Memory Verse for the Week: John 3:3 (ESV)

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Intro: How do you typically behave when you need to rethink something?

THE HEAVEN-EARTH INTERSECTION
What if there is an intersection between heaven and earth? What should we expect there?

OUR NATURAL LIMITS
Why can we not enter God’s Kingdom as we are, on our own?

THE WIND & THE SERPENT
Along with our need, what if there is a gracious provision?

YOU CAN PRAY WITH US …

1. Worship the LORD, God our Savior, for His mercy and life-giving grace. Praise Him, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, that with the same power He worked at creation, He has worked to give us new birth, right in our hearts!

2. How have you lived like Nicodemus, thinking that the problem of sin is in other people, but not you? Confess your arrogance and folly to Jesus, asking Him to forgive you and change your heart by His indwelling Spirit.

3. Give thanks to Jesus for how He is gracious even as He is directly honest. Thank Him for so great a love that He would reveal everything wrong about us to cleanse us from it, and then give us His Spirit to make us new.

4. Who do you know that is religious but blind to their own guilt, sin, and helplessness? Pray for them, asking the Lord to help them to see their need for His grace, just as He did for Nicodemus.

5. Ask the Spirit to bear in you His fruit of love and joy. Pray for insight into what it means that Jesus came to take us off of death row and reconcile us to the Father, and commission us as conveyors of that hope.