A prayer for Easter

Dear Lord,
I come to You today to prepare my heart to worship You.
This Easter I thank You for suffering on the cross and demonstrating Your enormous love for me there.
Thank you for loving me enough to die for me!
Your resurrection is the whole reason for the hope that is within me.
Today, Lord, I want to embrace afresh the reality of what Easter is all about.
I want my life to be an act of worship to You.
Open my heart to feel Your love and forgiveness this Easter.
Help me to take time to allow You to impress upon my heart the magnitude of what You did for me.
Thank you
that Your death saves me from the penalty of sin
and Your resurrection power, at work within me, saves me from the power of sin.
Thank you that because of the cross,
all the powers of darkness are disarmed and hold no threat to me as I open my heart fully to You.
Thank you for Easter and all that it means for me.
Thank you that I can release all of my past sin and hurt to You.
Help me to truly learn to leave these burdens of guilt at Your feet.
May my life reflect a living hope to those around me.
May Your resurrection power flow through me as I embrace Your grace and remember all You are to me.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.

By Gail Rogers 

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