Father Forgive Them Devotional
Father forgive them following jesus example we pray for our enemies known and unknown and ask that the loving will of god be done in their lives.
Father forgive them devotional. This is a stunning prayer. Father forgive them was his plea. Scripture reading psalm 103 1 12. Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing he said.
On the cross all the sin in the world was placed upon the lamb of god who takes it all away. When people treat us unjustly it s natural for us to want them punished rather than pardoned. Jesus did what we can t. For they do not know what they are doing luke 23 34 nrsv introduction to this devotional series on the seven last words.
Grace is not cheap. Javascript seems to be disabled in your browser. After being beaten and whipped with 39 lashes jesus was nailed to the cross for all to see. Father forgive them april 10 2009 by bethany hayes audio controls are below the devotional to listen to this devotional i often wonder what it was like to cross through the red sea on dry ground to watch jericho s walls collapse or to walk with jesus on the sea of galilee.
Find a needed prayer of forgiveness in this prayer card. Today and tomorrow and then every day next week my devotions will be based on the so called seven last words of christ from the cross. God could easily have rescued his son. Then jesus said father forgive them for they do not know what they do scripture.
Can you think of someone right now whom you cannot imagine ever being a follower of jesus christ. Golgotha which means place of the skull was just outside jerusalem at the crossroads of many. Home father forgive them. Our sin is not a trifling thing jesus was killed for it.
I would challenge you to start praying for that person by name. Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing. By greg laurie on oct 15 2010. In the early days of his earthly ministry christ instructed his followers love your enemies bless those who curse you do good to those who hate you and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you matthew 5 44 on the cross the lord jesus lived out his own command.
Father forgive them luke 23 33 34. Jesus is both god s message and god s messenger. Devotion father forgive them. They were a crazy mob mad at something they couldn t see so they took it out on of all people god.
1 peter 2 23 tells us that jesus entrusted himself to him who judges justly he simply left the judging to god.