You Can Have Resurrection Power!
This is what the Lord God says to the bones:
'I will cause breath to enter you so you will come to life.' "
– Ezekiel 37:5-6 (NCV)
Have you ever felt like a dry bag of bones? Like there is no life left in you? Like there is no hope?
I have a spot in my right shoulder girdle that I have come to call my "dead zone". I feel nothing there but a constant, dull ache. Even when someone is doing hard massage in that area, all I feel is pressure, not real feeling. I am told that I likely separated my rotator cuff years ago playing football, but as I possess full range of motion, surgery would be ill-advised. So, I have come to live with my "dead zone". I am frustrated with the obvious differences between the musculature of my right side of my torso compared to the left. It bothers me that I often fail in certain exercises – not because I'm not strong enough – but because of this "dead zone" that doesn't work properly.
I have to admit that there are other areas of my life that could be properly termed as "dead zones" depending on when and where you find me: times when I feel less than exuberant; less than holy; less than "called out"; less than a child of God...less "spiritually alive" than I think I should feel as a Christian. I sometimes surprise myself at how quickly I can go into modes of self-pity regarding various issues concerning my physical health, and angry questioning seems to come more easily than I'd like.
This seems incompatible with Jesus' ascertation that He came to give me "abundant life" (Jn 10:10).
I have come to realize that this life does not resonate within me in and of its own power or accord. Rather, this power is proffered to me daily and I am given the choice to either partake of it and enjoy life the way God intended for me to live, or to reject it and live life on my own power.
The good news is that we serve a God with resurrection power! That well will never run dry! The same God that raised Christ from the dead, the same God that called Lazarus out of his tomb, the same God that breathed the breath of life into lifeless bones on a dusty field is the same God that is waiting for you to come to Him for your resurrection miracle!
We don't find life within; we find it in Him.
Father God,
Help me to realize my constant dependence upon You for everything in life –
according to Your Word,
I am dependent upon You even for the air that I breathe in and breathe out every second.
Therefore, help me to call upon the resurrection power You offer me every day,
so that I might live the life You've given me to its fullest!
Let there be no SPIRITUAL "dead zones" in my life;
resurrect every fiber of my being in Christ Jesus.
In Jesus' Name – AMEN!
Pastor Howie
'I will cause breath to enter you so you will come to life.' "
– Ezekiel 37:5-6 (NCV)
Have you ever felt like a dry bag of bones? Like there is no life left in you? Like there is no hope?
I have a spot in my right shoulder girdle that I have come to call my "dead zone". I feel nothing there but a constant, dull ache. Even when someone is doing hard massage in that area, all I feel is pressure, not real feeling. I am told that I likely separated my rotator cuff years ago playing football, but as I possess full range of motion, surgery would be ill-advised. So, I have come to live with my "dead zone". I am frustrated with the obvious differences between the musculature of my right side of my torso compared to the left. It bothers me that I often fail in certain exercises – not because I'm not strong enough – but because of this "dead zone" that doesn't work properly.
I have to admit that there are other areas of my life that could be properly termed as "dead zones" depending on when and where you find me: times when I feel less than exuberant; less than holy; less than "called out"; less than a child of God...less "spiritually alive" than I think I should feel as a Christian. I sometimes surprise myself at how quickly I can go into modes of self-pity regarding various issues concerning my physical health, and angry questioning seems to come more easily than I'd like.
This seems incompatible with Jesus' ascertation that He came to give me "abundant life" (Jn 10:10).
I have come to realize that this life does not resonate within me in and of its own power or accord. Rather, this power is proffered to me daily and I am given the choice to either partake of it and enjoy life the way God intended for me to live, or to reject it and live life on my own power.
The good news is that we serve a God with resurrection power! That well will never run dry! The same God that raised Christ from the dead, the same God that called Lazarus out of his tomb, the same God that breathed the breath of life into lifeless bones on a dusty field is the same God that is waiting for you to come to Him for your resurrection miracle!
We don't find life within; we find it in Him.
Father God,
Help me to realize my constant dependence upon You for everything in life –
according to Your Word,
I am dependent upon You even for the air that I breathe in and breathe out every second.
Therefore, help me to call upon the resurrection power You offer me every day,
so that I might live the life You've given me to its fullest!
Let there be no SPIRITUAL "dead zones" in my life;
resurrect every fiber of my being in Christ Jesus.
In Jesus' Name – AMEN!
Pastor Howie
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