Patriot,
Today Christians across the globe join together to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
We are truly blessed to live
in a nation where we can freely practice our faith, but at the same time
there are many across the globe who
don’t enjoy that same freedom.
Our
fellow American, Pastor Saeed Abedini, is being imprisoned in Iran for
simply practicing his Christian faith. He is serving an eight year
sentence and has been so badly treated he is currently confined to a
hospital bed.
Despite the brutal darkness he faces in Iran, he has found comfort in
the Kingdom of Light. This Easter, he wrote an incredibly powerful
message.
Please read it below and share it
with your Facebook friends and Twitter followers.
Please keep Pastor Abedini, and all prisoners of conscience across the
world, in your thoughts and prayers today. I hope you and your family have a happy and blessed Easter.
All the best,
Ted Cruz
Crucifying the resurrected
“self” with Christ and resurrects our death faith with Christ.
Happy Resurrection Day.
On
the Eve of Good
Friday and Easter I was praying from my hospital room for my fellow
Christians in the world. What the Holy Spirit revealed to me in prayer
was that
there are many dead faiths in the midst of Christians today. That
Christians all over the world are not able to fully reach their
spiritual potential
that has been given to them as a gift by God so that in reaching that
potential, the curtain can be removed and the Glory of God would be
revealed.
Some
times we want to experience the Glory and
resurrection with Jesus without experiencing death with Him. We do not
realize that unless we pass through the path of death with Christ, we
are not
able to experience resurrection with Christ.
We
want to have a
good and successful marriage, career, education and family life (which
is also God’s desire and plan for our life). But we forget that in order
to experience the Resurrection and Glory of Christ we first have to
experience death with Christ and to die to ourselves and selfish
desires.
Jesus said to His Disciples: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must
deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. (Matthew 16:24)
This means that we should not do things that we like
to do (that God does not want us to do) and to do things that we do not
like to do (but
God wants us to do) so that He may be glorified.
So
in addition to
spending our days and night in doing the works of faith as described
above, we should also transform our death faiths into living and active
faiths
through the resurrection of Christ which is an active and constructive
love that is effective.
In conclusion, let us resurrect our Dead faiths to living faiths by first dying to our selfish
“resurrected” self and experiencing the cross of Jesus. Then we are able to experience the Glorious resurrection with Christ.
A Glorious life with Christ starts only after a painful death (to self) with
Christ.
We will start with Christ.
Pastor Saeed Abedini
Prisoner in the Darkness in Iran, but free for the Kingdom and Light
Prisoner in the Darkness in Iran, but free for the Kingdom and Light
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