I've been thinking a lot about Resurrection Power these days. It's the power to bring dead things alive again. Dead marriages. Dead hopes. Dead dreams.

He can take a heart of stone and replace it with a pulsing heart, a real heart.

Ezekiel 36:26 says this: "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh."

That's Resurrection Power! This year I've seen it. I've seen dead hopes and dreams spring back to live. Dead relationships begin again, fresh and new, restored by Him. These things happen when we bring things to the light. Jesus is the light. Things grow in the Light.

Resurrection Power means that things that appear dry and dead can begin again, fresh and vibrant, and bear fruit. They can flower and bring beauty where there was once nothin' much to look at. That's why I like to garden. I love it when last fall's mums turn into dry sticks. When I break off the dry sticks, I see tiny green leaves peering up from the dirt. The perennial resurrection of a garden is enough to make me Believe.

Jesus said, as His life here was ending, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds."

Jesus Himself is the seed. He's the seed that went into the ground. The seed that bears much fruit. We are that fruit. 1 Peter 1:23: "For you have been born again (Resurrected!), not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God."

We are resurrected through the Word. Christ is the word. I implore you to allow the seed, the word to plant in your new hearts. James 1:21 says, "Humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you." The word can make you new...and beautiful...when you accept it. Now that's Resurrection Power.