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***This has been on my mind and heart for days and days now... and I think I understand why now. I speak this to the world both seen and unseen... WHEN GOD SPEAKS LIFE TO A THING AND BLESSES IT, DEATH CANNOT TAKE IT AND NOTHING CAN CURSE WHAT GOD HAS BLESSED! WHEN GOD SAYS LIVE, IT SHALL LIVE IF EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE ELSE GIVES UP... WHEN GOD SAYS IT, IT IS SO!" - I proclaim this truth from God's word over my own life and over this ministry in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ! Amen!
- James Dale Coldiron
When God says this,
" I Say Unto You, LIVE! "
Ezekiel 16:4-6 " 4 And [as for] thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple [thee]; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. 5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. 6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live. "
THIS LAST SCRIPTURE HAS BEEN USED TRADITIONALLY BY MOUNTAIN FOLKS FOR GENERATIONS... AND THE FAITH THAT THEY HAD IN GOD TO PERFORM IT HAS ACTUALLY SEEN MANY CASES OF PEOPLE BLEEDING TO DEATH SAVED... IT STOPPED IT!
But I want to take a special look at this scripture and what God seems to be saying to this church... as He has given this scripture to one of members... and it does apply to us!
And this is the mind picture that God is painting... here is a traveler that passes through and he spots an infant... a newborn child that is still in it's own blood from the birth that has been rejected and left to die.
A newborn infant... like a newborn work... birth pains and tribulation bringing forth something living and alive from God... however a lot of times there is that attack of the enemy that tries and brings death to that newborn thing. And there's is the child or the new work laying out in it's own birth... not able to stand on it's own feet, but there's a traveler who has mercy.
Revelation 12:1-4 " 1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. "
He passed by and stopped long enough to have mercy. Aren't you glad that the Lord takes time to stop by and take time to bring life into our souls? Aren't you glad that the Lord still speaks life into us even when we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves? He passed by and took time!
Ephesians 2:4-5 " 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) "
The blood that you are polluted in is not the blood of Jesus Christ... but you were polluted in blood. The word polluted means trodden underfoot like the mire in the streets and also pollution.
God used this connotation for Israel when they were in the house of Egypt. And they had been forced into slavery and lived in the mire of Egypt... they were still the children of Abraham. And even though they were DOWN in Egypt, God saw them and had mercy... and He will have mercy on us!
The Bible says that they sighed and then cried because of their bondage, and God looked upon them with compassion and delivered them.
Exodus 2:23-24 " 23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. "
GOD HAS COMPASSION UPON THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN WOUNDED AND LIKE A BABY NEED HIM TO HELP HIM. GOD WANTS YOU TO NEED HIM. HE WILL HAVE MERCY!
The child is in it's own blood... not the blood of Jesus Christ... but in it's own blood... this is a terrible state. This is the state of it's own hurt... polluted in it's own blood. Israel had many brutal deaths at the hands of the Egyptians... but let's go a little further... how would this apply to us? It does!
The imagery we looked at in Revelation 12 shows the way that Satan tries to stop the things that God is bringing life to... but I also want you to see that God protects those baby works that His hand is upon... the dragon might try and destroy it before it can be born and then afterward before it can grow... but God's mercy will be upon them. John 10:10 " The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have [it] more abundantly. "
You see, God delivered although the child was polluted in his own blood... in his own guilt or pollution... God had mercy! Although the enemy of the child tried to kill it, God had mercy. I don't care what the enemy tries to do to destroy the children of God, when God goes by and speaks life, that child will live !
Romans 8:31 " What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us? "
The text says this in the NKJV,
Ezekiel 16:6 "And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, `Live!' Yes, I said to you in your blood, `Live!' "
And when Jesus speaks life to us... we shall live for He is the resurrection and the life... in fact He is the source of both physical and spiritual life to us!
John 11:25 " Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: "
Acts 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. "
LOOK, WHEN GOD STARTS A WORK WITH A PEOPLE, OR IN A PLACE... AND SATAN WILL TRY VERY HARD TO KILL IT BEFORE IT CAN BE BORN, OR AFTER ITS BORN... TO KILL IT BEFORE IT CAN BECOME STRONG.
And like this tiny newborn in its own blood... its been polluted and expected to die. The Devil loves to cry out strike 3 and call us out, but he's not the umpire, God is! The Devil loves to take away our spiritual lives... but God is the one who gives life and speaks life to us!
Matthew 4:4 " But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. "
And the Devil is attacking most of us the same way... through finances and pressures and lies and spiritual pressures... and the church is hurting... but we have this promise although we are in a deep battle...
Matthew 16:18 " And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. "
But the Lord has come by to tell us to live... in the middle of our wounds and blood... He says live... Look at what happened to this infant God spoke about. He spoke life to the child... the child grew up, and became a woman who represented Israel... then God covenanted to marry Israel!
Ezekiel 16:7-8 " 7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: [thy] breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou [wast] naked and bare. 8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time [was] the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
WE ARE IN COVENANT WITH GOD... HE WILL SPEAK LIFE TO US SO WE CAN GROW & PROSPER
© 1997 by James Coldiron

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Philippians 3:8-10 " 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
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