Acts5:15-16
They think it’s all over for you: This man showed up at his funeral
This man had a look alike in the same trade who was shot dead in an incident and was taken to the mortuary. Incidentally news reached the mother of the man you‘re looking at that her son was dead. The mother was devastated and funeral arrangements were made and he showed up!
They think it’s all over for you? But they ain’t seen nothing yet.
SAO PAULO – A 41-year-old car washer shocked his family when he interrupted a funeral being held for him at his mother’s home in the town of Alagoinhas in northeastern Brazil, police said Tuesday.
Police inspector Roberto Lima said by telephone that on Sunday Jose Marcos Araujo identified a body at the city morgue as being that of his brother, Gilberto.
Lima said that Jose Marcos took the body to his mother’s home where a wake was held.
“The confusion started when news started circulating that a car washer had been shot dead,” Jose Marcos’ wife, Ana Paula, told the UOL Internet news portal. “Police called my husband and told him that his brother had been killed and his body was at the morgue.”
Lima said the confusion was “understandable.”
“The two men closely resembled each other and both worked as car washers,” Lima said adding that the man whose body was in the morgue was named Genivaldo Santos Gama. He said further information on Gama was not immediately available.
A few hours before the Monday burial “a friend of Gilberto’s saw him walking down the street and told him that his family was mourning him,” he said.
“So he went to his mother’s home to let everyone know he was very much alive.”
When Araujo showed up at his wake “some people fainted and others were so scared they ran away. It was a big shock,” family friend Maria Menezes told the G1 online news site.
Gilberto’s mother Marina Santana told reporters “I am overjoyed. What mother wouldn’t be after being told that her son is dead and then sees him alive.”
Your Dream Will Be Challenged
The woman in Shunem was barren
God gave her a pleasant surprise
Rewarded her generosity
At old age she became fruitful
Carried a baby like Sarah
But then came a death knell
It was sudden like a bad spell.
Her husband resign his faith
But she set her face like flint
And ran to the man of God.
He asked her, ‘Is it well?’
She answered, ‘It is well!’
‘You must come, I will not go.’
Prophet Elisha saw the fire
Etched clearly in her eyes.
He followed her and saw
Her son stone cold dead.
He stretched himself
On the boy, eye on eye
And mouth on mouth
and he became warm
Sneezed seven times and woke up.
The dead dream came back to life.
Why did the boy die?
Your guess is as good as mine.
Your dream will be challenged
Your dream will be opposed
Your dream will be sorely tried
And when it happens, remain resolute
Go to the Dream-Giver in faith
Know that it is not over until He says so
Do not throw in the towel for the foe.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Kings4:8-37&version=AMP
Roll Away the Stone!
Lazarus was sick to the core.
Death knocked on the door.
Jesus was quickly informed.
But he took His time to come.
When He arrived it was over
Lazarus was dead and gone.
Mary and Martha were cross
Disappointed, despondent.
He said: ‘Your brother shall rise again.
I am the Resurrection and the Life.’
Where have you laid him?’
He prayed: ’Father I thank You…
Because you have heard Me…’
They thought it was all over
But Jesus did not think so.
Roll away the stone.
Lazarus, come forth!
And Lazarus came forth
So has your dream died?
Is that dream from God?
If so take to Him in prayer.
There is no need to despair.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john11:1-44&version=AMP
No Need to Despair
Widow of Nain met her waterloo
Her only son cruelly taken away
By the cold hand of sudden death.
She was in great distraught- all was gone!
Jesus was not far away and saw her.
Compassion flowed ceaseless out of Him.
Do not weep He consoled her;
He touched the funeral bier
Pallbearers stood still.
Young man, I say to you arise
And the man rose, came back to life.
So has your dream died?
Is that dream from God?
If so take to Him in prayer.
There is no need to despair
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke7:11-15&version=AMP
Luke7:11-15
Tabitha (Dorcas) abounding in good works
Fell ill and surprisingly was snatched by death
It came like a wicked thief in the night
So quickly it snuffed out the light.
Darkness fell as the curtain fell
Why it happened no one could tell.
Peter was not far from the scene
And they begged him to come
Showing him her handiwork
Crying, pleading, sobbing
Peter, put them out
to avoid doubt.
‘Tabitha, get up!’ He commanded
Her eyes were opened and she rose
And so were the drooping spirits raised.
Great joy greeted the house.
Elation emotion erupted
Dead dream had come alive!
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%209:36-42&version=AMP
Jesus came to save the sin-sick
Abandoned His seat in glory
To do the Father’s will
‘Here I come, send Me’ He said.
He came to His own but they disdained Him
They vilified Him and crucified Him
He was dead and buried, it seemed all over.
But on the third day He rose again
Defeating death just like He said.
He remains, the Resurrection and the Life
And holds the keys of death and Hades.
He has the final say about your dream
And about my dream and His will shall be done.
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