Day 27 - March 11

Scripture Reading

Genesis 3:15-19 (NLT)

15 And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”

16 Then he said to the woman,

“I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will give birth.

And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.”

17 And to the man he said,

“Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.

18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.

19 By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.”

Prayer Focus

To see our own sinfulness so that we can see and fully appreciate that His grace alone rescues us

Turn us, O good Lord, and so shall we be turned. Be favorable, O Lord, be favorable to your people, who turn to you in weeping, fasting and praying; for you are a merciful God, full of compassion, long-suffering, and of great pity. You spare, when we deserve punishment, and in your wrath think upon mercy. Spare your people, good Lord, spare them, and let not your heritage be brought to confusion. Hear us, O Lord, for your mercy is great, and after the multitude of your mercies look upon us, through the merits and mediation of your blessed Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen!

~ “Spare Your People” by George Whitefield