We've Got More than Our Fleshly Abilities

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Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord

And exactly so MANY times our troubles are caused by this very thing. We are impatient, and try to take into our own hands a situation, and make something happen, when if we would just continue to wait on the Lord and his provision, we wouldn't have to deal with the sad outcomes of our own interventions.

For example: Look at what happened to Sarah when she became impatient with the fact that she had not conceived, even though the Lord had made her a promise. She implored her husband to conceive a child through her servant. That child, and his seed, have continued driving a wedge between the seed of Sarah and Abraham ever since.

May God help us all to remember that taking things into our own hands is a very dangerous thing.

Amen! You are reminding me of Moses and how he hit the rock instead of speaking to it, like God had instructed him. Impatience with God's plans and the people we deal with involved in those plans.

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Speaking of Moses hitting the rock, the cleft of the rock stands for Christ's death. Jesus is the rock. When the Song of Solomon has the king calling to the woman he loved, we read words that mention she was hidden in the cleft.

Song of Solomon 2:10-14 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely

Christ the rock was smitten in his death. We are baptized into that death and so it can be said that standing in the cleft is standing in the place of death with Christ. The king called to his love to leave the cleft of the rock. This is like the call to go beyond death with Christ so we can walk in this newness of life. So many believers are saved and died with Christ to see their penalty for sin paid, but they do not go further into the heights and depths of living a resurrected life supernaturally in the here and now. They battle doubt and struggle with faith for overcoming struggles. They're stuck in the cleft.

And if we read the words of Song of Solomon carefully, we can see hints of the dove bringing the olive leaf to Noah and informing him the waters are gone and the flowers appear.... Olive trees... And it's time to leave the ark to enter the newness of life. The flood's over.

And so the cleft of the rock corresponds to the ark. Both speak of entrance into the death of Christ. Peter flatly stated entrance into the ark to be saved by water is baptism. And it's vital. But it's a means to the end of entering newness of life next!

Thank God the dove of the Soirit leads to all the fullness of what the cross did for us.

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Elisha prayed for a woman was barren that she might have a son, due to her kindness to the man of God in providing him lodging. She had the child. He died. She ran to the prophet and asked why provide her a son if the boy would only die later.

The event happened in the field where the lad worked with his father.

This speaks of a child of God come into the kingdom who begins to work for the Lord in the field of the world to save souls. The enemy attacked the boy's HEAD.

They carried the boy to his mother, she stands for the church.

When we begin to work for the Lord to actually do something for the kingdom, the enemy is not going to sit still and watch. HE WILL ATTACK OUR MINDS. The attack in the head of the child speaks about the MIND under assault. Some folks spiritually DIE as a result. They cannot understand why this happened and why God allowed that. They quit on God and church and DIE.

There is one way to recover.

Elisha said put the boy in the place where Elisha slept. Elisha stands for Jesus in this type. The place where Jesus laid was the tomb in his death. We have to go back to the place where Jesus laid in death, for that is the death that saved us.

2Ki 4:34-35 KJV And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm. (35) Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

Elisha put mouth to mouth, hands to hands, and eyes to eyes. This typifies PERFECT IDENTIFICATION of us with the Lord in His death as us on the cross. He so identified with us in His death, so that it would be considered OUR deaths, that it is like his eyes were ours, his mouth was ours and his hands were ours. His death was ours!

And when we go back in our lives in our faith-filled hearts to the time we died with Jesus when we were saved, we will realize we also have resurrection power that He had! God sees that faith and empowers us with victory as we reach out and claim that victory!

And when the boy sneezed 7 times, sneezing is clearing out the head. 7 means perfect. Our minds will be PERFECTLY cleared out from whatever lies proved fatal to our Christianity!

We are more than conquerors, THROUGH CHRIST. That is, through his death as our deaths. It is so because His resurrection is also ours. Since death is our last enemy and the largest one, resurrection that overcomes death can certainly overcome any lesser attack we experience in life as believers!

[KeptByTheWord]

Excellent insight into this popular bible story, Bro. MB!