The Unlikely Planting

As Jesus entered Jerusalem, the Passover crowd thought He was a nation-changer, a real power-broker. But Jesus was about to do the unfathomable!

While the people were waving palm branches and shouting “Praise God …. Hail to the King of Israel,” Jesus knew everything would change in a few hours.

Raising Lazarus was a miracle of death delayed (Lazarus would die again); in John 12, Jesus declares a permanent end was coming.  But at a tremendous cost …

Kings send others to die for the kingdom, but our Heavenly King, He gave Himself!

“Now the time has come for the Son of Man to enter His glory.  I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone.  But its death will produce many new kernels – a plentiful harvest of new lives.”

There has never been and never will be again another planting like that one!

The Lord loves you, He always has!

Some Prayer Prompts to Help

Read – John 12:12-36

Contemplate – Spend time thinking about the King giving Himself to produce a plentiful harvest of new lives – yours and mine.

Confess – Pray for insight into the ways you love your life in the world too much (vs 25).  Turn it over to Him.

Request – Pray for a bountiful harvest of new lives this Easter (vs 24).  Pray for those around you that do not know Jesus, that they will see and trust in the light (vs 36).

Listen – Praise God as you listen to Flowers by Samantha Ebert

Praise – Praise Him for the victory over death and Satan (vs 31-32).