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When
Resurrection Power Is At Work In You (Part 1)
Pastor Nkechi Ene (Mrs.)
1 Now on the Uirst day of the week, very early in
Christ. Many times when the season is
Your Plans Are Overtaken
the morning, they, and certain other women
over, resurrection takes low priority
When resurrection power is at work in
with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices,
for the believer because they become
you, your plans are overtaken. The
which they had prepared.
unconscious of the resurrection
women in our text came early in the
2 But they found the stone rolled away from the
power at work in them.
morning. When you have a plan, you get up bright and early. For instance, if you
tomb. 3 Then they went in and did not Uind the body of
Resurrection is a daily event in the
have a 7:00 a.m. Ulight to catch, you get up
the Lord Jesus.
life of anyone who has put their trust
by 5:00 a.m. to prepare for it. So did these
4 And it happened, as they were greatly
in Jesus Christ. That means every day
women. In fact their plan was so good
perplexed about this that behold, two men stood
you can look at your neighbour and
that they prepared the spices a day before
by them in shining garments.
say, “Happy resurrection,” because the
to anoint the body of Jesus. Since
5 Then, as they were afraid and bowed their
Bible says, “If the Spirit of Him who
resurrection power had hit the grave,
faces to the earth, they said to them, "Why do
raised Jesus from the dead dwells in
their plans were overtaken.
you seek the living among the dead?
you, He who raised Christ from the
6 He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He
dead will also give life to your mortal
We are not told what happened to those
spoke to you when He was still in Galilee,
bodies through His Spirit who dwells in
spices after then in any of the Gospels.
7 saying, 'The Son of Man must be delivered into
you” (Romans 8:11).
Probably they spilled it in shock, and that
the hands of sinful men, and be cruciUied, and the third day rise again.'" 8 And they remembered His words. 9 Then they returned from the tomb and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. 10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them, who told these things to the apostles. 11 And their words seemed to them like idle tales, and they did not believe them. 12 But Peter arose and ran to the tomb; and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying by themselves; and he departed, marveling to himself at what had happened.
was the end of the spices forever. Nobody C e r t a i n t h i n g s h a p p e n w h e n
cared; or maybe someone else who
resurrection power is at work in you.
wanted to bury their dead around that
So we are going to Uind out Uive things
place may have seen the bag of “free”
that can happen from these verses of
spices. The point is those spices were not
Scripture above. The book of
meant for Jesus because the resurrection
Ephesians tells us that we are raised
power had worked in Him.
and made alive together with Him (Ephesians 2:5-6). The Bible tells us it
We all had plans before we got born again.
is God who works in us both to will
Even the day we got born again we still
and to do of His good pleasure
had our plans. I don’t think getting born
(Philippians 2:13).
again was on our minds when we woke up that morning, before resurrection
So, resurrection power is working in
power hit us. I like to plan because I’m a
you on a daily basis. It is not just a
very organized person, but I’ve found out
one-time event; it is because it
working with the Holy Spirit that you can
happened to Jesus that it will
plan everything right down to the last
continually happen to you. You should
minute, and at the last second, Jesus
We are in the season of resurrection when
be resurrection primed 365 days in a year,
would do something different. That is
christians celebrate Jesus’ rising from the
expecting it to work for you and in you
why we must learn to hear from God
grave. However, resurrection power is not
every single time.
ultimately, and know what He will have us
Luke 24:1-12 See also Mark 16:1-8
a one-time event that happened to Jesus
do.
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