I wish you a very happy Easter/Resurrection Day!

For those of you who might feel very far away from the joys of Easter, I want you to know that I, too, experienced that feeling 27 years ago.

I am very aware that when you’re experiencing deep pain and trauma, the mere mention of ‘resurrection’ seems nothing short of a cruel mockery.

But I want you to know that Easter/Resurrection Day ALWAYS follows Good Friday.

In other words, healing and resurrection ALWAYS follow a period of pain, trauma, and/or experience of evil!

You see, with the Lord, neither Good Friday nor evil has the last word.

I know your time of deep inner pain and/or experience of evil can seem endless.

But the Lord won’t allow that to happen.

He WILL lead you into resurrection at the time and in the way He knows will bring you victory and immeasurably powerful blessings that will last for the remainder of your life.

In actual fact, it’s what the Lord wants for you.

I’d like to share with you some words that the Lord gave me many years ago when I was in the throes of a long period of fiercely painful, challenging and traumatic times.

 

‘Rise up from the ashes and greet Me’

Early on the morning of September 11, 1997, hurting badly, and feeling acutely alone, betrayed and abandoned, I heard these words very distinctly in my spirit:

‘Rise up from the ashes and greet Me’

The words had come from nowhere —right out of the blue.

They had startled me.

I knew that I was alone in my home. There was no one else in my house. But to be quite sure, I took a quick look around to see if it was possible that another person had entered the room.

There was no one there.

But the words I’d heard had been spoken with such authority and so definitively that they might just as well have come from the lips of a live, breathing, present human being.

These were those words:

Rise up from the ashes and greet Me.

As I’ve related in my book, it would in fact take me some time to discover what the Lord wanted to communicate to me with these words. When He did, I realized that His words heralded a turning point in my journey from pain to resurrection.

Rise up from the ashes and greet Me.

Exactly four years after God spoke these words to me there would be another explosion of ashes.

This time the ashes would be not only spiritual, emotional and mental.

They would also be actual physical ashes.

They would emerge from the destruction of the World Trade Towers in New York on that day of overwhelming, unforgettable human tragedy: September 11, 2001.

Like mine, these ashes would be filled with measureless, raw, human pain.

The ashes that fell would not be those of a single, individual family, as had been the case with me.

Instead, they would be the ashes of thousands of innocent men and women, and —through them —of countless innocent families.

You might be experiencing your ashes in a different way from me or from those who were the victims of 9-11.

 Nevertheless, the invitation of the Lord to YOU is exactly the same as it is for all who experience deep pain and/or evil.

Today, and every Resurrection/Easter Day, this is the invitation that the Lord extends very gently, and with great LOVE, to YOU:

 Rise up from the ashes and greet Me.

 The Lord invites YOU to rise up from YOUR ashes, and greet HIM!

‘Jan, How on Earth Can the Lord Expect Me to Rise Up from My Pain and Greet Him?’

‘But,’ you say to me: ‘Jan, how on earth does the Lord expect me to rise up from my pain and greet Him? That sounds like something from fantasy-land, not for someone like me in this harsh, unfair world.’

 I hear you clearly.

 Your question is entirely valid.

It’s one I, too, asked the Lord 37 years ago in the midst of my own intense inner pain and trauma.

Here’s how the Lord answered me.

Using a holy Christian woman guide, He introduced me to a simple way of resting in His presence.

(I teach you this way in my FREE 2-STEP GUIDE at the end of this article.)

While resting in His presence, He taught me to pray without words or thoughts and instead with and from my heart alone.

You see, when you’re experiencing deep pain, your mind operates in overdrive.

You are constantly thinking, constantly trying to analyze, constantly trying to search for reasons for what has happened.

As a result, when you try to pray, you continue the continuous thinking process.

In fact, you get bombarded by thoughts.

You might even believe that the Lord cannot ‘hear’ you unless you speak to Him in thoughts and words!

I want you to know that nothing could be further from the truth.

 When you pray silently, with and from your heart alone, the Lord can hear you MOST clearly.

He is now able to penetrate through all the ‘noise’ and baggage you and I carry around in our deepest being —especially at times of deep pain —usually without even being aware of it!

The Lord wants to communicate directly with that part of you that lies underneath all the noise and baggage!

You see, He knows that’s the only part of you that will be able to genuinely feel His presence and experience His healing love.

By ‘heart’, the Lord means your WHOLE being, not just your feelings!

Please go here to understand what the Lord means by your ‘heart’.

When you pray in this way, you gradually learn, bit by bit, to let go of all words and thoughts, and even of your feelings, for a few minutes (5 - 10 - 15 - 20 minutes —your choice) each day.

Be gentle with yourself (see my GUIDE).

The Lord does not expect ‘success’!

 In fact, for Him there is no success or failure in this way of prayer. He desires only that you take some time with Him to enter into His presence.

An interesting thing happens when you do learn to let go of words and thoughts..

Your mind starts to quiet down.

Your emotions are not quite as disturbing.

 You are now truly able to soak in God’s healing love and peace.

This is the answer to your question.

Still not convinced?

Do you ask again:

‘Jan, how can you be so sure?

My answer:

I can be completely sure because when you pray with your heart, something else happens:

The Lord himself becomes your Teacher.

It is now the Lord himself who guides you, YOU —not someone else —along the path to full resurrection.

Perhaps you’re now thinking:

 ‘But, Jan, that requires huge trust in God. I just don’t feel I have that quality of trust right now.’

 My response:

 Yes, it certainly does require trust.

But here’s the really exciting news.

One of the huge spin-offs of heart prayer is that it gradually, but with absolute certainty, develops DEEP AND LASTING TRUST between you and the Lord.

 Genuine friendship develops between you and the Lord.

 And as friendship develops, mutual trust between you and God builds at the same time.

 To discover how you can pray in this way and develop this friendship with the Lord and trust in Him, be sure to get my FREE, EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND FOLLOW 2-STEP GUIDE.

 You’ll find it at the end of this article!

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 The time came when the Lord enabled me to see my own journey from pain to resurrection in the light of Jesus’ own journey from deep, ‘unbearable’ pain to full resurrection!

Here’s a poem I wrote describing what I saw.

As you read it, please know that I am holding you in prayer.

And I pray, too, that my poem might help you see that your own resurrection is never simply a pipe-dream.

It is a reality that WILL happen.

Be encouraged!

  ‘Rise up from the ashes and greet Me!’

 

 Searing, deep, these wounds will not go away.

Deep and deeper imprinted

into the substance – no, the marrow –

of my personhood.

 

Oh, I know: I will decide not to remember them!

Cruel mockery, I say:

I cannot not remember!

 

This kind is healed by God alone;

no ordinary grief this, and so no ordinary healing.

         

Only Christ’s Love and Truth and Mercy can neutralize this evil.

His TRUTH exposes the Deceiver!

 

His power and His Light

lighten our darkness.

That Love, that Light,

go deeper than the pain;

His Life itself transforms it.

 

The infinite promises of the King

meet the finite frailty of His child.

 

The King’s love now explodes

in these hearts engulfed in anguish.

                                                   

And in this meeting

of King and child,

new life takes root.

 

The new roots go deeper than the pain.

 

This King knew suffering and betrayal.

He sweated blood,

and doubted God’s protection.

‘Why did you abandon me?’

 

This Man knows pain.

He understands the vulnerability of loving,

that love is never guaranteed to be returned.

 

Oh, look!

The nails that now burst into His sinews, spilling blood,

attest to hardened hearts.

And as He tries to draw His final breath,

He hears the crowds below

inviting Him to save Himself

just as He saved others.

 

But wait! I hear his words:

‘Father, forgive’.

 

This means His heart is healthy, whole;

wounded, yes, but whole.

 

And look!

A smile dawns now deep inside His Being.

 

Resurrection beckons, not far off now.

 

His smile begets a smile in me;

His gaze meets mine.

I hear His voice:

‘Rise up from the ashes and greet me!’

 

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