Free First Chapter of Lazarus Rise Up

Lazarus 

If you are reading this book, take this opportunity to congratulate yourself for making a quantum LEAP.  You know now you are at least alive, right?  You may just be sleeping as the biblical Lazarus was.  In fact, many believe Lazarus was dead until Jesus appeared to wake him.  It is my belief he was asleep as you are...I was.

Read John 11:1-44.

Whatever the case may have been, Lazarus laid unconscious for four days or maybe more, before Jesus physically showed up.  Well, how long have you been sleeping OR how long have you been dead?

Many are walking the earth dead.  There is some truth to "dead man walking" huh?
2016 has been a year of recovery for me.  You see, I lost my best friend, my mom, June 2015 unexpectedly.

 One day she was telling me she had cancer and it seemed she was gone in a matter of about six months.  I was devastated.  Part of me died with her.  Maybe all of me died.  To be honest, I'm still sleep walking some of the time.  Trauma will break us down into millions and millions of shattered pieces.  Before we know it, we are either dead from our broken heart or sleep walking through life while going through motions.  Can I get an amen?

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Lazarus Rise Up, Nikki Ruffin-Smith – Lazarus --                                                                          


Chapter One: Are You Sleeping?


How can you receive   the good ness of God if you are sleeping?  Have you ever been holding a
conversation with someone to only realize they weren’t paying attention?  I have.  This isn’t a
good feeling.  Can you imagine, if God were a human how He’d feel?  I’m sure like you do.
Often, we are so wrapped up in our thoughts until it is very difficult for God to get through.   The
bible speaks of hearing in many verses such as the following:

Matthew 13:9 He who has ears, let him hear."

Matthew 13:43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

Mark 4:9 Then Jesus said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

Mark 4:23 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."

Luke 8:8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it sprang up and produced a crop--a hundredfold." As Jesus said this, He called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

Luke 14:35 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile, and it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."


My grandma used to say something that went like this, “I should have followed my first mind.”
Meaning, when the still small voice spoke, she should have listened.  Instead she continued to
sleep.    Think about the times you should have followed your first mind.  What were the
circumstances and what was the results of you not “hearing”?



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