Day One – Written by Pastor Carl Stephens
Biblical Example: Jesus (Luke 22)
Prayer Focus: Your Peace
Today is the start of an exciting spiritual journey, and you are going to experience both the power and grace of God in ways that you never have before! It’s a journey of 21 days, so we are encouraging everyone to personally say, “OK. I’m in.”
Truthfully, this is really a journey that started some 2000 years ago. It was the journey that Christ made to earth, born as a baby — born to preach the Gospel of eternal life to a lost and dying world. He, too, said to the Father on many occasions, “OK. I’m in.”
In fact, one of the most difficult times to reach that conclusion was the night before His crucifixion. Jesus and His disciples had departed to the Mount of Olives — a place where they often visited. Their purpose was to pray, and following His admonition to do so, He walked some distance away from them [the disciples] and began to pray to the Father. A prayer that flowed from a place of deep emotion within.
As the Son of God, there was nothing in His flesh that wanted to face the next few hours. Maybe you have been to that place before: a place of great self-sacrifice that was not necessarily meant for us, but for others. It is a place of emotional turmoil, full of forces within us with opposing views and desires.
Ultimately He prayed, “Not my will, but yours, be done.”
With these words, He was saying to the father, “OK. I’m in.” He was ALL IN for your salvation, for your peace, your deliverance, your victory over death, so much so that He conquered both hell and the grave!
Hebrews 12:2 says, “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
He was [and IS] ALL IN for us; now it’s our time.
ARE YOU IN?
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