Poem: by Jean Bryan

Stop shovelling dirt unto my coffin.
I’m here for a reason, not born for nothing.
It’s not time to seal up my tomb.
It was God who took me from the womb.

As I lay here, I may appear to be dead.
But I remember what the Word of God said.
You shall surely live, you shall not die.
So, with my last breath, I break the death cry.

They say, ‘dust to dust and ash to ash’.
They snarl and with their teeth they gnash.
Such an ado and great weeping.
Despite Jesus telling them I’m just sleeping.

So, sing Sisters, to you death will not cling.
Death’s lost its victory; grave’s lost its sting.
Talitha Cumi: ‘Daughter Arise’.
Never to raise another ‘death cry’.

PROPHETIC PRAYER

• Today, re-build us, re-construct us, redesign us, and realign us, in Jesus’s Name.
Build us with Precious Stones, Gems, Rubies, Crystals, and Sapphires. We want to radiate Your Glory, Your love, and Your mercy. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
• We serve an Extremely, Extraordinary, Extravagant God. No ‘half measures’ for Our God. When You bless Your People, You don’t hold back, You do it with ‘Exceeding, Abundance; Above all we could ask or think’. (Ephesians 3:20).
• In Deuteronomy 7:6, You call us Your ‘Prized Possession’.
• In Isaiah 62:3, You say we are Your ‘Crown of Glory’, and Your ‘Royal Diadem’. We are ‘Jewels’ in Your Hands.
• Romans 8:17, makes us aware that we are ‘Heirs’ and ‘Joint-Heirs’ with You Son, Jesus Christ. Furthermore, if we are Heirs with Christ, then we share in His Great inheritance.
• In Exodus 19:5, You call us ‘Treasures’, and Your ‘Masterpiece’: Hand-crafted by You Father.
• Ephesians 2:10, uses a similar phrase, You state that we are Your ‘Workmanship’. You want us to understand that we are not ordinary. We are under construction, uniquely designed, incredibly sculptured, to radiate and show-case The Master-Builder. Hallelujah.
• Psalms 139 reiterates and galvanises these statements, it says: ‘We are Fearfully and Wonderfully Created’, because we serve an Audacious, Outrageous, Incredible God.