Keep Easter in Your Heart
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.—Romans 10:9 (NIV)
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.—Romans 10:9 (NIV)
Pilate said to them, “All right, take some of your soldiers and guard the tomb as well as you know how.” So they sealed it tight and placed soldiers there to guard it.—Matthew 27:65-66 CEV
When they were finally tired of mocking him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him again. Then they led him away to be crucified.—Matthew 27:31 NLT
Despite the pain of struggle, there is always hope.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”—John 14:6 NIV
A helpful example of how to put Jesus’ words into practice.
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?—Psalm 42:2 (KJV)
“Let anyone who is thirsty
come to me and drink.”—John 7:37 (NIV)
Therefore go and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.—Matthew 28:19 NIV
Since they could not get him to Jesus
because of the crowd, they made an
opening in the roof above Jesus by
digging through it and then lowered
the mat the man was lying on.—Mark 2:4 NIV
We often give up a food or some pleasure. But there are other ways to prayerfully observe this time before Easter.