Resurrectionists

"We are carriers of the Resurrection."

THE DEVIL IN YOUR EAR sounds like your own thoughts. That’s why we’re so easily led astray. I mean, if he came to you sounding like the cinema devil, you’d say nope and move on. It’s that he sounds like you that makes you take hold. One thing I’ve learned well in recent days is not to believe everything that enters your head. We are to WALK IN THE SPIRIT, and this is a continual thing. Every moment of every day, all of our actions, all of our words are supposed to come from Him. He knows you and me. He knows our likes and dislikes, and though He will sometimes push us out of our comfort zone, most usually, He just wants us to be ourselves. Only, also listening to Him.

We are to be LED OF THE SPIRIT. There are extremes of this. Minister Jesse Duplantis was driving past a hospital when the Holy Spirit told him to go inside to a particular room on a particular floor. He obeyed and found a parent bowed over their sick child. Jesse said, “I’m here to pray for your son,” and his prayer saved that boy’s life. Would that I would obey to this extent and see this kind of miracle. This is God’s heart. We are trying to round everyone up into the church building, but He wants us to take Him into the marketplace, into the medical clinics, onto the ball field. We should BE THE CHURCH, Jesus’ hands and feet and see miracles on Main Street, in our neighborhood on the southeast side of town, and on vacation at the beach.

In another story, a woman was walking through the store when someone bumped against her and was instantly healed. We aren’t willing to believe for this. But what if we were? We must change our mindset from the occasional good thing, once-in-a-while, to every day, many times a day. We are carriers of the Resurrection. The One who rose from the dead filled with the greatest power in existence lives in us, and His power can be upon us. It has been upon me since I turned fifteen. Many in the church through fear and incorrect doctrine keep Him from becoming Pentecost in them. That’s what it comes down to. Are you willing to set aside your prejudices and even your worries and embrace the fullness of God?

I have seen God’s eyes, and I have seen the devil’s. There is no comparison. Yet I see people tripped up by the devil’s deceptions all the time. What sounds sweet is a lie. What sounds hateful is a lie. It’s all a lie. Nothing he says is ever true. He has no good feelings for you, no good interest. There’s no better angle to see him from. And unless he knows you’re not listening, he will keep talking. So don’t listen!

Jesus knew the difference. He’d been fasting for forty days, not to get weaker and see if He’d fall apart when it happened. He was led there by the Holy Spirit. There was no physical or mental danger to His fasting. But because He was dedicated solely to the Spirit’s leading, spending His time in prayer, He was infinitely stronger and heard the devil’s talk and saw the devil’s visions and knew who He was instantly. He didn’t quiver, didn’t have to consider it, but when Satan spoke, Jesus replied, all of His replies pointing the Spirit’s finger at Himself. “Look, you don’t know who I am,” He said, in essence. And the devil had to wait for a better opportunity. Jesus’ death only happened because He submitted to it.

When we WALK IN THE SPIRIT, LED OF THE SPIRIT, LISTENING TO THE SPIRIT, we will know Satan’s voice and be just as protected by the Word of God on our tongue as Jesus was. “And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about (Luke 4:14).” Everyone who heard Jesus, after this, was astonished by the anointing of the Spirit upon Him. What is done in His power will not fail. Here is our confidence. We can be walking past a man we see every day, lame in his feet, begging, and know the Spirit so well we dare to do as He commands and tell that man to rise and walk.

Which side of the cross do you want to be on? Because Jesus isn’t hanging there anymore. He’s risen from the dead. Go ye, therefore, and teach, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, laying hands on the sick AND THEY SHALL RECOVER (Matthew 28:19; Mark 10:18).

“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” (Galatians 5:25)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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