Romans 8:11 ‘But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.’

DAILY READING; • • 2 Corinthians 11; 2 Kings 25; Habakkuk 2

In 1982, 26-year-old Ian McCormack was night-diving off the island of Mauritius when he was stung multiple times by Box Jellyfish. This specie of fishes are among the most venomous creatures in the world, whose poison can kill a person in four minutes. By the time an ambulance came, Ian’s body was completely paralyzed, and necrosis had started to set into his bone marrow.
On the way to the hospital, McCormack began to see his life flash before him. He knew he was near death. He was an atheist and didn’t know whether or not there was an afterlife. As he lay dying, he saw a vision of his mother, who was the only Christian in his family, praying for him. She encouraged Ian to cry out to God from his heart and God would hear him and forgive him. And so Ian began to cry out to God.
At the hospital, the doctors tried to save his life but within a few minutes, Ian died. He was declared clinically dead for about 15 minutes.
During this time he had an encounter with Jesus, which radically changed the direction of his life.
That same night God miraculously raised him from the dead and completely healed him. The medical team was completely shocked by his recovery.
The next day Ian discharged himself and walked out of the hospital unaided! Though he had never read the Bible before then, over the next 6 weeks he read the entire Bible. Today he preaches the Gospel and testifies of God’s amazing resurrection power.
Ian McCormack’s story has been made into a movie entitled ‘The Perfect Wave’.

At his dying moment the vision of his praying mother prompted Ian McCormack to call upon God and as he did, God delivered him from certain death.
When you bring Jesus into any dying or dead situation He will change it. Lazarus was already dead and buried by the time Jesus got there. Humanly speaking, it was a hopeless case.
But this impossible problem became an opportunity for Jesus to demonstrate His resurrection power.
As the resurrection power was enforced, Lazarus who was already stinking came forth and became a shining testimony of victory over the grave.
It doesn’t matter how hopeless any condition, Jesus can turn it around and turn your trial into a testimony. He will give you a new song in the darkest night and turn your mourning into dancing.
Truly, Jesus is the resurrection and the life. There is no limit to the depths He can lift us from when we sincerely call upon Him.
He is the same yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8)!
What He has done in the past, He can and will do again. If He raised Lazarus from the dead, He can lift you up from any pit of despair, He can lift you from the bed of sickness, raise you from financial struggles and release your destiny from any grave where it may seem to have been buried. If He made the lame to walk, He can deliver you from every form of stagnancy and redundancy.
Truly there is nothing God cannot do. He is the faithful God, the all-sufficient God, the God of all hope and the great I am. He is our ever present help at every time of need.
Through His resurrection, Christ has given us the victory over death, hell and the grave. And because the same power that raised Him from the dead dwells in us, today, that power will quicken our mortal bodies and raise us up from the low places of life to glorious new heights of victory in Christ.

PRAYER: Father, I thank You for the resurrection power at work in me through redemption. Please help me to experience my own tangible revival and restoration in this resurrection season in Jesus Name.
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There is something that God has placed within you that the world is eagerly awaiting to see. WORDBITE 222