Raised Up With Christ (Exploring The Power of His Resurrection) by Apostle Selman
Pray: Father, give me a visitation tonight! Let everything dead or dying in my life be quickened to life, in the name of Jesus Christ!
“and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:”
Ephesians 2:6 (KJV)
“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.”
Colossians 3:1 (KJV)
Walking in victory as a Believer demands that you’re aware of the following:
1. The finished work of Christ; if you do not have an understanding of this, you may never be able to walk in victory and dominion.
It’s also essential to understand the dynamics of appropriating the finished work of Christ so that it translates to victory.
It is not the ceremony called “Resurrection Sunday” that we celebrate; it is the commemoration of the dead and the consequent victory that we now have access to.
Many Believers are defeated because they have not come into an existential comprehension of the finished work of Christ and the dynamics of appropriating it to make it their experience.
The Christian faith is essentially divided into five areas for consideration:
1. The revelation of God alongside His eternal plan.
(Genesis 1:1, John 1:1-3).
2. Creation and the Fall of Man.
(Genesis 1:1-3, 26, 28).
3. The Revelation of Jesus Christ.
(Matthew 1:21)
4. The Believer’s Identity (The concept of Newness in Christ).
(2 Corinthians 5:17)
The Believer is a testament that God’s resurrection was complete.
5. The Imminent Return of Jesus Christ and the Judgement that has been prepared for Satan, wicked spirits, and all those without Christ.
The Believer’s victory in Christ is first based on his or her knowledge of the victory in Christ and knowing how to appropriate it.
“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21 KJV
The Believer is the fruit, the proof, and the product of Christ’s resurrection. Without an understanding of the new man in Christ, no believer can truly walk in victory.
In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray that you will come to a thorough comprehension of who you are in Christ!
“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,”
Ephesians 1:18 (KJV)
The hope of God’s calling to the Believer is that we ascend unto glory, becoming the true manifestation of the sons of God indeed.
The Bible is clear as to what the Gospel is according to 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, having three things essentially:
1. The death
2. The burial
3. The resurrection of Jesus Christ
In understanding the Gospel properly, there are six areas to consider:
1. The Divinity of Christ (His incarnation) – the journey to salvation began with His divinity.
John 1:1, 14, 10-11, 12
2. The Humanity of Christ – this is an understanding of His earthwalk.
(1 Timothy 3:16, Hebrews 2:17-18)
3. The Death of Jesus Christ – understanding how His death gave Him legitimacy to access the land of the dead.
(Acts 2:27).
Jesus Christ did not die a sinner, He took by covenant, the sin of humans.
4. Jesus Christ was buried. The burial proved that He really died.
(Colossians 2:15, Revelation 1:18)
5. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
(John 20:1-5, Matthew 28:2-6)
6. His Ascension and Exaltation
Jesus Christ is not merely the founder of a religion called ‘Christianity’—He is God. He was crucified, He rose again, and He lives forever. His resurrection should anchor unshakable faith in the heart of every Believer: that God is not a man that He should lie—what He says, He has the ability to bring it to pass.
If you do not believe The Words of Jesus Christ, you have no basis to celebrate His resurrection. Jesus is not the president of a corporation, He is The King of kings.
Declare boldly: I BELIEVE!
“I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.”
Revelation 1:18 (KJV)
I pray for you: On this Resurrection Sunday, everything dead and buried in your life, I declare that just as the stone was rolled away and like Lazarus came forth, I declare, come out to visibility now, in the name of Jesus Christ!
The Christian faith is the only faith with an empty tomb. While other religions have tombs that contain the physical remains of their founders, the empty tomb of Jesus Christ signifies that He triumphed over death and is alive!
(Matthew 28:5-6)
The Implication of Christ’s Resurrection:
1. Jesus Christ’s Death and resurrection was a validation, a seal to the fact that He was and is God. He’s not just The Son of God, He’s God Himself.
(Romans 1:2-4)
2. The Resurrection gave credence and credibility to every other thing Jesus Christ said.
3. The resurrection established the victory of Christ first over sin, satan, death, hell, and the grave.
4. The resurrection has given legitimate ground to everyone who believes in Jesus to be a partaker of His life, resurrection power, and victory.
(Ephesians 2:1-8)
Hearing the Gospel alone doesn’t set anyone free, it is believing the words of Jesus Christ that brings true freedom. You cannot truly believe in yourself if you don’t first believe in Him, because your identity is derived from who He is.
The next time you’re tempted to doubt God’s Word, remember—Jesus rose from the dead. His resurrection is the proof that His Word never fails.
Declare: I BELIEVE THE WORD OF GOD!
Declare: I HAVE VICTORY OVER SATAN. I AM MORE THAN A CONQUEROR!
When you come to Jesus Christ, you meet Him with the normal biological life, without Zoe. It is only when you acknowledge His substitutionary sacrifice and declare His Lordship over your life that the miracle takes place.
And what is this miracle that happens?
1. Your sins are forgiven
2. Righteousness is imparted to you
3. You receive the very life of God (Zoe)
When we invite people to be saved through Jesus Christ, it’s beyond bringing them into the fanatism of Christianity, we’re planting in them the life of God – Zoe.
Three Supporting Revelations for The Resurrection:
1. Understand your positional advantage.
(Ephesians 2:6)
2. Understand your oneness with Christ
(He’s the vine, and you’re the branch, because of this, you’re inseparable).
3. Understand your access to the resurrection power, by The Spirit. (Acts 4:33)
– The resurrection power is a life-giving and transforming power.
By the power that raised Christ from the dead, because you believe in your positional advantage, everything that holds people on the ground, may it never hold you again.
Like the Eagle, I declare that you’ll soar above challenges; you’re seated with Christ above limitations! The limitations of ordinary men will never be your limitation again, in the name of Jesus Christ!
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.”
John 15:1-5 (KJV)
The secret of manifesting your “Oneness” with Christ is not merely to select where Christ should go with you. If this is the case, then your disobedience will affect your “Oneness”.
The secret of “Oneness” is that you only go where He goes.
The proof of your “Oneness” with Jesus Christ is your submission to His influence.
Declare: I AM ONE WITH CHRIST; HE IS MY SENIOR PARTNER!
Jesus Christ is the divine intelligence that covers your every deficiency. Walk daily with the consciousness of your partnership with Christ. When you access the resurrection power of Jesus Christ, everything dead comes back to life.
The Dimensions Of The Resurrection Power:
1. The resurrection power transforms.
2. The resurrection power brings about resurrection.
3. The resurrection power empowers. It doesn’t just resurrect; it gives Believers the power to manifest God-like possibilities.
By the resurrection power, if you’re still at level 1 or 2 when you’re supposed to be at level 15, may that power lift you tonight—in the name of Jesus Christ! May it elevate your finances, revive your prayer life, and shift you into divine alignment, in the name of Jesus Christ!
To be empowered means to be engraced in a way that enables you to manifest dimensions beyond your natural capacity.
Without results, proofs, and the supernatural, the Christian faith is dead. It is the supernatural that births the Christian faith. You cannot be a genuine Believer without the supernatural manifesting in your life.
Lift up your voice in prayer and give thanks to Jesus Christ for all you’ve heard and for all He has done for You!
Pray: Father, may the significance of Your death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and exaltation begin to speak in my life.
Let me not be just a professing Christian. Let there be evidence and proof of the significance of His resurrection.
There is no limit to the one who can access the realities in the Resurrection power of God. If your results remain the same, it’s proof that you have not been empowered by Christ.
Make declarations to the realm of the Spirit and mention all the things you’re above through Jesus Christ!
Declare: I am above sickness!
I am above failure,
I am above poverty, etc.
Declare: I am one with Christ!
I manifest the unlimited wisdom, grace and favour of Christ!
I carry this consciousness in everything I do!
Men (humans) do not have the ability to give you loyalty indefinitely unless you’re assisted by the realm of The Spirit.
Pray: Lift your voice and declare your oneness with Jesus Christ.
Most Believers do not walk conscious of the empowerment they have through Christ!
In the presence of the supernatural, witnessing Jesus is easy.
Your witnessing for Jesus Christ is as hard as your powerlessness.
The bankruptcy of power equals difficulty in witnessing Jesus Christ.
Pray: Lord, I declare the fullness of your resurrection power! Let it speak in my life, ministry, business, career, and destiny, etc.
Pray over every aspect of your life where you’re yet to see the resurrection power manifest and declare that these areas are quickened by the resurrection power!
In the name of Jesus Christ, I decree and declare, for anyone under the sound of my voice that needs genuine power that transforms, the power that quickens and empowers, which gives you the ability to manifest the indomitable power of God, I decree and declare, may that resurrected power rest on you now, in the name of Jesus Christ!
I speak over your life that in the name of Jesus Christ, where you have lost the consciousness of your “Oneness” with Christ, your positional advantage, and where you have not allowed the Holy Spirit to take the lead over your life, by this teaching, I decree and declare, begin to experience the fruits of your exalted position! I declare, begin to experience the fruit of your “Oneness” with Christ and begin to experience the fruits of prophetic empowerment, in the name of Jesus Christ!
I decree and declare that nothing dies in your hands! Nothing dies in your life! Your finances will not die! Your marriage will not die! Your children will not die! And your health will not deteriorate, in the name of Jesus Christ!
In the name of Jesus Christ, everything dead or anything dying, by this resurrection power, may it come alive now, in the name of Jesus Christ!
Dead spiritual lives, come alive now! Dead finances, come alive now! Dead marriages, come alive now! Dead body organs, come alive now! Dead dreams and visions, come alive now! Dead ministries, come alive now! Dead businesses, come alive now, in the name of Jesus Christ!
I declare that, in every aspect of your life that is yet to experience the resurrection power and the life of Christ, I decree and declare that from tonight, you will begin to experience it in its fullness.
You will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover; I send you as signs and wonders, in the name of Jesus Christ! You will not have to do anything twice to succeed, you will do it once and go forward. No retrogression in your life! I call you the head and not the tail, above only is your destiny, in the name of Jesus Christ!
For those following online and peradventure, there is anyone under the sound of my voice who may be under the siege of curses, demonic plots, and all kinds of demonic manipulations of darkness, I decree and I declare over your life, in the name of Jesus Christ who is the Son of the living God, be set free now, in the name of Jesus Christ!
In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, the name that is above all names, I prophesy over your life – may this week be a week of strange miracles, miracles of favour, breakthroughs, liftings, and strange testimonies! Receive back-to-back testimonies, in the name of Jesus Christ!
I pray for your thoughts: every mindset and mentality that is not Word compliant or that is demonically engineered to partner with darkness for your destruction, I decree and declare that may the Holy Ghost and by the resurrection power that brought Jesus Christ to life, begin a quick work of transformation in your life, in the name of Jesus Christ!
Are you yet to respond to the call of Jesus Christ?
Tonight, He is reaching out to you with His unfailing love, offering you a path to true peace, hope, and eternal glory. Through His death on the cross, He made a way for you to experience the fullness of life in Him. Don’t hesitate; His love is calling you to something greater.
Take this bold step of faith and begin the journey of salvation by saying “yes” to Jesus Christ. With faith in your heart, declare this prayer of salvation to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour.
If you’ve made the decision to receive Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior tonight, we celebrate you, and Heaven rejoices with you! We would love to hear from you and walk alongside you on your new Christian journey.
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