HAPPY EASTER Devotions (with Scriptures)

Monday, April 21, 2025 – Read Romans 10:13 - “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
EASTER IS FOR EVERYONE! The Bible tells us that “God so loved the world” – that means EVERYONE – “that he gave his one and only Son (Jesus Christ), so that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16). Because EVERYONE has sinned and fallen short, God sent His only Son to be the sacrificial substitute for our sins. Easter is all about Jesus dying on the cross and rising again on the third day – EASTER SUNDAY to give us eternal life. God loves you today. He loves you so much that He sent His Son to die in your place so that you might have life abundant and eternal through Him.

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 – Read John 1:12 - Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
Do you know why we give and receive gifts at Christmas? Because God gave us the greatest gift of all that very first Christmas when He gave us His Son to save us from our sins. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from, or what you’ve done, God loves you so much that He gave you the greatest gift ever – the gift of life abundant and eternal through Jesus Christ. But a gift is useless if it remains unopened. That’s why we must accept and receive God’s gift of new life through Jesus Christ for ourselves. And when we do, we become children of God.

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 – Read John 3:17 - “God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
Jesus’ name means, “the Lord Saves” and He came to save people from their sins. The Bible tells us that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” and that “the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 3:23,6:23). Jesus came to save us from eternal separation from God. Through His death on the cross our sins are forgiven and through His resurrection we are restored to a right relationship with God both now and for eternity.

Thursday, April 24, 2025 – Read Luke 24:1-6a - On the first day of the week (that’s Easter Sunday), very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5 In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? 6 He is not here; he has risen!
The empty tomb is why we celebrate Easter. Jesus, the one and only Son of God came to earth to die in our place. He had to die because the wages of our sin is death. But because He himself had never sinned, death could not keep him. On the third day, early in the morning, he rose from the grave and for the next 40 days made several appearances to prove that He was indeed alive. Those who saw Him spread the good news far and wide and as a result there are over 2 billion followers of Jesus in the world today.    

Friday, April 25, 2025 – Read John 10:10 - The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
The ultimate reason Jesus came to this world was to restore us to the kind of life God intended us to experience from the very beginning. Eternal life isn’t just about going to heaven, it’s about experiencing heaven on earth right now because we have been restored to a right relationship with God. Jesus is inviting you and me to experience life abundant and eternal through him. He tells us in John 10:10 that he came that we may have life and have it to the full. That’s RESURRECTION LIFE. That’s what Jesus is offering you and me as we put our faith and trust in Him. The ultimate objective and hope of the Gospel is allowing Jesus’ life to be lived out in our behavior now, on the way to heaven.