Conquering the Flesh

Journey Into The Promised Land

John 11:20–44 (CSB)

20 As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary remained seated in the house.

21 Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. 22 Yet even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”

23 “Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.

24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live. 26 Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

27 “Yes, Lord,” she told him, “I believe you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who comes into the world.”

JESUS SHARES THE SORROW OF DEATH

28 Having said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

29 As soon as Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 30 Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met him. 31 The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw that Mary got up quickly and went out. They followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to cry there.

32 As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and told him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died!”

33 When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was deeply moved in his spirit and troubled. 34 “Where have you put him?” he asked.

“Lord,” they told him, “come and see.”

35 Jesus wept.

36 So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” 37 But some of them said, “Couldn’t he who opened the blind man’s eyes also have kept this man from dying?”

THE SEVENTH SIGN: RAISING LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD

38 Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. 39 “Remove the stone,” Jesus said.

Martha, the dead man’s sister, told him, “Lord, there is already a stench because he has been dead four days.”

40 Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”

41 So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you heard me. 42 I know that you always hear me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so that they may believe you sent me.” 43 After he said this, he shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and let him go.”

Speak The Word

We have dwelt on two powerful strategies for dealing with the flesh and the tongue: Don’t make allowances for your flesh and keep you tongue from evil. Here is the third strategy to break through the barrier of the carnal flesh and bring your tongue under control of the Holy Spirit…

Strategy Three: Speak the Word in a new dimension of authority. Not only must you guard your tongue and restrain from speaking evil, God desires to bring you into a new dimension of authority where you are speaking the Word and His supernatural power is released to fulfill the words He has given you to speak.

Jesus spoke words directed by the Father in the power and authority of God and it was done. There was absolutely no margin for error, no faltering, no wondering. He spoke and it was done. This was the key to releasing the supernatural power of God through Him.

Jesus was sent by God, anointed by the Holy Spirit, and given power and authority to speak and act in His stead, to speak His Words, to do His will: “…God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him” (Acts 10:38).

Today, as you speak forth the Rhema Word under the unction and direction of the Holy Spirit, it is Christ the Living Word within you Who will fulfill the Word and manifest His power through you! As you speak forth the Word, He will do the works.

The key for the fulfillment of the Word is in the Word itself — the written and living Word! It is in developing a relationship with Christ where He is in you and where you are continually dwelling in Him and allowing His Word to rule and reign in your life.

“Speaking the Word” is not merely picking verses out of the Bible, repeating them over and over again, hoping they will eventually come to pass. It is not based upon mind over matter. You must first develop a relationship where the living Word has become flesh within you, where you are staying in His presence until you are receiving His direction concerning what you are to say and do. You need to stay in His presence, waiting upon Him, fellowshipping with and worshiping, until He gives you the Rhema Word to speak forth.

Jesus said: “If you live in Me — abide vitally united to Me — and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will and it shall be done for you” (John 15:7, TAB).

Make this declaration:

God’s Word abides in me and I am learning to speak the Word in a new dimension of power and authority.

*Adapted from MCWE email – Journey Into The Promised Land by Morris Cerullo

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