate
you into the flight of freedom in fasting, they will only bring you under bondage and accusation.
“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God” (Romans 8:14).
The Gospel writer of Mark said that the Spirit of the Lord drove (ekballo’d) Jesus into the
wilderness to fast 40 days. It was the impetus of the Spirit that enabled Jesus to overcome the
most intense temptations to eat. This is why we write this journal - to create within you an
overpowering faith, a profound spiritual motivation, and an expectation for an unbelievable
breakthrough into divine encounter and fulfillment of promises. In fact, you would not even be
reading this devotional if God was not leading you by the Holy Spirit. It is our conviction that once
again the Spirit that drove Jesus into the wilderness is now driving the Church worldwide into the
wilderness of the 40-day Jesus fast because a great light is about to dawn.
The hope for the promised open reward that comes through fasting is like a mighty river that
breaks the dam of our fleshly obstinance to spiritual sacrifice. When an inward desire to fast
begins to move you, you can bet that the devil is not tempting you. No, the Spirit of the Lord uses
inward desire produced by prophetic inspiration, to drive you into a new dimension. Many times
there’s a build-up of the force of that river - overwhelming circumstances that nothing can move,
an inward desperation for change, a life debilitating addiction, a scripture bursting like a shooting
star before your eyes, a dream, a prophecy, even books that get into your hand. These are the
voices of the Lord calling you, “Fast for the unfolding of your new future!”
As you begin to climb this mountain, do not look at how steep the climb is, but look to the peak of
spiritual pleasure that is at the top of that mountain. I would encourage you to ponder and be
possessed by the promises, prophecies, dreams, yearnings, and prayer requests that are stronger
than the very desire for food. Live this fast under the shadow of a dominating prophecy. At the
right hand of God “are pleasures forevermore” (Psalm 16:11). Look to the rewards of fasting, not
to the temporary reach for Adam’s apple.
Take this moment right now to write down a list of what you want and need from God: a friend to
be saved, a disease to be healed, a calling to be heard, an addiction to be overcome, a job or
career to cross into, a people group to be won. Set your eyes on things above, not on things
below (Col. 3:2), for the joy that was set before him, Jesus endured the cross (Heb. 12:2). 40 days
is not too steep a climb for eternal pleasure, impact, and reward. Let passion be the fire for The
Fast!

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Day 3 – Pray Ekballo – Lou Engle
“The number of missionaries on the field depends entirely on the extent to which someone obeys
that command (Mt. 9:38) and prays out the laborers.” – Andrew Murray
“The harvest truly is plentiful but the workers are few. Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to
send out workers into his harvest.” (Mt. 9:38)
For 40 days we are praying this prayer command of Jesus which I believe is the most
revolutionary verse in the Bible for the activation of the evangelists and missionaries needed to
reap the global harvest at the end of the age. Notice our Master's thesis- the problem is not the
overwhelming harvest. NO! The problem is that there are not enough workers to reap the harvest.
The solution to the problem? A prayer that shakes heaven and earth!
In this single scripture, we have been entrusted with fuel for global revival. Matthew 9:38 packs
enough dynamite to spark a worldwide reformation of evangelism and missions, mobilize tens of
thousands of missionaries and reformers, and literally bring back the King.
I dare say the absence of a final, great harvest is not primarily due to the lack of sincere
missionary effort or commitment, but principally to the inconsistency, neglect, and passion with
which we have attended to this verse, for it is the Lord of the Harvest’s most elemental harvest
strategy. Beginning today, let all of us who read, make a radical commitment to take up Jesus'
command to urgently pray this verse with faith and passion, knowing His word will not return
empty but will accomplish the purpose for which it was sent.
In the original Greek, the word “Pray” that Jesus uses, is not the normal word used for pray, but it
is the word “Beg.” Jesus uses the imperative tense. It would have sounded like this to the
disciples, “I command you to beg me!” This one sentence should bring a revolution of intensity to
the worldwide prayer movement. The Greek word for “Send” is not the normal word used for
send, it is the word “Ekballo.” Which means to drive out, or hurl forth. Oh, what an intense
command. Lord of the harvest we beg you to drive out laborers into the harvest field!
Now read this one statement by Andrew Murray again and let it grip you as it gripped me.
“According to Matthew 9:38, the number of missionaries on the field depends entirely on the
extent to which someone obeys that command and prays out the laborers.” Depends. Entirely.
Depends entirely! Entirely!
If this scripture and Andrew Murray’s commentary is true and the Church really grasped its
importance, then overnight, Matthew 9:38 would become the fiery daily petition of millions of lips
across the planet.
Have I taken Matthew 9:38 merely as a suggestion? Have I trivialized the prayer that finishes the
mission? I believe an earth-shaking revolution is about to take place because the Lord of the
Harvest is once again breathing upon the prayer He told us to pray. If the first apostles were
commanded to pray this prayer before they were sent and as they were going, how much more
will the last apostolic generation be required by heaven to pray this prayer? Friends, we are
nearing the end of the story. The final horizon is coming into view and the stage is being set for
the return of Christ. “The harvest is the end of the age” (Matt. 13:39), yet still Jesus cries out, “The
harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few. Beg the Lord of the harvest to hurl forth laborers into
the harvest field.”

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Prayer
Lord of the harvest, your heart is shattered for the masses who are harassed and helpless, like
sheep without a shepherd. On this fast, we cry out for a heart transplant for the lost. We beg you
as you commanded us, to hurl forth laborers into the harvest field! Oh then we cry, “Here am I!
Send me!”

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Day 4 - Behold the Lamb – Jason Hubbard
“The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes
away the sin of the world’” (John 1:29).
This declaration was the highpoint of John the Baptist’s testimony: “Behold, the Lamb of God, who
takes away the sin of the world!” He will repeat it in verses 35–36: “The next day again John was
standing with two of his disciples, and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, ‘Behold, the
Lamb of God!’” This testimony caused the two disciples of John the Baptist to leave him and
become followers of Jesus. That is what John’s witness is supposed to do. He wants people to
leave him and follow the Lamb wherever he goes!
It is our desire to see a massive Lamb’s-awakening movement erupt in our day, where the Spirit
of God uses the Word of God to re-awaken God’s people back to God’s Son as the Lamb of all
Glory!
Jesus taught us in the parable of the ten virgins that at the end of the age, there will be a cry that
would go forth,
“The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. At
midnight the cry rang out, ‘Behold the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’” (Matt.
25:5-6).
Behold the Bridegroom! To behold means to look at or to see. It refers to contemplation or intense
focus upon the subject in both mind and heart. And this Bridegroom is the Lamb of Glory. He is
awakening his bride to be watching and ready for his return, ushering her one day to the marriage
supper of the Lamb!
We believe one of the keys that God will use to unlock the hearts of his people is the revelation of
the cross of Christ! In the contemplation of the cross, there is a profound revelation of the love of
God. This disclosure comes to the hearts of those who desire to understand this pivotal point in
human history. It is a well-spring of extravagant love that awaits the seeker who will linger at the
foot of the cross long enough with an open and expectant heart. This revelation is given to all who
seek Him with a whole heart, and whose desire is accompanied by a measure of determination.
As the apostle Paul wrote,
“For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified” (1 Cor.
2:2).
“May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been
crucified to me, and I to the world” (Gal. 6:14).
“For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with words of human
wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. For the message of the cross is
foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God” (1
Cor. 1:17-18).
It is the cross of Christ that brings down all barriers, and unites us together in love, for His glory!
As Jesus said,
“But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.” He said this to show the
kind of death he was going to die” (John 12:32-33).

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“And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its
lamp is the Lamb” (Rev. 21:23).
We believe it is time for the church to return to Christ as the Lamb of Love, the Lamb of Glory. As
we approach the end of the age, we must see and encounter the face of Jesus as the Lamb!
Twenty-eight times in the book of Revelation, Jesus is revealed as the Worthy Lamb! We need to
bury our hearts in his wounds until our lives are transformed from glory to glory, for indeed ‘every
wound bleeds glory.’
When Jesus died, a centurion took a spear and pierced his side. Out of the riven side of the
Passover Lamb flowed forth blood and water. It was a physical sign that his heart had ruptured.
His heart was so full of love that it literally burst open, both in the natural and in the spiritual.
Jesus literally died of a broken heart! Out of his heart flowed forth a river of God’s love for you and
me. The crimson blood of the Lamb washes away our sin and makes us whiter than snow.
His love was so strong, that even the grave couldn’t hold him back. On the third day he rose again
and burst forth from the grave, alive forevermore!
We believe it’s time to behold the Lamb of Glory, until our hearts are wounded by the Wounded
One! As Spurgeon writes, “When we see the Lord pierced, the piercing of our hearts begins.” i
Could the Holy Spirit be holding back the coming wave of glory until we are gripped with a passion
for the Lamb, the One from whom Glory flows? Maybe God is waiting for our hearts to be scarred
by the sacrifice of His Son as the Lamb?
Prayer
Father, we believe that the hour has come for your Son, the Lord Jesus to be honored, and
treasured as the Worthy Lamb who was slain! Even as the Lamb is in the center of the throne in
Heaven, we declare and decree that it’s time for the Lamb to become the center of the throne on
the earth! Father, we know that you are always looking at the wounds of your Son and we ask for
a Lamb’s Reformation in the church that would wake us up again to his cross, to bring your Son
the reward he deserves for giving his life as a Lamb!
Father would you raise up and send forth messengers of the Lamb, prophetic voices like John the
Baptist who will cry out, “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.”
Bring forth ones like Peter who will preach the gospel with such power that people will be cut to
the heart- and say, “What must I do to be saved?”Father, send forth ones like the apostle Paul
who will resolve to know nothing but Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Father raise up ones like John the apostle who will look until they see the slain Lamb standing in
the center of the throne in heaven, and then reveal him here on the earth!
Lord of the Harvest thrust forth ones like the Moravians who cried out, “May the Lamb who was
slain receive his due reward for his suffering!”
“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and
honor and glory and blessing” (Rev. 5:12).

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Day 5 - Bridal Love Fast – Lou Engle
“Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His
wife has made herself ready” - Revelation 19:7
Many years ago I remember Mike Bickle of IHOPKC sharing with me with such excitement about
the Global Bridegroom Fast. The first Monday through Wednesday of every month, the
International House of Prayer has fasted corporately with a specific focus of longing for our
Bridegroom Jesus and making the church ready for his coming both in revival and His second
coming. I believe those years of sacrifice have moved God’s heart and are a forerunner to the
endtime explosion of the global Bridal Fast. And will not Jesus respond with a mighty baptism of
love, a seal of fire that will purify and enflame his Bride.
And Jesus said to them, “The attendants of the groom cannot mourn as long as the groom is with
them, can they? But the days will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they
will fast. Matthew 9:15.
Jesus was saying, you are living in a 3-year dispensation, when I the Bridegroom, am with you.
But when I go, and the Holy Spirit comes, I will inaugurate a new era of fasting that will take
John’s fasting to an even higher level and intensity. The Church as the Bride of Christ will long for
him and his coming, in an even greater measure than John. For the Bride will love the
Bridegroom, even more than the friend of the Bridegroom. The Bride’s fasting will be the channel
for her ever-increasing longing for His Presence and Return. Fasting is the God-given flight
pattern into the ecstasy of love.
Maybe the catching up of the Bride to meet Jesus in the sky is because His love has so broken
the gravitational pull of earthly affections that we are drawn up. Maybe Jesus the Bridegroom, so
moved by the Bride’s love, can no longer contain himself and He is drawn down to her. Oh then
we meet together in the sky. Ecstasy!
For these 40 days, we are crying out for a personal and worldwide sealing of divine love on the
heart of Christ’s church. Recently the Lord spoke to me to call the Church to pray daily Song of
Solomon 8:6-7. “Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong
as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. Its coals are flashes of fire, the very flame of YAH.
It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot
sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly
scorned.” He spoke to my heart that this is the prayer that will prepare his bride to be without spot
or wrinkle before the coming of the Lord. This is the only place in the Song of Solomon where the
personal name of God, “YAH” is used. It is in one sense what makes the book a prophecy of
Christ and his Bride, not just a love story of a man and a woman. The coals that touched Isaiah's
lips with burning sanctifying love are the coals that will touch the heart of Jesus’ Bride, purifying
and sealing her heart for eternity
Prayer
Lord we cry, that you would create such longing for you and seal our hearts with a fiery love that is
stronger than the fires of lust, entertainment, and greed. Release a baptism of love to your church
worldwide during this 40-day fast. “Teach me to love Thee as Thine angels love, one holy passion
filling all my frame, the baptism of the heaven descended Dove, my heart an altar, and your love
the flame.”

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Day 6 - The Lamb’s Desire – Jason Hubbard
Jesus lifts his eyes to his Father in prayer and declares his most holy intentions.
“Father, I desire that they also whom you gave me may be with me where I am, to see my Glory”
(John 17:24).
Jesus strikes at the heart of our greatest longing to know that we are desired and loved by God.
Jesus was telling the Father that he desires us to be near Him, not at a distance, but close like a
bridegroom and a bride. The Bible begins and ends with a wedding. Our relationship with Jesus
goes beyond contractual agreement and faithful obedience. It is to be typified by fervent, ardent
love and longing like a bridegroom and a bride have for one another. He longs for a partner, not a
mere subject in His kingdom. In fact, at the end of the book of Revelation the bride of Christ is
crying out, “Come, Lord Jesus!” We are certainly the children of God, but we are also the bride of
Christ, betrothed to Him in love. The covenant from heaven’s perspective between God and man
is not defined as a service agreement but as a marriage covenant.
We love a king who will not sell out his people for wealth and power but who will humbly serve the
people even unto death. The movie Braveheart is a great example of this. We love a husband
who fights for the heart, honor, and nobility of his bride, even to the point of death.
Many times we push him away, but the statement of Christ from the cross is, “You’re the one I
want.” In Jesus we have an unwavering King and companion who will give up His life for love.
Beloved, even now, Jesus maintains a resurrected human body forever. He has forever joined
himself to us in love!
The Father and Son are in agreement. The Father wants to give his Son a bride and the Son
desires to have a bride, an eternal companion and voluntary lover! She would be in full
partnership with his leadership, adorned with His beauty, and seated with him in heavenly places!
As Jesus stared at the criminal, his eyes stinging from blood, sweat and tears, a river of desire
flowed from his heart, “Today you will be with me in paradise.”
Do you see him today?

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Day 7 - The Lamb’s Covenant of Redemption – Jason Hubbard
“Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd
of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, 21 equip you with everything good that you
may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be
glory forever and ever. Amen.” (Hebrews 13:20–21, ESV).
This eternal covenant mentioned in the book of Hebrews is called the covenant of redemption.
As Daniel Montgomery writes,
“In eternity past, God chose to save undeserving sinners ‘to the praise of his glorious grace’ (Eph.
1:5-6). Now he is on a global rescue mission, chasing down undeserving rebels and changing
their hearts so that they turn to him and freely submit to his kingship (Isa 43:5-7, Acts 16:14, Eph.
1:5, Rev. 5:9-10). By his grace, God transforms sinners into his beloved adopted children, filling
the bank accounts of their identity with all the goodness of his Son, sealing their destiny by the
power of the Spirit, and securing them on a journey that will not end until his splendor floods the
earth like waters surging in the sea” (Ps. 72:19, Hab. 2:14, Rom. 2:24, 2 Cor. 1:21-22, Eph 1:4-5,
13-14). xii
Peter shares with us,
“…but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was
foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake
of you. (Peter 1:19-20).
And John the apostle writes in Revelation,
“All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of
Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” (Revelation 13: 19).
At some point in eternity past, I can imagine God the Father asking God the Son to give his life as
a slain Lamb. From this eternal vantage point, I picture the Son as He slowly closed his eyes and
bowed his head. I see tears slipping down his face as he pondered this monumental request of
the Father. Silence must have filled the halls of glory…
He saw himself flung up on two stakes of wood, draped in naked, bleeding flesh. He saw himself
crushed with human sin and cast into the raging flames of God’s wrath and punishment. But He
also saw something else. He saw a bride, taken from his wounded side and washed in His own
blood. He saw himself rising and ascending to the throne, receiving a bride covered with His
resurrection glory. He saw a bride who would love him and would live only to bring Him the reward
of his sacrifice.
In fact he saw you, and he loved you even then; for the Bible says, “He chose us in him before the
creation of the world” (Eph. 1:4). Before you were even born Christ looked into the Father’s cup of
wrath and saw what would happen to you if He refused to drink it. The Bible says that all who
reject Christ “will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of
his wrath” (Rev. 14:10). But the Son could not bear to see you have to drink the Father’s cup of
wrath for your sin. He lifted up His head and looked into his Father’s eyes, love pouring from his
heart, crying with all his might: “Yes Father, I will go! I will offer myself as the Lamb!”

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I believe the Father is crying out today, “This is My Son! He will be honored for His sacrifice on the
cross! His blood will be honored on earth as it is in heaven. My Son will receive the reward of His
suffering as a Lamb!”
Prayer
I invite you to come and look into his eyes with all your heart and soul. Look into his eyes that are
like flames of fire…the irresistible blaze of his gaze! It’s a look of love! His eyes are towards you
today… look until the message of the cross burns into the tablet of your weak heart, causing it to
melt under the bonfire of his love. Come and look up at Jesus until you see the tears pooling in
His eyes and swimming down His cheeks.
Gaze at Him until you can almost reach up and touch the wet drops of blood spilling from open
wounds. Come look until you can feel the presence of God breathing down upon you. Breathe in
the richness of His presence until you are filled and flooded with God himself.
Let Jesus heal the deep, hurting, hungry places in your soul. His arms are wide open, his heart
exposed…bleeding…and hear him say, ‘Come near!”

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Day 8 – Revival Preceded by Prayer and Repentance - Sammy Tippit
“But tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high...” - Luke 24:49
(KJV)
Every great revival in the history of the Church has been preceded by holy, humble, praying men
and women. There is no shortcut to revival. If we’re going to have revival that shakes our
churches and our communities, we’re going to have to get a group of people, somewhere,
sometime, somehow, to pray. I’ve discovered that when the wind of God blows, it always blows
across a praying people. We can’t twist God’s arm to send revival, but we can get in a position to
receive it. And the position to receive it is prayer.
Perhaps my closest heartbeat to genuine Spirit-sent revival has been in the nation of Romania. I
started traveling there in 1980. I was a pastor in Germany when I went into Romania, and I saw
something I had never seen before...
There was a pastor who came to that church who taught the people to pray. He did two things: he
taught the people to pray, and he called for repentance. They repented of the sins that were in
their lives and sins that were in the church. They were broken before God and entered into a
covenant of repentance.
And the people prayed, and they prayed, and they prayed. And the more they prayed, the darker it
got, and the worse it became. God was preparing a people...
When the blood of the martyrs began to flow in the streets of Timisoara, there was a release of
the wrath of God on the evil Ceausescu regime, and a release of the glory of God on the people of
God. An estimated 200,000 people gathered in the main square. They were all atheists. They
were all trained from kindergarten to the postgraduate university level in scientific atheism. They
were taught there is no God. The pastor of the First Baptist Church stood up before the crowd and
began to preach. As he preached on the cross of Jesus Christ, a dunamis took place.
The crowd of about 200,000 people, all of whom were trained in atheism, began to shout, “Existe
Dumnezeu! Existe Dumnezeu!” (which translated means, “There is a God! There is a God!”) Faith
erupted in the whole population. This spread from one town to another town to another town.
As I walked on the streets, people who didn’t know me but could tell I was from the West, throngs
of people on the streets — not church people but people on the streets — would gather around
and would begin to shout, “Existe Dumnezeu! Existe Dumnezeu! Existe Dumnezeu!” (There is a
God! There is a God! There is a God!) The theme song of the days of revolution was a song about
the second coming of Jesus Christ. I’m not saying the whole country was converted, but there was
a visitation of God upon the nation in which the spirit of atheism in one divine moment was blown
out of the country.
Prayer

Pray for Christians to humble themselves and commit to fervent, persistent prayer for God to
make His manifest presence known, especially when things grow darker in the world around us.
Pray for a broken heart and contrite spirit among believers. Ask God to work so profoundly among
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Pray for genuine heart change among those seeking revival. Pray for transparency that results in
deep confession of sin and authentic change of heart and life.
Pray for a divine visitation of the glory of God that will cause even the hardest of hearts to
surrender to Him and declare that “there is a God!!”
[Excerpts from transcript of “God’s Power in Revival” by Sammy Tippit – sermon index.net]

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Day 9 – If My People – Graham Power
“If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and
turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal
their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV)
As we gather as believers from around the world in this significant season of prayer and fasting, I
am reminded of the words of 2 Chronicles 7:14 that have become my life statement, my anchor
during storms and the guide that determines every decision I make.
In October 2006 I had an encounter with the living God and He showed me a vision of three
waves sweeping across the African continent and then the globe. As the waters of this wave
covered the earth it created a tsunami. This was not a tsunami of drowning and fear but of revival,
such as the world has never seen. Across all three waves the words of 2 Chronicles burnt like a
flame in the dark.
The blueprint for living a life that is pleasing to God is so clearly defined in this verse. Let’s take a
look. God requires that you and I, His people, humble ourselves, pray and seek His face. We are
not to be proud and arrogant but to consider others better than ourselves and to look for ways to
serve others. The Covid pandemic has provided many opportunities for Christ followers to be His
hands and feet to a world that is reeling in confusion, loss and pain. If we are to meet condition
number two, we need to intentionally, daily seek His face. This may require a rescheduling of our
activities to include a daily quiet time with the Father. God’s last requirement is that we turn from
our wicked ways. This means living our lives in purity, ethically and with love and compassion.
There is so much evidence of a world in chaos. News headlines daily announce threats of war,
droughts, flooding in different parts of the world and the list goes on… It is obvious that neither
politicians, nor scientists have answers but God does and He promises to forgive our sins and to
heal our land, if we humble ourselves, pray and turn from our wicked ways.
As we join in a global expression of unity and devotion, partaking of the bread and wine as one,
may we behold the Lamb that was slain and remember that, though we suffer afflictions and grief
in this world, our suffering is momentary in the light of the greater glory that is to come. May we
hold on to the powerful promise contained in Psalm 146:4-6:
Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy! He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed
for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
May God hear our prayers, forgive our sin and heal our land!
Prayer
Father God, we come to you as your children, joining hands in this special season to celebrate
communion and pray for the healing of our nations. We recognize that we have not followed your
guidelines, we have not turned from our wicked ways, and we are desperate for your intervention
in the issues of the world. Father, forgive us for the times we have been arrogant or self-serving,
forgive us for our lack of prayer. I pray that Holy Spirit will keep illuminating sin in my life, so that I
may quickly repent, and turn from my wicked ways.
Lord, in this time when confusion reigns on the earth, we turn our gaze to You, beholding the
Lamb, and we remember Your promise of redemption and that You are making all things new.
Thank You for restoring hope. Be glorified! Amen

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Day 10 – The Revival We Need - Oswald J. Smith
In 1904, all Wales was aflame. The nation had drifted far from God. The spiritual conditions were
low indeed. Church attendance was poor and sin abounded on every side.
Suddenly, like an unexpected tornado, the Spirit of God swept over the land. The churches were
crowded so that multitudes were unable to get in. Meetings lasted from ten in the morning until
twelve at night. Three definite services were held each day. There was very little preaching.
Singing, testimony and prayer were the chief features. No choir, for everybody sang. No collection
and no advertising.
Nothing had ever come over Wales with such far-reaching results. (Unbelievers) were converted,
drunkards, thieves and gamblers saved, and thousands reclaimed to respectability. Confessions
of awful sins were heard on every side. In five weeks 20,000 joined the Churches.
In the year 1835, Titus Coan landed on the shore belt of Hawaii. In 1837, nearly the whole
population became an audience. He was ministering to 15,000 people. Unable to reach them,
they came to him, and settled down to a two years' camp meeting. There was not an hour day or
night when an audience of from 2,000 to 6,000 would not rally to the signal of the bell.
There was trembling, weeping, sobbing, and loud crying for mercy, sometimes too loud for the
preacher to be heard. Once while preaching in the open field to 2,000 people, the entire
congregation took up the cry for mercy. For half an hour Mr. Coan could get no chance to speak,
but had to stand still and see God work.
Quarrels were made up, drunkards reclaimed, adulterers converted and murderers revealed and
pardoned. Thieves returned stolen property. Sins of a lifetime were renounced. In one year 5,244
joined the Church. When Mr. Coan left, he had baptized 11,960 persons.
My heart cries out to God for such a manifestation of Himself…
How many of our churches are empty Sunday after Sunday?
Where is the hunger for spiritual things?
How many professing Christians are living the Christ-life before men?
Where are the persecutions that were heaped on the early Church?
How many souls are won through the preaching of the Word?
Where is the conviction of sin we used to know?
Ah, yes, men have forgotten God. Sin flourishes on every side. The pulpit fails to grip. And I know
of nothing less than the Outpouring of His Spirit that can meet the situation. Such a revival has
transformed scores and hundreds of communities; it can transform ours.
Now, how may we secure such an Outpouring of the Spirit? You answer, by prayer. True, but
there is something before prayer. We will have to deal first of all with the question of sin; for
unless our lives are right in the sight of God, unless sin has been put away, we may pray until
doomsday, and the revival will never come. "Your iniquities have separated between you and your
God, and your sins have hid His face from you so that He will not hear." (Isaiah 59:2)

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Prayer
Let God search your heart and reveal the hindrances. Sin must be confessed and put away. It
may be you will have to forsake some cherished idol. It may be you will have to make restitution.
Perhaps you are withholding from God, robbing Him of His own. It lies between you and God.
The trouble is not with God; it lies right here with ourselves. He is willing, but we are not ready. He
is waiting. How long will we keep Him waiting?

[Oswald J. Smith, The Revival We Need (New York, NY: The Christian Alliance
Publishing Company, 1925), p. 11-19. Edited, compiled & slightly modified for flow.]

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Day 11 - A DEEP WORK OF REPENTANCE – Chris Ngai
“Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may
come from the Lord…” Acts 3:19 (NIV)
“…without holiness no one will see the Lord.” Hebrews 12:14b (NIV)
If we truly want to see the presence of the Lord flood our cities, we must prepare the way for the
refreshing waters to come! As these scriptures clearly tell us, His outpouring and His presence
being revealed first depend on these conditions: repentance and holiness.
John the Baptist came to prepare the way of the Lord. His message and his baptism were both of
repentance. People from the entire region began coming out to confess their sins and to be
baptized as a sign of their repentance. He called them not only to confess, but also to turn from
their sins, bearing fruit in keeping with repentance. (Matt. 3:2-3, 5-6, 8) This heart preparation
allowed for the ministry of Jesus to be revealed and for heaven to draw near to an entire people!
Frank Bartleman of the Azusa Street Revival said this: “The depth of any revival will be
determined exactly by the spirit of repentance it obtains.”
Indeed, there cannot be a lasting move of God without a deep work of repentance among us.
When the great revival came upon Wales in 1904, over 100,000 souls were brought into the
kingdom in this mighty outpouring of the Spirit!
Leading up to the Welsh Revival, Evan Roberts delivered a message regarding the four conditions
for receiving the Holy Spirit that became a catalyst in and throughout this outpouring:
1. We must confess before God every sin in our past life that has not been confessed.
2. We must remove anything that is doubtful in our lives.
3. Total Surrender. We must say and do all that the Spirit tells us.
4. Make a public confession of Christ.
Are we ready to prepare the way of the Lord? For without repentance, there will be no times of
refreshing. Without holiness, no one will see the Lord!
Prayer: Read Psalm 139:23-24. Take time to ask God to search and reveal our hearts. Let each
heart ask: “Lord, is there any way in me that is offensive? Is there anything I have not truly
surrendered to You?” Do not rush, but allow Holy Spirit to bring to light everything He desires to
address. Then, confess your sins one to another (James 5:16).
After confessing each sin, ask God how He wants to replace each old way of seeing, thinking,
believing and living, with how He wants you to see, think, believe and live!
“Father, we are longing for times of refreshing! We ask You to release a movement of repentance
and holiness that would sweep through [your city or campus], that every heart would be
consumed with longing for Your presence! Let this people become an altar, and every heart a
living sacrifice, upon which the fire of heaven will fall!”
"Excerpted from 21 Days of Prayer for Colleges and Universities by Chris Ngai and
BridgeBuilders International, (c) 2021 by BridgeBuilders International, pp 18-19. Used with
permission.”

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Day 12 – Power of the Blood – Dean Briggs
“Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come…not by means of the blood
of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the
blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify
for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ…purify our conscience
from dead works to serve the living God.” – Hebrews 9:11-14, ESV
The One Thing that Purifies Your Conscience
Here’s a question for you: Could you actually live with a clean conscience in your daily life? To
answer, let me distill the quoted passage down to just the accented text: If the blood of bulls and
goats can sanctify, how much more will the blood of Christ not only sanctify, but purify us right
down to the level of our conscience?
Wait…clean conscience? As in pure? Innocent? Most Christians would tend to doubt the practical
degree of moral confidence suggested by Hebrews 9 because it occurs so rarely in their
experience. In fact, the average Christian co-leases their head space to Mr. Prohibitive
Conscience (“preemptive guilt”), though they don’t realize that’s his name. Instead, they feel
clever for co-leasing, thinking they’ve hired a private security firm to help secure their discipleship
efforts, when actually they are hosting a thief who secretly robs them of the very confidence in
Christ they most desire. Beloved, the guilt game is quite a racket! It feels strangely protective for a
simple reason, all based on works: when we do good, we feel good, and when we do bad, we feel
bad. Since we prefer the former feeling and dislike the latter, we adopt a generalized, anticipatory
guilt (because let’s be honest, we expect to do bad; it’s just a matter of time). This negative dread
of some random, future, uncommitted bad deed gets rebranded as a positive development in our
mind because (we think) it will hem us in from actually doing that bad thing, somewhere,
somehow…which means we’ll keep doing good and feeling good instead!
Simple, see?
Miraculously, we call this mixture of yucky feelings and pure motives a “clean conscience!” Since
doing and feeling are inseparable in our minds, a clean conscience for most believers is little more
than a wary, streetwise kid who lives a hard life but survives by keeping his fist clenched against
something even worse. Constant dread of failure is what we call victorious Christian living. Oh, the
irony. How clean can we ever feel when the dread of our behavior is greater than the reward?
Yet the writer of Hebrews remains emphatic: you can live with a clean conscience. How do you
get there. First you have to decouple certain ideas you have previously associated together. You
must know what can and what cannot achieve a consistently healthy state of mind. All of the
above predicates the state of our conscience on our behavior — either blessed and free or
condemned and guilty — as matters of obedience to the will of God. Thus, logic would say,
cleansing from a bad conscience requires good deeds. In other words, for the sake of practical
discipleship, Righteousness = Sanctification. We know that’s not true for salvation, but we assume
it is true for sanctification. Do GOOD things, don't do BAD things, and you can have a clean
conscience. But that is not what Scripture says. Hebrews 9 warns us that an everyday clean state
of mind is only achievable by the blood of Christ, precisely because it delivers us from the above,
endless cycle of dead works. If you are striving to “feel” righteous before God, you can and will
easily feel unrighteous. Beloved, no! The blood of Jesus is sufficient without your help! You must
receive what it affords because you can’t afford it. But if you will let it, it will liberate your
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Purifying our conscience from “dead works” (vs. 14) means forsaking any reliance on good works
as the means to achieve a clean conscience. Both good and bad deeds are rendered powerless
to measure our status before God. We have been graced with a new standard: only the total
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Day 13 – Resetting Your History – Dean Briggs
“During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their
slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard
their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and Jacob” Exodus
2:24-25 (ESV)
“The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the
beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of
Israel that … every man shall take a lamb … (and) shall kill their lambs at twilight … And when I
see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the
land of Egypt – Exodus 12:1-14 (ESV)
By now, the sons of Jacob have endured centuries of bondage. They are literally stuck in time.
Their generations are stuck. As children of Abraham, their promised blessings are stuck. Whether
they have sons or daughters, they will born as slaves no different than they, just as they were
born slaves to their own fathers. If God’s promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are remembered
at all, they surely seem bitter as snake venom. No, clearly God has forgotten Israel. In every way
possible — body and soul — they think, feel and live as slaves. Their spirits are broken.
In fact, the only hope of release from such a cruel world for any Israelite man or woman was
death; hopefully an early one. At least in the grave there would be no more lash of the taskmaster,
no more starvation, no more bondage. So the people groaned. It’s all they knew to do.
Generations groaned until one day, without knowing it, “from heaven the LORD looked at the
earth, to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die” (Psa.
102:119-120). Times were all the same until a time came that would change for all time how time
moved forward. Death was, indeed, the answer, only not as they thought. Just as in the binding of
Isaac, a different kind of blood would spill.
Imagine for a moment. The sky looked the same. The sweltering heat was the same. The earth
was just as hard and unyielding as before. Yet a great work of deliverance had been put in
motion. Something new was coming. Their groaning had been heard. After nine plagues, a final,
back-breaking judgment was about to be visited by Yahweh God upon the false gods of Egypt. He
will bind and break them — the gods, the nation, the nation’s ruler, pharaoh. It will be total. Soon,
Israel will depart the land of their oppression and shame with vast riches freely bestowed upon
them by their former slave-masters. In other words, what will occur will not just be a deliverance, it
will be a reckoning. A settling of debts. An entirely new day. In fact, it will be so dramatic, so
complete, the only thing that makes sense is to restart their calendar. It all begins fresh, right here,
right now. A new world has begun. Reset their months.
While salvation is preceded by many actions of God, it is enacted only by blood, so when the
blood of the innocent lamb is spilled, judgement is released in drastic measure not upon the
people of God, but as a verdict against powers of darkness on behalf of the people of God!
So it is with us. We have not been delivered by Christ into a better version of our old slavery. We
have been delivered from slavery, period. The blood of the Lamb is that powerful. It changes time
itself for us. We get a new beginning, a new life. Our former bondage is finished. We depart Egypt
for a Promised Land that is new in every way. New world, new day. New, new, new. Not old made
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Precious blood was spilled so you could be free. Reset your faith. Don’t live in accidental slavery
by under-believing in the total, drastic, time-resetting, bondage-breaking, past-liberating, ransom-
paying blood of the Lamb.

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Day 14 - The Great Exchange – Rev. Ann Low
“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)
Before the currency system was invented, barter system was the oldest form of commerce. It
involved two individuals negotiating to determine the relative value of their goods and offered
them to one another in an even exchange. The prerequisite for this system to work is that both
parties must have something to offer. This is very different from The Great Exchange God has
offered us – where Christ offered Himself for us, once and for all, when we are not able to offer
anything in exchange! How wonderful it is!
Ever since the fall of mankind in the Garden of Eden, we are all sinners who have fallen short of
God’s glory (Romans 3: 23). Our minds were darkened, unrenewed and we were constantly at
enmity with God. We were lost without Him, filled with hopelessness, fear, anxiety and worries.
Though some of us may look successful in our business ventures and vocations, we are all
wondering about in this world without any sense, purpose and destiny in life. What a pathetic and
despair life this is.
However, it is in such a state that God offered us The Great Exchange! It started with Jesus’ cry at
the cross, “It is finished!” Our many sins were put on Him and He became sin for us. He was
crucified on the cross for us and went through excruciating pain. His blood was shed to atone for
our sins. He paid the penalty when we could not pay at all. He is the perfect sacrifice accepted by
our Father. It is because of God’s great love for you and I that God made Him who had no sin to
be sin for us that we can be saints (2 Cor 5:21)! Oh, how great is His love for us!
With The Great Exchange, we became a new creation where our old self is gone! (2 Cor 5:17)
The new life He breathes in us gives us new vision and purpose for our life on this earth. We live
and move in Him and His image and likeness is manifested in us and through us. You and I are
God’s masterpieces (Ephesians 2:10), beautifully created and designed for His glory and purpose!
He bestows on us a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning and a
garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair (Isaiah 61:3). Oh, what a Great Exchange! How
undeserved we are of His great love and sacrifice! Isn’t it our rightful response to love Him
wholeheartedly, obey Him unreservedly and share about Him boldly?
Prayer
Heavenly Father we are so eternally grateful for Your grace and love that You lavish on us daily.
Your blood has spoken, You have saved us, You have freed us, You have forgiven us and You
have raised us to sit with You in heavenly places. May our lives continue to show Your glory.
Make us an instrument of Your grace, truth, forgiveness, righteousness and justice. Use us for
Your glory and help us to boldly invite others to follow You as Lord and Saviour. In Jesus mighty
name, Amen.

Co-written: Rev Ann Low, IPC / SEA Prayer Council, Jed Tin, Malaysia Prayer United Youth

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Day 15 – Come Holy Spirit, Ah Kee
“On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone
who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of
living water will flow from within them.”[a] 39 By this Jesus meant the Spirit, whom those who
believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus
had not yet been glorified” – John 7:37-39
In the above passage, Jesus promises that if we believe in Him, the Holy Spirit will be given to us.
The Spirit within us, is likened as “rivers of living water flowing inside us”. This gives a picture of a
believer who is not only fully satisfied but is also a source of blessings to others. This is a beautiful
& wonderful picture of a Christian!
To become such a contented & fruitful Christian, there are 3 simple conditions stated in verse 37.
Firstly, one must be thirsty. God will bless those who really want His blessing. He will not force His
blessings on those who do not want or don’t need them. One cannot receive and experience the
fullness of the Holy Spirit if one does not thirst for Him. If you think that you already have enough,
why should God give you more?
To be thirsty means you recognize that there is a serious lack in your life. You can’t go on without
quenching your thirst. Thirst is probably the strongest desire in the human body. When you are
thirsty, you will be just focusing on getting water to drink. You don’t care about tasty food or
beautiful sceneries or enjoyable hobbies & games. You just want to drink water to quench your
thirst. Do we have such a longing for the Holy Spirit in our lives?
The second condition is come to Jesus. Coming to Jesus is an act of faith and it’s a choice. We
move towards Jesus. It means we know that Jesus is the One Who can quench our thirst. We
also know that other sources of water do not satisfy us. They are not living water. We may even
have tried drinking from sources other than Jesus but after drinking, we felt cheated & unsatisfied.
Jesus is the Only One Who can gives us the living water – the Holy Spirit.
Thirdly, we must drink. Like coming to Jesus, this drinking is also an act of faith. It is an important
step to being filled with the Holy Spirit. You can come to the right Fountain of Water, but if you
don’t drink, you remain thirsty. When someone gives you a gift, you need to stretch out your hand
to receive it. You take it, own it and enjoy what it can bring you. If you want the Holy Spirit, ask the
Lord and open your heart to receive Him. It is a step of faith because we can’t see the Holy Spirit.
But we can ‘feel’ or ‘experience’ Him in our lives. He is the life-imparting Spirit.
If we regularly come to Jesus & drink, we will never be disappointed for we will be filled to the
fullest!
Prayer
Heavenly Father, I am thirsty for more of Your Holy Spirit. I present my body to You as Your
dwelling place, a temple of Yours. Spirit of God, fill me to the fullness, meeting all my needs,
satisfying my soul and flowing through my lips in praise & worship.
For Jesus’ Glory & His sake, Amen!

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Day 16 - A Movement of Faith for the Fulfillment of Jesus’ Prayer – Jonathan Fritz
“And the Glory that you [the Father] gave me [Jesus], I have given to them [Present and future
disciples], that they may be one just as we are one” - John 17:22
Unity: The Impossible Prayer
In John 17:20-23, Jesus prays an impossible prayer. Sometimes we gloss over the full weight of
what Jesus is praying, so let’s take the time to unpack some of the implications of this prayer: “Let
them [my disciples] be one just as the Father and the Son are one.”
Consider this about God:
The Father and the Son have lived in perfect unity from before the foundation of the world.
The Father and Son are not created, not temporally bound, and obviously not sinful
The inner life of the Trinity is the source of everything that exists! Creation flows from their union
God’s unity is essential to His nature—it’s part of His very being!
Consider this about human beings:
We are created beings. We are bound by time and space. We are also sinful. We die.
We are not God. God is infinitely higher than us in worth and glory.
Consider that Jesus is praying this for the Church in the midst of this current age, in the midst of
the world. He’s not praying for us to have this Divine unity in some future, perfected state (which
would still be unimaginable and impossible). It’s a prayer for the world we inhabit, the here and
now. And yet, Jesus is praying, in essence, “let created, sinful beings have the same perfect unity
that has existed between US from before the foundation of the world…Let people be one with
each other as God is one with God.”
Responding in Faith to Jesus’ Prayer
Let me share a little secret that I’ve learned over the years: Jesus gets what he prays for. What
He asks of the Father is going to happen. God the Father really likes His Son Jesus--He always
gets what He prays for, meaning that His Prayer is a Promise that His people will be one, as God
is one with God!
The Word of God is the ultimate reality in the universe. You cannot stop it. It will be fulfilled! You
can bet against it and resist it, but it will come from behind and beat all the odds until, steady and
inevitable as the rising sun, it rises in glory for all to see.
But there’s a funny thing about God’s Word—before it is fulfilled, it goes around disguised under
the name “Impossible”. Will we be able to recognize God’s word as “Inevitable”, in spite of its
appearance to us as “Impossible”? History is inexorably steering towards the fulfillment of God’s
promises, until the impossible future becomes our lived reality, our new normal. Now is the time
to position ourselves on “the right side of history” by agreeing with God’s word, and becoming part
of its fulfillment.
Faith is nothing other than agreement with what God says in such a way that we participate in the
fulfillment of His word. When by faith we say, “AMEN”, we become participants in that word and
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prayer and say, “It’s going be fulfilled and I want to be part of it.” During this Jesus Fast, would
you join me in a movement of faith, a world-shaking cry of “AMEN” that will agree with Jesus for
His prayer to be answered, for the Body of Christ to be “one as the Father and Son are one”?
Jesus, we confess that we are in awe because of your great grace toward us, that you would even
desire to share the inner life that you enjoy with the Father with us! How can this be? We’re
amazed by your generous promise “I am giving them my Glory…” Let it be, Lord! pour out your
awesome and uncreated Glory on us, our families, our congregations, and our cities. Pour out
your Glory, Lord and Let us be one!

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Day 17 - Yeshua/Jesus Fast – Grant Barry
A Love Word Spoken from the Father’s Heart
BEHOLD THE LAMB, HIS LOVE FOR THE FATHER, THE FATHER’S LOVE FOR
YESHUA/JESUS, THEIR LOVE FOR THEIR FAMILY AND THEIR HEART FOR US TO BE
RESTORED, TO BE MADE ONE. OUR LOVE FOR GOD, OUR LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER
AND HIS PLAN TO MAKE THE FAMILY COMPLETE!
THE MYSTERY OF ISRAEL’S AWAKENING
“Do not be ignorant to this mystery, Israel has experienced a hardening until the fullness of the
Gentiles has come, and in this way all Israel will be saved” (Rom.11:25).
Beloved, what if I was to tell you that the revelation to this mystery to awaken Israel has been
hidden during the Church age and is only now coming to light? Just like the mystery to establish
the Gentiles to the faith in Jesus was hidden from the Jews (see Ephesians 3:2-9). When Yeshua
went to the Pharisees in the temple courts and explained that He had all of His other children from
the nations who were yet to come in, the Jewish leaders could not see or understand (see John
10:16).
Except now, two thousand years later, the tables are turned and the shoes are on the other feet.
And the Father comes to His children from the nations as He looks to restore Israel that His
Covenants, His Promises towards them would be fulfilled. “As it is written, the deliverer will come
from Zion; He will turn Godliness away from Jacob. And this is My Covenant with them when I
take away their sins “(Rom.11:26).
What does Scripture say about this - Are not His Covenants to the Jewish people irrevocable?
(See Romans 11:29). Has the Lord not said that He will show Himself holy to the nations through
Israel’s Restoration?” (See Ezekiel 36:22-38). Does our Lord not love them the same way He
loves us?
There is a plan here to restore Israel and restore His Ekklesia/Church to complete us that includes
His first-born sons and daughters with both the remnant of Israel (Messianic believers – see
Romans 11:5) and those yet to be restored. And we may not have seen this until this time. Yet, it
is all in Scripture just as the promises were to the Gentiles. Have we not received mercy as a
result of their disobedience to release that mercy back to them? To love the Jewish people on
account of the patriarchs, draw them to jealousy, and never be arrogant thinking we have
replaced them (see Romans 11)? To cry aloud for their salvation for the breath of God to be
released into these slain that they may live (see Ezekiel 37:9-11). For who is going to reach the
Jewish people, if it is not us, His believing Body? Just as Paul writes, “How can they believe in the
one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them…
And how beautiful are the feet of those who brings good news!” (Rom. 10:14-15).
GOD’S JOHN 17 PLAN
What if I was to tell you that this plan that leads to the last great harvest, and to Israel’s awakening
will require Restoration first in God’s believing family. But beforehand that Yeshua/Jesus’s prayer
of love and unity in John 17 needs to be fulfilled through us so that the Father can release the
greater glory? Indeed, that this love between us will melt away the obstacles that divide His Body
and lead us into God’s end-time plans to see the fullness of the Gentiles and Israel’s salvation
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In this light, would we allow the Father to rebuild the spiritual walls of love and unity in our family
that the world would know we are His disciples? (See John 13:34-35). And now that Israel is
awakening, will we allow the Father to send His mercy to reconcile us in The One New Man
(TONM) between Jew and Gentile that Yeshua/Jesus created at the cross and resurrection?
Those who were near and those who were far (see Ephesians 2:11-22), to restore the Gentile
Church to the remnant of Israel (Messianic believers), and restore love and unity between all
races and tongues? To restore the former glory for the latter glory! There is a pathway here to
this reconciliation that starts with believing Jews and Gentiles that we must now begin to
recognize.
Prayer
“Dear Heavenly Father, I love you, I love You Yeshua/Jesus, and I love You Holy Spirit. I come to
You in the name of the Lamb and the Lion, and I ask You to confirm this word; this pathway of
Restoration that we need now to move into for Your end-time gates to open and your plans to be
made known. Father, that this Restoration in Your family between Your Jewish and Gentile
believing family is much more relational than we have previously thought; that our love for one
another will help to melt away the obstacles and divisions between us, and between all races and
all tongues. Father, please show us the way, in Yeshua/Jesus’s most Holy name, amen.”

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Day 18 - NO GREATER LOVE – Wanda Fost
“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends” -John 15:13
Who would you be willing to die for? Would it be your family—your parents, spouse or
child? Perhaps your friend? Would you die for a stranger, or for your country? Stop and ponder
this question for a moment.
It’s a hard question, I know. The truth is very few people would be willing to die for another. Even
if we were willing to die for someone, more than likely we would want to be certain that person
was really worth the sacrifice. Dying for an individual requires LOVE for that individual. Jesus died
for you and me. The reason was His LOVE for us: “Greater LOVE has no man than this….” Jesus
never stopped loving the ones who were crucifying Him. For a moment, try to imagine yourself in
His place, choosing helplessness before His tormentors, choosing to forgive the ones who were
directing their violence and ridicule at Him. Unbeknown to them, He was hanging on that cross for
them. “It was His love that held Him there until it was accomplished.” * Would He have done this
for anything less than love? Would you?
“In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation
for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another” (1 John 4:10).
I once heard a story about a group of prisoners in a concentration camp. Every day from dawn to
dusk they worked doing backbreaking labor shovelling stones. One evening as they returned to
their quarters, a prison guard counted the shovels laid against the wall. He turned to the twenty
men before him and said, “There are only nineteen. Who did not return their shovel?” The men
were confused, knowing each one had laid his shovel against the wall. Then the guard said he
would kill them one by one until the guilty prisoner confessed. It was then that a young man, a
believer, stepped forward. The guard grabbed him and killed him there before the others. The next
morning when the prisoners returned for work, they each took a shovel. There was one shovel left
leaning on the wall. It was then they realized this young man had laid down his life for his
brothers.
How can I know what I would do in such a situation? When Corrie Ten Boom was a frightened
little girl in pre-war Holland, her father explained to her, “Our wise Father in heaven knows when
we’re going to need things…When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look
into your heart and find the strength you need—just in time.”
Prayer
Heavenly Father, I know my love is not enough. Jesus, thank You for loving me so much that You
endured the cross. You showed me how to love. This kind of love isn’t something I can try for or
work at. It comes only from You. Fill me with Your overcoming love. Enlarge my capacity to
receive. Keep pouring Your love into me, Jesus, so I can continually pour out Your love to others
in the small things and in the more costly things too. Help me faithfully reveal to the world how
You love us! In Your precious name I pray. Amen.
*From How Deep the Father’s Love for Us by Stuart Townend, © Capitol CMG Publishing,
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Day 19 - Poured out like water – Dr. Rev Suzette Hattingh
My strength is like water that is poured out on the ground. I feel as if my bones aren’t connected.
My heart has tuned into wax, it has melted away inside of me (Ps 22:14 NIRV)
“…my courage has vanished, and my inward parts have melted away…” (Ps 22:14 TPT)
I seemed to me that I was in one of the worst storms of my life! Although spiritual storms are
normal on the mission fields, this time it felt as if my “boat” was sinking in the storm I was facing.
In desperation I cried out: “Lord, I am being poured out like water!” and instantly the Holy Spirit
spoke back to me and said: “You don’t know what you are talking about…”
I have been working for God for 45 years, and I was certainly no newcomer to the battles of
valleys and mountain tops, so for a moment I was taken aback, but soon it was clear to me that I,
indeed, had no idea what I was talking about.
Jesus perspired blood in Gethsemane. In desperation He cried out: “Father, if possible, may this
cup pass me?”
What cup?
Could it be that Jesus, who was sinless, could see a vision of the sin of the world coming upon
him in that moment? Could it be that, in an instant, He could see Eve eating the fruit in deception
and spiritual death settling over them? Could He perhaps hear the cries of Abel as Cain murdered
him? The sin of Sodom and Gomorrah? Did He behold the dark ages of the church as the
crusaders murdered thousands in the name of the Lord, right through to Revelations where the
martyrs cry out from under the altar?
Could Jesus see everything through all the ages, from the beginning to the end of time?
Is it any wonder that He was sweating blood?
Blood dripped from His body - from Gethsemane, via the garrison, the scourging, then via
Delarosa all the way to Golgotha. Blood dripping on the earth, paying the ransom with each step
taken. Every drop a declaration against hell, paying for mankind, and finally reaching a crescendo
at the crucifixion itself!
Psalm 22:14 clearly states that Jesus was “poured out like water.” The description for this
passage relates to water being poured out on the ground that cannot be recovered. It is totally
irrevocable.
Not only was Jesus stripped from the outside until his bones sticked out, but his joints were
dislocated. His flesh was stripped. He did not have the form of a man anymore…
On the cross Jesus disintegrated from the inside. His heart became like wax, melting into his
bowels. Everything inside of Him became like water, and when they pierced his side, water and
blood flowed out of Him like a river - His insides poured out like water.
Jesus was stripped from the inside and from the outside. Surely just one drop of that blood was
enough to save this world, but Christ gave it all. His heart melted into his bowels. He was poured
out like water.
He became the River of life that flows throughout the ages.
On that cross hung an empty shell. Nothing was held back when He paid for spirit, soul, and body.
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The blood of Abel called for righteousness and revenge, but the blood of Jesus calls for mercy
and grace.
Now, place your loved one in that river of mercy and grace as your pray for their salvation. It is
your right because it was paid for when Jesus’ heart become wax so that every heart of stone can
melt into the river of life.
Hear him say to you: “Arise [from spiritual depression to a new life], shine [be radiant with the
glory and brilliance of the Lord]; for your light has come, And the glory and brilliance of the Lord
has risen upon you.” Isaiah 60:1 (AMP Classic)
Prayer
Father, your Son has been stripped and emptied out so that I can have fullness of joy. Today I
yield all that I am and all that I have unto you! I arise and take that which you have paid for in full
as my right and inheritance! I declare a healed spirt, soul and body in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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Day 20 – Signifiance of Celebrating the Passover – Austen Ukachi
Passover commemorates the Biblical story of the Exodus, where God freed the Israelites from
slavery in Egypt. The story did not begin and end with the freeing of the children of Israel, it had
several elements to it which have symbolic importance to Christian believers. A look at these
elements will explain why Christians have to celebrate the Passover in this time.
There was the Seder, the traditional dinner that Jews partake of as part of Passover. The Hebrew
word Seder means “order.” The Passover meal has a specific order in which food is eaten,
prayers are recited, and songs are sung. Each item on the Passover plate has a specific historical
meaning related to the exodus of the Jews from Egypt and their freedom from slavery. Today, for
believers who are not Jews, we celebrate the Passover by taking the communion. Each time we
do so, it reminds us of the past, the historical deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt. Much more,
it reminds us of the present, the importance of the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. Like all the Old
Testament Jewish Feasts, the Passover Feast was a foreshadowing of Christ’s atoning work on
the cross.
Next, was the sacrifice of the paschal lamb. The Passover lamb was the animal God directed the
Israelites to use as a sacrifice in Egypt on the night God struck down the firstborn sons. The
slaying of the Passover lamb and the applying of the blood to doorposts of the houses (Exodus
12:11-13) is a beautiful picture of Christ’s atoning work on the cross. Those for whom He died are
covered by His blood, protecting us from the angel of (spiritual) death. The blood highlights the
importance of the blood of Jesus Christ to us today. 1 Corinthians 5:7 identifies Jesus Christ as
our Passover.
Then, there is freeing of the children of Israel from captivity after a period of 430 years of slavery.
That deliverance symbolically represents our redemption and deliverance from bondage by the
Lord Jesus Christ. As Hebrews 2:14-15 states, “Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of
flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him
who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were
all their lifetime subject to bondage. (NKJV).
The Passover phrase states, “Let my people go that they may serve me.” Israel was set free so
that they would serve God in the wilderness. But unfortunately, many of them did not serve him.
Passover reminds us that we also have been set free from bondage and sin so that we may serve
God and serve one another in love.
“In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you
the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. If your gift is serving
others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well. If your gift is to encourage others, be
encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the
responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly.”
(Romans 12:6-8 NLT).
This year, we celebrate the Passover let us remember that we are saved to serve. It is precisely
for the above reasons that we re-enact the Passover feast in our time

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Day 21 – The Blood of the Passover Lamb in Retrospect – Austen Ukachi
The shed blood of the Passover lamb which symbolized the blood to be shed by the coming
Messiah was key to the deliverance of the children of Israel from Egypt. The sacrificial lamb of
Passover symbolized the Son of God, who would take upon Himself the role of the sacrificial
Lamb of God (John 1:29).
The sacrificial blood, sprinkled by the bunch of hyssop, represented a separation and a protection
of Israel against the spirit of death that brought havoc upon Egypt that night. The blood protected
the people inside their homes against the plague of death that struck a people who practiced
idolatry.
Today, whenever we re-enact the Passover, the blood of the lamb reminds us of the many
benefits we have in Jesus Christ.
We are Forgiven by his blood. You and I have been forgiven through the blood that Jesus shed
when He gave up His life. “Without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness” (Hebrews 9:22
nasb).
We are cleansed by his blood. Our consciences have been washed by the blood of Christ Jesus
because we have truly been purified from all sins. “But if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in
the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from
all sin” (1 John 1:7).
We are redeemed by his blood. We have been redeemed from the clutches of the powers of
darkness. We are no longer forced to live in the dark, because we have been transferred into the
kingdom of light Ephesians 1:7
We are justified by his blood. We are also justified by the blood of Jesus. “For He made Him who
knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2
Corinthians 5:21).
We are sanctified by his blood. Each believer is a special vessel set apart for God. Only Jesus’s
blood can make this possible. “By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the
body of Jesus Christ once for all.” (Hebrews 10:10 - NKJV).
We have peace by his blood. Because of Jesus’s blood, we can have perfect peace. “It was
through what his Son did that God cleared a path for everything to come to him—all things in
heaven and on earth—for Christ’s death on the cross has made peace with God for all by his
blood” (Colossians 1:20 TLB).
We have access into his presence by the blood. Now, you can enter the most holy throne room of
heaven because of the blood. “And so, dear brothers, now we may walk right into the very Holy of
Holies, where God is, because of the blood of Jesus” (Hebrews 10:19 TLB).
Thus, the blood of Passover lamb is beyond a mere symbolic gesture. It represents the very life of
the believer today. It reminds us of the victory we have through the blood of Jesus. This is why we
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Day 22 - The Lamb’s Blood – Jason Hubbard
The death of Jesus is the epicenter of God's glorious revelation of triumph over the march of
death in the course of human history. In one movement in His own body, Jesus halted the
cosmos' spiral into chaos and eternal oblivion. He turned it around. As His flesh was torn open
and His blood was loosed, the power of its perfection entered the cosmos and brought the gears
of sin and cursing grinding to a halt. The way to the Father was torn open and now, blood- bathed,
no man can shut it!
Hearts transformed by the power of His blood join into the epic chain and emit an ever- increasing
wave of His power. The blood breaks open the bars of sin's prison and sets the captive free. With
it explosive power is multiplied and loosed in testimony of what He has done. This perpetual
motion—the release of the light and heat of Calvary—is living and unfolding in increasing glory
down through every succeeding generation. It is the assurance that the whole earth shall be filled
with His glory. The cross remains. It is not a onetime event of history that has ceased to surround
us in its efficacy. It suffuses the very atmosphere of invisible and visible realms with the power of
salvation and the treasure of resurrection from the dead! The cross is the epicenter of glory from
before the foundations of this world and the creation of the human race until the Lamb appears. If
a man should glory let him glory in the Cross.
“Are you downcast? Look to the Cross! Are you rejoicing? Look to the Cross! Do you seek a
compass? The Cross points the way. Are you weighed down? Let the Cross lift you up: A yoke
that breaks every other yoke. A bond that looses every bondage. An ensign that rises above the
highest mountain of opposition and is planted immovable in grace in the miry depth of the lowest
chasm of suffering. Let us say with the hymnist, “In the Cross, in the Cross, be my glory ever."”
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Edith Stein, a modern saint who voluntarily revealed her Jewish identity in order to share the love
of Christ in the midst of the horrors of the Holocaust concentration camps, writes in her
meditation, The Love of the Cross,
“The sight of the world in which we live, the need and misery, and an abyss of human malice,
again and again dampens jubilation over the victory of light. The world is still deluged by mire, and
still but a small flock has escaped from it to the highest mountain peaks. The battle between
Christ and the Antichrist is not yet over. The followers of Christ have their place in this battle, and
their chief weapon is the Cross. The lovers of the Cross, whom He has awakened and will always
continue to awaken anew in the changeable history of the struggling church, these are His allies
at the end of time.” xxx
The Finished Work of the Blood of the Lamb
God commanded the priests of Israel to sacrifice two offerings daily, one in the morning, at the 3rd
hour which was 9:00 am and one at the ninth hour of the day which was 3:00 pm. Jesus was hung
on the cross at the exact time the priests were sacrificing the morning burnt offering. At 3:00 pm
the Passover Lamb, the Lord Jesus was slain, as Jesus breathed his last! On Day of Atonement,
the high priest would declare after the evening sacrifice, “It is finished!” Jesus our High Priest,
roars forth with every ounce left in his physical being, “It is finished!” This statement literally
meant, “Paid in full!” Jesus purchased us and brought us into his glorious inheritance! Through the
shed blood of the Lamb, we now have these precious promises that are 'Yes and Amen' in Christ!

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We have protection under the covering of the blood.
“The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will
pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.”
(Exodus 12:13, ESV).
We have salvation, forgiveness and redemption in the blood.
“Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood
there is no forgiveness of sins.” (Hebrews 9:22, ESV).
“For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins”
(Matthew 26:28, ESV).
“In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the
riches of God’s grace” (Ephesians 1:7, NIV).
There is life, healing, and provision in the blood.
“But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that
brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5, NIV).
“He also brought them out with silver and gold, And there was none feeble (sick) among His
tribes.” (Psalm 105:37, NKJV).
There is cleansing in the blood.
“But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood
of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7, NKJV).
There is justification in the blood.
“Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through
Him” (Romans 5:9, NKJV).
There is sanctification in the blood.
“Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the
gate” (Hebrews 13:12, NKJV).
There is peace under the covering of the blood.
“For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all
things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace
through the blood of His cross” (Colossians 1:19-20, NKJV).
There is washing in the blood.
“…and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the
kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood”
(Revelation 1:5, NKJV).
There is overcoming in the power of the blood of the Lamb.
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did
not love their lives to the death” (Revelation 12:11, NKJV).

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There is accessibility in the blood, allowing us into the presence of God.
“Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus”
(Hebrews 10:19, NKJV).
Therefore, let’s declare by faith these glorious promises…
Today I testify personally to what the Blood of Jesus does for me.
Through the Blood of Jesus I am redeemed out of the hand of the devil.
Through the Blood of Jesus all my sins are forgiven.
Through the Blood of Jesus I am justified, made righteous, just as if I had never sinned.
Through the Blood of Jesus I am sanctified, made holy, set apart to God. My body is a temple of
the Holy Spirit, redeemed, cleansed, justified and sanctified by the Blood of Jesus.
Through the Blood of Jesus every curse for disobedience is broken.
Through the Blood of Jesus every blessing of obedience is mine!
Through the Blood of Jesus the way to perpetual communion with the Father has been opened
and no man can shut it.
Through the Blood of Jesus I am heir and possessor of all the riches of my Father's eternal
Kingdom.
The Blood of Jesus speaks for me today from the mercy seat of God's throne in Heaven.
Therefore, the devil has no place in me, no power over me, no unsettled claims against me.
The song of the Lamb surrounds me today with eternal victory and joy.
I overcome the world, the flesh and the devil through the Blood of Jesus!

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Day 23 – A Different Kind of Praying – David Smithers
“If you ask anything in My name, I will do it” John 14:14 (NKJV)
Prayer proves the promises of God. Unlike anything else, answered prayers are living proof that
God is our Father and King. God sovereignly rules everything in His Kingdom by the laws of
asking and receiving. King Jesus invites us, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives” (Matt. 7:7-8). This
red-letter promise still stands and dares to be proven.
But what kind of praying proves God’s revival promises — What does revival asking look like?
James 5:16-18 says, “Elijah prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain… Then he
prayed again, and the heavens poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.” Revival prayers are
hungry prayers—They chase hard after God’s presence and refuse to give up until Heaven comes
down! 1 Kings 18:41-45 tells us that Elijah prayed repeatedly, not once, not twice, but seven times
before the rains came. Revival prayer doesn’t stop until God says stop. Like everything in God’s
Kingdom, our praying must be done earnestly and repeatedly, with all our heart, soul, and
strength (Deut. 4:29, Deut. 6:5).
True revival praying is more than just engaging God with artwork, music or dance. It’s more than
convenient Daniel fasts or quick visits to the prayer-room. The need of the hour demands a
different and deeper kind of praying. We need the heartache and travail of the old revival
weepers. It’s time to stop the ministry treadmill, and come down off our platforms and stages and
learn how to wait on God again! Some say such methods are only for the faithless and fearful. But
Jesus never struggled with fear or unbelief, yet He often tarried long through the night with tears
and fervent cries. Hebrews 5:7 says, “He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and
tears.”
Jesus prayed like no one else has ever prayed, because His heart was broken by the eternal
needs of the whole world. Jesus wept over multitudes of lost souls all rushing toward Hell. While
we freely weep for ourselves, we have no tears for our lost and sin-sick generation! Today, Jesus
sees the peril and pain of our nation, but He doesn't turn away or hide His eyes. No, He sees it all
and weeps, and wonders, where are the intercessors? Where are the ones who care and hurt
enough to stand in the gap, and keep on asking until the answer comes? Jesus says, “Ask Me
and I will answer you!”
PRAYER
● Pray specifically, so you can clearly recognize when and how the answer comes.
● Pray with an urgency that is consistent with the need of the hour.
● Ask, seek and knock until God’s revival promise fully comes.

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Day 24 – In One Accord – Thai Lam
“These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women,
and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers” Acts 1:14 (NASB)
In Acts 1, when Jesus told His disciples to wait together for the promise of the Father (Acts 1:4,8),
He called them to move in together and embrace a lifestyle of fervent prayer until they saw the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit. These men and women who not too long before were quarreling,
jockeying for position, and falling asleep at late-night prayer meetings were now “with one mind
continually devoting themselves to prayer”.
The Greek word for “with one mind,” homothymadon, is also translated “together” or “in one
accord.” Homothymadon describes the power of deep, unanimous agreement and how the Lord
moves when there is unity and oneness in prayer, fellowship, worship, ministry, teaching and
leadership (Acts 1:14; 2:46; 4:24; 5:12; 8:6; 15:25).
I see three key elements of homothymadon family here:
The consecrated life together
The shared life together
The poured-out life together
The disciples learned how to live Christ-centered lives in Christ-centered community–together.
They learned how to selflessly pursue the Lord together; how to enjoy each other, be vulnerable,
and struggle together; and how to give themselves sacrificially in prayer, service, and ministry
together.
The ten days in the upper room leading up to Pentecost was an internship in which they learned
to grow in homothymadon family in faith, life and mission. The disciples’ journey to becoming a
family of one heart and mind in Acts 1 is almost as significant as the outpouring of the Holy Spirit
in Acts 2.
Today, we are called to this same reality: to be a praying family bound to each other in the Spirit
of God and contending for another great awakening in our day.
[Excerpt from article “Revival is Family” by Thai Lam from World Changer Magazine, 3rd Ed, pp.
90-91]
Prayer
Ask the Father for vision of what it would look like to be an “upper room” praying family in your
community and “in one accord” for His promises and purposes for our day.

Ask the Father for faith, persistence and perseverance to be “continually devoted to prayer” for
revival and awakening in your city and nation.

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Day 25 - A Prayerful Generation - Revival on College Campuses – Dr. Glenn Sheppard
“Lord, teach us to pray...” Luke 11:1 (NIV)
Why is prayer necessary for revival?
In The Necessity of Prayer, E.M. Bounds says, “Prayer is the contact of a living soul with God. In
prayer, God stoops to kiss man, to bless man and to aid man in everything that God can devise or
man can need.”
Surely, the disciples saw the power of prayer and the priority of prayer as they followed Jesus. He
rose before day to pray and withdrew from them at times to be alone with the Father in prayer.
Seeing the importance Christ placed on prayer, it is understandable why they asked, “Lord teach
us to pray.” (Luke 11:1)
And teach them to pray He did, using the Lord’s Prayer as a model. Later in the book of Acts, we
see the disciples’ dependence on prayer and the God-glorifying results of such devoted prayer. In
Acts 4, for example, Peter, John, and the other disciples prayed together and saw an
extraordinary move of God in three ways:

They experienced the presence of God (Acts 4:31 – “the place where they were meeting was
shaken”).
They received the power of God (Acts 4:31 – “they were all filled with the Holy Spirit).
They achieved the purposes of God (Acts 4:31 – “they spoke the word of God boldly”).
Yes, the result of their fervent prayers was a massive move of God that impacted the course of
history!
But the power of prayer doesn’t end with the book of Acts. Surely, even in the past few decades
we have seen the power of fervent prayer that results in revival–yes, revival on our college
campuses!
For example, in 1970 in Wilmore, Kentucky, a revival that continues burning 50 years later began
with a small group of college students who consistently prayed. The Asbury Revival, from a small
and simple beginning, swept across campuses and touched the lives of thousands of young
people. Around this same time, the “Jesus Movement” made front page news in national media.
So impactful was this movement that today many Christian leaders trace their own revival
experience back to the Asbury Revival — and to that small group of students who prayed!
So…can God do the same today with our prayers as He did centuries and decades ago with
these prayers?
The answer is a resounding yes.
Prayer
“Oh God, we come into your presence desperately crying out to you, “Lord, do it again!” You are
God of the impossible, and we trust You to bring revival to our college campuses!
“Teach us to pray fervently, passionately, and perseveringly, as others have in the past. Teach us
to pray like You, for the things that are on Your heart. Teach us to pray with faith, knowing that
You can do all things”
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Day 26 – Will you Watch and Pray? Nathan Cole
“Therefore, we are ambassadors of Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on
behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God” 2 Corinthians 5:20 (ESV)
Awakening is not a new and novel idea. Throughout history there have been Spirit-led seasons of
prodigious kingdom expansion, which can only be explained in retrospect by sovereign moves of
God. These movements were not orchestrated by feeble attempts of men to stir up religious fervor
or grow any single organization; instead, they superseded the scope of any one group in influence
and expansion, to fulfill an urgent need in the heart of God for rapid kingdom growth.
From the days of Jonah, hesitantly ushering in a city-wide awakening in Nineveh, to the birth of
the first century church in Acts - there are distinct historical moments in which heaven and earth
collide for a cataclysmic coming of the kingdom of God, to fulfill heaven’s agenda for a generation.
Salvation is personal. Revival is family. Awakening is generational.
From the 18th century onward, students have often been at the center of historic awakenings. In
the early 1700’s, twenty-something Ludwig Von Zinzendorf started a 24-hour prayer vigil that
spanned an entire century and led to the pioneering of an unprecedented missions movement.
Samuel Mills and the Haystack Five famously gathered on a rainy afternoon in August 1806 to
pray for the unreached, which led to a nationwide student awakening and the spawning of the first
six missions agencies from North America.
Toward the end of the 19th century, C.T. Studd and six other Cambridge students gave up their
prominence and position to thrust their lives into foreign missionary service and mobilization of
their peers. By the turn of the 20th century, their recruitment efforts and inspiring sacrifices had
multiplied into an unthinkable eight hundred missionaries, which represented one third of the
protestant missionary force at that time!
History shows this was only the beginning of another student awakening which culminated in over
100,000 students committing themselves to the evangelization of the world, through what became
known as the Student Volunteer Movement. Over the course of four decades, 20,000 of these
students went overseas, while the remaining 80,000 staying behind to generously support this
student awakening.
For more inspiring history, check out this speech* given in 1898 entitled, “Spiritual Awakening in a
University.” The text reads as if it was written for today.
(*collegiatedayofprayer.org/blog/2014/01/spiritual-awakening-university)
It is time for America to experience another great student awakening. In fact, God has promised
through multiple credible sources that we are in the nascent stages of another student awakening.
It’s time for us to not only talk about awakenings, but to contend for them.
In Matthew 26 during one of the most critical hours in history, Jesus calls his closest friends with
him in the garden of Gethsemane to watch and pray, and yet they are found sleeping three times.
We must be aware of this critical hour we are living in!
There is no doubt that Jesus is also calling us near, asking if we will watch and pray. Our spirit is
willing, but our flesh is also weak.
Will you watch and pray? Will you contend for another student awakening in our generation?

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Prayer
● Pray for the Awakening
● Pray for college students
● Pray for college professors

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Day 27 – Desperate For Heaven to Come – Chris Ngai
“Blessed are the poor in spirit [utterly helpless, spiritually bankrupt], for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven” Matthew 5:3 (NIV, with annotations)
All throughout history, God has moved in extraordinary ways in response to the hunger and
desperation of His people. When men and women come to the point where they realize that
unless God comes, there is no hope of anything changing, then they start to get desperate for
Him. This is when revival begins!
A man named John “Praying” Hyde had a passion to see revival in India in a hard place where no
one was responding to God. He would spend entire nights in prayer crying out for God to move.
This passion consumed him to the point where one day he began to pray, “O God, give me souls
or I die!”
His prayers of desperation moved the heart of God. He began praying for one soul to be saved
every day–and by the end of that year, over 400 had given their lives to Christ! The next year, he
began to feel that one soul a day was not enough, so he began praying for two souls every day.
At the end of that year, 800 had given their lives to Jesus! Yet, so great was his hunger that even
two souls a day wasn’t enough. He began crying out for four souls to know Christ every single
day!
In fact, Praying Hyde was so moved by the heart of God, that before he died at the age of 47, his
heart had literally (physically) shifted to the other side of his body from weeping and crying out so
intensely!
What would happen if we began to be moved by the heart of God like that?
God is looking for those with a heart like John Hyde, who will become so desperate for Him to
move, they will weep and cry out until He breaks through. He is looking for those who will say,
“God, bring revival or I die! Give me souls or I die!”--and who will be satisfied with nothing less!
[Modified from an excerpt from A Vision of Revival for College Campuses by Chris Ngai, pp. 3, 6-
7]
Prayer
Take a moment, not to pray a formula, but to enter into a heart response. Ask God for a holy
hunger and desperation that only He can give you. Ask Him to consume you with desire for His
presence, that He would ruin you for anything less than revival in this generation!

Pray that God would set apart a holy people, passionately in love with Jesus marked for revival
and awakening. Pray that God would raise up a generation that seeks His face, with “clean hands
and a pure heart” (Psalm 24:4) who will never settle for anything less than the full outpouring of
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Day 28 – Fire on the Altar – Jason Hubbard
As many of you know, this year marks the 300yr anniversary of the founding of Herrnhut, the
small Moravian community of 1722, under the leadership of Count Zinzendorf. In honor and
celebration of this humble community, the Jesus Haus will be hosting ‘Fire on the Altar’ a 24/7
worship-saturated prayer vigil from April 18th – October 2022! Fire On The Altar 2022 – Jesus-
Haus Herrnhut (jh-herrnhut.de)
When Christian David fell the first tree to build the first home in Herrnhut, June 17th, 1722, he
offered a prayer of dedication for this little town, quoting Psalm 84:3,
“Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young,
at your altars, O LORD OF HOSTS, my KING and my GOD!”
This land and community was first dedicated to be a ‘dwelling place of the Lord,’ an altar for the
Lord of Hosts!
Following this Count Zinzendorf’s manager gave the name of this place calling it ‘Herrnhut,’ which
had a double meaning. First it would a place under the Lord’s Watchful care, a place of refuge
under the canopy of the Lords’ presence. Secondly, it would be a place where the Moravians
would keep Watch before the Lord, in prayer and intercession. A key verse for Zinzendorf was
Isaiah 62:6,
“On your walls O Jerusalem, I have set watchman; all the day and all the night they shall never be
silent, you who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest and give him no rest until he
establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise on the earth” (Isaiah 62:6)
So many throughout church history have been inspired by the Moravian 100yrs of prayer,
dedication to missions and whole-hearted love for Jesus Christ, their Savior. On August 13th,
1727, the Moravians experienced a powerful visitation of the Holy Spirit during a communion
service. It was a baptism of love where God's love was shed abroad in their hearts and poured out
in love for one another. Following this, the Holy spirit compelled them to build a canopy of united,
strategic and sustainable prayer that continued for a hundred years. As they prayed night and
day, including men, women, and children, God began to mark missionaries and send them to the
nations of the earth. 200 plus missionaries responded, and helped to establish over 5,000
missionary settlements around the world. What compelled them to pray night and day, and go on
gospel mission, was the absolute worth of Jesus. Their purpose and mandate was to "Win for the
Lamb who was slain, the due reward for his sufferings". Crying out, "Our Lamb has conquered, let
us follow Him."
“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and
honor and glory and blessing!” (Rev. 5:12).
“And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within,
and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was
and is and is to come!” (Rev. 4:8)
These simple Moravian believers were modeling on earth the reality of heaven’s symphony of
unceasing worship-saturated prayer to the one on the throne and to the Lamb! The Moravians
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“For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every
place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among
the nations, says the Lord of hosts” (Malachi 1:11).
From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets (day and night), the Lord declares that in
every place incense (the prayers of the saints) combined with a pure offering (worship and praise)
will arise to him. This activity of worship -saturated prayer was to make the Name of the Lord, his
reputation great and glorious in the nations of the earth! It would be for the Spread of his Fame,
for the extension of his Reign, for the Increase of his Gain, and for the Honor of his Claim of that
which rightfully belongs to him! His name would be treated and treasured as infinitely valuable
among the nations as it is in heaven. His character would be put on display to be seen and
savored, revealed and revered, prized and praised. In all of our priestly ministry it is his NAME
that is at stake!
This movement of worship-saturated prayer is fueled by God’s beauty (Isa. 4:2; 62:3-5, 6-7).
When we see him, we savor him! We don’t just pray and sing “Worthy is the Lamb”, we pray and
sing why he’s Worthy and then let the nations respond… Hallelujah!
What could it look like to see canopies of 24/7 worship-saturated prayer increasing in every place
on the earth, where Gods’ people are praying around the throne, around the clock and around the
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Day 29 – The World Prayer Assembly 2 - Daniel Pandji
Since 1996 I personally received a calling from God as a layman to help body of Christ move into
unity. During a time of pray, I heard an audible voice from Nehemiah 4:19-20 to unite the body of
Christ from various denominations. I was called along with many others to blow the trumpet to
every part of the land so that in times of the battle the Lord would fight for us.
Since then I began to activate the body of Christ to pray especially since the year 2000 to move
by praying day and night building prayer towers in hundreds of cities all over Indonesia, filled by
many intercessors from various denominations.
This wave of the prayer movement started rolling rapidly. Indonesia became the host of WPA on
May 17, 2012 and was simultaneously held in 378 cities throughout the nation. Many stadiums &
ball rooms were rented so that millions could come and even stir people from other nations to
come to pray together. This was a huge prayer movement with a theme of a New Wave, just as it
was mentioned in Habakkuk 2:14.
This year we are sensing we need to recall, to blow the trumpet again toward a larger body of
Christ globally all over the world for nations to come together in one accord and unity of heart to
fast and pray. On May 17, 2022 we want to initiate a widespread prayer movement as a
preparation of the Second Coming in WPA 2022 event with the same theme of a New Wave of
Glory from Habakkuk 2:14.
Our prayers will help activate the body of Christ to spark the sending of missionaries. We will see
a great harvest that God will manifest, seeing billions of sousl shall be saved before His Second
Coming.
I believe Indonesia will be one of the keys in God’s hands to unlock the nations, especially
Muslim populated nations. I believe this is the time we need to have synergy and collaboration in
order to set the body of Christ in motion wherever we are.
I believe as we build a massive global altar, something great will happen for the Glory of God.
It is during this pandemic where everything is so uncertain and unpredictable, we see a great
opportunity. It is in the midst of shaking that caused the body of Christ to go through birth pangs
which can be felt globally, I believe this will give birth to a massive salvation of souls who will
come together to seek the Lord Jesus their Savior. We shall see and embrace the greatest
harvest that has ever happened in history.

“For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the
sea” – Habakkuk 2:14

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Day 30 - The Lamb’s Supremacy – Jason Hubbard
Jesus is the Light-bearing, out-raying or radiance of God’s divine nature! As the author of
Hebrews states,
“Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in
these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through
whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of
his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for
sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to
angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.” (Heb. 1:1-4).
According to Colossians 1:15-18, it is the Father's desire to exalt and glorify his Son above all
things,
“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were
created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers
or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all
things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the
firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.” (Colossians
1:15-18).
Jesus calls us in our personal discipleship to follow him in all things and all ways, growing in daily
cooperation with his perfect leadership. The first commandment must take first place in our lives.
Love for Jesus must be a supreme love, a love that trumps all other loves. It means that I admire
Jesus more than any other human. It means I want his approval more than anyone else.
It’s the Father’s dream to see all things summed up in His Son! God’s preordained plan and
purpose is that Christ would have full supremacy or preeminence in all things. Paul declares,
”…making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in
Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on
earth” (Eph. 1:9-10).
As Augustine says,
“The one who has Christ has everything. The one who has everything except for Christ really has
nothing. And the one who has Christ plus everything else does not have any more than the one
who has Christ alone.” ii
He is the All-Consuming One, the All-Sufficient One, and the All-Satisfying One. As David Bryant
writes in his book Christ is All,
“He defies all human categories; there is no language that can adequately describe Him. He is the
incomparable One! He remains in a class by himself…no duplicates, no clones. His importance
eclipses all others. He outranks every other being in Heaven, earth, or hell. He is the exalted One;
for all eternity he holds the primary focus of our praises. He holds a position of unrivaled
distinction, prestige, and majesty. He will be the joy of all peoples, the desire of all nations. He is
the Victorious One. None of his enemies will prevail, he will defeat all of his foes unconditionally-
both human and demonic and will emerge forever unthreatened, unhindered, and victorious over
all opposition, permanently and forever. He is the Preeminent and Supreme One…in time and
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Nothing can exhaust his power or resources. He will forever prove totally adequate for all of our
longings, fears, needs or heart cries. He is faithful and true!” iii
As disciples of Jesus, we join with the chorus of heaven crying out night and day,
“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory and
blessing” (Rev. 5:12)
If Christ is the all-deserving One, then we must respond to His call, “Come Follow Me,” with our
whole hearts! It’s God’s desire that our lives become increasingly Christ-dominated, Christ-
saturated, and Christ-exalting to the Glory of God the Father! As Spurgeon writes,
“He is the sun of our day, He is the star of our night; he is our life, he is our life’s life, he is our
heaven on earth, and he shall be our heaven in heaven!” iv
It should be the longing of our hearts to see a Christ-awakening erupt in our lives, our homes, and
our churches. We want to see God’s Spirit using God’s Word to re-introduce God’s people back to
God’s Son for all that He is! Our prayer each day should be, “Conquer me Lord Jesus!” As Evan
Roberts, the great revivalist of Wales in 1904 cried out, “Bend me O God, and save a nation!”
When Jesus becomes our all, then we can walk as Charles Spurgeon exhorted us,
“The Christian who knows he is crucified with Christ, has no ambition and so has nothing to be
jealous about; has no reputation and so has nothing to fight about; has no possessions and so
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Day 31 - The Lamb’s Gospel – Jason Hubbard
“Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29).
We are convinced that God is calling his church to embrace the gospel again, living grace-
addicted, truth-filled, Jesus-exalting lives! The Gospel is the good news that God’s kingdom power
has entered human history through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ! As John Piper
writes,
“The Gospel is the news that Jesus Christ, the Righteous King, died for our sins and rose again,
eternally triumphant over all his enemies, so that there is now no condemnation for those who
believe, but only everlasting joy!” vi
The gospel is the center of the Bible, and it ought to be the center of our lives, homes, churches,
ministries, spiritual disciplines, songs, parenting, marriage-everything! The Christian life is formed
by the glories of the gospel-it’s patterned and powered by the gospel of grace in all of life-for the
rest of life! We don’t worship the gospel, we worship the God of the Gospel, Jesus Christ! The
gospel is God’s act of turning scoundrels into saints, turning sin seekers into people who find their
utmost satisfaction in God! Dave Keesling put it this way,
“The gospel’s simplicity is its ability to, in a moment, change literally everything.” vii
Daniel Montgomery shares three aspects of the gospel, the kingdom, the cross, and grace…
The gospel of the kingdom is life with God under God’s rule.
The gospel of the cross is the life, death and resurrection of Jesus by which God accomplishes
our salvation, rescues us from his wrath, incorporates us into his people, and inaugurates his
reign in the world.
The gospel of grace is the wonderful news that God accepts us, shares his life with us, and
adopts us as heirs of his kingdom not because we have earned it or deserve it, but because God
chooses to give all of this freely at Christ’s expense. viii
As JA Medders writes,
We worship Jesus because “he is the radiance of the glory of God” (Heb. 1:3).
We harp on the gospel because “for our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in
him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Cor. 5:21).
Our hope is wrapped up in the truth that “he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed
for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace and by his wounds we are
healed” (Isa. 53:5).
We center our lives on Jesus because “we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never
die again. Death no longer has dominion over him” (Rom 6:9).
We sing, pray, sacrifice, and follow Jesus because, “there is one God and there is one mediator
between God and man, the man Christ Jesus” (I Tim. 2:5).
We have confidence in life, and death because of Jesus, “who gave himself for our sins to deliver
us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory
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We walk with joy and no condemnation because, “he himself bore our sins in his body on the tree,
that we might die to sin, and live to righteousness. By his wound’s you have been healed” (I Peter
2:24).
Jesus is our great reward and love because, “in him we have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of our sins, according to the riches of his grace” (Eph 1:7).
We go on gospel mission because “the saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance,
‘Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners’” (I Tim. 1:15) ix
As Tim Keller shares, ““We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe
and yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever
dared hope...We were so bad that Christ had to die for us, but we were so loved that Christ was
glad to die for us….Sin comes and says, ‘your life for me,’ Christ says, ‘my life for you! Religion
makes us proud of what we do, but the gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done!” x
As Sam Storms shares, “Therefore, the gospel is not what God requires. The gospel is what God
provides! The gospel is not an imperative, demanding things you must do. The gospel is an
indicative, declaring things that God has done. The gospel is not about human action. The gospel
is about divine achievement. The gospel is not a moralistic Do! The gospel is a merciful Done!
The gospel informs, controls, and energizes all we do. Our ministry values— worship, prayer,
discipleship, community, and mission— are all the fruit of the grace that God has given us in
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Day 32 - The Lamb’s Finest Hour – Jason Hubbard
From the outset of his ministry Jesus was born to die! His finest hour, was his death on a cruel
cross where he hung in agonizing, excruciating pain dealing a death blow to death itself!
Strapped to a wooden beam, he crushes death, the evil one, and the power of sin. He fooled
everyone! It was like he was playing chess on twenty different levels. He mapped it out, and with
one glorious move: Checkmate, game over!
The greatest and most glorious of all subjects is the cross of Christ! It is the subject of worship in
this age and in the age to come. We will stare at nail-pierced hands and weep with gratitude
forever… seeing and savoring, prizing and praising the glory of God in the face of Jesus, the
Lamb of God! This is the subject that baffles men, shuts king’s mouths, and dumbfounds the
human race!
Imagine the Highest stoops to become the lowest, the greatest becomes the least, the King
becomes a criminal! The Lord of all becomes the servant of all, the Creator becomes the crucified,
the Powerful one becomes the pierced one. This place called Golgotha was not a place of mercy
yet the most merciful act in history was being accomplished. The sinless and guiltless one was
dying as one guilty. The perfect one was being spoiled by the perverse. The wicked had
released their hatred upon the wonderful one. The righteous one, ravaged by the cruel cross, was
dying for the rebellious. Yet now he sits enthroned forever as the worthy Lamb at the right hand of
the Father!
“And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb
standing, as though it had been slain” (Revelation 5:6).

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Day 33 - The Lamb’s Bride, One Thing – Jason Hubbard
“Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed
him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his
teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord,
do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord
answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is
necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.” (Luke
10:38-42).
Just days before the cross Jesus desired to be with his friends that he loved. John 11:5 states,
“Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.” Mary and Martha were sisters. Their
brother was Lazarus. Most scholars believe that the parents had previously passed away. Martha
was left with the house, Mary was given an alabaster jar of costly perfume. It is not clear if
Lazarus was given anything. Although he certainly received an all-expense paid three day trip to
heaven and back.
Mary of Bethany was truly a remarkable woman of unparalleled devotion in her day. Mary longed
to be at the feet of Jesus and desired to cultivate a private, personal history with Jesus.
I believe a question that is being asked today is this, “Who has really been with Jesus?” I believe
Mary was one of these! Mary of Bethany was one of those who had cultivated intimacy with
Jesus. She had learned to set her heart and focus on Jesus! She had memory and history with
Jesus! The question for you and I is this:
When we finally see Jesus face to face, when the curtain moves, and we see his eyes for the first
time, will there be a memory in that gaze? Will we be able to say, ‘I know you …we have been
through so much…we have walked together…’ When we see the glory of the Lamb, will we
remember weeping over his nail-scared hands during our days on the earth?
We see Mary doing three things. First, she postured her heart at the feet of Jesus. All three times
we see Mary of Bethany in Scripture the Holy Spirit highlights that she is sitting at the feet of
Jesus and making the choice to hear his words! Two of the three occasions Mary is criticized by
others and yet she is never described as defending herself. Her heart attitude is worship, and
submission to the leadership of Jesus. We learn from Mary that worship must precede petition,
and intimacy with Jesus must precede intercession. Mary had learned to position her heart before
the bonfire of his outrageous love!
The second thing we see Mary doing is gazing on his beauty! Mary was single-hearted. She had
developed the paradigm of living before an audience of one! Mary had vision to be an extravagant
worshipper of Jesus, unmoved by the criticism of others! Like Mary we are made to enjoy the
glory of Jesus, his dynamic personality throughout all eternity! Mary understood that God’s aim is
to ravish the affections of the human race with irresistible displays of the glory of his Son! God
commands us to know his glory with our minds and treasure his glory with our hearts! His call is to
enjoy his glory as our highest and most superior treasure! As John Piper declares, “The glory of
God is the supreme JOY of His People!” xiii God created us to know and enjoy His glory, and in
this way, display its supreme value! Do we truly value the blazing glory revealed in the Cross of
Christ? I believe Mary certainly did!
The third thing we see Mary engaged in was listening to every word and teaching that Jesus was
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to love him in return!
But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not
care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me. But the Lord answered
her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things…” (Luke 10:40-41).
How familiar is that statement? How many of us are worried, troubled, and anxious in our
everyday lives? One of the primary barriers in our relationship with Jesus, is that we are anxious
and worried, often distracted with much serving. Paul spoke to us in 2 Corinthians 11:3,
“But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may
somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.”
The enemy’s strategy is to distract us, and cause us to worry and be anxious. Anxiety is a subtle
form of pride. Anxiety is not trusting in the Lord, but trusting in self. We say things like, ‘I’ve got to
do this,’ or ‘I’ve got to make it happen.’ Taking his yoke and entering into his rest simply means
abandoning outcomes to God, accepting that we do not have it in ourselves. We give up our
rights, and rest in God’s leadership, just as Jesus showed us, embracing the cross!
Jesus wraps up this story from Luke 10 with a powerful promise,
“But one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from
her” (Luke 10:42).
Jesus the Son of God steps out of heaven and declares, “one thing” is necessary! He doesn’t say
the only thing, but the one thing! Like Mary he calls us to sit at his feet, gaze on his glory and hang
on every word that he says to us. The wisest thing that we could do is develop this kind of private,
personal history with Jesus. This one activity is most needed, most important in our lives. Jesus
declares that it will not be taken away from her! Just like Mary, he will remember and reward every
movement of our hearts toward him, not matter how weak it appears. He promises to remove and
forget our sin, but will remember and reward every choice we make to pursue him.
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe
that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him” (Hebrews 11:6, NIV).

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Day 34 – The Lamb’s Bride Part 2 – Jason Hubbard
“Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom
Jesus had raised from the dead. So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus
was one of those reclining with him at the table. Mary therefore took a pound of expensive
ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair.
The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.” (John 12:1-3, ESV).
Six days before the cross, Jesus enters the town of Bethany, to the home of Simon who had been
healed of leprosy. It was probable that the town was hosting a customary banquet in honor of
Jesus who had done miraculous signs in their town. Martha was cooking a meal again, probably
to thank Jesus for all that he had done for them.
Many had come to marvel at the deeds of Jesus. Mary brings her alabaster jar of costly ointment.
This pure nard was worth a year’s wages. This was most certainly Mary’s dowry, representing her
only hope for marriage. In this culture if she wastes this or uses this on something other than her
future spouse she would have only two options. Either take care of Lazarus her brother, or beg
and prostitute herself to survive. When she looks at these two choices, she understands the worth
of Jesus! It is as if she was saying, “You are the priceless Son of God, worthy of all I have! I can
risk and throw myself into your hands.”
When she looks at him she knows her choice. Those present at the meal wanted Jesus to
minister to them, but Mary wanted to minister to Jesus! She pours out the ointment onto the head
and feet of Jesus and then washes his feet, assuming the posture of servant. Only servants in this
culture wash feet! Everyone thought this was crazy. She let her hair down to wipe his feet with her
hair. In that day, only prostitutes did this in public. She was willing to suffer her reputation. She
wasted her entire inheritance, her future, her livelihood, and her reputation on Him! It was her
offering and gift of worship to the one she loved! The fragrance of Mary’s offering, Mary’s worship,
filled the whole house, and prepared him for his burial.
This pound of costly ointment was so pungent, and fragrant that it would stay on the body for up to
week. As Jesus hung on the cross, in the midst of terrible anguish, he could still breathe in the
glorious fragrance of the worship of this woman, Mary of Bethany! I can imagine Jesus gasping, “It
is worth it, Father!” Like Mary of Bethany let us waste our lives on Him. He is all- deserving! He
has the right to all of me! Let’s anoint him with the oil of our treasures, and pour out our lives like a
drink offering upon the one that we love!
Prayer Focus: Place yourself before the cross and pray through Psalm 27:4 making it your own
prayer. Ask yourself what do I need to pour out on Jesus, dreams, future, relationships,
reputation, comforts, etc.? By name place the things that you value most at the feet of Jesus. Tell
him he is worth it all!
“One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the
LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple.”
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Day 35 - The Lamb’s Selection Day – Jason Hubbard
“Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb
according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household… Your lamb shall be without blemish, a
male a year old… and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.” (Exodus 12:2-6).
Palm Sunday was called Lamb selection day. Jewish families would choose a one year old male
lamb on Palm Sunday, bring it home and examine it.
As Jesus and the disciples were approaching Jerusalem from the east they came up the road
from Jericho, until they reached the town of Bethpage on the eastern slopes of the Mount of
Olives. Luke tells us,
“As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of
his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they
had seen, saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and
glory in the highest!” And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your
disciples.” He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.” And when
he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on
this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will
come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and
hem you in on every side and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And
they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your
visitation” (Luke 19:37-44).
Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Lamb selection day. Israel wanted a king to free them from the
oppression of the Romans, to give them their land back, and bring to fulfillment the Davidic
covenant. However, this day, Jesus came to them as a Passover Lamb. For many in Israel, they
missed the day of their visitation.
God gave Israel special celebrations called ‘Feasts’ when he brought the Hebrews out of Egypt.
God spoke to Moses, saying,
“Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘the feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim
to be holy convocations, these are My feasts…These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations
which you shall proclaim at their appointed times” (Leviticus 23:24).
The biblical word for holy convocation describes a ‘dress rehearsal.’ The Jews would act out these
visual aids, or pictures through the festivals as a dress rehearsal for the purpose of revealing the
Messiah and learning God’s plan of salvation through history! God appointed three primary feast
seasons, Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles. They represented three major encounters with
God in the lives of His covenant people. Passover was the first feast as a memorial to the
Hebrews deliverance from Egypt. This deliverance occurred during the month of Nisan and
represented God’s first encounter with His covenant people.
“On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight (evening) is the Lord’s Passover” (Lev. 23:4-5).
The Hebrew day begins on the evening of the 14th (twilight) at approximately 6:00 pm. Jesus
fulfilled this feast at every point. The Hebrews killed the lambs at three o’clock in the afternoon on
the 14th in order to eat the meal by six o’clock. When three o’clock arrived, they slaughtered the
Lamb and applied the blood to their doorstep. The family then entered their house through the
blood-stained door where they were protected from the plague of death that was to move through
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the land. According to the instructions, the entire Lamb was to be roasted and consumed. Nothing
could be left over for the next day. In preparing the meal, not one bone of the lamb could be
broken which required that the lamb be roasted on a spit shaped like a crossbar so that its body
could be spread open. This was the Lord’s Passover. We see that He used the blood of the lamb
to save His people from death. The blood of the lamb was their covering and protection.
When the temple was built, instead of killing the lambs and applying the blood to their doorstep,
the people would bring their lambs to Jerusalem and kill them at the temple. The entire Jewish
nation would come to Jerusalem each year. It was a time of great celebration, as the Levites
would lead in the singing of Psalms of David, especially Psalms 113-118.
As time passed, it became difficult for people to bring their sacrifice to Jerusalem, so the Levites
began raising lambs without spot or blemish for Passover and sold them at the temple. The
Jewish historian Josephus reported there were more than 250,000 of these Passover lambs killed
in Jerusalem in the first century.
In John 12:1, we read that Jesus came to the town of Bethany six days before Passover, which
would be the ninth of Nisan. Jesus enters into Jerusalem on the tenth of Nisan, the lamb selection
day according to Exodus 12, because he was set aside as the human lamb! For the next five
days, Jesus was examined, questioned, and interrogated to see if any spot or blemish might be
found. They wanted to discredit him so that he would not be an acceptable sacrifice. After
interrogating and beating Jesus, Pilate said of Him, “I find no fault in him” (John 19:4).
Finally Jesus was crucified on the 14th on the same day and same time the lambs traditionally
were killed. Jesus was placed on the cross at 9:00 am, opened up just like the lambs were placed
on the altar of burnt offering. The people were singing Psalm 118, “Blessed is he who comes in
the name of the Lord! We bless you from the house of the Lord. The Lord is God, and he has
made his light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords, up to the horns of the altar!”
And then at 3:00 pm Jesus was slain…The curtain in the temple was torn in two from top to
bottom just as the flesh of the son of man had been torn in two…split open…“And the earth shook
and the rocks were split!” The rocks were indeed crying out, convulsing under the weight of the
King of Glory and his Revealed Excellence.
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Day 36 - The Lamb’s Fire – Jason Hubbard
The night before the cross, Jesus led the disciples from the upper room out of the city and across
the Brook Kidron, which at this point was blood red from the thousands of lambs that had already
been slaughtered in the temple in preparation for Passover feast. The stage was set, Jesus is
about to spill royal blood as the Passover Lamb set for slaughter. The crimson blood of the Lamb
would soon flow forth like a river to the human race for the forgiveness of sins.
As they entered the garden called Gethsemane, Jesus began to be greatly distressed and
troubled (deep alarm, anguish and dismay). When we look at Jesus throughout the gospels we
see three exciting years of ministry. Words like authoritative, assured, and fearless describe him.
He is steady and controlled. However there comes a moment when we follow Jesus under the
trees to a place called Gethsemane, which means, “oil press” and encounter a savior that we are
unfamiliar with. Jesus uttered,
“My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and watch with me” (Mark
14:34).
Luke the doctor says, “And being in anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like
drops of blood falling to the ground” (Luke 22:44). Though extremely rare, the phenomenon of
hematydrosis, or bloody sweat, is well documented. Under great emotional stress, tiny capillaries
in the sweat glands can break, thus mixing blood with sweat. The Greek word for drops is
thrombos meaning, ‘large thick drops of clotted blood.’ When blood hit the cool night air it
congealed, and thickened.
Rich, red human blood issuing from the veins of the Lamb—Selah
What caused him to be at this point, near death itself? Was he thinking about the nails? Was he
thinking about the unbearable shame that he would have to endure? What would the Father’s
anger and wrath against sin look like?
“My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will”
(Luke 22:42).
As Jesus stared into this Cup, it was a crushing, agony for our savior. As C.J. Mahaney writes,
“Isaiah 57 shows us that this cup is God’s extended hand—it’s the ‘cup of wrath’, and for those
who drink it, it’s’ the ‘cup of staggering.’ This cup contains the full vehemence and fierceness of
God’s holy wrath poured out against all sin, and we discover in Scripture that it’s’ intended for all
of sinful humanity to drink. It’s your cup…it’s mine. In vivid imagery of the Old Testament, this cup
is filled with ‘fire and sulfur and a scorching wind, like some volcanic firestorm, like all the fury of
the Mt. St. Helens, eruption concentrated in a coffee mug. No wonder Scripture says that tasting
from this cup causes the drinker to ‘stagger and be crazed.’ No wonder when Jesus stared into
this detestable vessel, He stumbles to ground. In this dark hour, do you see your Savior’s love for
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Fire of God’s Glory
One of the primary metaphors for the glory of God in Scripture is fire. God is an all-consuming fire,
a jealous God. His jealousy removes everything that hinders his love from increasing in our lives.
His eyes are a flame of fire, consumed with love for his people!
“And upward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were gleaming metal, like the
appearance of fire enclosed all around. And downward from what had the appearance of his waist
I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.” (Ezekiel 1:27,
ESV).
His words are like fire, his feet are like burnished bronze in a furnace. His face shines like the sun
in all its brilliance. His throne is ablaze with fire, and its wheels are full of fire! A river of fire comes
out from before him! The Holy Spirit is described as seven blazing torches or lamps of fire!
Everything that surrounds him is set on fire. He truly is an all-consuming fire.
Several times throughout the Old Testament, the priests would lay before the Lord an offering,
and God would consume it with the glory of His fire!
“Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and he came down from
offering the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings. And Moses and Aaron
went into the tent of meeting, and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of
the LORD appeared to all the people. And fire came out from before the LORD and consumed the
burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, they shouted and
fell on their faces.” (Leviticus 9:22-24, ESV).
Again when Solomon was dedicating the temple,
“As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt
offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. And the priests could not
enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD’s house. When all
the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the LORD on the temple, they bowed
down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the
LORD, saying, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever” (2 Chronicles 7:1-3).
God often answers by fire!
Jesus said, “I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! I have a
baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished!” (Luke 12:49-
50).
Jesus came to endure a baptism of fire at the cross. Jesus was the fulfillment of the burnt offering
sacrifice. The fiery wrath of God the Father would blaze forth upon Jesus as he hung, strapped on
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raging flames and see the glowings of its heat, that he might know where he was going and what
he was about to suffer.” xv
In the garden, as Jesus is gazing intently into the cup of wrath, he understands that he is about to
experience the full and eternal wrath of God against your sin and mine. He is about to face the
reality of bearing our sins and becoming the object of God’s full and furious wrath on our behalf.
He is about to be abandoned by his Father…all because of the fullness of sin resting upon him.
Jesus must be utterly removed and separated from the presence of a Holy God. The sky grows
dark and luminous. Breaking forth from the blood-stained lips of our savior, he uttered the most
terrible words “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” William Hendriksen comments
graphically on the darkness that portends Jesus’ cry,
“The darkness meant judgment, the judgment of God upon our sins, his wrath as it were burning
itself out in the very heart of Jesus, so that he, as our Substitute, suffered most intense agony,
indescribable woe, terrible isolation or forsakenness. Hell came to Calvary that day, and the
Savior descended into it and bore its horrors in our stead” xvi
As R.C. Sproul writes,
“This cry represents the most agonizing protest ever uttered on this planet. It burst forth in a
moment of unparalleled pain. It is the scream of the damned for us.” xvii
Literally for the first time in history Jesus is ripped from his Father’s embrace. Jesus understands
the pain of abandonment, and that’s why now, he can promise, “I was abandoned so you will
never have to be abandoned ever again. Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you” (Hebrews
13:5).
Jesus says to you and I today, “I heard your cries, when they left you…I hear the cries of this
fatherless generation and that’s why I came to this earth to be utterly forsaken by my Father, so
that you would never have to be forsaken ever again.”
Not only was he ripped away from the loving embrace of his Father for you, but he also endured
the eternal wrath of the fiery flames of hell on our behalf. What is our penalty for sin? It is eternal
separation from God. It is the pain and agony of enduring the fiery flames of hell. Jesus
experienced the hell that you and I were supposed to endure for our sin. God the Father took His
eternal wrath, condensed it, and emptied it into His cup. He distilled eternal judgment, the very
lake of fire, hell’s blazing fury and then asked His Son to drink it on our behalf. The fiery flames of
wrath blazed forth and consumed the Lord Jesus on the cross, as the final burnt offering sacrifice!
It’s like the true story of the mother who awakened one night smelling smoke. She shook her
husband and raced upstairs to the baby, but a wall of flames drove her back. Outside the
neighbors and firemen fought the blaze. But the mother kept hearing the cry of her baby from the
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through the wall of flames into her baby’s room. Gathering her little one in her arms, she pressed
back through the flames. In a crumpled heap of charred flesh, she fell to the grass outside. And
though she was disfigured for life, she had saved her baby…xviii
Just like that story Jesus heard your cries, he felt your pain, he saw you heading toward the
eternal flames of hell…so he LEFT Heaven, charged through the flames of wrath to rescue
you…he took your hell and drank your cup on the cross, he swept you into his embrace and
brought you through to safety, though He too was disfigured, he still bears the scars and marks on
his body to show what he did for you….He took your Hell, so you could have His Heaven!
Jesus had entered the garden for a brief interlude before the hour of the cross, but found hell
thrust in his face. Jesus had every right to turn his tearful eyes towards you and me and thrust this
cup into our hands, shouting, “You drink it…this is your cup, you are responsible for this!” And yet,
instead, he takes it freely for you and me…
Prayer Focus: Find a place to bow down or lay prostrate before the Lord. In this posture, spend
some time focusing on the agony of Jesus in Gethsemane. Re-commit your heart to the Lord,
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Day 37 - The Lamb’s Surrender – Jason Hubbard
Ken Sande writes,
“Idolatry is the most discussed problem in the Bible of the human condition. It is anything that we
love and pursue in place of God. In biblical terms, an idol is something other than God that we set
our hearts on ( Luke 12:29;1 Cor. 10:6), that motivates us (1 Cor. 4:5), that masters or rules us
(Ps. 119:133), or that we serve (Matt. 6:24).” xix
Idolatry is anything I look at and say, “If I have that, my life has value.” If there is anything in my
life that is so central that I feel like I can’t live without it, then it is an idol. For us as believers
idolatry is often making a good thing into an ultimate thing. The evil in our desires typically does
not lie in what we want but that we want it too much. So an idol is something other than God upon
which we set our hearts. Whenever we make something more important than God we are
committing idolatry. There is always a reason for sin. Under our sins are idolatrous desires. Sin
isn’t only doing bad things, it is often making good things into ultimate things. Whatever we build
our life on will drive us or enslave us. Whenever we build our self- worth or happiness on anything
other than on God we have idols in our life. At the core of all our idolatry is pride. As C.J. Mahaney
writes,
“Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to
acknowledge their dependence on him.” xx
We cannot save ourselves. A divine rescue is needed and thanks be to Jesus Christ who has
made a way through the cross!
The best way to confront and deal with the idols in our lives is to come humbly before the foot of
the cross. When we are exposed to the humble God, we fall prostrate and cast out crowns down
before the Worthy One! As John Stott writes,
“Every time we look at the cross, Christ seems to be saying to us, ‘I am here because of you. It is
your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.’
Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross. All of us have inflated
views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousness, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It
is there, at the foot of the cross that we shrink to our true size.” xxi
God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. In light of God’s awesome holiness, and
our utter depravity, we must cling to the cross of Christ as our only hope. As C.J. Mahaney writes,
“Humility is honestly assessing ourselves in light of God’s Holiness and our Sinfulness.” xxii
God calls us to set our minds on the glory of the humble God,
“Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the
form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing,
taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form,
he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross”
(Philippians 2:5-8)
The ultimate revelation of the humility of Christ is found at the cross and this is where we must go
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“If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall
bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the LORD. He shall
lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement
for him... Then he shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into pieces...And the priest shall burn all of
it on the altar, as a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.”
Jesus was without sin, a male lamb without blemish. He offered his all in complete and total
surrender to the will of the Father. He became our burnt offering sacrifice on the cross so that we
might become his living sacrifice. To have an obedient heart in total submission to the will of the
Father is our highest act of worship. The leadership of Jesus consumes all of us with holy fire, so
that nothing remains that is not subject to his authority. His jealous love removes everything that
hinders his love from increasing in our lives!
Jesus sacrificed his all at the cross--his struggle in the garden, his sacrificial life, his obedience
unto death! His dedication and unwavering commitment to ‘set his face’ like flint and go to
Jerusalem in total submission to the Father! And Jesus made a voluntary choice of love. Jesus
made it clear that no one was able to take His life from him. Rather, He laid his life down of his
own accord! xxiii
“For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18 No
one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have
authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father” (John 10:17-18).
The agony of Jesus is revealed in this verse, “And he shall flay (skin) the burnt offering and cut it
into pieces.” (Lev. 1:6) The word ‘flay’ means to be skinned, to tear or strip away. The scourging
he took for us literally laid his flesh open like strips of ribbon off his back. He was skinned for you
and me. He was stripped of all his possessions and hung naked on a cross. He was despised and
rejected by men, ridiculed, scorned, and scolded on our behalf, all in absolute surrender.
We must realize that at times the Lord will allow our flesh to be flayed in order to expose who we
really are. Before all can be given to him, all must be exposed.
Prayer Focus: Ask the Lord to reveal to you any known or hidden idols in your life. Write them
down and then lay them down at the foot of the cross.
Then let’s pray this prayer in absolute surrender and absolute delight,
“Lord, I surrender every part of my life to you. I lie before you open and exposed. You have the
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Day 38 - The Blind-folded Lamb – Jason Hubbard
“They blindfolded him and demanded, “Prophesy! Who hit you?” (Luke 22:64, NIV).
I have always wondered why you never see this scene in the paintings of Jesus. This scene
seems noticeably absent, yet it is so terribly tragic. It is incredibly telling as the ‘Blindfolded Christ’
is seated amongst a group filled with blind hatred. And this they did to Jesus of Nazareth who had
healed a man born blind. As Samuel Zwemmer writes,
“Why did it occur to them to blindfold Jesus? Was it not because His eyes were filled with such a
holy wonder at their unbelief, eyes full of compassion for their ignorance and yet flashing with a
light that smote their consciences like a flame of fire. They could not bear to look Him in the face
and so, as Mark says, “when some began to spit on him, others ‘covered his face and began to hit
him” And certainly it was not just an individual that struck him, it was the race, it was humanity, it
was you and I. “He was smitten of God, afflicted and we hid as it were our faces from Him”—or,
when we could not hide our faces we covered His face and blindfolded him. They all agreed as
did we, to hide His face before they struck his Glory…” xxvi
Even today men cannot leave Christ alone. His face is riveting! It is a magnetic pull as a flame of
fire! Men are either drawn or repelled but there is no neutral ground when one looks at the glory of
God in the face of Christ!
Behold the Man! Bound, exhausted, bruised, insulted, and yet silent with the silence of suffering
love. The Word of God who spoke creation into existence with mere sentences is now silent
before the very ones he had created.
The Father is always looking at the wounds of his Son! He is asking, “when will the church give
him what he deserves?” May the slain Lamb receive the due reward of his sufferings!
There was a true story of a father who got a call from the police one night that his son had been in
an accident and he needed to come down as soon as possible. On his way to the accident, he
wondered…he trembled…he groaned…he cried…if only…as he arrived at the accident the
ambulances were blocking his way to the scene. Frantically he tried to weave his way through the
myriads of people not able to contain his emotions. “Please get out of the way…I need to see my
son.” Looking ahead he saw the car and knew instantly that his son hadn’t made it…lying on a
stretcher he saw his son, and embraced him…covered in blood…he looked up and saw his son’s
blood all over the road…he obviously had been thrown from the car. But as he looked up…he saw
cars coming quickly towards the scene…he jumped up and in anger, screaming at the cars
streaming by, “STOP! Don’t you see it! You are driving over my son’s blood…STOP, don’t you
care?” xxvii
In the same way, I can imagine the Father saying to his church today, “STOP! Don’t you see it?
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“How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son
of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified
him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?” (Hebrews 10:29).
By the grace of God let us never treat the blood of the Son of God with contempt, trampling it
under our feet. O God, help us to never become desensitized or familiar to the reality of the cross!
For indeed this is holy ground!
These things the angels long to see, but they cover their faces when they behold the mysteries
and excellences of the grace of the gospel…
“Crown Him the Lord of Love; Behold his hands and side, Rich wounds, yet visible above In
beauty glorified No angel in the sky Can fully bear that sight, But downward bends his burning eye
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Day 39 - The Lamb’s Cross – Jason Hubbard
After the arrest in the middle of the night, Jesus exhausted from Gethsemane, was brought before
the Sanhedrin and Caiaphas, the high priest. A soldier struck Jesus across the face for remaining
silent when questioned by Caiaphas. The palace guards then blindfolded Him and mockingly
taunted Him, spat on Him, and struck Him in the face. In the early morning, Jesus battered and
bruised, dehydrated and exhausted from a sleepless night, is taken across Jerusalem to the
Praetorium of the fortress of Antonia.
It was there, in response to the cries of the mob, that Pilate ordered Barabbas released and then
condemned Jesus to be scourged and crucified. Preparations for scourging are carried out. “The
prisoner is stripped of his clothing, and his hands tied to a post above his head. The Roman
legionnaire steps forth with his flagrum (flagellum) in his hand. This is a short whip consisting of
several heavy leather thongs with two small balls of lead attached near the ends of each. The
heavy whip is brought down with full force again and again across Jesus’ shoulders, back and
legs. At first, the thongs cut through the skin only, then as the blows continue, they cut deeper into
the tissue, producing first an oozing of blood from the capillaries and veins of the skin, and finally
spurting arterial bleeding from vessels in the underlying muscles. The small balls of lead first
produced deep bruises, which are broken open by the subsequent blows. Finally the skin of the
back is hanging in long ribbons, and the entire area is an unrecognizable mass of torn, bleeding
tissue. When it is determined by the centurion in charge that the prisoner is near death, the
beating is finally stopped. The half-fainting Jesus is then untied and allowed to slump to the stone
pavement, wet with his own blood.” xxiv
By his stripes we are healed, physically, emotionally and spiritually! Indeed we can now hear the
Lord proclaim his name before us,
The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and
gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness” (Exodus 34:6- 7).
The Roman soldiers see a great joke in the provincial Jew claiming to be a king. They throw a
robe across his shoulders and place a stick in his hand for a mock scepter. A small bundle of
flexible branches covered with three inch thorns is pressed into his scalp. Copious bleeding
ensued, the scalp being one of the most vascular areas of the body. After mocking him and
striking him across the face, the soldiers take the stick from his hand and strike Him across the
head driving the thorns deeper into his scalp. Finally they tire of their sadistic sport, and the robe
is torn from his back. This had already become adherent to the clots, to blood and serum in the
wounds, and its removal—just as in the careless removal of a surgical bandage—causing
excruciating pain, almost as though He were again being whipped, and the wounds are again torn
open and bleed.
He bled from his head taking on himself all the wicked thoughts of the human race. He took on the
curse of the toil and hardship of working the ground (thorns). They beat his face causing it to
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“As many were astonished at you— his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,
and his form beyond that of the children of mankind…He was despised and rejected by men; a
man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was
despised, and we esteemed him not.” (Isaiah 52:14, 53:3).
Isaiah says they literally ripped out his beard,
“I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my
face from disgrace and spitting” (Isaiah 50:60).
However, even as they hit, despised and rejected this man of sorrows, his face revealed the very
Glory of LOVE! This piercing love caused them to turn away…they blind-folded him, they couldn’t
continue to look upon him, beholding this Lord of Glory.
The heavy beam of the cross was tied across his shoulders, and the procession of the
condemned Christ, two thieves, and the execution detail began the slow and painful journey up to
Golgotha. The weight of the heavy wooden beam, together with the shock produced by the blood
loss causes Jesus to stumble and fall. The rough wood of the beam pierces into his lacerated skin
and muscles. He tries to rise, but his human muscles have been pushed beyond their endurance.
The dust from the hot ground latched onto his wounds, pasting and stinging. Imagine for a
moment the smell of blood and bodily fluids, the nauseating aroma of liquor and cheap ale on the
breath of the soldiers, and the evil excitement in the air of people all around crying out, ‘crucify
him, crucify him!’ On arrival at Golgotha, the beam is placed on the ground. Jesus is quickly
thrown backward with his shoulders against the wood. The legionnaire feels the depression at the
front of the wrist. He drives a heavy square iron nail through the wrist, through the median nerve,
and deep into the wood. This would be like smashing the nerve in your elbow when you hit it
against something, yet in this case racking your entire body in one moment! The pain from this
was so severe that a new word was invented for this act, ‘EXCRUCIATING!’
Quickly he moves to the other side, and repeats the action, being careful not to pull the arms too
tightly, but allow some flexing and movement. The beam is roughly lifted. Imagine the unbearable
pain as the weight of his body came crashing down upon his wrists. After this, the left foot is
pressed backward against the right foot, and with both feet extended and toes down, a nail is
driven into the arch of each. His full weight is placed on the nail through his feet. Again there is the
searing agony of the nail tearing through the nerves between the metatarsal bones of the feet.
“For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and
feet” (Psalm 22:16).
“But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities” (Isaiah
53:5).
Jesus took the wrath of God against the sin of our hands and feet. Think about the ways you have
sinned against a brother or sister with your hands, or willingly walked with your feet into a place of
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“I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted
within my breast; my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you
lay me in the dust of death”( Psalm 22:14-15).
When Jesus said he would be poured out like water, it means that his body would dehydrate
through the suffering of the cross. Muscles and tendons are what hold our bones and joints in
place. They are comprised of more than 70% water. When severe dehydration occurs, muscles
and tendons break down, lose their elasticity, and are unable to properly support the skeletal
structure. Hanging on the cross would cause his bones to be unprotected, ‘out of joint,' or
'divided and split.'
As the arms fatigue, great waves of cramps sweep over the muscles, knotting them in deep,
relentless, throbbing pain. With these cramps comes the inability to push himself upward,
hanging by his arms. The pectoral muscles are paralyzed, and the intercostal muscles of the
chest are unable to act. Air can be drawn into the lungs but cannot be exhaled. Jesus fights to
raise Himself in order to get even one short breath. Finally, carbon dioxide builds up in the lungs
and in the bloodstream, and the cramps partially subside. Spasmodically, He is able to push
Himself upward to exhale and bring in the life-giving oxygen. Six hours of limitless pain, cycles
of twisting, joint-rending cramps, intermittent partial asphyxiation, and searing pain as tissue is
torn from His lacerated back as He moves up and down against the rough timber.
Next, a deep crushing pain in the chest begins as the pericardium, slowly filling serum, begins to
compress the heart. The compressed heart is struggling to pump heavy, thick, sluggish,
dehydrated blood into the tissues. The tortured lungs are making a frantic effort to take in small
gulps of air. The markedly dehydrated tissues send their flood of stimuli to the brain.
Jesus gasps, “I thirst.” He can feel the chill of death creeping through his tissues. With one last
surge of strength, he once again presses his torn feet against the nail, straightens his legs,
takes a deep breath, and utters his seventh and last cry, “Father, into your hands, I commit my
spirit.”
Apparently, to make sure of death, the legionnaire drives his lance through the fifth interspace
between the ribs, upward through the pericardium, and into the heart. Immediately, there came
out blood and water. We therefore have rather conclusive post-mortem evidence that our Lord
died not the usual crucifixion (death by suffocation) but of heart failure (a broken heart) due to
shock and constriction of the heart by fluid in the pericardium.
“Ye that pass by, behold the Man! The Man of Grief condemned for you, The Lamb of God for
sinners slain, Weeping to Calvary pursue.
His Sacred Limbs they stretch, they tear With nails they fasten to the wood; His sacred limbs
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Day 40 - The Glory of the Lamb – Jason Hubbard
Jesus still bears the scars and marks from the cross on his glorified body in heaven! He stands
as a Lamb as though it had been slain. Charles Spurgeon said that these wounds are “lustrous
with supernatural splendor.” xxxi These are more than mere scars. They are like medals of
Glory, still embedded in His body and announcing the message of His grand sacrifice on the
cross!
Jesus went from wearing a cruel crown of thorns to wearing a golden crown of glory, from robes
dipped in blood to a kingly robe of splendor, from a mock scepter in his hand to a scepter of
authority, from the insults of men to the worship of angels, from the filth of sin to the beauty of
holiness…
See his head and hair, once soaked in blood, now dazzling white as snow…See the One whose
eyes stung and dripped blood, tears of sorrow, now blazing like fire, like flames of torches…see
the face, once swollen and raw from patches of His beard torn out…now his face shines brighter
than the sun in all its brilliance…see his body, once stripped naked, now clothed in eternal
majesty…see his hands pierced, now bleeding infinite splendor, feet once spiked to a stake of
timber, now gleaming like burnished bronze…his side once pierced and now hear him say, “This
wound in my Heart is for YOU!”
“Every Wound Bleeds Glory”
From victim to victor, from worm to warrior, from humiliation to glorification, from tortured to
triumphant, from degradation to exaltation, from a lowly bleeding Lamb to a glorified Lion-Lamb!
He’s the One from Whom Glory flows! Glory that flows from Him, and through Him, and Back to
Him!
He’s the Central Sun in the universe, He’s the Dazzling One,
He’s the Outstanding One, He’s the Chandelier of Heaven,
He’s the Well Spring of Eternity, He’s the Fountainhead of all Glory, He’s the Worthy Lamb of
Glory! xxxii
Learn to Love
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you
also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have
love for one another.” (John 13:34-35).
One of the primary marks of a disciple of Jesus is love! Scripture makes it abundantly clear that
we love because he first loved us. The greatest love ever given was through Jesus at the cross.
“Greater love has none than this that someone lays down his life for his friends” (John 15:13)
He loved us and gave himself up for us! (Gal 2:20, Eph. 5:2, 25, Rev. 1:5)
“But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans
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“In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world,
so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved
us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also
ought to love one another.” (1 John 4:9-10).
We can only love to the degree that we experience and receive his love. God desires that the
first commandment to Love God with our whole heart, mind, soul and strength be restored to
first place in our lives. We love God because he first loves us with his whole heart, mind, soul
and strength, which he showed us at the cross. When we understand and experience this kind
of committed love revealed through the cross of Christ, we can then love like he loves, laying
down our lives for all those around us, and showing ourselves to be his disciples. As John Stott
writes,
“The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near
enough for its sparks to fall on us.” xxxiii
“For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my
blood abides in me, and I in him” (John 6:55-56).
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Appendix Taking Communion as a Family or Small Group
1 Corinthians 11:23–25 (ESV), “For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that
the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and when he had given
thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in
my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
Communion is a time for remembering all Jesus did for us on the cross. The bread represents
Christ’s body broken for us so that we can be whole. The drink represents his blood shed for us
for the forgiveness of our sins so we can be washed clean.
Instructions: Individually or as a family, begin by asking God to forgive any sins that remain
unconfessed. Include a prayer such as this: “Dear Heavenly Father, we are so sorry for the
things we have done and said that displease You. We ask for and receive your forgiveness now
– so we can walk in your ways, for your Glory!”
Read aloud 1 Corinthians 11:23-25. Then as everyone partakes of the bread, repeat, ‘this is
Christ’s body broken for you,” and as you drink the wine or juice, ‘This is Christ’s blood shed for
you.’
“Lord Jesus it is a privilege for our family to come into your presence and receive communion in
remembrance of your sacrifice. Thank you for dying on the cross and paying the price for our
sins, so that we may be forgiven and receive your abundant life”

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End Notes
i
Charles Spurgeon, “How Hearts are Softened” Spurgeon’s Expository Encyclopedia, Vol. 8, pg 377
ii
St. Augustine of Hippo, quoted by David Bryant, Christ is All (New Providence: New Providence
Publishers, 2005), pg45
iii
David Bryant, Christ is All(New Providence: New Providence Publishers, 2005), pg 41-42
iv
Charles Spurgeon, “2200 Quotations from the Writings of Charles Spurgeon” pg 111
v
Charles Spurgeon, “Mourning at the Sight of the Crucified.” pg 190
vi
John Piper, https://www.desiringgod.org/topics/the-gospel
vii
Paulus, Bryon, quoting David Keesling in One Cry. (Moody Publishers, Chicago, 2014), pg 140
viii
Daniel Montgomery, Proof
ix
J.A. Medders, Gospel Formed, pg 26-27
x
Tim Keller, excerpt from his talk at Gospel Coalition Conference 2017,
“Boasting in the Cross”http://2017.thegospelcoalition.org/
xi
Sam Storms, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpwe6H9mFSM
xii
Montgomery, Daniel, Proof (Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2014), pg 12
xiii
John Piper, Sermon given in 2014, https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/the-supremacy-of-
christ-and-joy-in-a-postmodern-world
xiv
Mahaney, C.J. Living the Cross-centered Life (Multnomah Publishers, Sisters, OR, 2006), pg 80
xv
Edwards, Jonathan, The Works of Jonathan Edwards Vol. 2 Christ’s Agony (Edinburgh, Banner of
Truth Trust, 1995), pg 869
xvi
Hendriksen, William, Matthew, pg 970
xvii
Sproul, R.C. Christ our Mediator (Sisters: Multnomah Books, 2004), pg 87
xviii
Kirk, Sandy, The Glory of the Lamb (Hagerstown: McDougal Publishing, 2004), pg 68-69
xix
Tim Keller, quoting Ken Sande, sermon “Idol Factory” (renamed “Counterfeit God’s” based on his
recent book withthis title), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mK65lpveSM
xx
Mahaney, C.J. "Humility: True Greatness" 2005
xxi
Mahaney, C.J., quoting John Stott in "Humility: True Greatness" 2005
xxii
Mahaney, C.J. "Humility: True Greatness" 2005
xxiii
Stringer, Doug. Born to Die (Orlando, Bridge-Logos, 2006), pg 28-29

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Dr. C. Truman Thomas, paraphrased on Cross Examination I-IV, from Doug Stringer, Born

to Die, pgs 2-6 xxv Samuel Zwemmer, Glory of the Cross,

http://www.muhammadanism.org/Zwemer/glory_cross.pdf, pg 63 xxvi Samuel Zwemmer, Glory

of the Cross, , http://www.muhammadanism.org/Zwemer/glory_cross.pdf, pg 113

xxvii
Kirk, Sandy, The Glory of the Lamb (Hagerstown: McDougal Publishing, 2004), pg 46

Hymn written by Matthew Bridges and Godfrey Thring, 1851, Public Domain. “Crown Him with Many
xxviii

Crowns”
xxix
Mahesh Chavda, Glory in the Cross - the Power of the Blood of Jesus
http://65583.stablerack.com/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=0&view=post&articleid=62729&link=1&fld
Keywords= &fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0. The hymn quoted is by Francis J. Crosby, 1869, “Near the Cross”
xxx
The Collected Works of Edith Stein, The Hidden Life: Hagiographic Essays, Meditations, Spiritual
Texts, Meditation:“The Love of the Cross,” pg 91 [Mahesh Chavda, The Blood of Jesus]
xxxi
Charles Spurgeon, “Mourning at the Sight of the Crucified.” pg 190
xxxii
Kirk, Sandy, The Glory of the Lamb (Hagerstown: McDougal Publishing, 2004), pg 102-103, “Every
Wound Bleeds Glory”

C.J. Mahaney quoting John Stott, Living the Cross Centered Life (Sisters, Multnomah Publishers, 2006),
xxxiii

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