Last week we sat with the cross — what it cost, what it meant, what it finished. This week we take the next step. Because the cross was not the end of the story. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead is available to every person who belongs to Him. Not just as a future hope, but as a present reality. Paul says it plainly: we are raised to walk in newness of life. Not someday. Now.

This is one of the most practical things the Bible teaches. Resurrection power is not just about what happens when we die. It is about what happens on a Tuesday morning when the old habits come calling, when the familiar darkness pulls, when the person you used to be tries to climb back onto the throne. The same power that broke the grip of death has broken the grip of sin. That is the claim. Not that the struggle disappears — but that we are no longer slaves to it.

This week we will look at what resurrection power actually looks like in real life — in a broken soldier who woke up one morning and found the nightmares were gone, in a valley of dry bones that suddenly started breathing, in a man named Lazarus who walked out of his tomb still wrapped in grave clothes. The question is not whether the power is real. The question is whether we are living like people who have access to it.

"The same power that raised Christ from the dead is at our disposal. The same love that kept Him faithful to the end is pledged to us. We may be more than conquerors through Him who loved us." (Ellen G. White, My Life Today, p. 317)

Prayer: Father, we believe in resurrection power — help us to live like it. Where we have been walking in defeat, remind us what we have access to. Raise us up to walk in the newness of life You purchased for us. Amen.