A Prayer to Rejoice Your Salvation this Easter Sunday
 By Lynette Kittle

“Although you haven’t seen Him, you like Him; and although you don’t see Him now, you imagine in Him and are crammed with an inexpressible and superb pleasure, for you might be receiving the tip results of your religion, the salvation of your souls” – 1 Peter 1:8-9

As Christians, we now have numerous causes to rejoice this Easter Sunday. By God’s wonderful grace, as the favored tune goes, we’re receiving His reward of Salvation via the demise and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 2:8 reveals, “For it’s by grace you’ve got been saved, via religion—and this isn’t from yourselves, it’s the reward of God.”

Why Such a Priceless Reward?
Why did God give us this priceless, lavish reward? In Romans 6:23, the Apostle Paul writes, “For the wages of sin is demise, however the reward of God is everlasting life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Sin comes with a heavy price ticket, a value none of us are in a position to cowl on our personal. And God knew that if we have been to belong to Him, He must present a solution to pay our debt and set us free from the satan’s declare on us. Titus 2:14 explains how He “who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for Himself a individuals which might be His very personal, desirous to do what is sweet.”

Jesus took our sins upon Himself to redeem us for Himself. 1 Peter 2:24 describes how “’He Himself’ bore our sins in His physique on the cross in order that we’d die to sins and stay for righteousness; “by His wounds you’ve got been healed.” Salvation is God’s reward to us, one we did nothing to earn or deserve—however His reward to us as a result of He loves us and He’s love (1 John 4:8).

Love Is the Motive behind Salvation
John 3:16 explains, “For God so cherished the world that He gave His one and solely Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish however have everlasting life.” What the world at giant doesn’t appear to know is that with out God, there is no such thing as a love. With out His love, there could be no like to be discovered on earth, and His love is what moved Him to like us first. “We love as a result of He first cherished us” (1 John 4:19). Romans 5:8 explains extra about how this unimaginable reward of Salvation got here to us, “However God demonstrates His personal love for us on this: Whereas we have been nonetheless sinners, Christ died for us.”

Whereas many right now think about love a sense that overcomes us, God’s love is a sacrificial selection primarily based on who He’s that brings redeeming outcomes to us. 1 John 4:10 describes, “That is love: not that we cherished God, however that He cherished us and despatched His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”

Salvation Solely Comes By Jesus
Jesus offers us the rationale to rejoice Salvation this Easter Sunday. If God didn’t give Him to us, we’d haven’t any hope of redemption from sin and everlasting life with Him as a result of there is no such thing as a means we will earn it or deserve it on our personal. “Salvation is present in nobody else, for there is no such thing as a different title below heaven given to mankind by which we should be saved” (Acts 4:12). The one means for any of us to obtain new life and a restored relationship with God is by accepting Salvation via Jesus Christ, who has the ability to interrupt the ability of sin over us. John the Apostle recorded how “Jesus answered, ‘I’m the best way and the reality and the life. Nobody involves the Father besides via Me’” (John 14:6).

Hebrews 2:14 describes how Jesus broke the satan’s energy of demise over us. “For the reason that kids have flesh and blood, He too shared of their humanity in order that by His demise He may break the ability of him who holds the ability of demise—that’s, the satan.“ We rejoice Salvation as a result of, as 1 Corinthians 15:22 explains, “For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall be made alive.” By Salvation in Jesus Christ, we’re given new life. As Romans 6:4 explains, “We have been subsequently buried with Him via baptism into demise so that, simply as Christ was raised from the useless via the glory of the Father, we too might stay a brand new life.”

Let’s pray:

Pricey Father,
At present we rejoice Your priceless reward of Salvation and for giving us a cause to watch and rejoice Easter Sunday. We settle for Your reward of Jesus, given to us due to Your love for us. He’s the one solution to You, and we obtain Your valuable reward of Salvation via Him and Him alone. Our hearts are deeply grateful for Your priceless, sacrificial reward of Jesus, who, via His demise and resurrection, paid sin’s debt on our behalf and freed us from everlasting demise and the enemy of our souls’ declare over our lives. We reward You and obtain the brand new life You give us via Salvation in Jesus Christ.
In Jesus’ title, Amen.

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Lynette Kittle is married with 4 daughters. She enjoys writing about religion, marriage, parenting, relationships, and life. Her writing has been printed by Give attention to the Household, Choice, At present’s Christian Lady, kirkcameron.com, Ungrind.org, StartMarriageRight.com, and extra. She has a M.A. in Communication from Regent College and serves as affiliate producer for Soul Examine TV.

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