From the desk of Steve Shultz:
The angel said to the women, Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; He has risen, just as He said...Then go quickly and tell His disciples: "He has risen from the dead..." Matthew 28:5-7
I appreciate this word by our friend John Mark Pool. There are great Biblical accounts John Mark shares as well as a NOW word that the world desperately needs to hear – from you and me.
Now, let's go and tell the world: He has risen!
Happy Easter and Resurrection Day to you and yours.
By the way, we have an Israel Tour coming up in September. You can join me, Kim Clement and Wendy and Rory Alec from God.tv. Hope to see you in Israel with us in September! Details also in itinerary below.
Please remember us in your giving this year. We are a FOR-PROFIT organization, therefore, your contribution will NOT be tax-deductible. What you are doing is helping us take the prophetic word around the world. Simply go to: https://www.elijahlist.com/donations/donation.php and make a quick and easy donation today.
John Mark Pool:
All Creation is Groaning for Jesus Christ the Risen Savior of the World! A Resurrection Message for 2011
All Creation is Groaning for Many Reasons
For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Romans 8:22 NLT
Hell could not keep Jesus! His resurrection power has always defeated satan's attempt to overthrow our Father's Kingdom!
God made the earth as a habitation for His people. The occurrence of sin brought on decay and disturbance of purposes.
The heavens are Thine, the earth also is Thine: as for the world and the fullness thereof, Thou hast founded them. Psalm 89:11 KJV
TRUTH: God, the only Creator, will one day redeem His people (those who are in Christ Jesus) and the earth eternally – PERIOD! Those in Christ serve a risen Savior who came to restore all those who are now groaning in the birth pangs of a transformation for eternity!
Paul personified the elements of nature as looking forward to deliverance the same way that Christians anticipate our glorified resurrection body. The same Holy Spirit that brooded over the waters in creation (Genesis 1:2) has been given to Christians as a foretaste and assurance of the glorious hope that awaits us. We can live with joy, assured that we have a wonderful expectation awaiting us. That hope includes a new, transformed world, which will again pass God's examination as "very good" (Genesis 1:31). We must know in Spirit and in Truth, "It is a finished work!"
As for now, however, I feel that all the creation that was made by the Most High God is groaning for many reasons. We have basically been very poor stewards of our planet and of our resurrection authority! However, we can turn the tide as we renew our hearts to that of the way of Jesus, as He was brought to His earthly mission. One day, Jesus was anointed by a "party crasher" who indeed was a lost woman of the streets filled with demons; she anointed Jesus for His burial. Jesus had cast the demons from her, and showed her that pure wonderful look of love! Yes, Mary had found the love from a "man" figure who had no expectation of anything in return! He was pure love that only the Father could have offered her, as she received new life from her Savior.
This is the Message of the Resurrection Power of a Living Savior
This is the season that coincides with the celebration of the Resurrection of the Savior of the world.
He is not here: for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. Matthew 28:6 KJV
Two women, both named Mary, anticipated a returning of their Savior, friend, and for one – her Son. Mary, the birth mother of Jesus, eagerly joined with Mary Magdalene to participate in the resurrection glory that comes for those who "know" the risen Savior! Your desperation to lose yourself ensures not only birth of a new person, yet an opening of resurrection power that only our risen Savior can offer! Run to that empty tomb and show the world the grave clothes you know hold the scent of your past! Jesus is not in this tomb or clothing, He is risen! My sin is removed, and I now live in a resurrection power like no human could offer! Behold, tell them you are indeed "brand new!"
Understandably, Mary the mother of Jesus, gave up all her reputation to bring Christ's birth that would cost her her earthly acceptance yet gain her place in the Kingdom as she willingly became the host of Heaven's pledge to restore a lost relationship with a Holy God!
The women who were greatest at risk of loss, reputation and in need of forgiveness, had the greatest authority to share first the message of the resurrection power of a living Savior, and Jesus Christ as their Lord.
Jesus Christ came because one woman, also named Mary, chose to obey the Father to lose her earthly reputation, face possible death or expulsion. But she had faith! She would have understood the way Jesus must have felt on the way to the Cross of Calvary. Amazingly, in stark contrast is an accompanying sister, Mary, who had a real lifestyle of sin, pressed by the possession of demons, and was as new as any person in God's family of "born again" Believers. Though our sins be as scarlet, Jesus came to make them white as snow!
They carried spices to anoint Jesus, yet their hearts were searching for the One they loved. That fact drove them by their passion to be at the door of our New Gate of resurrection power! We must applaud that desperation that announced The One we are looking for is not in the tomb, but Jesus Christ has arisen! He is our risen Savior, and the only Way we can return to a relationship with the Father's burning fire of desire for our restored intimacy!
The Birthing Time is Near!
Those who know of the witness of Christ yet have continually rejected Him as THE ONLY Savior of the world will begin feeling this season of anticipation, causing them to groan in desperation for an answer.
The birthing time is near!
Isaiah wrote in chapter 66:1-2 (KJV): "Thus saith the LORD, 'The Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool: where is the house that ye build unto Me? and where is the place of My rest? For all those things hath Mine hand made, and all those things have been,' saith the LORD: 'but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at My word.'"
God made it all for us to bring Him glory in our multiplication process. We are the ones that have been assigned the "Kingdom Dominion Process"! This New Gate of resurrection power is depending upon our actions now! God is awaiting our intensity of pressing into the transforming process of something that all creation is groaning over today!
"Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?" says the LORD. "Do I close up the womb when I bring to delivery?" says your God. Isaiah 66:9 NIV
Spring is a season of New Birth! Behold, everything is made new by the resurrection power of His ascended authority! Will we hear the pangs of the New Birth?
Jesus is Just a Breath Away From a Lost Person's Heart!
Will we stand in a gap and make up a hedge? This is not a season to align with "judgmentalism" and the "grumbling and complaining." This is a time to take the authority of ones who bring to bear the now-risen Savior, Who is a breath away from a lost person's heart! Just give them the power of the resurrection Gospel message, because it has always had the power to transform lost lives into dynamic witnesses! Do you remember when you were lost? Can you reflect upon the "washing of the Word" to bring you a peace that no person can describe? We are in a season of a New Day of power as the world has ever known!
Our new day of the Great Awakening is beckoning all those who have been heavy laden with the cares of this world, those ready to find that the same resurrection power of the Gospel of Christ is still as powerful as the day Jesus arose from the grave. Jesus is knocking at our hearts' doors and is yet awaiting our reply. What will our answer be?
The Father's intercessors have sustained us, and now it is time for the people of God to possess the anticipation with the pressing desperation, as did both Marys racing to see their risen Savior, the Son of the Living God!
Our desperation will indeed place a "demand note" upon our destiny! Jesus is our risen Savior Who will empower His own to be the Hope of His Glory! Please tell the groaning world, "We have the answer – Jesus Christ – the living Savior of the world! His life brings the lost a living relationship with a very loving eternal Father! Let us be alive with Jesus forever!"
He is not in the tomb – our Jesus Christ is indeed the risen Savior of the world!
John Mark Pool
Word to the World Ministries
Email: MarkandSandyPool@aol.com
