HPC is in the beginning of our 21 Days of Prayer series. There is a website that can be checked each day for devotionals about the readings that we are doing together. Under each day there is a section for readers to leave comments or thoughts, and I was touched by two things that have been shared there in these first two days of prayer.
Yesterday we read John 1, and here’s what super-spiritual, crazy for Jesus, fellow Africa-lover Sarah Andry noticed most about that chapter: John 1:5 says “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can NEVER extinguish it.”
I had completely read over that verse and didn’t even think twice, but I am so grateful she brought me back there! No matter what the world says, no matter how dark things seem to get, His light CANNOT be extinguished by the darkness! His light is ALWAYS brighter than anything we go through. Wow. I love that.
Today we read John 2, and here is what beautiful Jennifer Maggio’s hubby Jeff had to say about it: “The enemy tries to remind us daily of who we really are, but we only need to remind him of who our God really is, and Satan will flee like the coward he is….claim victory in the name of Jesus today!”
That’s such an awesome thought. I need to constantly remind myself and the enemy of who my God is. The devil does remind me constantly of my humanness, but I just pray that everytime he does, I can remember to tell him all about how huge my God is!
I am so excited to be kicking this year off with prayer and fasting. We have such massive expectations of what God’s going to do in our lives this year. We can’t do it alone- our dreams depend completely on Him and I am loving spending this time with my Father in Heaven.
(click here to check out the nationwide movement of churches participating in the 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting- Awakening)
