Life to the dead.

Romans 4:15-17, For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression. That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.

Without Christ, we are dead in our trespasses and sins. Not just asleep, not just disabled, but dead. But by faith, which is itself a gift of God, we are given life, the abundant life in Christ. And by faith we know that God will indeed call into existence things that do not exist, that eye has not seen, more than we can even imagine!

Bring forth your abundant life in us, bring forth those things that do not yet exist through us as we walk with you and seek those things that stir our affections for you!

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