Tomorrow
is Resurrection Sunday commonly referred to as “Easter”. Millions of people
around Chicago-land will do something religious this weekend only to go back to
life as usual on Monday. Some, however, will have a God encounter that will
shake their world and alter their destiny permanently. Their faith will be
ignited by hearing Gospel message and stirred by the supernatural life giving work
of the Holy Spirit. They will have an encounter with the God "who
gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were"
Romans 4:17. This will be the awakening moment and the beginning of
many God encounters to come.
Romans 4:20-21 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the
promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being
fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. Abraham was
"strengthened in his faith". We can never underestimate the currency
of faith in God’s economy. Faith is the heavenly transportation system that connects
heaven and earth. All good things come via the bridge of faith. Many of us
become frail and stumble in the waiting periods between the promise and the
manifestation of the promise on earth. Abraham "was strengthened in
his faith and gave glory to God.” The "waiting" season is where most
of us grow weary and fail. How did Abraham strengthen himself and give glory to God when he
had to wait decades for the promise? Periodic powerful encounters with God
reassured him of what was to come. Only with these encounters can our
frail souls endure the battering of doubt, assaults of cynical reason and
deception of the enemy that attacks our clinging faith.
May
you experience a fresh encounter with God this season that fills you anew with
resurrection power as you wait for the promise of the coming Son.
He
has risen and He is coming again!
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