FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 2010 (GOOD FRIDAY)

CAN’T NO GRAVE HOLD MY BODY DOWN (Mike Farris)

It was early one mornin'
Just about the break of day
The angels came in glory
And rolled the stone, stone away
When the women came along
And they found the Savior was gone
Can't no grave
Hold my body down
Can't no grave
Hold my body down
Can't no grave
Hold my body down
When the first trumpet sounds
I'm gonna get up out of the ground
Can't no grave
Hold my body down
Listen up dear Gabriel
Stand on land and the sea
Don't you do nothing
Till you hear orders from me
Now the night is almost gone
And the day is comin on
Can't no grave
Hold my body down
Can't no grave
Hold my body down
Can't no grave
Hold my body down

“Look at these hands and my side.  They swallowed the grave on that night.  When I drank the world’s sins so that I could carry you in and give you life”.  Good morning, Lord Jesus.  This weekend is the most exciting time that we celebrate the greatest event that ever happened in a Christian’s life.  I am honored to be Your disciple, thank You for choosing me.  Rather, than no music as I experienced at the first of the week, I feel today as all music combined is soaring in my spirit.  My soul senses a freedom, a kinda like dancing mood.  Even with the circumstances of life are all around me, I just want to stand up and swirl around and around declaring the freedom that You have won at Calvary.  Thank you, thank you.

Don’t give up, don’t give in.  You are the child of the Risen Lord, the Conqueror of all evil.  THE CHAMPION!!!!  Just imagine your worst circumstance….Imagine Jesus taking that “thing” out of the hands of our enemy and throwing it to the furtherest point on the earth.  I don’t say this lightly, you know that I know what “things” are like, I know how hard they are, I know how much they hurt….This is a day to rejoice, rejoice that Jesus won.  I’m so excited, I could almost come out of my skin, rising up to Praise the Winner.  The Lord God Almighty, the Risen Lord.  No great insight, No great picture, just gratefulness to my Lord and realizing Who He really is.  He conquered hell, death and the grave.  He did that for us, how loved that makes me “feel”.  The enemy of my soul says we are defeated, we have failed, we can’t and won’t get up.  THAT’S JUST NOT TRUE!!!!!  The truth is we are hidden in Christ and He already got up and whipped the devil’s butt.

HALLELUJAH!!!  Can’t no grave (or threat of it) hold my body down.  Even when I die in the grave, ain’t no grave going to hold me down…I will rise and be with my Lord, forever.  What a promise, What a hope.  Even in all the excitement of the Risen Lord, I’m reminded of those without hope, those who don’t know our Risen Lord.  They’re lost without Him.  Father, give me someone today that I can talk to about You.  I ask whoever reads this journal to make it a necessity to talk to someone about our Risen Lord.  I ask that “the cares of this world” would not weigh us down so much that we forget those around us.  I ask You to give us eyes that see and ears that hear your heart.  Set us on fire and let others stand around and watch us burn with Your love.  I am

Looking for a match,

Mary Ann