Short Prayers for Lent 2023

Short Prayers for Lent 2023

Not my will, but your will be done, O’ God.

Could you offer this prayer? Jesus could. And did (Matthew 26:39). “And going a little farther, he threw himself on the ground and prayed, ‘My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet not what I want but what you want.”  This line is the seed that sprouts into a harvest of healthy praying. After this offering, every thing else we say in prayer is but a twig or a branch.

Why should prayers be short? Here’s you answer: Short Prayers? Really?

Short Prayers for Lent begin with Ash Wednesday, February 22, 2023.

A Short Prayer for Each Day of Lent 2023

From Cross to Crown. An inescapable tension. In the Good Friday cross of Jesus we see how hostile to God the human race has become. But on Easter Sunday God raises Jesus from the dead and crowns him King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Christ’s crown announces the forgiveness of our sin and the redemption of all things in creation.

Ash Wednesday marks the first of forty days of discipline and devotion, as we meditate on what happened and thank God for divine grace in our lives. This 2023 Lenten season I recommend you engage with one Short Prayer per day, six days per week, until Easter.

Just click, read, meditate, and pray.

SHORT PRAYERS FOR LENT BEGIN…

Ash Wednesday, Feb 22, 2023: 1. Creation                   Click here to get started!

Thursday, Feb 23, 2023: 2. Incarnation

Friday, Feb 24, 2023: 3. Truth

Saturday, March 25, 2023: 4. Beauty

Monday, Feb 27, 2023: 5. Gross

Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023: 6. Prayer in Crisis

Wednesday, March 1, 2023: 7. Twaddle

Thursday, March 2, 2023: 8. Fire

Friday, March 3, 2023: 9. Family

Saturday, March 4, 2023: 10. Healing

Monday, March 6, 2023: 11. Cross

Tuesday, March 7, 2023: 12. Fool

Wednesday, March 8, 2023: 13. Faith

Thursday, March 9, 2023: 14. Hope

Friday, March `10, 2023: 15. Love

Saturday, March 11, 2023: 16. Peace

Monday, March 13, 2023: 17. Strength

Tuesday, March 14, 2023: 18. Temptation

Wednesday, March 15, 2023: 19. Revenge

Thursday, March 16, 2023: 20. Wild

Friday, March 17, 2023: 21. Freedom

Saturday, March 18, 2023: 22. Small

Monday, March 20, 2023: 23. Nature

Tuesday, March 21, 2023: 24. Grace

Wednesday, March 22, 2023: 25. Buddha

Thursday, March 23, 2023: 26. Mysticism

Friday, March 24, 2023: 27. Baptism

Saturday, March 25, 2023: 28. Communion

Monday, March 27, 2023: 29. Heaven

Tuesday, March 28, 2023: 30. Humor

Wednesday, March 29, 2023: 31. Blessing

Thursday, March 30, 2023: 32. Sin

Friday, March 31, 2023: 33. Redemptive Violence

Saturday, April 1, 2023: 34. Sin Boldly!

PALM SUNDAY begins Holy Week

Holy Monday, April 3, 2023: 35. Jesus Cleanses the Temple

Holy Tuesday, April 4, 2023: 36. Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

Holy Wednesday, April 5, 2023: 37. The Authority of Jesus Questioned

Maundy Thursday, April 6, 2023: 38. Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

Good Friday, April 7, 2023: 39. The Death of Jesus

Holy Saturday, April 8, 2023: 40. The Burial of Jesus

EASTER

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Ted Peters is a Lutheran pastor and emeritus seminary professor. He serves as a contact pastor for Faith Lutheran Church in Santa Rosa, California.

Ted is author of Short Prayers  and The Cosmic Self. His one volume systematic theology is now in its 3^rd edition, God—The World’s Future (Fortress 2015). He has undertaken a thorough examination of the sin-and-grace dialectic in two works, Sin: Radical Evil in Soul and Society (Eerdmans 1994) and Sin Boldly! (Fortress 2015). He is now publishing a new collection of essays, The Voice of Public Christian Theology (ATF 2023). See his website: TedsTimelyTake.com.

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