Chapel of the Resurrection

Lent Devotions 2023

WEEK 7 | Day 40: 8 Apr - Review and Prayer

This week is what we call Holy week or Passion week. We see the heart of God for a lost and dying humanity. The Cross was the only...

WEEK 7 | Day 39: 7 Apr - Prayer for the Healing and Restoration of Families

Scripture: “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn...

WEEK 7 | Day 38: 6 Apr - Love for brothers and sisters – called to servanthood

Scripture: “When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done...

WEEK 7 | Day 37: 5 Apr - The Son Submitting to the Father – Loving Obedience

Scripture: “If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with...

WEEK 7 | Day 36: 4 Apr - Father’s Heart for His children

Scripture: “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw...

WEEK 7 | Day 35: 3 Apr - God’s Heart as Husband

Scripture: "The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, tough she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her...

WEEK 6 | Day 34: 1 Apr - Review and Prayer

Review: 1. How much do you appreciate and value the church as a spiritual family? How much do you treasure all the brothers and sisters...

WEEK 6 | Day 33: 31 Mar - The Negative Commands (how to NOT treat ONE ANOTHER)

Scripture: “Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.”...

WEEK 6 | Day 32: 30 Mar - Bearing with one another in love

Scripture: “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.” (Ephesians 4:2) Devotion: Humility,...

WEEK 6 | Day 31: 29 Mar - Be Kind and Compassionate, forgiving one another.

Scripture: “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” (Ephesians 4:32)...

WEEK 6 | Day 30: 28 Mar - Love One Another

Scripture: “A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” (John 13:34) Devotion:...

WEEK 6 | Day 29: 27 Mar - We are One Family in Christ

Scripture: “Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his...

WEEK 5 | Day 28: 25 Mar - Review and Prayer Time

Review: 1. Monday, we dealt with relationship between husbands and wives. How do you feel about the whole concept of Biblical submission?...

WEEK 5 | Day 27: 24 Mar - The Deuteronomy 6 Model – The Family that Grows Together

Scripture: Deuteronomy 6 Devotion: Deuteronomy 6 contains very clear guidelines and instructions of how God-fearing families can grow...

WEEK 5 | Day 26: 23 Mar - Hospitality Toward Strangers

Scripture: “Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing...

WEEK 5 | Day 25: 22 Mar - Master and Domestic Helper

Scripture: "Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your...

WEEK 5 | Day 24: 21 Mar - Parent/Elders and Child

Scriptures: “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment...

WEEK 5 | Day 23: 20 Mar - Husband and Wife

Scripture: “Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head...

WEEK 4 | Day 22: 18 Mar - Review

We encourage you to gather your family and spend a time of reflection and prayer. Take time to examine the state of your family life. Be...

Week 4 | Day 21: 17 Mar - The Natures and Mechanics of Temptation

Scripture: “So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be...

Week 4 | Day 20: 16 Mar - Our Hope in the Second Adam

Scripture: “Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all...

Week 4 | Day 19: 15 Mar - Alienation and Loss of Intimacy

Scripture: “When the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they...

Week 4 | Day 18: 14 Mar - They Fell TOGETHER

Scripture: “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining...

Week 4 | Day 17: 13 Mar - What was Satan after?

Scripture: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” John 10:10...

Week 3 | Day 16: 11 Mar - Review

As we mentioned last Saturday, we are encouraging you individually and also as households, to gather together for a time of reflection,...

Week 3 | Day 15: 10 Mar - Keeping Ourselves Pure before God

Scripture: All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by...

Week 3 | Day 14: 9 Mar - Self-centered and Exploitive Sex

Scripture: For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from [a]sexual immorality; that each of you know...

Week 3 | Day 13: 8 Mar - Celebration of Sex in Marriage

Scripture: Song of Solomon 5:10-16 Devotion: The Book of the Song of Songs contains great poetry that celebrates sexual passion and...

Week 3 | Day 12: 7 Mar - Basis of Marriage – Intimacy and Self-giving

Scripture: The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman’ for she was taken out of man....

Week 3 | Day 11: 6 Mar - The Sanctity of Marriage

Scripture: "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually...

Week 2 | Day 10: 4 Mar - Review

Summary: In this past week, we have learnt: 1. God has bestowed human beings with ultimate dignity and value by putting his image in us....

Week 2 | Day 9: 3 Mar - Singleness

Scripture: I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs—how he can please the Lord....

Week 2 | Day 8: 2 Mar - And the Two Became One Flesh

Scripture: God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it…” (Genesis 1:28) Then...

Week 2 | Day 7: 1 Mar - The Suitable Helper

Scripture: The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” (Genesis 2:18) Devotion:...

Week 2 | Day 6: 28 Feb - Our Bodies Matter

Scripture: “Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man...

Week 2 | Day 5: 27 Feb - Human Dignity

Scripture: Read Psalm 8. “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”...

Week 1 | Day 4: 25 Feb - Review

Summary: In the past 3 days’ devotions, we have noted: God is love and He is inviting us to participate in this love in Christ. Only when...

Week 1 | Day 3: 24 Feb - That which was NOT GOOD!

Scripture: “Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone.” (Genesis 2:18) Devotion: This was and is humanity’s...

Week 1 | Day 2: 23 Feb - MALE and FEMALE he created THEM

Scripture: Read Genesis 1 Devotion: From the very beginning, Scripture reveals to us that God’s creative work is a work of distinctions:...

Week 1 | Day 1: 22 Feb - God is Love

“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me...