Preparing to experience the glory of Easter!

“Not my will, but yours be done” Luke 22:42

Easter is just around the corner. It will be here and gone in a matter of days. The good news is the Living God will endure forever.

How can you prepare to meet Jesus this Easter season?

The traditional methods of worship are prayer, fasting, participating in religious services, wearing an ash mark on your forehead, or attending an advent bible study.

These activities are nice gestures but they are not life changing. The Easter holiday for many believers is simply celebrating the death and resurrection of Christ Jesus. Then life goes on!

The question is do you really want to accept the Cross into your life! This is a life changing decision and you will discover the reality of Christ Jesus. Easter is about enduring suffering, pain, and death. The Cross crucifies your old life and allows you to be resurrected as a new creature in Christ Jesus.

The Cross magnifies your inner nature. You see that you can never be right with God. You have been sold under sin and can only be restored to God through the blood of Christ Jesus.

To prepare for Easter, come before the throne of God and offer your body as a living sacrifice to Jesus. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the parts of your inner nature which are in conflict with the design of God. Then repent from this condition and ask to be filled with the new life of Christ Jesus.

If you truly are a new creature in Christ Jesus, old things will pass away and all things will become new. There is no status quo (or normalcy) with Jesus.

The Cross does not conform to the ways of the world. The Spirit of Jesus transforms you through the renewal of your mind to comprehend the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God. In essence you lose your old life but gain the life of Jesus!

Easter is an opportunity to meet the Living Jesus and live in oneness with Him through the Holy Spirit. Invite the Holy Spirit to have authority in every aspect of your life and you will experience Easter everyday of your life.

Easter is living out the life of Jesus!