Anna Made Simple

Anna -- the widow who never left the temple: eighty-four years of fasting and prayer, rewarded by holding the infant Christ and telling all who looked for redemption (Luke 2:36-38).

Anna Made Simple is a Scripture-first walk through the life of the prophetess at the edge of the Christmas story: her identity as daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Asher, seven years of marriage and a lifetime of widowhood, her unbroken devotion in the temple, the disciplines of fasting and night-and-day prayer, the theology of waiting on the triune God, her partnership with Simeon as two witnesses, the instant she beheld the infant Christ, her evangelism to all who looked for redemption, and her legacy for believers waiting in the age of speed.

Explicitly Trinitarian: God the Father who promises and keeps His word; Jesus Christ -- Son of God and Son of Man, Lord and Savior -- the infant Anna held and the Redeemer she proclaimed; and the Holy Spirit, who opens blind eyes to recognize Christ and who alone empowers fasting, prayer, and waiting. Every prayer is to the Father, through Jesus Christ, by the Holy Spirit.

Read one chapter a day. Come honest. Read slowly. Pray openly.