Let today be the day you give up who you are and focus more on who you could become over the next forty days.
Ash Wednesday blessings to you. As we begin this forty-day Lenten journey, may we be strengthened to carry our crosses, encouraged to walk in God’s goodness, be diligent in prayer, reflection, and fasting, and may we seriously consider our ways, and strive to live a more godly and sober life, so that we could be changed in the image and likeness of Christ.
Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.” 1 John 4:14
“Please, sir,” the woman said, “Give me this water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again, and I won’t have to come here to get water.” Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.”
Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him. John 7:38
“On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.”
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12:3
“Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the Lord God is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
The precepts of the Lord are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes. Psalm 19:8
Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell. Psalm 43:3
Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed. Psalm 34:5
“Singers and pipers will proclaim, and all of my springs of joy are in You. You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy.”
“New every morning is the love, our wakening, and uprising prove; through sleep and darkness safely brought, restored to life and power, and thought. New mercies each returning day, hover around us while we pray, and help us this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.”
They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light. Psalm 36
Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. Jeremiah 31:14
And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it. Jeremiah 33:9
For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things. Psalm 107:9
But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life. John 4:14
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Matthew 5:6
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28