John 11:43 "And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth."
Lazarus was dead. So dead in fact that the Bible says they said to Jesus, "He stinketh by now." But Jesus would hear nothing of it and with a calm yet commanding voice called for Lazarus to come back from the dead and he did. In fact Jesus commanded that they loose him from the death clothes he had been wrapped in. A dead man came back to life because Jesus spoke life into his body once again.
Breakthroughs come when Jesus speaks life back into the body once again. The church is His body. We are members of His body. So when Jesus speaks life back into the body He is speaking to us directly and indirectly as well. My advise would be that we need to listen to what He has to say and be obedient.
He is speaking directly because He knows our visions and dreams. He also knows our strengths and weaknesses, victories and losses, and our triumphs and failures. He knows that many things have died within us that need to be revived and when He speaks to us directly He wants them to come back to life. For some joy has been replaced with sorrow, love with loss, dreams with nightmares, and hopes with helplessness. So when He speaks directly to us it is to get our attention and to revive those things that have died, which can help us to receive a fresh anointing and a supernatural breakthrough again.
He is speaking indirectly to us also as the His body. If we are in the church, then we are a part of the body of Christ. We can't deny that fact, but man, we sure can lose what God wants us to have because we fail to allow breakthroughs to come in our midst. Most churches need a breakthrough as much as the pastor or the members of that congregation do. Some are caught up in following the traditions of men more than they are the glory of God. Some are dead to the moving of the Spirit because they are so programed that services have to go one way only. Even the Holy Ghost is limited in some churches because people want to get home at a certain time. Yet when God is speaking to us directly, He is also speaking to us indirectly as His church. He is saying, "I am coming for a church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish!"
How can a church be without spot, wrinkle, or blemish especially in our day?
-We can't unless we are obedient to the voice of God. Obedience is greater than sacrifice according to His Word.
-We can't unless we live as we are supposed to. We are weak and heavy laden, but God can help us present our bodies as a living sacrifice and He can renew our minds daily.
-We can't unless we recognize that without Him we are nothing. It is in Jesus we move, live, and have our being (existence).
So with the same commanding spirit Jesus is saying to us directly and indirectly, "Upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." His emphasis today is to give us breakthroughs in our spiritual life, our mind, our finances, our homes, and in every avenue of our lives. Open up your spiritual ears and hear what the Spirit is saying about your breakthrough today.
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