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Beginning Sunday January 4th, we at Silver Creek Fellowship will be entering into 21 days of concentrated prayer and fasting. If you sense God has more for your life, 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting is a great place to start believing Him for all that He has for you. As you practice seeking Him first, He will move on your behalf like never before. You will start to see the power of prayer impact your relationships, work, family, and every area of your life.

We use this time to replace a habit, food, routine, or pleasure with prayer, worship, and reading God’s Word – and we have seen God do incredible things through this time!

For the 21 Days of prayer, we will be providing you with prayer guides, a prayer app, daily prayer devotions and opportunities to pray with others. Before we get started, I hope you will take the time to pray and consider fasting during the 21 Days campaign.

Pray First App – Guided prayers, prayer lists, and lots of other resources.

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Beginning Sunday January 7th, we at Silver Creek Fellowship will be entering into 21 days of concentrated prayer and fasting. If you sense God has more for your life, 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting is a great place to start believing Him for all that He has for you. As you practice seeking Him first, He will move on your behalf like never before. You will start to see the power of prayer impact your relationships, work, family, and every area of your life.

We use this time to replace a habit, food, routine, or pleasure with prayer, worship, and reading God’s Word – and we have seen God do incredible things through this time!

For the 21 Days of prayer, we will be providing you with prayer guides, a prayer app, daily prayer devotions and opportunities to pray with others. Before we get started, I hope you will take the time to pray and consider fasting during the 21 Days campaign.

Pray First App – Guided prayers, prayer lists, and lots of other resources.
Daily Devotionals – Kurt will be giving a live devotional each morning on our FB page.

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https://scf.tv/21daysofprayer/

Beginning Sunday January 4th, we at Silver Creek Fellowship will be entering into 21 days of concentrated prayer and fasting. If you sense God has more for your life, 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting is a great place to start believing Him for all that He has for you. As you practice seeking Him first, He will move on your behalf like never before. You will start to see the power of prayer impact your relationships, work, family, and every area of your life.

We use this time to replace a habit, food, routine, or pleasure with prayer, worship, and reading God’s Word – and we have seen God do incredible things through this time!

For the 21 Days of prayer, we will be providing you with prayer guides, a prayer app, daily prayer devotions and opportunities to pray with others. Before we get started, I hope you will take the time to pray and consider fasting during the 21 Days campaign.

Pray First App – Guided prayers, prayer lists, and lots of other resources.

Support the show

https://scf.tv/21daysofprayer/

Beginning Sunday, January 4th, we at Silver Creek Fellowship will be entering into 21 days of concentrated prayer and fasting. If you sense God has more for your life, 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting is a great place to start believing Him for all that He has for you. As you practice seeking Him first, He will move on your behalf like never before. You will start to see the power of prayer impact your relationships, work, family, and every area of your life.

We use this time to replace a habit, food, routine, or pleasure with prayer, worship, and reading God’s Word – and we have seen God do incredible things through this time!

For the 21 Days of prayer, we will be providing you with prayer guides, a prayer app, daily prayer devotions and opportunities to pray with others. Before we get started, I hope you will take the time to pray and consider fasting during the 21 Days campaign.

Pray First App – Guided prayers, prayer lists, and lots of other resources.

Support the show

https://scf.tv/21daysofprayer/

Beginning Sunday January 4th, we at Silver Creek Fellowship will be entering into 21 days of concentrated prayer and fasting. If you sense God has more for your life, 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting is a great place to start believing Him for all that He has for you. As you practice seeking Him first, He will move on your behalf like never before. You will start to see the power of prayer impact your relationships, work, family, and every area of your life.

We use this time to replace a habit, food, routine, or pleasure with prayer, worship, and reading God’s Word – and we have seen God do incredible things through this time!

For the 21 Days of prayer, we will be providing you with prayer guides, a prayer app, daily prayer devotions and opportunities to pray with others. Before we get started, I hope you will take the time to pray and consider fasting during the 21 Days campaign.

Pray First App – Guided prayers, prayer lists, and lots of other resources.

Support the show

https://scf.tv/21daysofprayer/

Beginning Sunday January 4th, we at Silver Creek Fellowship will be entering into 21 days of concentrated prayer and fasting. If you sense God has more for your life, 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting is a great place to start believing Him for all that He has for you. As you practice seeking Him first, He will move on your behalf like never before. You will start to see the power of prayer impact your relationships, work, family, and every area of your life.

We use this time to replace a habit, food, routine, or pleasure with prayer, worship, and reading God’s Word – and we have seen God do incredible things through this time!

For the 21 Days of prayer, we will be providing you with prayer guides, a prayer app, daily prayer devotions and opportunities to pray with others. Before we get started, I hope you will take the time to pray and consider fasting during the 21 Days campaign.

Pray First App – Guided prayers, prayer lists, and lots of other resources.

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Luke 24:25-35
On the Road to Emmaus
25 He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

28 As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. 29 But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. 32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

33 They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together 34 and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” 35 Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.

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Matthew 28:1-10

Jesus Has Risen

28 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

 2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4 The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.

 5 The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.”

 8 So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. 9 Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. 10 Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”

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Jesus is silent on Saturday.  The women have anointed his body and placed it in Joseph’s tomb.  The cadaver of Christ is as mute as the stone which guards it.  He spoke much on Friday. He will liberate the slaves of death on Sunday.  But on Saturday, Jesus is silent.

So is God.  He made himself heard on Friday.  He tore the curtains of the temple, opened the graves of the dead, rocked the earth, blocked the sun of the sky, and sacrificed the Son of Heaven.  Earth heard much of God on Friday.

Nothing on Saturday.  Jesus is silent.  God is silent.  Saturday is silent.

Easter weekend discussions tend to skip Saturday.  Friday and Sunday get the press.  The crucifixion and resurrection command our thoughts.  But don’t ignore Saturday.  You have them, too.

Silent Saturdays.  The day between the struggle and the solution; the question and the answer; the offered prayer and the answer thereof.

Saturday’s silence torments us.  Is God angry?  Did I disappoint him? God knows Jesus is in the tomb, why doesn’t He do something?  Or, in your case God knows your career is in the tank, your finances are in the pit, your marriage is in a mess. Why doesn’t He act?  What are you supposed to do until He does?

You do what Jesus did.  Lie still.  Stay silent.  Trust God.  Jesus died with this conviction: “You will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay” (Acts 2:27 NIV).

Jesus knew God would not leave him alone in the grave.  You need to know, God will not leave you alone with your struggles.  His silence is not his absence, inactivity is never apathy.  Saturdays have their purpose. They let us feel the full force of God’s strength. Had God raised Jesus fifteen minutes after the death of His son, would we have appreciated the act? Were He to solve your problems the second they appear, would you appreciate His strength?

For His reasons, God inserts a Saturday between our Fridays and Sundays.  If today is one for you, be patient.  As one who endured the silent Saturday wrote:  “Be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord” (James 5:7 NKJV).

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19 Then Pilate had Jesus flogged with a lead-tipped whip. 2 The soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put a purple robe on him. 3 “Hail! King of the Jews!” they mocked, as they slapped him across the face.

4 Pilate went outside again and said to the people, “I am going to bring him out to you now, but understand clearly that I find him not guilty.” 5 Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said, “Look, here is the man!”

6 When they saw him, the leading priests and Temple guards began shouting, “Crucify him! Crucify him!”

“Take him yourselves and crucify him,” Pilate said. “I find him not guilty.”

7 The Jewish leaders replied, “By our law he ought to die because he called himself the Son of God.”

8 When Pilate heard this, he was more frightened than ever. 9 He took Jesus back into the headquarters again and asked him, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave no answer. 10 “Why don’t you talk to me?” Pilate demanded. “Don’t you realize that I have the power to release you or crucify you?”

11 Then Jesus said, “You would have no power over me at all unless it were given to you from above. So the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”

12 Then Pilate tried to release him, but the Jewish leaders shouted, “If you release this man, you are no ‘friend of Caesar.’ Anyone who declares himself a king is a rebel against Caesar.”

13 When they said this, Pilate brought Jesus out to them again. Then Pilate sat down on the judgment seat on the platform that is called the Stone Pavement (in Hebrew, Gabbatha). 14 It was now about noon on the day of preparation for the Passover. And Pilate said to the people,[c] “Look, here is your king!”

15 “Away with him,” they yelled. “Away with him! Crucify him!”

“What? Crucify your king?” Pilate asked.

“We have no king but Caesar,” the leading priests shouted back.

16 Then Pilate turned Jesus over to them to be crucified.

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