Resurrection Power--Do you believe it is in you?

Wow!  What a wonderful Easter Sunday yesterday!  The day was filled with spiritual joy and earthy happiness!  I just love singing the hymns of Easter with the organ blasting and the orchestra playing full force!  Those hymns have such great theological truth and I love proclaiming them.  I also loved hiding Easter eggs for my 3 year old, Caroline and enjoying a great meal with family.  I went to bed exhausted, but with fullness of heart.

Then, came Monday.  As I look back on the activities of today, I realize that I didn't allow the resurrection power that God has given me do its work in my life today.  It was the same old, same old.
Or, as I grew up saying it:  "Same ol', same ol'".  I get frustrated with myself and how easily I allow myself to slip back into "powerless" living.  Today, I let the so-called  "mundane" things of life get under my skin.  I didn't wake up praising Him, and didn't guide my children in that way either.  I let my tiredness affect my emotional state.  Eek.   On days like this I find my self correcting everybody more than showing love.  Oh, Lord, forgive me.  I didn't tap into the well spring of life--the divine power that has given me EVERYTHING I need for life and godliness.    Was it because I didn't believe that power could change my day?  To some degree, yes. 

Does anyone else struggle with believing that we have the power of the resurrection!  Think about that kind of power for a moment.


I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,  and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms...    EPHESIANS 1:18-20


Rom. 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.


2Cor. 10:4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 

2Tim. 1:7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.  


2Tim. 1:8 So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God, 



2Pet. 1:3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 

2Cor. 12:9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

This verse reminds me that instead of wallowing in guilt over my weaknesses, I need to allow God to work His mighty power through them--to draw people to Christ in spite of my weaknesses.  Tomorrow can be much different if I just yield to His power--believing that He will accomplish amazing things that I could never do myself.  Heck,  he can even give me power to do the mundane things of life with a happy heart!

If you are reading this blog, jot down this verse from 1 Thessalonians.  Lets pray this as a prayer for our brothers and sisters in Christ.  What a wonderful verse!!  Lets pray for one another in this way---that we will have many actions prompted by faith, and that His power will fulfill every good purpose in our lives!

2 Thessalonians 1:11 With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith.

Here is one last verse to go out on....

Ephesians 3:16-21:
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,  and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.  Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,  to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

I believe that Tuesday is going to be a very different day than Monday was!