Gravestones Must Fall Daily Devo 182

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Today’s Devotional Scripture: ³⁸ Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.

³⁹ Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.

⁴⁰ Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?

⁴¹ Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

⁴² And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

- John 11:38-42 KJV

The Message For Today (October 9, 2024):

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Every wall and every barrier that stands between us and the glory of God has to fall. Every wall and every stronghold must come down. In this scripture, we see the recounting of the burial and resurrection of Lazarus. We see that after days and a time of being sick, that the Lord waited two more days before coming to the aid of Lazarus.

It was proposed that Jesus himself could have saved Lazarus had he come earlier, had he maybe not waited two more days. However, God is intentional. The Lord, in fact, did not leave where they were staying until two days later. So by the time he got to Mary and Martha, Lazarus had been dead four days. Four long days. No chance for it being a mistake.

No chance for people to say that, oh, maybe Lazarus was just lucky and he wasn't really dead. No, for four days, his body lay resting and remaining behind a gravestone. And when Jesus came and commanded that the gravestone be moved, there was confusion, slight resistance, but nevertheless, the gravestone was moved. There are so many things in our lives that can become a wall between us and the manifestation of the glory of God.

These things are often natural and logical barriers to Holy Ghost breakthrough. These are situations that make sense in the natural, but defy the will of God in the supernatural. It was not the will of God that Lazarus remained behind his gravestone. It was the will of God to see a miracle turn and to see the glory back into his life. In the scripture, when it says, “then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid”, they talked in general, not just in particular to the cave that Lazarus was in, but they took away the stone from the place that the dead are usually buried, from a cave, from a closed door, and the place where we even saw Jesus buried.

There was a cave, there was a process. So the gravestones were organic barriers that were placed over the dead. These were expected coverings for the dead. In this case, when Lazarus died, he naturally organically came into agreement with the situation as it was. It was only logical. His body lost life. He passed away and was stored in the cave, wrapped up in the process and behind a physical barrier. When the scripture says in John that this sickness is not unto death, we see that Jesus is moving by the Spirit.

He's not moving by the natural. Lazarus, in fact, does die. He makes that plain later on. But at the moment of hearing and deciding to abide two more days, in verse four of John chapter 11, it says,

When Jesus heard that, he said, this sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the son of God might be glorified thereby. - John 11:4 KJV

So this very natural conclusion to a severe sickness was not unto death. Lazarus, in fact, did die. He was, in fact, put in the grave. He was, in fact, covered with the gravestone. Nevertheless, the sickness was not unto death. So Jesus spoke supernaturally in John 11:4. Well, we didn't see the manifestation of that until John chapter 11:44. So we did not see the manifestation of the words that Jesus spoke in John 11:4, until another 40 verses of scripture. Forty verses of scripture. Forty verses of things that Lazarus never heard, never saw. Structure, process, and things being moved on his behalf.

Lazarus had no opportunity to come into agreement with any of that. He had to accept the natural conclusion. So the Lord had a purpose, even though the situation looked dire and in the natural, it didn't make sense. There was yet a process that God used here. This process of allowing things to progress in the way that requires the glory of God. That does not move in logic, but moves in faith. That trusts the Lord when it seemingly doesn't make sense. There was even resistance. When Mary was asked, when Jesus asked them, to remove the stone, in verse 39, Martha was resistant.

She began to operate in the natural, organic line of thought of saying, “But Lord, he's been dead four days”. So Jesus had a purpose. Jesus had a plan. The supernatural word of the Lord was coming forth. Even if others around could not understand it and could not see, even though the gravestone was certainly in place. Many times when you are walking with God, doing the unexpected and unfamiliar thing takes courage. It takes you stepping outside of yourself and believing.

In this case, those who believed on behalf of Lazarus were those who came into agreement, removed the stone, and waited while the word was revealed and manifested through Jesus saying, “Lazarus, come forth”. Those three words and the Holy Ghost instruction they carry for the gravestone to be removed and for life to be returned. It's incredible. And knowing that even as the Lord is taking his time to come into the agreement, that the word of the Lord will be made manifest in due season.

Despite the resistance to the request to remove the gravestone, the stone from the cave, they did indeed take away the stone, which was a major part of the deliverance of Lazarus, the resurrection of Lazarus, and the coming into divine manifestation just by his life. The stone had to come down. It must have been removed before we could see Lazarus being called forth. The natural state of things had to change and the stronghold, the thing that separated Lazarus from seeing the manifestation of the glory of God was the stone.

In this season, and every season walking with God, a grace that releases the power of God, removes the stones, and returns life. It's the grace that is shown here in this cornerstone scripture. When you are called to walk with the Lord, moving in logic is not always appropriate. It doesn't work. Though they that walk with God and work with God must believe. To believe is the only requirement. So that wall, that cover, that gravestone has to come down despite the natural resistance, the logical barriers, despite these things being true and real, the glory of the Lord will be manifest.

We will see God. Every wall, every cover, every stone that is facilitating the dead things in your life. Every gravestone must fall. The logical thought, the natural covering, the thing that happens in death. This must transpire. But the resistance, the barriers, the covers, the walls, the gravestones, all must fall. They cannot remain before the glory of the Lord. So whether you are capable of removing the gravestone yourself, or maybe you're in a situation like Lazarus where others must be the ones to remove the gravestone. Either way, the walls come down.

And the grace of God is released that every wall comes down. Every wall, every stronghold, every mountain. We see it in Zechariah 4:6-7. We see where the word of the Lord is sent to the prophet and a breakdown is facilitated by an angel of the Lord. After the word of the Lord, which encourages Zechariah to tell the servant of the Lord, Zerubbabel, that the Lord would make the mountains into a plain. That he says the victory will come not by might, not by power, but by his spirit.

Then in verse seven, he turns and speaks to the mountain. What it says in Zechariah chapter four, verse seven, is,

Who art thou, O great mountain, before Zerubbabel? Thou shalt become a plain, and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, grace, grace unto it.

The headstone thereof here represents the walls, the natural state of death, the gravestones. It says here that the Lord will make that mountain a plain and that Zerubbabel will bring back their headstone thereof, shouting with victory, grace, grace unto it. When the walls come down, the grace, the glory. When the walls come down, the pretty ones and the gilded ones, everything that's standing between you and the glory of God is going to fall.

Every limitation, every barrier, every headstone, every gravestone, every covering of a grave must be moved. It must fall in the face of the will of the Father. It will work, and God will bless it because you believed. This is the season to let go, to allow God to have his way, and to believe the Lord. No matter what, it's time to trust him, for the way is long, and the path can be frustrating, even dangerous. But when the Lord calls you, you can trust that he is equipping you for victory, that he's showing you ways out of know way.

Now it springs forth. Once the gravestones fall, the glory of God can be made manifest. Situations begin to become demonstrations of God's glory once the gravestones come down. As you come into agreement with this word, that he is bringing forth life to the dead situations, and speaking to the gravestones, the walls, the coverings, the limitations. No limitations. They all must fall. Trust in the Lord your God.

Closing Devotional Prayer

My prayer for you. Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you. Thank you, oh God, for the word of the Lord, for the word, the breakdown of the scripture, which demonstrates what a gravestone really is. It is a natural, organic barrier, which we come into agreement with, by natural understanding and inclination. It is the glory of God that moves mountains, when you can understand what a gravestone is, and what it represents, and see the word of the Lord come into agreement that that stone, that gravestone, that limitation must come down.

Lord, I thank you for covering her, for showing her this morning, what it looks like to trust you completely. Even in situations that seem like they are done, they are finished, the curtain has been pulled, and the credits have been run. But God, you have the final say in every situation in our lives. You have a final say in every situation in our lives, where we begin to wonder if we did the right thing, at the right time. You are still God.

I thank you, Lord. I pray a blessing. I pray for peace, that as the mighty woman of God, as those listening here, in this devotional, decide to come into agreement with divine instruction, that they will begin to see walls fall in their finances, and their relationships. The disorder and the chaos will come to a sudden end. For the Lord is with them, Lord. I thank you for walking with her, for covering her, and for letting her know she is not alone.

That despite the organic situations where limitations are present, and are foregone conclusions, I thank you, Lord, that you come, and you undermine those limitations, and that you overwhelm the hand of the enemy, and that the grace of the Lord will continue to come forth as she walks with you in full glory and dominion.

For you are the Lord our God, and every wall and every barrier must come down. Nothing can stand against you, Lord. I thank you that the gravestones in her life will be exposed as she begins to go through this devotional. Lord, I pray, God, that the mighty woman of God begins to see how the obstacles have shown up in her everyday life. Lord, show her where they are there and are spiritual gravestones, placed between her and her destiny.

I thank you, Lord God, that the devices of the enemy must fail. They cannot prevail over your daughter. I thank you, Lord God, that there is a shift now coming forth, that once she begins to discover what these gravestones are, she can decree the word of the Lord over each and every one of them. For you are her God, and besides you, O God, there is none other.

There is not one that can stand between you and the will of the Lord for her life. So I thank you, O God, that she is laying down her burdens, that she is putting down every weight, and she is believing that you are able to bring forth new life and resurrection, O God, in the form of restoring her, in the form of healing every bit of brokenness, in the form of refueling and refilling her. I thank you, Lord. And I pray for that revelation, for that peace and that power to go forth as she's reading this devotional.

I thank you, Lord, that the gravestones must fall. I thank you and I pray in Jesus' mighty name, amen. Amen.

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