40 Days of Prayer
Bread and Flesh  

"I am the bread of life. Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." John 6:48-51 NIV

"And then let us look to Jesus. In death He glorified God; through death He was glorified with Him. It is by dying - being dead to self and living for God - that we can glorify Him. This death to self, this life to the glory of God, is what Jesus gives and lives in each on who can trust Him for it." Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

How we live the Christian life is always an expression of how we think about God....Being amazed by God's grace is a sign of spiritual vitality. It is a litmus test of how firm and real is our grasp of the Christian gospel and how close is our walk with Jesus Christ. The growing Christian finds that the grace of God astonishes and amazes. Yet we frequently take the grace of God for granted. We think: "Of course God is gracious."... A chief reason for the weakness of the Christian church in the West, for the poverty of our witness and any lack of vitality in our worship, probably lies here: we sing about "amazing grace" and speak of "amazing grace," but far too often it has ceased to amaze us. Sadly, we might more truthfully sing of "accustomed grace." We have lost the joy and energy that are experienced when grace seems truly amazing.

         (Taken from Sinclair B. Ferguson's book By Grace Alone)

For the next 40 days as we shove back the world and listen to the other voice, take time to think through how personally God has worked the gospel in your own life - His flesh that was given for your life.  Be amazed once again by His grace.