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2nd Sunday in Lent
First Lesson
1 Kings 8:37-43
37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting,
mildew, locust, or if there be caterpillar; if their enemy besiege
them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever
sickness there be;
38 What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or
by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague
of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwellingplace, and forgive, and
do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart
thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of
all the children of men;)
40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the
land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people
Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;
42 (For
they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and
of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward
this house;
43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwellingplace, and do according to
all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of
the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel;
and that they may know that this house, which I have builded,
is called by thy name.
1st Lesson Questions -
Is my name great, hand strong, and my arm stretched out? (V. 42) If not, what is happening with these things, most of the time? RESOLVE.
Second Lesson
Colossians 3:12-17
12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels
of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any
man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so
also do ye.
14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond
of perfectness.
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which
also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
17 And
whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord
Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
2nd Lesson Questions -
How am I doing, in regards to these directives? What do I need to do in order to more fully reflect this passage with my life? Do I follow verse 17 every day, and in everything I do? If not, why not? RESOLVE.