Easter Celebration – I Am Risen!

What are you celebrating this season? Is it salvation, victory and freedom or is it only salvation? Will Jesus Christ acknowledge your celebration as being complete? This post aims at encouraging you to utilize the entire package our Saviour Christ delivered to us the day He rose again.

He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay – Matthew 28:6 (NKJV).

 The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord – Luke 4:18-19 (NKJV).

Many people are still in their oppression because they have refused or don’t know how to take their mat and go home (Luke 5:24). They have accepted salvation from Christ but they are yet to take the goods Jesus paid for on the cross and delivered at His resurrection.

I imagine the Lord Jesus shouting, “I am risen! Why are you still there? The stone is rolled away (Mark 16:4), just follow Me and walk out of that grave! I am risen, don’t you understand what it means?” It means salvation, victory and freedom. Freedom from shame, reproach, oppression, sickness and disease, fear, downtrodden state, helplessness. Read more...