From the story of Passion Week in the bible, which is from Palm Sunday until Easter Sunday, there are 3 areas of our lives we can focus on during this time.
- Make time to praise, sing and worship
- Mark 11:1-11
- At the beginning of Passion Week people were praising and joyful, but later in the week when they turned from praise it became painful.
- Praise isn’t of this world it makes the enemy flee Nehemiah 8:10
- God has authority over all our problems (pain, sickness, money worries etc.), let’s stop telling God about our problems and tell our problems about our God.
- Be persistent in your prayer
- Mark 11:13-19
- Like in the temple God is clearing out the distractions and calling us to be intentional and persistent in our prayers.
- “Is prayer your steering wheel or spare tyre?” – Corrie Ten Boom
- What’s our priority?
- Mark 14:3-9
- Jesus gave up everything for us, what’s our priority to do what we can for Jesus?
- Mary’s priority was anointing Jesus and using what she had, others criticised her but Jesus called it “a beautiful thing” v6.
- Whatever we do to help in this time do it for Jesus and it will be a beautiful thing, even if others criticise us.
- Use whatever we’re ‘rich’ in to serve, whether that’s time, talents or treasure.