The Stations of the Cross

This morning the Lord told me to pray the Stations of the Cross. Catholics usually do this during the Lenten Season and Good Friday; but for some reason that is what He asked me to pray today. He gave the words...

First Station: Jesus is condemned to death. Father, we were condemned to death before You sent Your Only Son to ransom us. Though my body is aging and dying, now I will live by His Name, by His Blood, and His Holy Spirit! Thank you Father!


Second Station: Jesus bear His Cross. Father, Your Word says that if we will follow Jesus, we must deny ourselves and take up our cross daily and follow Him. Lord, help us to see where we need to deny ourselves, Your Ways and Thoughts are not ours. Let us see where "our" ways and thoughts hinder us from following Him as we bear our crosses daily.

Third Station: Jesus fall the first time. Father forgive me when I fall, empower me to get back up and continue walking in Christ in this life.

Fourth Station: Jesus meets His Mother. She watched what our sins were doing to her Son. She said yes to You Father, and surrendered her Son to Your Will. She never turned away. Because of her Father, her love for You and for the rest of us she never knew...may we consider how selfish and self-serving we are and repent. May we give her the honor she deserves to sit at the Right Hand of our King of Kings, as the Queen who loves us as much as He does, and prays for us, and waits for the glorious day that all men will know the provisions You made for all of us to be saved!

Fifth Station: Jesus is helped by Simon. Lord, as Simon was sent to help Your Son carry His Cross, won't You send someone to help us carry ours, and take us to those You wish for us to be a helper in their burdens?

Sixth Station: Jesus and Veronica. As Veronica had compassion and empathy for You and wiped the Blood, Sweat, and Tears from Your Face, may we have that same compassion for those who are suffering and struggling to carry their crosses.

Seventh Station: Jesus falls a second time. Father, I have fallen before, and will fall again, please have mercy on me, forgive my sins, and empower me to get back and walk with You!

Eighth Station: Jesus speaks to the Woman. Jesus told her not to weep for Him, but for themselves and for their children. Oh Lord, may the Christian realize that their death is not the end; but to make intercessions always for their children and loved ones, that they be saved, or else their may be no reunion in Heaven.

Ninth Station: Jesus falls a third time. Lord when the walk is taking its toll, and I am weak, tired, and seem unable...strengthen me, lift me up, and grant me the power of the Holy Spirit to keep faith, love, joy, patience, peace, perseverence, meekness, gentleness, and self -control.

Tenth Station: He is stripped of His Garments. Oh Lord, strip me of the garments of pride, greed, selfishness, ego, doubt, lies, laziness, unthankfulness, unbelief, anger, hard-heartedness, unforgiveness, and my "old nature"--that I may bring Glory to Your Name!

Eleventh Station: Jesus is nailed to the Cross. satan nailed Your Hands, thinking he made You less powerful. When the world does that to us, give us Your Unfailing Power! satan nailed Your Feet, thinking he could keep You from moving on this earth. Lord, grant that we may walk with You forever! satan put a crown of thorns, the symbol of the curse upon Your Head to mock you, Lord, grant us the Crown of Life in response to him! satan had put stripes upon Your Back to punish You for his being outcast for not being obedient and submissive to You. Lord, when he whips us to create pain and punishment in revenge against You, heal us in response. Then he stabbed Your side to finish You off. Lord, when satan, the world, or the curse seeks to destroy us in death, let us rise into Your Glory forever and ever. amen.

Twelfth Station: Jesus dies on the Cross. O Lord My God, Your Blood was poured out as the Lamb of God, cover my sins and make me white as snow! Father, let me die to my old self and live in my new self in Christ Jesus forever and ever. amen.

Thirteenth Station: Jesus is taken down from the Cross. satan thought he had won. Father, let me remember things are not as they appear; and the Victory is Ours through Your Beloved Son the Lord Jesus Christ!

Forteenth Station: Jesus is laid in the tomb. Father, wrap our earthly bodies in Your Divine Light, though it turn to dust, may every atom and molecule of our DNA never be forgotten. You created us, and You will resurrect us from the grave. As Your Body was glorified, glorify ours in the restoration of all things! May our bodies be remembered as the Temple of the Holy Spirit. May we keep it whole, clean and pure...without defiling it through graffiti, symbols, demonic punctures, sexual immoral acts, and exposing it shamefully. May we safeguard and adorn it with beauty as You took great care to detail in every aspect in the building of the earthly Temple, patterned to Moses, from the mount...may we realize, all of us are part of the New Temple, in which You inhabit. You are concerned with the details of it. Open the eyes of the blinded who think their bodies are their own, and to see they were bought with a Great Price. amen.