Passion Week ~ Easter Devotional 2009

Easter is my favorite holiday of the year, it is truly worth celebrating. It is more than just a day when we celebrate Jesus’ resurrection, but it is a whole week leading up to that glorious day that leaves us with a glimpse of eternity. It is a week of pageantry, and passion. The culmination of God’s incarnation wrapped up in betrayal, denial and pain. It is an emotional week of intense love, that leads to the deep despair of death but ends with the exhilaration of life and the revelation of God’s enormous grace

Once again this year, the Lord would not let me free until I had prepared this for you. This is my gift to you. As I have worked to write this for you this Easter, my prayer is that you will have a passionate encounter with Jesus, our living Lord and King, this week. This guide is designed to help you walk through this coming week with Jesus, remembering what He did for you.

As you read, pray, think and meditate, may God’s Spirit draw you close to Him. May you hear His heart beat for you. May you feel the scars He bore, may His presence be as close as His breath on your neck. As you walk with Jesus on the road to the Fathers grace may you be captured by His love for your life.