The question we want to ask you, both today and in the coming weeks, is this:
In your life, what are the things that you need, perhaps desperately, that deep down, you know only God can deliver in you, for you, and through you?
Things like:
We invite you to prepare for Resurrection Sunday - Easter - with the expectation of Resurrection Power…IN YOUR OWN LIFE! Cards will be available each week for you to ask God in your prayer life, allowing our staff to pray over those requests with you.
But please, remember that this is about your intimate relationship with God when we ask, “What is it that you need that only He can fulfill?"
God encourages you to approach Him with boldness and faith—so don’t hesitate to ask for what you truly need!
"O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I'm far away. You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do." (Psalm 139:1-3 NLT)
"Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you." (1 Peter 5:7 NLT)
God doesn't merely tolerate our concerns—He treasures them because He treasures us.
"For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?" (Isaiah 43:19 NLT)
"So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most." (Hebrews 4:16 NLT)
Only God can change nature—the nature of our environment, our health, and evil itself.
Consider this for a moment. We live in a world obsessed with change, but a lot of what we experience feels frustratingly immutable. The struggles that keep arising, the systems that resist transformation, the habits we cannot break, the healing that eludes us, and the people who seem never to grow up, move beyond, or annoy us.
But what if the source of true, lasting transformation is not found in our striving, but in surrendering to the one who designed it all in the first place?
"Then God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light." (Genesis 1:3 NLT)
"When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the waves, 'Silence! Be still!' Suddenly the wind stopped, and there was a great calm.” (Mark 4:39 NLT)
The disciples were absolutely terrified. “Who is this man?” they asked each other. “Even the wind and waves obey him!” (Mark 4:41 NLT)
"The miracles that have already happened are, of course, as Scripture so often says, the first fruits of that cosmic summer which is presently coming on. Christ has risen, and so we shall rise... To be sure, it feels wintry enough still: but often in the very early spring it feels like that. Two thousand years are only a day or two by this scale.”
C.S. Lewis
"For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.” (Isaiah 43:19 NLT)
He will accomplish it His way, not ours. If it were always our way, it would never get done, because there are things in this world that we cannot do!
The question is: Do you see it? Are you looking for it? Or have you resigned yourself to thinking some things will never change?
God is not limited by medical impossibilities.
"I am the Lord who heals you.” (Exodus 15:26 NLT)
"She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse.” (Mark 5:26 NLT)
God's healing doesn't always come in the ways or timeframes we expect.
"My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness." (2 Corinthians 12:9 NLT)
"Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me. He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. He redeems me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies. He fills my life with good things…” (Psalm 103:2-5 NLT)
God is still in the business of changing what seems medically unchangeable.
This is because at its core, evil isn't just a behavioral problem—it's a heart problem. And only God can truly change a heart.
"And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart. And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations.” (Ezekiel 36:26-27 NLT)
Only God can take what is evil and not just neutralize it but redeem it for good.
"Don't let evil conquer you, but conquer evil by doing good.” (Romans 12:21 NLT)
The opposite of evil isn’t good - The opposite of evil is Love - And God is Love!
The ultimate demonstration of this is the cross. What appeared to be the triumph of evil—the brutal execution of the innocent Son of the Living God—became the very means of evil's defeat.
The worst thing that ever happened became the best thing that ever happened. The greatest injustice became the source of all justice.
"The Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil." (1 John 3:8 NLT)
"This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!" (2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT)
Nature, health, and evil do not have the last say - God does!
