Easter21
From Easter 01 to Easter 2021 Christians have celebrated the good news as defined by the words of 1 Corinthians Chapter 15:
I’ve been thinking about ways that you can strengthen your Easter21 worship experience seeing that this is now our second year of limited capacity in our auditorium.
- Plan to read through the Scriptures that detail Jesus’ last week before His suffering, asking the Holy Spirit to enlighten your thought reflections.
- Listen to worship songs that draw you into experiencing the anguish of His suffering and His great love for you.
- Plan to join us for the Good Friday services, either in person or livestream. We will celebrate the Lord’s table together (details are on our website).
- Get up early on both days to have sufficient time to be in the presence of the Lord for clarity of mind. Prayerfully retrace the footsteps of Jesus from His arrest to His resurrection.
- Ask for a fresh indwelling of His Holy Spirit so that you will be overflowing with praise when you arrive for corporate worship.
- Get dressed up as if you were joining us at the Living Arts Centre (I bought a new suit just for Easter Sunday).
- Spend time in prayer and reading the Easter story throughout “Passion Week.”
- Pray specifically for our services and the livestream.
- Pray that the name of the Lord will be greatly exalted.
- Pray that our worship will be Spirit-led and Spirit-filled even with all the restrictions.
- Pray for the Word of God to be heard clearly and received fully.
- Pray for the eyes of the blind to be opened.
- Pray that we would have a renewed passion to see lost souls converted.
- Pray for glitch free technical operations (audio, visual, livestream).
- Pray for a full release of the Spirit’s power in revival and renewal.
- If you are planning to attend one of our live services in person, plan to arrive at the church with enough time to pray and quieten your heart to hear from the Lord (make sure that you are registered in advance).
- If you are worshipping from home, consider arranging the seating in your home to aid in focusing just on the worship.
- Silence all devices including your home phone so that you will be undistracted.
- Invite all who live in your home to join you for the service. Invite everyone you know to tune in. This is an unprecedented opportunity to invite our non-Christian friends to learn all about Easter.
- Use your Bible during the preaching of the message entitled “Resurrection Everyday” based on Galatians 2:20: “I have been crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I but Christ who lives in me, and the life that I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.”
Hope that helps! Just wanna give you a brief word of testimony. It’s been very clear to me during the pandemic that when the Lord takes one blessing away, He fully intends to install another. For the time being, the very great blessing of in person fellowship has been restricted. But in the meantime, we can experience spiritual discernment in a stronger way. When the Lord “isolates” us, He does so in order to open our eyes in greater ways. I pray that you will be able to look back on this season of pandemic and be able to tell about victory after victory that He gave to you.
The resurrection guarantees it!
Blessed Easter church family,
Pastor Deric
Let’s Talk!
That’s how I imagine the Father inviting me to pray. Let’s talk. Talk about what, I ask? Everything! The Gospels record that Jesus spent time in prayer regularly. And He commends it as a primary means of not growing weary in faith (Luke 18:1 ff).
