God can reverse death.

Why did Jesus need to rise from the dead?

To prove He really is who He claimed to be.  

There were 500 witnesses who saw him after He rose.  1 Corinthians 15:6

To conquer death for Himself and for us. Revelation 1:18.

Philippians 3:10 New International Version (NIV)

10 I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

Do you know Christ?

Do you know the power of His resurrection?

Acts 2:26-27 (NIV)

26 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
    my body also will rest in hope,
27 because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,
    you will not let your holy one (Jesus) see decay.

Ephesians 1:20 (NIV)

20 he (God) exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,

I pray that you would understand how great God's power is to help.  

Read Isaiah 61:1-4.

1. Stop dying. 

God can reverse death. 

Easter is death working backwards.  C.S. Lewis.

John 11:25-26 (ESV)

25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

2. Start rebuilding.  

Grace will meet you where you are, but it will never leave you where it found you.  

3. Stop doubting.  

God sees greatness in me that I can't see myself.  

4. Start living.  

Jesus didn't come to make bad people good. He came to make dead people alive.  

Chris Hodges, Church of the Highlands