Tuesday: 6:30PM Clean Church

Wednesday: 7:00PM- Prayer 7:35 Service- Esther 4

Friday: 7:00PM- Good Friday Service

Saturday: 7:00Am -Men's Prayer

Saturday- 8:30AM- Zumba Praise and CrossFit

(Spanish Service @ 8:30AM, Book of Acts)

The Word of Grace Devotion for the Week of April 14, 2014

Jesus Weeps Over Jerusalem

Luke 19:41- “And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it.”

Beloved, imagine riding into Jerusalem with thousands upon thousands of pilgrims cheering you on while waving palm branches and placing their clocks on the road ahead of you! What a festive and celebratory day it must have been as Jesus entered into Jerusalem. Various prophets, from Zechariah to Daniel, had predicted the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Jesus must have been stoked! We certainly would have been.

But as Jesus nears Jerusalem, his heart turns to the people of Jerusalem and He begins to weep. He weeps because many of them would ultimately reject Him as their Messiah. He weeps because of the upcoming wrath soon to befall Jerusalem in 70AD. He weeps because our Savior takes no joy in the loss of an unbeliever. Beloved, Jesus does not rejoice over the lost, He weeps. So should we.

I still remember, soon after I received the Lord, listening to a song called 3AM. Some of the lyrics were as such, “3am and here I am mourning and weeping for someone I don’t know.” Beloved, have you ever been led to weep for the lost?

This week as we reflect on the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, may we remember the heart of God, a heart that desires that no one perishes but that all come to repentance, a heart that weeps over the lost. May the Lord’s heart become our heart as we reach out into a lost world.

Invite someone to church this week. It could change their life!

I pray that you will have a blessed week! I love you and I will be praying for you!

In His Love-

Pastor Joe