DEATH DEATH and MORE DEATH!!!!!!
Today is the 23rd for a few more hours anyway.It is the biblical number of DEATH. It has been a GLORIOUS day here! The sun has been shining, and few clouds have come. Yet, here I am at the end of the day, being led to post on death. Death is not just literal.
The word of God says there are seasons for everything, a time to born and a time to die. In fact, every day we should be experiencing a death of sorts. Allow me to explain a bit. Every day when we are seeking GOD and HIS ways, it is required that we DIE. We have to die to old ways, habits, ideas, and any idols that may be in the way.
If we don’t, there is literally HELL to pay. But if we do, only HEAVEN awaits, as we seek to work with GOD and LOVE HIS people.
This means, that the OLD must pass away every single day! Not just with physical bodies as our heart beat ends, but in our emotions and our spiritual self as well. We have had people get upset with us because we have shared our testimony. They usually get mad or irritated because something in it is true, and it convicts them. God convicts, the enemy condemns.
Our prayer is that we don’t condemn others, and sometimes we have to walk away, when we are led to do so. Part of this is like a death. If we let it, that death can consume us. We have been literally at death’s door. One time in 2009, when Sarah E had gotten out of the hospital, I got very ill. I contracted pneumonia. There was a point where I went to our doctor, and he could barely hear my heart beat. It was so faint. He was quite concerned.
But, oh the LION of JUDAH!!!!!
Revelation 5:5
Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Then one of the elders [[a]of the heavenly Sanhedrin] said to me, Stop weeping! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root (Source) of David, has won (has overcome and conquered)! He can open the scroll and break its seven seals!
My husband had a cancer experience 2x and Sarah E has as well. GOD healed them both!!! The first time my husband was 21, when he had a cancer experience. His parents were terrified so he had surgery immediately. It was not a complete act of faith, however, the prayers for comfort and healing did come to fruition, in God’s time. The second time, God was even more present. My husband knew he had to choose LIFE or DEATH.
Thankfully, HE did not choose DEATH, at least not physically. He did however realize that to live as God desired, He would have to continually die to self. We all must! The word says this.
Philippians 1:21
Amplified Bible (AMP)
21 For me to live is Christ [His life in me], and to die is gain [the gain of the glory of eternity].
It is not always easy to do as GOD commands, but the time in which we live it is critical! There are many TV shows, video games, movies and lots of music as well as other things that are used by and for evil purposes. However, there are also some that are used for the purpose of healing and breaking FREE!
He HOLDS the KEYS to DEATH and HADES!
Revelation 1:18
Amplified Bible (AMP)
18 And the Ever-living One [I am living in the eternity of the eternities]. I died, but see, I am alive forevermore; and I possess the keys of death and Hades (the realm of the dead).
Interestingly enough, the latter is also a death. So, death is NOT bad, as long as we know and have peace where we will go when it comes. I used to FEAR death, and in turn FEARED LIFE and was not living. I was walking on egg shells and trapped in a prison for years. Thankful every day that GOD set me free, set US FREE with the cross.
This does not give us permission to REBEL and come against GOD, but it does give us permission to receive HIS heart and HIS LOVE and just be immersed in it. So, today, choose to FEAR not death, as you receive HIS LOVE and become truly whole!
God bless you all, enjoy each day and may you all be blessed and NOT curse in HIM.
In His Grace,
E