God's Power Lives in Us

  

I would like to share an experience that my sister’s friend shared with us after the accident.  I don’t personally know her but am so encouraged that she was willing to take the time to listen to God and pray until God sent her an answer.  She wrote this to my sister.

   I felt like I needed to tell you what I have been experiencing since Monday early morning.  I was really encouraged that you said your sister wondered why she didn’t just wake her son from the dead, (I referred to this in my post called ‘Heaven’) it encouraged me that there are Christians out there that believe we have that power within us thru Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

   Monday morning I woke up with a dream.  I dreamed that someone in your family had died.  We were together with the youth and everyone was shocked. I started singing:  “The same Power that rose Jesus from the grave, the same power that commands the dead to wake, lives in us.  And so we agreed that we were going to pray for that person to come back to life.   After a few hours Lucy came and said he was back to life.  Now I don’t think that every dream has a meaning but I have had a few dreams in my life where I knew God had revealed something to me.  When you told us that your nephew has committed suicide, this dream came to mind and I didn’t know if your nephew had Jesus or not, so I started praying earnestly that God would bring him back to his family, I commanded death to leave him and life to be breathed into him again in the name of Jesus.  I kept singing the song that I sang in my dream over and over all day.  Every message I got and every time my phone rang I was sure that the news would come that God brought him back to this life.  When you said that the cops figured it might have been an accident but they would do further investigation, I calmed down somewhat but I still kept speaking life over him. 

   By Tuesday my prayer had still not been answered and I said to God:  “if he is with You in heaven then I’m ok if you don’t bring him back, because he wouldn’t want to.  But if he is not with you then I ask you one more time to bring him back”.  (Remember I didn’t know if he had Jesus or not because I don’t know him and I hadn’t asked you about that)

    “God; I don’t understand, You say in your Word that we as believers have the same power that rose Jesus from the grave, why is this not happening?  Talk to me God, I’m listening”, I said.

   And then He answered ever so clearly.  He said to me:  Roderick is with me, and his family will be ok, they have Me, I am their comforter, I am their helper.  More people will be drawn to Me by the way they handle this loss then if I would bring Roderick back to life.  -Teresa

   Thanks Teresa for allowing God to use you and taking the risk to share your experience.  Thanks for not being to busy and for searching and praying until God gave you the answer.  Because those underlined words are what go through my mind daily.  God has used you in our lives in a big way.