The Spirit of the Lord has spoken to me to teach you daily during the eight days before Easter, Resurrection Sunday.
Click here to sign up for my 7-day email teaching series,
The Season of Resurrection Miracles – beginning Palm Sunday and leading into Easter Resurrection Morning! I want to
flood your spirit with faith as you discover the miracle that was the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and what it
can accomplish in your life TODAY!
DAY SEVEN:
Saturday, April 18th - Your new season is about to begin!
Dear Friend,
This is the last day of our
Season of Resurrection Miracles email teaching series. If you have just joined recently, or were unable to read the earlier days, click the link below to catch up!
This is also your final day to send in your prayer needs and sow your Resurrection Seed and Passover offering before Easter Resurrection Sunday. We’re going to be believing for miracle outpour over you and your family at our 10am ET worship service.
Tomorrow morning, we’ll celebrate the greatest triumph in the history of humanity – the day that changed the world forever. No longer would death’s clutches hold the record of “undefeated” against the human family. He rose, by His own power, conquering Sin and Death forever! Not for Himself, but for you and me!
There’s a great old Hymn of the church that I love:
He walks with me and talks with me
Along life's narrow way
I feel His hands of mercy
I hear His voice of cheer
And just the time I need Him He's always near
He lives! He lives! Salvation to impart!
You ask me how I know He lives?
He lives within my heart
The Resurrection of Jesus distinguishes our vital, world-transforming faith from mere religion and self-help sects. Without a literal, physical resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth from the dead, our faith is just another empty creed among the world’s thousands of cults.
And if you believe the Resurrection of Jesus to be true, then you must believe He is who He says He is, and will do what He says He will do.
So on this, the last day of our email teaching this week, I want to ask you …
How big is your God? I’m asking because how active God is in your life has much more to do with you than with Him.
God will provide for you as He did for Peter when He told him he would catch a fish with a coin in its mouth. He’ll heal you today just as He healed blind Bartimaeus begging by the roadside. He’ll deliver you today the same way He set the man in Gadara free who was possessed by a legion of demon spirits.
He is the same yesterday, today, and forever!
In the 1960’s, so-called educated men sat in their chairs in their ivory towers of academia and declared with solemnity and certainty that God was dead. Since that declaration didn’t gain a lot of traction, the erudite and elite changed course and said, “If God is not dead, where did He come from?” Their purpose was not to engage in legitimate discussion, but to ensnare believers. Their logic went like this: If God had a beginning, then we can argue that He also has an ending.
I have more good news for you – God didn’t come from anywhere. He always has been, form eternity past. When there was nowhere to come from, Job said He hung the earth upon nothing.
God came from nowhere, because there was nowhere to come from – then He reached out into nothing, since there was nothing to reach for. Then He grabbed something that wasn’t there, and pulled it out of nowhere and hung it on nothing. And He pointed His finger at it and told it to stay. Then He folded His arms and said, “It is good.”
He is not “Alpha and Omega” as though He is on a continuous line. Nor is He just a circle that has no beginning or end. He is the infinite Alpha and Omega. He creates His own energy. He needs nothing to get going or to continue. He is inexhaustible.
Your need does not diminish His supply, but prompts His provision, and when He has met your need, He has more than before you even had the need. What a great God we serve!
However, all encounters with God come down, not to reason, but to faith. There is nothing wrong with reason. Indeed, nothing on earth is more rational than placing one’s life in the hands of a loving Father God. But God has, by design, left just enough of our questions unanswered that faith will always be necessary for us to make the leap into His waiting arms.
Eventually everyone who experiences the regenerative miracle of the new birth must come to a place in which they say, with Job, “
I know that my redeemer lives” (Job 19:25).
That place, located at the terminus of salvation’s Roman Road, is a place of faith, not facts. You arrive through spirit conviction, not mind persuasion. The journey doesn’t end at the cross. It invariably takes each of us down that cruel hill to a nearby garden where a tomb stands empty. There you and I, and every person ever given an opportunity to hear the Gospel message, have a decision to make.
You see, an angel didn’t roll that stone away so Jesus could get out. He removed it so we could look in, and having seen that it is empty, choose.
One of God’s greatest gifts to mankind is that of free will. Deuteronomy 30:19 reminds us that He sets before us life and death, and then, in His infinite wisdom, He encourages us to choose life. As for me, my decision is made. I confidently say He lives!
Join Joni and I TOMORROW MORNING for our Easter Resurrection Celebration at 10am ET. If you can’t be with us physically, be sure to join us online on
YouTube Live,
Facebook Live, or
RODPARSLEY.TV!
Yours for the Harvest,
Pastor Rod Parsley
DAY ONE:
Sunday, April 13th - Day 1: Miracles are in motion
DAY TWO:
Monday, April 14th - Day 2: God’s love on open display
DAY THREE:
Tuesday, April 15th - Day 3: Is it worth the exchange?
DAY FOUR:
Wednesday, April 16th - Day 4: Your season for victory
DAY FIVE:
Thursday, April 17th - Day 5: Give me a song at midnight!
DAY SIX:
Friday, April 18th - Day 6: Royal communion
DAY SEVEN:
Saturday, April 19th - Day 7: Your new season is about to begin!
