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Lent 2024: seven twitter-size freshly baked devotions for week 1

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A Christian Girl's Guide to Lent ✞

Lent is a Christian practice that i’ve always wanted to take part in, ever since i learned what it was all about. this year will be my first time participating, and I am so excited!

i really want to use this time to grow closer to God and deepen my faith. so, i decided to put together this mini guide (inspired by @/better4christ’s video) to help me—and any other Christian who wants to observe Lent this year.

i hope this helps! 🫶🏾

what is Lent?

Lent is a 40 day season (excluding Sundays) of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It's a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord's Resurrection at Easter. 

when does Lent take place?

౨ৎ Catholic & Protestant Lent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 to Thursday, April 17, 2025

౨ৎ Orthodox Lent: Monday, March 3, 2025 to Saturday, April 19, 2025

what is the purpose of Lent?

Lent mirrors the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the wilderness (Matthew 4:2) and helps us to draw closer to God by letting go of distractions and focusing on Him. It’s a beautiful time to let go of habits that don't serve us, allowing God to transform us and become more Christ-like.

what are the key practices of Lent?

Fasting

food-based fasting:

౨ৎ Traditional fasting - no food during certain hours

౨ৎ Daniel Fast - no meat, dairy or processed foods

౨ৎ Vegan fast - no animal products

౨ৎ No processed sugar/junk food

౨ৎ No caffeine/alcohol 

lifestyle-based fasting:

౨ৎ Social Media

౨ৎ Secular music

౨ৎ Gossiping/Drama

౨ৎ Swearing/Cursing

౨ৎ Entertainment (TV, gaming, etc.)

౨ৎ Complaining/Negativity

౨ৎ Procrastination 

Prayer

౨ৎ Spending more time in prayer, reflection, and reading Scripture to grow closer to God.

Almsgiving

౨ৎ Giving to those in need through charity, donations, or acts of kindness to reflect Christ’s love.

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this year, i’ve personally decided to fast from secular music and gossip/drama for Lent, and I truly believe it will help me grow closer to God. but remember, Lent isn’t just about fasting, it’s about using this time to strengthen your relationship with Him.

rather than just cutting out a habit, try replacing it with something better. for example, if you’re fasting from social media, use that time to read your Bible, pray, or spend intentional quiet time with God.

small changes can make a big impact!

[gabrielshair]

Happy Lent to all of you who celebrate 🤍

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“Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’””

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭4‬:‭4‬ ‭NIV‬‬

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GRACE UPON GRACE E:4

LENT/ASH WEDNESDAY

Lent isn’t just a season of giving up etc. sweets or social media. It’s about drawing closer to God. It’s a season of repentance,fasting,and preparation leading up to Easter,reminding us of Jesus’ sacrifice and our need for Him.

On Ash Wednesday,we receive ashes on our foreheads as a sign of humility,repentance,and dependence on God. It’s a reminder that life is short,but our hope is in eternal life through Christ.

Some ways to celebrate and observe Lent spiritually is:

1. Repentance and Confession: Use this time to turn away from sin and draw nearer to God. Confess with your mouth all the sins you’ve committed (even the ones you’ve already confessed) and then ask for forgiveness. Remember God isn’t angry at you,He appreciates your confession.🤍

2. Fasting and Self-Denial: Give up something that distracts you from God,not just for the sake of sacrifice but to grow spiritually. Use this time to do fasting,you can do all types of fasting like am to pm fasting,fasting from social media or a food,or fasting for days,whatever it is,use it as a time to read your Bible, pray to God,and to grow closer to our Lord and Saviour<3

3. Prayer and Scripture: Spend more time talking to God and meditating on His Word. Read your Bible and take it in,I also recommend asking God to control your Bible and hand to flip to whatever page and passage for you to read. You can listen to Ally Yost’ podcast “Christ With Coffee On Ice” where she has an episode called ‘meditating with the Spirit of God’, so you can do 30 minute meditation with God (it’s a beautiful episode with her beautiful singing and guiding). Meditating and prayer draws us closer to God by allowing us to keep a relationship and just chat:)

4. Acts of Kindness and Charity: Lent isn’t just about giving up something up,it’s about giving to others. Etc. tell your family or friends you love them,give to the poor/homeless,or give a stranger a compliment.

I hope y’all got to learn some info about Lent and use it to celebrate Ash Wednesday until Easter,God bless y’all and remember God loves you! 🤍🤍

1 JOHN 1:9

“If we confess our sins,he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

MATTHEW 6:16-18-

“Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;

That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.”

PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7-

“Be careful for nothing;but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding,shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”

ISAIAH 58:7-

“Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry,and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked,that thou cover him;and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?.”

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Ash Wednesday, Isaiah 6, and the blessing in our limitations

Painting by Justin Simmons.

(If you're interested in listening to this post instead of reading it, I also shared this on my podcast, Blessed Are the Binary Breakers.)

I said, “Mourn for me; I’m ruined! I’m a man with unclean lips, and I live among a people with unclean lips. Yet I’ve seen the king, the Lord of heavenly forces!” Then one of the winged creatures flew to me, holding a glowing coal that ze had taken from the altar with tongs. Ze touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips. Your guilt has departed, and your sin is removed.” - Isaiah 6:5-7

Did the glowing coal leave a mark? A smear of dark? A bright burn?

Reading this text on Ash Wednesday, I can’t help but connect Isaiah’s coal and our ashy crosses:

He confesses himself unclean — admits his limits, where he and his people have failed.

We profess ourselves dust — acknowledge our limits, the finite time we have here and now, and how often we’ve failed to cherish that time.

In the confession, we open ourselves to blessing. Accepting our limits, we fall into God’s limitless love.

Why these physical, ritual actions — coal to the lips, ashes to the brow — to mark these limits and the blessings they yield?

God knows, respects, loves our existence as embodied spirits, inspirited bodies. She pairs spiritual gifts with tangible signs to help us experience Her truths with our whole selves.

A glowing coal — dead plants packed deep, transformed over eons, unburied at last and set alight — touches truth-telling lips to set them free.

Ashes of palm branches once waved in worship, burned down to begin the cycle anew, mark us as individually finite, but gathered into an infinite love.

Take time to prayerfully consider your own limits. What blessings, what liberation can you imagine flowing from our individual finitude? How can you connect your limited time and gifts to a greater whole, in small ways with great love?

- Shared on Daily Ripple for 14 Feb, 2024

[softhomemama]

Preparing My Heart for Lent: A Season with Jesus

For me, Lent is about stripping things down to what really matters… making space for God in the middle of my life as a wife, mom, and homemaker—not by piling on more to-do’s, but by letting the everyday become more intentional.

Lent means fasting… For the longest time, I thought fasting just wasn’t for me. Skipping meals? No way, not with two little kids and days that drain every ounce of energy. But then I came across something Saint Augustine said: “Not eating is not a virtue; but it is a virtue to refrain from eating for the sake of justice” (Sermon 207). That hit me. Maybe fasting isn’t about food right now, but about slowing down, letting go of hurry, choosing gratitude instead of frustration, cutting out the noise. Maybe it means stepping back from mindless scrolling—because honestly, social media can drain me more than hunger ever could.

And then there’s the Word, showing up like it always does, whispering what my heart needs to hear: “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10). That’s the kind of Lent I want—less so I can have more… less so I can make space for Him.

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"For dust you are, And to dust you shall return."

Meditating and praying about this Scripture on Ash Wednesday, and God has blessed me with beautiful insight on the Creation, the fall, and the Salvation of man.

Originally, God created man out of dust:

"The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being." ~ Genesis 2:7

God beautifully lovingly shaped us out of dust in His Own Image and breathed His own breath of life into us.

And yet we forsook God's Righteous Image in stooping into sin, and despised that blessed breath of life by choosing death (for God warned them, in the day that you eat of the forbidden fruit you shall surely die, the wages of sin is death.)

And God was grieved to say:

"In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.” ~ Genesis 3:19

In death brought through sin, man returned to dust.

Yet in His Grace God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

I believe there is a calling on the Gospel, calling us to have faith that the very God who created us from dust is able and gracious to make us again. And that's the Good News! God does this through the Gospel. How merciful He is to return us from the dust to which we had returned in sin.

Jesus came down to the dust of our death: spending three days in the grave to defeat it. Through His Resurrection He brought us up, out from the dust of our death, and made us anew.

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." ~ 2 Corinthians 5:17

Rescued from dust (saved from death) in Christ we are a new creation, refined and revived.

Once more God breathes the breath of life into us. In John 20:22: (Jesus) breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit."

How graciously God breathed life back into us! Filled with the Holy Spirit, man becomes a living being once more, cleansed and washed from sin.

Shaped through the process of Salvation by being conformed to Christ, we are returned to God's Beautiful Image.

I'm realizing that the Gospel is God forming us out of the dust anew through Christ's Sacrifice and Salvation.

It truly inspires repentance: that we forsook God, leaving our Creator to return to dust through sin; and yet, in our sin, God never forsook us but gave His Own Son to rescue us and form us out of the dust again. May we be careful not to return to the dust of our sin: not to return to the former sins Christ saved us from but to walk in the Newness of Life in His Salvation.

How Mercifully God Loves me! After I'd fallen into sin, crumbled into dust, the very Hands that made me (whose design I had betrayed) lovingly collected that dust and shaped me back again in the Love of Jesus.

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A very tiny church. ⛪️✝️🌷

[vulpine111]

Today's reading for Lent is rich in wisdom and especially relevant to my life. I still have so many resentments to pray about.

[in-his-sacred-heart]

YOU ARE CHILDREN OF THE MOST HIGH

(PSALM 82:6 NIV) I SAID, YOU ARE "GODS," YOU ARE ALL CHILDREN OF THE MOST HIGH. Don't ever forget it! No matter where you are in your walk, when you were baptized, God claimed you as His own! Let it become your daily affirmation. Allow it to help you grow to move even closer to God than ever before. Because of all of the affirmations that exist in the world. This is the only one that matters!

The Lenten Journey poem is not meant to suggest that these are Jesus' exact words, but rather to acknowledge that His life and this profound event that Jesus experienced in the desert have already spoken them. As a Catholic, I understand that I cannot put words into Jesus' mouth or speak for Him directly. My intention is simply to make this moment real for my CCD students —an invitation to walk with Him through His journey and reflect on His sacrifice in a personal way.

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Explaining: Lent, Good Friday, Easter / Passover.

How the Pagan Celebrations of Lent, Good Friday and Easter started in “Christian” Churches:   The Short Direct Answer is the Holy Roman Catholic Church is the Cause of this. Paganism is Deeply Rooted in the “Christian” Celebration of Lent, Good Friday, Easter / Passover. The Truth is Almost Every so-called Christian Church is Pagan in its Origin. Even Many Actual Christian Churches are Full of…

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Twitter-size lent devotions with duke jeyaraj: week two (2024 season)

Duke Jeyaraj send freshly-gleaned Lent season devotions via Whatsapp from 918886040605. Here are the seven devotions for week 2 of Lent 2024: Duke Jeyaraj is the founder of Grabbing the Google Generation from Gehenna Mission (G4 Mission). This ministry is reader-supported. Use this QR code to support this ministry over and above what you rightly do for your local church and other ministries you…

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Did You Know What Jesus Said Between His Ages 12 to 30? Lent Is The Time To Learn All That Jesus Said

Have you ever made a puzzle with half of the pieces missing? Do you get the complete picture if half the puzzle is made? What if others made up what was in the missing pieces because it was too powerful for you to know, according to them? What if others scared you and your eternal Soul by saying those missing pieces were apocryphal, which only means hidden knowledge, not anti-Jesus, nor…