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FUMCFW Prayer Ministries offers many ways to get connected with our praying community. Recognizing that every person has unique gifts and callings, many of which emerge out of times of struggle and pain, we are here to encourage individual spiritual formation and disciplines that can become powerful influences on all aspects of the life-long faith journey.
Looking to spend more time with God? Our Daily Bread Devotionals are written by people of faith and include messages of instruction and inspiration. We invite you to take a few moments to read and reflect upon today’s scripture selection and to carry these thoughts with you into your day. Join us on this daily journey of faith!
Palm Sunday begins with a collision of meanings.
For Jewish pilgrims, palms were not decoration. They were memory.
The Apostle Paul writes, “But the fruit of the Spirit is…” — and then he names what look like attributes, but are really evidence. Evidence that Christ is alive in us.
In these verses the prophet Hosea tells us that Israel has become prosperous and has drifted away from their faith, their hearts are false, and now bad things will happen.
Yes, I like to use fancy words. I usually find myself not having the right ones when I need them, but in this case I do…
Drinking the Rain
The vineyard has been with us all week—soil, tending, expectation. Hebrews shifts the focus slightly. Now it is not only vines, but ground. Earth that drinks.
The vineyard has carried us all week—Isaiah’s love song, Jeremiah’s lament, tenants who forgot whose soil they stood on. Now Jesus shifts the image inward.
“I planted you as a choice vine, wholly of pure seed.
How then did you turn degenerate and become a wild vine?”
The Upper Room is a well-recognized resource and model of practical Christianity, accessible in varied formats to help people feel invited and welcomed into God’s presence each day.
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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. (Matthew 6:9-13)
