The story about the death and resurrection of Jesus gives us some insight into what is possible in the life of anyone who believes in Jesus. My focus in today’s brief challenge is that it is possible to rise out of a state of death or coma as it relates to one’s dreams and vision. This message is for those who have struggled with the call of God for a very long time. For those who have a knowing of something God wants them to do, but have buried it somewhere. For those who for one reason or the other have neglected the voice of the Holy Spirit and have suppressed that voice all their lives. I honestly believe that the Spirit of God is saying to you “It is time to resurrect your dream and vision.” There is indeed no better time to bring those dreams to life than during this season of Easter. It’s the perfect time for us to connect with the Light of life, the Source of life itself and the Spirit of resurrection so that we can arise again. So that we can dream again, see again and envision again. This season is the perfect time for us to be enlightened again, empowered again, walk in the light again, be anointed again and be renewed from within.

I believe that this is the hour when the Spirit of the Lord is saying “ARISE”! Arise from the dead, arise from sleep, arise from the darkness. When we hear this call and obey it, Christ promises us enlightenment (Ephesians 5:14 NLT). Now is the appointed time. This is the time and the season of the resurrection of dead dreams, creative visions, and the call of God upon our lives. For those who have abandoned their dreams and the vision and mission of God for their lives, God is saying, this is the time to rise from the rubbles of procrastination. I speak specifically here to creative people, members of the body of Christ who have a call to the creative ministries. These are individuals with an artistic anointing and grace upon their lives but who have abandoned the call or locked up their ministry inside a dark cell, buried it in the ground or suppressed the voice of the Holy Spirit. I speak to those who have hung their Harps on the wall and left it there to rust and gather dust. I speak to those have dug up the ground and buried their creative ministries in a pit, leaving it there to rot. I speak to those who have allowed the fear of peers, parents, friends and colleagues to rob them of their great destinies in God. I speak to those who have left their purpose to pursue other favorite interests and to those who have given more importance to money and abandoned their reason for existence (1 Timothy 4:14 NIV).

I speak by the Spirit of the Lord to you today. The Lord wants to take you out of that pit of selfishness and that grave of low self-esteem and set you upon a hill. He wants to roll away the stone of dead visions and resurrect dreams that are currently in a coma. God wants to raise you up. He wants to raise you up. Christ wants to give you His resurrection light. God is saying that it is time for you to arise because it is time for you to shine. I see the Spirit of the Lord coming upon you fresh, and I see Him breathing upon you with the breath of new life (Ephesians 5:14 NLT).

I hear the Lord asking me to prophecy over you today, and I will speak as I have been commanded (Ezekiel 37:4-10 NLT). I speak to every chain that has bound your creative purpose and I command them to be broken in Jesus name. I command every stone that has been rolled over your God-given dreams to be rolled away right now. I speak divine liberty into every creative ministry that has been covered with ashes. I command the light of righteousness to rise over you now, with healing in its wings, in Jesus name. Where there was fear, I speak faith and boldness. Where there has been self-doubt and uncertainties, I speak enlightenment and clarity of vision and reason. I command every grave that has held down every creative ministry in the body of Christ to give up all the ministries that have been buried in its bosom NOW! I declare that this is your day of freedom. I declare that this is your day of healing and deliverance, in Jesus name. I speak life into every dead vision. I speak life into every dead dream. I speak life into every dead creative ministry. I speak life into every comatose creative inspiration. I say ARISE IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME!!! RISE UP. RISE UP. GET UP (John 11:43,44 NLT).

You may have suppressed the call of God for a long time, or you may have pretended like it wasn’t there. Maybe you agree that it is indeed there, but you have spent all your life thinking about how glorious it would be yielding to the call but never taken a step towards it. God is saying you have spent too much time on this mountain of procrastination; it is time to rise and do something about the reason God sent you here. You need to key into the Spirit of resurrection in this season of Easter. We need to be like the Sons of Issachar in these last days so that we can bring glory to our Father who has given us this holy commission. God is raising up a whole new generation of creative Christians in the body of Christ because He is about to do something awesome these last days. He is busy at the moment enlisting soldiers in this never seen before army that He is commissioning. You must hear His voice and respond to this end time call. Allow God to take that dream and turn it into reality. Give God your heart today. Say YES to Him as He calls you today. Give Him that seemingly impossible mission and call. God needs you today. God needs you now! Arise in Jesus name. Amen.