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Without the empty tomb we – of all people – are empty also. As
we receive His resurrection life, His supernatural power and life can
fill every dead and empty place in our lives. We are filled with new
vision knowing that Jesus Christ loved us enough to die for our sins and
to heal and redeem every experience we have had. Because He died in our
place, we can choose to bring our fleshly patterns to Him and He will
bring them to death and replace them with His abundant life. He is the
way and the Truth that makes us free.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me." John 14:6
No other spiritual leader has been proven to have raised himself or
herself from the dead. What we want is a leader who definitely has
the power to raise us from the dead. See
Resurrection or
Hoax?
By the resurrection, we know that only Jesus is the door to Heaven and
eternal life. Jesus has the keys to living a victorious life and to
take the sting out of death. Living in the power of the resurrection,
we can truthfully say we can do all things through Christ Who
strengthens us. He resurrection power is greater than all of our sins,
fears, doubts, anxieties, weaknesses, worries, illnesses, failures,
bondages and addictions. See
Did Jesus Have to Die?
Living in supernatural resurrection power, we can accomplish hundreds of
times more than we can do in our strength. Religion is only a
self-powered treadmill of trying to reach God our own way in our own
strength. We were separated from God by our sinful, independent
self-will. Christianity is about God reaching down to man to bridge the
gap that separates us from Him and taking our sins upon Himself. Only
Jesus Christ, the Messiah, was perfect and could pay for the sins of
others, having no sins of His own. He alone restores us spirit,
soul and body, in fullness.
What is Restoration Prayer
Ministry or RPM?
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Only Jesus rose from the dead, proving that His plan to redeem us was
sufficient. Only Jesus could claim that He and the Father were one,
because they are. Because Jesus is God incarnate, God come in the
flesh, He alone can claim to be the only way to God because He is the
only way to Himself. His resurrection and the empty tomb were proof
that Jesus is the Messiah – to His friends and to His enemies. How could
a swooned Jesus move the stone, sneak passed guards or over power the
guards? How could the disciples steal Jesus' body without the armed
guard noticing? The resurrection cover-up is actually one of the best
proof that the resurrection was real.
At the time of the resurrection, there were no articles written to
disprove it because everyone knew that Jesus Christ
really rose from the dead. 1 Corinthians 15:3a-8 "... Christ
died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 and that He
was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the
Scriptures, 5
and that He was seen by Cephas [Peter], then by the twelve.
6 After that He
was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part
remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep.
7 After that He
was seen by James, then by all the apostles.
8 Then last
of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time."
Everyone had seen His miracles as He turned water into wine, had fed
thousands supernaturally, had healed thousands of sick people, raised
Lazarus from the dead, made the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the lame
to walk, had controlled the weather and had claimed to be the Messiah.
They all knew of the promised Messiah who would be born of a virgin in
Bethlehem. See videos about His virgin birth at
Why Did Jesus Come?
The Romans may have furnished the best proof that Jesus rose again
as they had set 16 Roman soldiers to guard his tomb. Any guard who fell
asleep and failed in guard duty would be put to death himself. No way
Jesus had only swooned and fought His way past this armed guard. The
High Priests knew He rose again so they told the Jews to tell everyone
that the disciples stole his body. Everyone knew that no man had ever
survived a Roman cross.
Father God would either disapprove or approve Jesus as the sin offering
for the world. The priests would take the lamb and lead it through
the city; the people would either approve or disapprove of the lamb.
If Jesus, was not the promised Lamb of God claims and His claims were
false, God surely would not raise Him from the dead on the third day.
If He were alive again on the third day, everyone would know that He had
been approved and truly was the Messiah. What else caused thousands to
receive Christ as Lord and Savior at Pentecost? What else could
motivate the disciples to die for Him? Who would die to perpetuate such
a deception?
Who else has ever claimed to have fulfilled every Messianic prophecy?
NO ONE! His death on the Cross was not the end of His
Messianic ministry but only the beginning. Everyday thousands of people
are baptized into faith in Jesus Christ as Messiah in countries around
the world. Everyday more people witness to the fact the Jesus Christ
lives inside them as Lord of their lives. We know He is alive because
He is living His supernatural life from inside us. As we choose to
invite Him to be our Lord and as we abide in Him, He is the mystery of
the gospel, Christ living today - in us. For more about
Jesus' passion to heal us and make us free see
Passion of
the Christ
Prayer: To Receive the Messiah Here and Now
Dear Jesus, I choose to accept You as the promised Messiah, Lord and
Savior. I confess my sins and accept the forgiveness You shed Your
blood to provide. I accept the fact that You died on the Cross to set
me free from bondage to sin. I receive you as Lord and Master of my
life. As You stand at the door of my heart, I invite You to come into
my life and to live Your Resurrection life in me. Thank you for dying
on the Cross for me and filling me with Your abundant life. Please live
Your life through me and share Your love for the world through me.
Thank you that I am born again as a new creation with a new spirit.
Read
What is Born Again?
Father we look for the return of the Messiah with tears and trembling.
We long for Your Prince of Peace and cannot settle for the promises of
the Anti-Christ to provide peace and prosperity. We long to see the
Messiah face to face and to receive His grace and blessing. We pray,
“Your Kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven.”
Purify all our fleshly desires and cleanse us of all of our sins so
we can we receive You, Your authority and Your sovereignty as our
Messiah. You have promised to bless those who look for Your coming. Heal
our wounds that block our ability to trust You without reservation.
Tear down every idol in our lives that prevents us from making You Lord
of our lives in every way. Our ardent passion is to have intimate
communion with You now and for eternity. We invite You to re-order our
schedules, Lord, so that we truly seek You first --Your presence, Your
power and Your anointing -- first and foremost each day.
Show us how You would have each one of us seek Your Kingdom first.
Re-order our priorities so we are dedicated ambassadors of You, our
King, and of Your Kingdom. We linger in your presence to receive fresh
passion for You, Your purposes and plans for our lives. We receive Your
compassion for others and choose to lay down our lives for others as the
good Samaritan did and as You live through us. We bow down humbly to
Your authority and receive Your spiritual power and authority as loyal
ambassadors of your Kingdom even now.
We cry, “Come, Lord Jesus our Messiah.” Come to this dying world
through us. We receive an anointing for evangelism and Your burden
that not one would be lost. We release You to speak through us to let
the world know that You so loved the world that you came to die for our
sins, to give us Resurrection life, to live through us as our indwelling
Messiah,
We yield ourselves as vessels of honor who are totally surrendered
to Your strategies to reach every man, woman, boy and girl with the
gospel of Your love. We cry, “Restore, restore!” Restore every prodigal
to Your house and teach us all how to be a good Son and daughter to You
because You are an awesome Father. Reconcile every single one to
Yourself as we demonstrate Your love to everyone who will receive..
Speak through our mouths, serve with our hands, pour out our lives as a
sweet sacrifice to all who will listen, that all may know the fragrance
of Your presence. Come through us, Lord Jesus. Amen
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