×
NewsDay

AMH is an independent media house free from political ties or outside influence. We have four newspapers: The Zimbabwe Independent, a business weekly published every Friday, The Standard, a weekly published every Sunday, and Southern and NewsDay, our daily newspapers. Each has an online edition.

You’re a product of resurrection

Opinion & Analysis
It’s not usually so apparent to fathom the power we wield as believers. As human beings we contend with many things on the verge of collapse or near death.

It’s not usually so apparent to fathom the power we wield as believers. As human beings we contend with many things on the verge of collapse or near death. Marriages, businesses and economies are dying. We face failing health. The life of Jesus Christ is encapsulated in us. The glorified state of the resurrected Christ indwells us. Revelatory comprehension of this truth will result in the manifestation of this life in its abundance.

Devotion Erasmus Makarimayi

It’s fundamental to have the rudimentary understanding that God came in a man, the man Christ Jesus, to redeem mankind. This is called incarnation. This Jesus is called the second Adam, the only begotten Son of God. This same Jesus died and rose to become the last Adam. The first Adam is the one we read in Genesis.

It’s the last Adam or the resurrected Christ Jesus who you confessed Lord for you to be a born again believer. The last Adam, that is the resurrected Christ is the first begotten child of God meaning you and I follow as children of God.

It’s an understatement to think of the incarnate God as the one residing in you. The one in you passed temptation, died, went to the lower parts of the earth and rose again and went to heaven. He’s glorified and lives in you.

In elaborating His state after His resurrection which is our state, He says in Matthew 28:18, “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.”

This power latently rests in us. We have discussed in earlier installments that if all power was given to Jesus, no power was left to other players. What the devil or Satan uses, therefore, is deception and lies riding on our ignorance of the truth.

A believer walking in knowledge shouldn’t look at her/himself with shame, negativity or low self esteem. The Bible makes it very clear that as the resurrected Christ is in heaven presently, so are we here in this world. 1 John 4:17 reads: “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.”

Ephesians 2:6 puts it thus, “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus we, therefore, stand boldly fully convinced of our standing in Christ Jesus.

When God raised Jesus from the dead, He put all His power in Jesus so that that power becomes the power that born again believers possess. God poured out His power beyond the power we read at creation.

The Bible says: “the exceeding greatness of his power.”

The full text reads in Ephesians 1:18-23: “The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

“And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power. Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places.

“Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.”

This was Apostle Paul’s prayer to believers. We shouldn’t be ignorant, but have understanding and be conscious of this truth. You’re not a product of death but resurrection. You don’t need a prophet or apostle to impart this resurrection power in you.

The moment you come into Christ and acknowledge it, the power begins to operate and will restore and raise to life every dead and decaying thing or part of your life. You don’t need a special offering for the resurrection but simply accept and believe.

Realise the power and potential in you. By knowledge stimulate the resurrection power residing in you. You’re going somewhere.

●All Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible. Email: [email protected] Fellowship with Pastor Makarimayi on Facebook and on www.twitter.com/PEMAKARIMAYI. Telephone +263 712 332 632