This is the Join the Journey weekly prayer podcast.

Unlike our new Tuesday teaching episodes, this time is set apart for guided prayer as we abide in Jesus together.

Here's your host, Wes Butler. Well,

welcome to Conversations for the Journey and happy Easter, friends. We are so excited to be able to

worship and celebrate together as a church family this Easter weekend. You are listening to this,

perhaps on that Sunday morning or sometime after that,

but this episode will be released on Easter Sunday. And so it is such a sweet time for us to reflect on

and to pray for all that we pray that God will do in our Easter services and our celebration

this weekend. And then even to do so as we take a look at the journey,

this is still a journey podcast. And so it is so beautiful to see how the Lord uses what we're going

to be reading this week to remind us of the hope that we have on this Easter Sunday.

The call and response of Easter Sunday is always, he is risen. And you would rightly respond,

he is risen indeed. And so that is really what this passage that we're going to look at reminds us

of, that we serve a risen savior, who is alive and well. And so Acts 754 through 8.3 last week just

looked at the discourse that Stephen gave to the religious leaders,

and now their violent response to that. And so what we see with Stephen in this is he begins

this kind of response by just acknowledging that he looks up into heaven and he sees Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

And brothers and sisters, here's what I hope that calls to mind for you, is this, that Jesus is alive.

That as we celebrate on this Easter Sunday that that same Jesus that Stephen saw standing at the right hand of God,

that he is alive and well today.

And so we're just going to pray some prayers of worship, of adoration, of gratitude, that we serve a risen

savior, that we're going to talk to the king of the universe, who is alive and well at the right

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