Circle of Hope

Yesterday, when the cell leaders were together, Danielle had us put our palms up (the palms of our hands) to prepare the way, making Jesus our King again a week before his death and rising. That was a pretty cool play on words that I had never thought of and helped me to be quite open to receiving what Jesus is bringing into the city this week.

I mistakingly waited until this morning to buy palm fronds from the Italian Market and they had increased by four times in price. I had to talk the lady at the flower shop down to get enough with the funds I had. She wasn’t to keen on it, but let me go because I guess there aren’t too many pastors Frond Shopping by that time on Palm Sunday.

So put your palms up today. If you can put a frond up, wave it in your call to Jesus, in need of a Savior. If you can put your palms of your hands up, be open to receive your King. He brings all hope, all grace, and all love with him.

John 12

The next day the great crowd that had come for the Feast heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem.
They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,
“Hosanna!”
“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”
“Blessed is the King of Israel!”
Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written, “Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion;
see, your king is coming,
seated on a donkey’s colt.”

At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and that they had done these things to him.

Now the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to spread the word. Many people, because they had heard that he had given this miraculous sign, went out to meet him. So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!”