TeaTime Devotional April 18th, 2025

Written By:  Kiki Nixon

Scripture: Acts 10:40 NIV

“But God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused

him to be seen.”

Testify: 

Google defines the word dead as “(of a place or time) characterized by a lack of activity or excitement.” I’m sure we’ve all experienced some dead seasons and moments in our lives. Times where we were so deep in our minds, sorrows and worries we couldn’t pull ourselves out of a dark place and needed saving from God.   Some of us are mourning circumstances and situations that have a lack of activity or excitement.    We have had funerals, put on grave clothes, and hired professional mourners to act on our behalf’s.   We waste alot of time crying for something that is characterized dead but may still have life.  

Edify:

That’s the same thing that they thought about Jesus.   They thought that he was characterized as dead.   They watched him on the cross just like they watched your circumstance or situation.   They watched him take his last breath, just like they watched your dreams.  They also put soldiers at the tomb, as they did you, to assure that your hopes and dreams don’t come back to life.  In this scripture it’s explaining to us how on the third day after Jesus was killed in Jerusalem, God rose him up from the dead. God didn’t only help Jesus but everyone who was connected and attached to him too. (That’s why your circle matters). God pulled Jesus out of his dark place and reminded him that he has anointed him for the task and that he had to finish what he started despite non-believers thinking they ended him.

Apply:

This scripture is one of encouragement that God see’s all, even in our deepest and darkest times when we believe there’s no way out, God can pull you out and restore you. You still have life in you.   So, GET UP AND LIVE.