Thank you so much for joining us for today's daily guided prayer.

As we start, let's take a deep, calming breath and thank yourself for setting aside these moments to connect with Jesus.

Have you ever found yourself struggling to know what to put your hope in?

Maybe you're young and idealistic and you're looking for the place where you can place your hope that it won't be disappointed.

Where do we put our hope?

As followers of Jesus, we have determined and decided that we are placing our hope in the resurrection of Jesus.

Romans 6 chapter 4 goes on to describe that when we were baptized, when we went down in water

and came back up, that signifies that you and me have decided that we have died alongside

Jesus. We have been buried with Him. And the Bible says we have been co-res resurrected with Jesus

so that from now on we could be empowered to walk in the freshness of a new life.

Let me say that again because we died and were buried with Jesus. Now we are co-res resurrected alongside of Him so that we can be empowered to walk in the freshness of a new life.

You take a moment to talk to God about that and tell him what you think that means and what does that look like for you

to be empowered to walk in the freshness of a new life?

Now close your eyes, if you can, and picture Jesus, who is a real human who lived and walked and ate and slept and drank.

And then he was put on the cross. And while he was hanging on that cross there was a distinct moment

in time and history that he breathed his last breath in fact he was so dead that when the people

came to examine him they determined he was actually, so they put him in a tomb,

and then on the third day,

he rose again from the dead.

These things really happen.

Can you repeat this after me?

Say, Jesus, I believe that you lived.

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