Always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.2 Cor 4:10-11
These scriptures state we are always carrying about in our body the dying of the Lord Jesus; we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake. Sound grim? The Apostle Paul doesn’t leave us there, though. He tells us why:
...that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
Paul then repeats himself which is always significant: that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
Not just the death, but the life of Jesus also!
In short, we who are subject to His death, also have access to His life. And I'll repeat myself. We who are subject to Jesus' death, at the same time, absolutely, have access to His life. It's the mystery of His regeneration. Death and life working at the same time. The old makes way for the new; the new matures towards passing away. We experience changing seasons of life with multiple phases revealed at the same time - the scale is never perfectly balanced. So, let's be challenged to tip it more toward Life!
Therefore, in light of this, I have been speaking to my perishing mortal flesh, "Manifest the life of Jesus!" Of course, I also petition the Lord for help and healing, which most of us are familiar and comfortable doing. However, I've been making a concerted effort to speak to my body - the parts fading or failing: "Reveal the life of Jesus!"
The transformation of our lowly bodies to be conformed to His glorious body is all part of our heavenly citizenship and according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself (Phil 3:20-21). Jesus spoke to the wind and waves and fig tree as examples for us to do the same. Remember, if we have faith and do not doubt, we, too, can speak to those mountains facing us, "'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and it will be done" (Matt 21:21 NIV).
Why not the invasive issues in our own bodies?
Didn't Jesus say, "And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven" (Matt 16:19)? Notice Jesus said "keys" plural. We should attack these frustrations from different angles - calling upon the Lord plus taking authority in Jesus' name to speak directly to our flesh; like two sides to a coin. Not to mention, the Lord can also give specific wisdom to pursue varied routes of natural or medicinal interventions, fasting, Communion, or calling for the elders of the church.
But speaking life to be manifest in that very area of death troubling us, for some, is a new tool to be added to our belt.
Our bodies are no less part of His creation built to be decently in order. Consider it speaking the solution straight to the problem, in Jesus' name! Take time to exercise speaking life until it’s effortless and flows fluently from the very Fountain of Life within us.
And He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts." – Rev 21:6
- Elese
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