He Speaks Through Other Peoples Mouths
HE SPEAKS THROUGH OTHER PEOPLE’S MOUTHS
Within a few days of each other, I had a gal send me an email that said, “You’re the absolute best of the best!” That really touched my heart, I hadn’t heard that phrase before. And then a few days later I was at a conference and the pastor prayed over me and asked the Lord if He would give me His very best. I had never heard anyone pray that before and it was really quickened to me as He brought back the remembrance of that email.
When I came home, Wayne asked me why they called Good Friday, Good? I responded it was because Jesus gave His very best gift, His life. I knew this was the Lord’s quickened Word, as He filled my mouth, my friend’s mouth and the pastor’s mouth with His answer.
James 1:17-18 NKJV
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
John 10:11, 14-16 NKJV
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep…. 14 I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. 15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
John 3:14-17 NKJV
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
Several years later I had gone through much death to self, and one of these was having to sacrifice the first fruits of a spiritual promise. This was not money, as many teach, but this was actually a person, just like Abraham obeyed God and laid Isaac on the alter. This was very hard to do because to me, it was also laying down my faith. I had stood and contended and given everything I had in regards to trusting in the Lord’s Words. The Lord told me He would multiply my promise and it would bear fruit for multitudes, because I was willing to offer the best of what He gave me.
One day after I was over most of the pain of this, I heard a prophet say that God always wants the BEST of the first fruits. The first fruits belong to God.
Ex 23:18-19 NKJV
The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God.
It was then that I remembered another prophet’s testimony who had stood for his brother’s healing in prayers and fastings. Before his brother died, the Lord said that He wanted to bring his brother home to Him and that when he planted his brother in the ground, this would be the first fruit sacrifice. The multiplication of this would be that he would receive the gift to heal many of that incurable disease.
John 12:24-25 NKJV
Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
WORD TO PONDER: MY BEST FOR YOU
Dear ones, when you give Me your all, I give you Mine. When you lay down your life for Me, I lay all aside for you. When you give Me your best, I give you My best.
And when you have failed to give your best, and you return to Me wholeheartedly in repentance and change, I still give you My best. I give you My best robe and ring, My best gifts, the best of My oil, new wine and grain. I give you the best of the land. I give you My best, because I AM your Good Father and I give good gifts to My children. I give you My very best because You are My precious child.
Luke 15:22-24 NKJV
“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. 23 And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; 24 for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.
1 Cor 12:31 AMP
But earnestly desire and zealously cultivate the greatest and best gifts and graces (the higher gifts and the choicest graces). And yet I will show you a still more excellent way [one that is better by far and the highest of them all — love].
Num 18:12-13 NKJV
“All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and the grain, their firstfruits which they offer to the LORD, I have given them to you.
Gen 45:17-20 NKJV
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals and depart; go to the land of Canaan. 18 Bring your father and your households and come to me; I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land. 19 Now you are commanded — do this: Take carts out of the land of Egypt for your little ones and your wives; bring your father and come. 20 Also do not be concerned about your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’
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