I tend to write about the things that occur to me, which means the subjects I write about tend to vary over time. A number of years ago I was writing much more about certain types of miracles—gems and feathers manifesting supernaturally, as well as the Bible in Dalton, Georgia that was producing oil for a time. These days I have been much more focused on raising the dead and the gospel of life and immortality—the latter partly because I am finishing writing a book on the subject and partly because it’s something the Lord has called me to preach and teach. The former has been on my heart for a number of reasons as well, one of them being the current situation we find ourselves in both as a nation and worldwide.
Last year we were told there was a deadly pathogen that we must rearrange our entire lives to hide in fear from, we were told a combination of scientifically proven and nonscientific nonsense “rules” that would “keep us safe”—from a pathogen with a low mortality and known drug treatments which have been (and continue to be) suppressed. I have been saying over the past year that we need to get better at grasping the revelation of who Jesus is as the One Who Defeated Death and as such learn to become effective in raising the dead, but I had a dream one night that, to me, further accentuates this point.
In the dream, I was speaking to a pastor. This pastor told me that there are no nurses in churches across America on Sundays because they are all busy working with the sick and dying when they need to be in church to recharge themselves because of it. The dream was short, but the message to me was somewhat clear: things are going to get much worse before they get better.
The highly-experimental shots that people have been taking this year have caused some very-predictable mutations to the initial lab-designed pathogen and the results have been ugly. Just from what I have personally seen working with patients, the damage to the body seems to be worse than the first time around, and many hospitals are still resistant to using some of the drugs that have been proven to be effective—which means more people are dying who don’t have to. Furthermore, as more people continue to get the jabs and they develop boosters and more, I expect this trend of increasing mortality to continue. It used to be that in America it was difficult to locate people who have died to be able to pray for them. I suspect that time is coming to an end. The bad new is that means a LOT of death. The good news is that we have an opportunity to step out in faith and see what God wants to do to reverse it. But it’s going to take each of us actually stepping out of our comfort zones to do just that—ask to pray for dead people and then do what it takes to make that happen.
Faith often looks like risk, and the truth is that whether we step out in faith or choose not to, we risk something either way. On the one hand we risk not seeing the results we seek, but on the other hand we risk never seeing God move in miraculous ways and destroying death. There are risks in either direction, but risk is impossible to escape, so we might as well embrace the kind of risks that produce life.
This may be a very new idea to some people, and it may not be a new idea to others, but you may just never have actually stepped out to try it. Or maybe you have, but you’d like to learn more about the subject. Well, here’s what I recommend:
- Read my book Faith to Raise the Dead and Tyler Johnson’s book How to Raise the Dead, or for a quick-reference guide, grab a copy of Practical Keys to Raise the Dead.
- Attend a training with the Dead Raising Teams led by Tyler Johnson of One Glance Ministries.
- If unable to attend in person, buy his School of Resurrection audio series, invite some friends over, and have your own virtual DRT training.
- Head over to the Raise The Dead Initiative page of our website for additional links and resources.
- Start looking for opportunities to pray to raise the dead. As you put yourself out there, opportunities will open up to you (pets included!).
