The question should not be whether Jesus arose from the dead, but have we ever died to our sins and ourselves?  Have we ever died to the desires of the flesh, took up our cross, and followed Jesus?  Set your face like Jesus.  He set His face like a flint to do His Father's will.  Put your life in order!  

      You are as holy as you want to be.  You have to make hard choices, if you want to know Him and the power of His resurrection.  Faith is like a muscle.  The more you exercise it, the larger it grows.  It takes time to practice the presence of God.  It takes more than five minutes to pray, to read the Bible, to give up my will for His.  

     If we can't deny ourselves enough to witness for God, to give a tract, or live for Him- are we really saved?

       Do we know what true faith in Christ involves? " The faith of Paul and Luther was a revolutionizing thing.  It upset the whole life of the individual and made him into another person  altogether.  It laid hold on the life and brought them into accord with the will of God.  

      Faith now means no more than passive moral acquiescence in the Word of God and the cross of Jesus.  To exercise it we have only to rest on one knee and nod our heads in agreement with the instructions of a personal worker intent upon saving our soul.  Such a faith as this does not perturb people.  It comforts them.  The face of their ego is washed and their self-confidence is rescued from discouragement. 
     
     ...Bible faith is the one who has put himself in a position where he cannot go back. "

 " A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to " accept " Christ without forsaking the world. Exhalation is as necessary to life as inhalation.  To accept Christ it is necessary that we reject whatever is contrary to Him.  Are we born again?    Gems From Tozer

How do we know we have Salvation

      How do we know Salvation or a change has come to us?   A cleaning lady says it best.  While cleaning before she was saved, she swept the dirt under the rug.  After Jesus came into her heart, she swept all the floor clean.   Are our transactions done as unto the Lord knowing He sees everything we do?  It makes a huge difference, who we do it for.  The birds sing praises to God all day long.  We should follow their example and sing songs to our great King. 

     Children of Israel because of sin, doubt, and discouragement hung their harps upon the willow branches.   Hardship has caused them to lose their song.  What has caused us to lose our song and trust in God.  What has made us lose our song God said to Israel return to me and I will return to you.  If we have gone back in our praise we have gone backward.  Draw near to me and I will draw near to you.  Whatever has caused us to leave our first love?  Let's get our song back.  Let's lift our voices O' church and sing hallelujah  to our great King.

     Heaven is full of praise and singing.  We are to make people yearn for Heaven.  We will either worship or live to please our selves.   To not have praise to be void of gratitude.   Lord Jesus turn our hearts of stone to flesh again that, we may rejoice in whatever situation we find ourselves in.

     Bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me praise the Lord.  May we enter Heaven with a song on our lips. Ps.103:1, Ps.105 1-4.   Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.