Consumed with memories that preceded today
Given a chance to bereave life that’s slipping away
Suffered through tragedy of my slow decay
Deceptive tendencies dragged my soul away

All that I know, there was no God for me
Force that shatters all, absence of mortality

Revive all my fears
Revive wasted tears
Revive void within
Revive once again

Forsaken by destiny, forsaken by my own mind
I must remove my skin to see belief in your eyes
All that I know, there was no God for me
Force that shatters all, absence of humanity

Revive all my fears
Revive wasted tears
Revive void within
Revive once again

Reach for the sky
Touch the sky
Revive a hope
For mankind
–Fear Factory, “Resurrection”–

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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
–1 Peter 1:3 (ESV)–

¹ On the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. ² And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, ³ but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. ⁴ While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. ⁵ And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?”
–Luke 24:1-5 (ESV)–

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
–Romans 8:11 (ESV)–

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
–Romans 10:9 (ESV)–

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
–Romans 6:4 (ESV)–

He has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.
–Acts 17:31 (ESV)–

Draw near to God and he will draw near to you.
–James 4:8 (ESV)–

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
–John 10:27 (ESV)–

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John Foxe, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, ed. Marie King (Spire Books, 1978).

Jack Deere, Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 2022).

Joan Carroll Cruz, Mysteries Marvels Miracles (TAN Books, 1997).

Herbert Thurston, The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism (Henry Regnery Co, 1952).

Augustin Poulain, The Graces of Interior Prayer (Kegan Paul, 1910).