by Luz Cintron.
While I was in
my prayer time as I was singing and praying a song “Anoint my heart for burial”
His most Holy Spirit spoke to my heart and here are the words of that song:
Anoint My
Heart For Burial
As I was praying
those words to Him for myself and for the fellowship of His saints. I felt His Most Holy Spirit speak into my heart: “As the
generation who confronted Jesus, the generation of the Pharisees asked for a
sign, so this generation has come to ask for a sign before stepping forward to
lay down their lives and embrace their cross. But as in those days, no sign was
given to them but the sign of Jonah, so it is that no sign will be given to His bride, but the
sign of the cloth of burial.”
Oh fellow believer, we have fasted and we have prayed for revival, and longed for it ,
and waited to see the manifestation of His glory and power. It has become a
hope for vindication before those who don’t believe that they may come to see
the reason of our faith and be convicted and be saved. But I understand now
where is our sin before my Lord, we have expected that revival as something
that will descend upon us from up
high. So in this way, the
religious people in Israel in Christ times, waited for their Messiah and they missed their visitation.
In hoping like that, His bride has forgotten her only purpose which is to serve. We
have forsaken our duty to be salt of this earth and no sign will be given us
but the sign of the burial cloth, for if we do not put it on and go down in the
grave with Jesus we shall not be raised and there will be no life breathed upon
us and we shall remain dead in our trespasses which is our own ignorance.
What is alive can not be revived. Only that which is
dead can be brought into life and as we cling to the life in our flesh we end
refusing the life offered us, which is from the Spirit of God, of
which Jesus spoke referring to it, as the more abundant life. For the one who
still seeks for himself has not died and
is serving himself in all he does, but the one dead cannot be moved from
his position of servant to the body of believers and to this world unto which his whole life is called to become a testimony of God’s love and
provision through Jesus Christ.
What is different in our cities, in our neighborhoods
because of the faith given us? What has changed in the places were we go to
work, where we go to study, because of our faith?
How have we lived before unbelievers our trust in Jesus? How have we embraced
the pain and the suffering that has touched our lives? Have we shown them there
is a higher life, a hope, a purpose given us in Christ? Or do we live just as
they do from day to day, shaking our heads and saying “its bad, its bad” and
then going our way and minding “our own business”?
We can have no business of our own, if we are tending
any other business but our Father’s, we better stop. Or don’t you know the
workplace were we earn our living has been given us, to preach the
gospel without words but with our lives? That as Jesus reached out to the lost,
the poor, the needy , we are placed there, not to show ourselves better than
them, but to reach unto them and give them, of what was freely given to us? How
many times have we fed them, sharing
our bread with them physically and spiritually? We need to go out of our way to reach them and I mean it in more than one way. We are to go out of our way and stretch
ourselves, to bring the gospel of Christ. Unless we die to ourselves this wont
happen. It doesn’t matter how many missionaries we send out and/or support if
we do not become His ambassadors right where we are we have not done it.
Only one who is dead to himself can raise Jesus in his
life, can lift Him up as a standard. It takes our own burial to all in us that seeks to be served, it takes the
embracing of those things that are painful and we judge “undeserved”, so that others in pain may come to see
and identify with the hope of glory in us and see His light. We
should not seek relief in our agony to the things of the flesh, for if we
embrace them receiving everything from the hand of Jesus, His life will
spring forth through us. For have you read in Isaiah 53 how He made Himself
without any beauty that we should desire Him? Instead He became despised and
rejected by men, He chose to embrace grief and suffering for us. And again in Hebrews how He wanted to be a High
Priest with whom we all could identify? (Hebrews 2:17-18). Then if we seek
honor, acceptance or recognition it is ourselves we serve and follow and not
Him. For if, in doing what is right unto the Lord, any praise may come from the
lips of unbelievers or from
believers, let all go unto Whom it is due, our Lord, who is the One living our
lives in us and the pride of the flesh will have no part in us. So if we are
despised and rejected let it be a reason to meditate on what He suffered for us
and give Him thanks to remind us of the things His love endured for us.
For when the devil thinks that he has put us to nothing,
and has secluded us in the grave and closed its gates
behind us forever, the resurrection power who raised Christ from the grave will
brake forth, setting captives free, and will bring the captivity freely captive
(Ephesians 4:8; Psalm 68:18) to the heart of God as His own testimony of His
grace and mercy towards mankind. In that day the prey will be taken from the mighty, that will be the day in
which our God, will contend with the one who contends with us (Isaiah 49:24-26).
No one
and nothing can separate us from the love of Christ not even death, but we must be dead to receive
and bear His life and that is revival.