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The Traditions of the Lenten Season
and Holy Week

Many Christians like to express their faith by observing some of the original traditions of Holy Week or, (as some have called it), Passion Week. Many others often just wonder what it all means. So, lets see… 

To a seeking believer, there is no arguing that this time of year is very important to the origins of our faith, as well as our continued faith in God. Many believe it is even more significant to us than Christmas, and it is certainly our cornerstone message when proclaiming the Gospel of Christ as the truth to a better way to live and to love in this world – and the world to come. 

Searching Bible Study Near Me?

The Reunion Church is a non-denominational Bible teaching church located in Peoria, AZ. We have in depth discipleship classes on Sunday mornings at 9 am and weekly small group Bible studies in locations around the Phoenix metro area.

Praying the Psalms

Praying the Psalms provides a wonderful guide to praying biblical prayers. The Psalms express a wide variety of human emotions, and there are certainly psalms for each celebration or challenge we face. What Psalms should we pray?  Pray the ones that resonate in our heart and within our spirit.  Each of us will find different Psalms to be more effective at different times in our lives. 

A Time to Pray

The Scripture indicates that one of the great keys to effective and righteous prayer is our faith in God and belief in Christ Jesus. This is particularly true when we exercise both as we pray to God in faith, through belief in Christ Jesus, by the power of His Holy Spirit. We are to pray believing, without doubting – a truth taught in the epistle of James. Our prayers should be of genuine faith and wholehearted belief.

John 16:23-24
“In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.”

2025: A Time to Watch, A Time to Pray

The watchman is a call and command for each follower of Yeshua to more fully engage oneself in a disciplined and discerning mindset and awareness – a moment to look around – a time to walk in the Spirit. Often, in our present day, it is like we’re looking into the “face” of Romans 1:25 – “trading the truth of God for a lie and focusing on earthly things rather than our Creator.” While we need a greater hunger and thirst for what is right and righteous and born of the Spirit; we are stuck with an an appetite that only wants what is forbidden and forewarned – a taste for only what has been born of our flesh. The good news is that we have been given 2025 to turn this around. We have been given a window of reprieve. More later on 2025 as the year of the “window” and it’s relationship to the 5th letter of the Hebrew aleph-bet; “hei” or הִ””. For now let’s focus on the command of Jesus to watch and pray.

The Marriage Journey

Eric and Kristen Fisher share some of their marriage journey. Our lives, our families and marriages are God’s garden. He’s cultivating us in His own time. Instead of trying to impose my will or my timing to my circumstances, what I need to pray for is humility,

Philippians 2:3-5
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus.”

Patience, Kindness and Grace
Ephesians 4:1-3
“I, therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love.”

Giving Thanks

Why is giving thanks to God important? Because our gratitude and thanksgiving offered in praise carries us into His Presence to worship God in the Holy Place – in His Presence.

“I lift my head to see His face and then behold His Glory, for He is Holy – Our Holy Lord.”

Certainly the Word of God teaches us that the humble offering of thanksgiving is always a blessed time for fellowship between God the Creator in Heaven and we the creation here on earth.

The Sovereignty of God, cont.

With God’s sovereignty comes all power. The biblical term for this is omnipotence and it refers to God’s unconditioned power to do that which He wills to do in accordance with His nature.
We have been learning about God as Creator, and as we said earlier, the Bible unapologetically portrays God as the Lord of both creation and the history of creation. As Christians we know and believe this to be true because all that exists owes its reality, integrity, and continuity to the eternal power of the Word of God which establishes and upholds it.

Worship God as Sovereign

As God’s creation we will inevitably come realize that many of our struggles are often the result of a collision between our plans and God’s plans. Although you knew exactly what you wanted to accomplish and those things that you were determined to avoid, your life didn’t unfold as you planned. In some scenarios, it seems as if life is totally out of your control. But, you must rest in the fact that every situation, circumstance, location, experience, and relationship of your life has been under the wise and careful administration of the Lord God Almighty. He has known from the beginning exactly what He was going to do and exactly why He would do it.