What does Resurrection mean to us?
By Sherly Isaac
 
Last week we celebrated Easter or resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus who died on the cross rose from death on the third day. You may say, Oh well, what have we to do with someone who died and rose from death 2000 years ago? But Jesus' death and resurrection has great meaning for our lives. His death and resurrection gave humanity hope for the future. Those who were sitting in the dark could see the bright light.

No matter how grim and how sad it looked at the time of His death on the cross, three days later, that sad and grim environment turned into a joyous one because of His resurrection from the dead. It was triumph over death and the fear of death.

Once I read that, “Death could make even the mighty tremble.” Yes, death is terrible but Jesus won the greatest victory when He rose from the grave. His resurrection gave hope to humanity that whoever lives and believes in Jesus shall never die. We read in John 11:25-26, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die."

Not only did He remove death away, but He also took away the fear of death. I remember when I was very young, probably five or six years old. we lived very near to a Hindu cremation ground. Often dead bodies were being carried along the road in front of our home. Well, It is different in India, often they carry dead bodies on the shoulder. They do not use a box but a stretcher for carrying the dead body. In many cases you could see their face being exposed. In my childhood curiosity once I asked my mom, “what is the difference between a person sleeping and dead?” She replied, “If a person is dead the breath will stop and he/she will no longer breathe.”

I remember that my mom used to sleep in the afternoons while I would play. When I feel that my mom had slept little longer from usual, often fear would grip my soul and I would go near her bed and put my hand in front of her nose to see whether she was still breathing.

At times I was frightened when a family member did not return home on their scheduled time. All kinds of thoughts made me desperate and filled my heart with great fear. But when I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior, all fear is gone. God filled my heart with great peace.

This is what Jesus does for us by His resurrection. Look how David could sing this beautiful song saying in Psa 23:4, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.”

Even today also He wants to fill our hearts with great peace. If you come to Him and accept Him as your personal Lord and Savior, He will bring you out of eternal death and will take away the fear of death from your life.

If you want to accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior please pray this prayer with me:

Lord Jesus, I am afraid of death but you have conquered death. And you can give me a new life full of peace, joy and happiness. Please forgive and forget all my sins and give me a new life. Today I invite you as my Lord and Savior. Please come into my life and make me whole. Thank you for listening to my prayer and for giving me eternal life. I give you all the glory. I pray in Jesus name, Amen.

Thanksgiving Memorial Service for Dr DGS Dhinakaran

 
Dear Pastor / Elder / Brother / Sister

Greetings to you in the wonderful name of Jesus Christ.

As you may be aware, Dr D.G.S Dhinakaran, founder of Jesus Calls, went home to be with the Lord on 20 February 2008. We, the friends of Bro. DGS plan to arrange a Thanksgiving Memorial Service in New Jersey on the 29th March 2008 Saturday at 05.00pm in order to honor this man of God, who influenced many lives including ours through a sacrificial prayer life filled with God's compassion, love, power, anointing and Gifts of the Holy Spirit. The venue for the Thanksgiving Memorial service will be at Kingston Presbyterian Church, 4565 Route 27, Kingston , NJ 08528 .

We are pleased to invite you to come for this Thanksgiving Memorial Service to honor this great man of our almighty God; the flyer is attached herein or you could visit the link http://www.prayertoweronline.org/kingston.html or http://www.indianchristiansunited.org/. We would highly appreciate your early response to confirm your participation, which would help in our arrangements for that Service.

Please do contact any one of the undersigned for more details. We are looking forward to having your presence in this Memorial Service.

We would also request if you could pass this information to your church and friends so that anyone who is associated with Jesus Calls ministries would be able to attend the service.

For further details please click this link

In His Service
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Prabahar Devaraj (732-447-3788)
Gnanaraj Joseph (774-239-7939)

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Standing in the Gap - Fasting prayer on 8th Apr. 2008

 
As the Bible says in Ezekiel 22:30 "So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it." And also the Bible says in Numbers 16:48, "And he (Aaron) stood between the dead and the living; so the plague was stopped." We have fasting prayer every second Tuesday of each month. Our next fasting prayer meeting will be conducted on 8th Apr. 2008

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Thanks and God bless for your continuous support and interest in what we do.

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