Holy Week Fast | Monday

Over the course of the next three days, we will be praying and fasting, focusing on deepening our intimacy with Jesus—that we might know, experience, and believe in Jesus’ love poured out for us on the cross. Our hope and prayer is that this is an open door to abiding love.

Today, we’ll be praying out of Romans 5:1-11, a passage highlighting the peace, grace, and joy we can have through Jesus’s sacrifice. Take a moment at the beginning of your day, during meal times, or whenever makes sense to meditate on God’s word, letting the Holy Spirit breathe new life and insight on His words, and venturing deeper into the truths of the Gospel.

Below are a few prompts to help guide your prayer, but feel free to open up your time to the Holy Spirit’s leading into deeper relationship and intimacy with the Father.

• Father, how have you demonstrated your love for me this last week? (feel free to turn this into a moment of gratitude)

• Holy Spirit, what is your personal invitation for me today out of this verse? 

• Jesus, who are you offering peace, grace, and hope to today? How can I join you? Take a moment to also pray for the person that came to mind.

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ² Through him we have also obtained access by faith  into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. ³  Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, ⁴  and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, ⁵  and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

⁶  For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. ⁷  For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— ⁸  but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹  Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. ¹⁰  For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. ¹¹  More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.