Fasting & Prayer Guide for Week of March 16

Week Three Prayer Guide: 

Walking With the King to the Cross

Behold Your King

Read

John 18 and 19;  Isaiah 52: 13-15; Isaiah 53

Consider

Nowhere in all the Old Testament does the gospel of Jesus Christ shine more clearly than in Isaiah 53.  Seven hundred years before Jesus came into the world, God revealed to His prophet the very heart of the gospel – the clear picture of Christ's saving work.  At the heart of that saving work is substitution.  The Messiah is pierced and crushed in my place.  The righteous One suffered and died in the place of unrighteous sinners like me.  The loving Shepherd suffered and died in the place of the lost sheep like me.  The exalted King suffered and died in the place of the rebel subjects like me.

As you fast and pray this week consider:

v  The love of God that led Him to send His Son to suffer and die (Is 53:4)

v  The wounds and pain Jesus bore because of my sin (Is 53:5)

v  The sinfulness of my own heart, my tendency to stray, and Jesus willingness to take this on himself (Is 53:6)

v  The perfect obedience of Jesus, His willingness to suffer in my place (Is 53:7-8)

v  The loving heart of God and His saving grace; It was His will to crush His Son and make Him an offering for sin. (Is 53: 10-12)

Pray

v  Verse by verse pray through Isaiah 53, asking God to show you the glory of Christ in each and every verse of this passage.

v  Read and pray through Isaiah 52:13-15.  Spend some time in silent thought and meditation on what you read and see in these passages from John and Isaiah