Put On Your Easter Bonnet! 

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As I prepare my heart to meditate on the ultimate sacrifice that took place on Calvary I also prepare my Easter bonnet to celebrate the glorious resurrection! I believe as Christians, we should outwardly display the joy in our hearts with all the beautiful colors God created especially on Resurrection Day more than anyone else in the world.

This is the hat I created and wore Easter Sunday at church many years ago before going to New York to be part of the Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue.

This hat was used as a witnessing tool to give us an awesome opportunity “to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you.” 1Peter 3:15 

We had our own Ticker Tape parade on Fifth Avenue as we strewed the street with thousands of pamphlets declaring “He is Risen!”

Come on ladies get your Easter Bonnet ready!

Buds of Hope

After the death of winter, buds of hope spring to life in the garden of our hearts ready to burst into a fragrant blossom of celebration at the resurrection of our Lord as His cold lifeless body lying in the sepulcher springs to life by the power of God.

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Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. Romans 8:8-9

Chances are One In One Hundred Trillion !!!

Since prophetic shadows and types of the life, sacrificial death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus were written over the lengthy span of ten centuries, most of the thirty-nine writers did not personally know one another, nor live in the same eras yet they all still wrote a prophetic story that has complete harmony and fulfillment at Mount Calvary. The chance of any one man’s fulfilling all of the 48 Messianic prophecies is one in ten to the 157th power.

By using the modern science of probability in reference to just eight of these prophecies concerning our celebration at Easter the chance that any one man might have lived to fulfill all eight prophecies is one in 100 trillion!

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We can’t even comprehend that number! But this is a visual for you to help understand how HUGE that number is. Imagine covering the entire state of Texas two feet deep with silver dollars. On 1 of those silver dollars, you place an ‘X’. Then, you blindfold someone, spin them around for awhile, and let them loose in the state of Texas and tell them to pick 1 coin. The odds that the individual will pick the coin with the ‘X’ is 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000!!! And remember, that’s the probability of Jesus fulfilling only 8 of the prophecies concerning His death and resurrection. Would that have been possible had He not been the Son of God?

CHALLENGE:As the story of Easter unfolds to us through the eyes of fulfilled prophecies surely we must all declare as the Roman centurion declared at the foot of the cross” Truly this was the Son of God” Matthew 27:34

Please share this with your seeking friends that their eyes may be open and others that their faith may be strengthened.

For further study during your Easter devotion time I Invite you to watch my short video on the fulfillment of the many prophetic types of Our Passover Lamb.

http://margaretmearnsbass.com/our-passover-lamb/

He thinks you are worth Good Friday!

Romans 8:31-32 If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things 

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Even though none of us are WORTHY He thought we were WORTH the life of His only Son.

And even when we are tested He is praying and He is believing in us that our faith will not fail.

Luke 22:13 “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”

This is one of my favorite scriptures when I consider how incredible it is to know that our Great High Priest is interceding and praying for us even when we are in the depths of trials and temptations and that He believes we will make it through! How awesome! If He believes in you that much I want to encourage you to believe in yourself today!

Have a blessed week

Walk with the King and be a blessing this week and you will be blessed.

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Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.