PoC-9 1st Thursday of Lent: The Power of the Cross Lenten Meditation
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
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Summary
The Cross of Christ Teaches Us. . .How to Trust and Give Thanks
Steps to Take as You Follow Christ
Ask—What do I need from God to follow Jesus more closely?
Seek—As the day progresses, when you find yourself impatient, unloving, judgmental, lustful, or anything that strikes you as against the gospel of Jesus, ask God for the gift that will help you to be more like Christ.
Knock—Meditate on James 1:17.
Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
Spend some time giving thanks to God for how he has led you, even “through the valley of the shadow of death” to this moment.
Transform Your Life—Try to make it a practice to “ask, seek, and knock” in your relationship with God. See that relationship as something that happens with every breath you take. Speak to God often!
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| 0:00.0 | The Power of the Cross |
| 0:05.0 | Thursday of the first week of Lent |
| 0:10.0 | The Cross of Christ teaches us how to trust and give thanks. |
| 0:16.0 | Ask, what do I need from God to follow Jesus more closely? |
| 0:23.6 | Seek. |
| 0:25.6 | As the day progresses, when you find yourself impatient, unloving, judgmental, lustful, or anything that strikes you as against the gospel of Jesus, |
| 0:36.6 | ask God for the gift that will help |
| 0:39.3 | you to be more like Christ. Knock, meditate on James chapter 1, verse 17. It is all that is good, |
| 0:53.3 | everything that is perfect, which is given us from above. |
| 0:57.0 | It comes down from the Father of all light. |
| 1:00.0 | With him there is no such thing as alteration, no shadow of a change. |
| 1:10.0 | Review the course of your life and try to discern the goodness of God. |
| 1:13.6 | Spend some time giving thanks to God for how he has led you, even through the valley of the shadow of death, to this moment. |
| 1:25.6 | Transform your life. death to this moment. |
| 1:30.3 | Transform your life. Try to make it a practice to ask, seek, and knock in your relationship with God. |
| 1:38.3 | See that relationship as something that happens with every breath you take. Speak to God often. |
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