Easter Sunday and Easter week

Happy Easter to everyone! Praise God from Whom all blessings flow!

I hope that this Easter Sunday will be a blessed one for all who pause here to study and pray. I am grateful for all of you, and for the opportunity to study alongside and also to pray for all of our shared requests. It's been a true blessing to me to have the chance to prepare these posts and to learn more from the Spirit as we go.

We'll be taking a brief break from our studies this week....many of us will have some extra time to spend with family, and sometimes I need a bit of rest to recharge my batteries!

I'd like to leave all of us with some questions to consider; we can consider these this week in our own prayer and study times:
       How can we show our gratitude to God for allowing His Son to endure the suffering and shame of the cross?
       How can we show our thankfulness to God for raising Christ from the dead, to assure our victory over sin?
       As we celebrate His resurrection and continued presence within each of us, are we reflecting His likeness to those around us?
       Are we following His command to tell others the gospel story, so that their lives can be changed?

“Where, O death, is your victory?    Where, O death, is your sting?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. (I Corinthians 15:55-58)