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.
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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,
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and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day
according to the Scriptures,
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and that He was seen by Cephas [Peter], then by the twelve.
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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.
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After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.
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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
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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