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April 2, 2010 
We Are All Witnesses
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"And while being in their company and eating with them, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem BUT TO WAIT FOR WHAT THE FATHER HAD PROMISED, Of which [He said] you have heard Me speak.  For John baptized with water, but not many days from now you shall be baptized with (placed in, introduced into) the Holy Spirit.  He said to them, It is not for you to become acquainted with and know what time brings [the things and events of time and their definite periods] or fixed years and seasons (their critical niche in time), which the Father has appointed (fixed and reserved) by His own choice and authority and personal power.  But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth." -The Greatest Love Story Ever Told 
 
Will you wait to witness what God has promised you?
 
Before Jesus ascended, he told his leaders:
 
"I know you face persecution, peril and pressure right now in Jerusalem.  It seems bleak.  Our enemies thought our movement was dead, but now the body they viciously nailed to the cross is gone.  Some believe My body was stolen; but those that have seen me know otherwise.  Right now, the government and religious will look to destroy any remnant that remains from the original 12 and has seen me (resurrected.)  But I command you not to leave Jerusalem; because in the place of pressure, persecution, isolation, hopelessness, embarrassment and public scrutiny, I will send a comforter to walk with you.  I will send power, ability, efficiency and might through the promise of My Presence."
 
I can imagine as they waited for "power," how much they felt powerless and uncertain if they would live long enough to receive the promise.  Perhaps they prayed and slept in shifts.  I can imagine every time they heard sounds at night, they awakened startled, frightened and restless; wondering if soldiers were coming to arrest and crucify the last remnant of the King.
 
Yet it was during this difficult and dark season, Jesus said, "I will send power and a comforter.  I will come alongside of you to protect and preserve you for all I have called you do."
 
Today is Good Friday
 
It marks the historic day that Jesus went to the cross for the sins of humanity.  It was three days after His enemies thought they had won, that Jesus determined that He would not be in the same place where men left him (and rose again.)
 
What a rich legacy we have in Him.  We don't have to remain in the last place people saw us.  We don't have to stay in the grave or tomb men threw us in and sealed with a stone.
 
Today, Jesus commands every tomb in your life to be a womb (the birthplace of the greatest resurrection you have ever seen.)  When people come searching for you at your last job, last position, last crisis, last point in your marriage, you can declare, "I am not there; I have risen.  I have risen from depression, poverty, sickness, conflict and mediocrity. God has led me to the Rock that is "higher." 
 
YES, there can be increase, in your parenthood, career, ministry, business and relationships; but you must take your grave clothes off.  You didn't put them on.  Other people did when they deemed you dead and wanted to bury you.  But now because He lives, you too can live and defy your circumstance.
 
Friend, it is not always for us to know the times of everything God has promised; Christ simply promised, "You shall receive power for WHATEVER comes."
 
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