Who will you pray for today?

You probably have someone on your mind and heart who needs Jesus. She (or he) is not a Christian and she’s not interested in becoming a Christian. 

But if God is free to swoop down, uninvited, and lay hold of a person who is dead in trespasses and sins, and bring him or her to spiritual life — that gives us hope! If God saves, then you can ask him to save her. Can you imagine a more powerful incentive to pray? God can do in the lives of some of your loved ones what you can’t even imagine possible. 

Who will you pray for today, knowing that God can do the impossible in a person's heart?

The Silver Thread

1 Corinthians 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead.

The whole system of Christianity rests upon the fact that "Christ is risen from the dead;" for, "If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain: ye are yet in your sins." The divinity of Christ finds its surest proof in His resurrection, since He was "Declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead." It would not be unreasonable to doubt His Deity if He had not risen. Moreover, Christ's sovereignty depends upon His resurrection, "For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that He might be Lord both of the dead and living." Again, our justification, that choice blessing of the covenant, is linked with Christ's triumphant victory over death and the grave; for "He was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification." Nay, more, our very regeneration is connected with His resurrection, for we are "Begotten again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." And most certainly our ultimate resurrection rests here, for, "If the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you." If Christ be not risen, then shall we not rise; but if He be risen then they who are asleep in Christ have not perished, but in their flesh shall surely behold their God. Thus, the silver thread of resurrection runs through all the believer's blessings, from his regeneration onwards to his eternal glory, and binds them together. How important then will this glorious fact be in his estimation, and how will he rejoice that beyond a doubt it is established, that "now is Christ risen from the dead."

"The promise is fulfill'd, Redemption's work is done, Justice with mercy's reconciled, For God has raised His Son."