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Entering into the rest of God.
Jesus
is the High Priest over our confessions.
When
the Word of God is confessed and prayed over a person or a situation, it is
powerful! Jesus created
everything by His Word. Jesus IS
the Word. Jesus gave us the
authority to use the Word as if it were He saying it!
John 1:1-3 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were
made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”
When
the Passover was administered to Israel in Exodus 12, the Israelites were told
to put the blood of an innocent lamb over their doors and the death angel
(demon) would “pass over” and not hurt them. Jesus is the Lamb of God, and we can put His blood
over our doors and over the doors of our loved ones and those that we pray for. How?
Revelation 12:11 says, “And they overcame him because of the blood of
the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives
to the death.”
The
words of our mouth will apply the blood.
Notice
in Exodus 12 that as long as the lamb’s blood stayed in the basin, it did no
good. But when they took the
hyssop, dipped it in the blood and applied to their door, then God and the
devil could see it. The hyssop was
a common weed, which did not seem to have much value. The words of our mouth do
not seem to have much value, but when we dip them into the Word of God (Who is
Jesus Himself) and apply them as blood, God sees it and the devil sees it!
Jesus
takes our confession and makes it powerful.
Hebrews 3:1 says, “Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the
Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus.”
When
we speak God’s Word, Jesus takes it to the Father and asks Him to perform
it.
John 16:23 says, “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most
assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask
the Father in My name He will give you.”
Then
we can enter into rest and let the Word do the work.
Hebrews 4:1 says, “Therefore, since a promise remains of entering
His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.”
Why is it that we can enter into His rest?
“For [because] the
word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow,
and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12).
The Word will do the work!
Angels go to work when they hear God’s Word.
“Bless the LORD, you His angels, who excel in strength, who do His
word, heeding the voice of His word” (Psalm 103:20).
Demons flee!
Psalm 149:5-9 says, “Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them
sing aloud on their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a
two-edged sword in their hand, to execute vengeance on the nations and
punishments on the peoples, (representing our spiritual enemies) to bind their
kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron, to execute on them the
written judgment – this honor have all His saints. Praise the LORD!”