A Powerful Word For Those
Who Have Lost Loved Ones
 or what it is worth, I thought that I would
pass this incredible testimony onto the rest of you.
Awhile back ago on TBN, they had a middle-aged couple on
one of their talk shows that were really anointed. They
had their own church and ministry - I can't recall where
it was at. But part of their testimony was on the death of
their young daughter.
Here they were, serving God full time
with their church and ministry, and their daughter ends up
dying at a fairly young age. I came in on the story right as
they were talking about it. I didn't catch the age of the
daughter or what the cause of her death was.
The wife had really been wrestling with God. How could You
take her from us so early in her life, how could You allow this
to happen, why didn't You heal her, why didn't You protect her?
Both the wife and husband were really having a hard time in
getting over her early death with the Lord. They couldn't
understand or get a direct answer from God as to why He allowed
their daughter to be brought home at such a young age and rob
the both of them the joy of seeing their daughter grow up.
After all of this wrestling with the Lord for quite
sometime, the wife said she then received a direct word from
the Holy Spirit that immediately set her free from her mental
captivity. And boy did I get a whopper witness off of this
Word!
I'll give you exactly what the Word was and an additional
revelation that God gave the both of them on the death of their
young daughter. For those of you who have lost close loved ones
in your past - grab a hold of this direct Word from the Lord.
This Word from the Lord has been used by this couple to set
many other people free from the depression and anger they have
slipped into as a result of not being able to deal with the
death of a close loved one.
The wife said she was in the kitchen when she
heard the Holy Spirit speak directly to her. The words
were: "Your daughter is no longer in the past - she is now
in the future."
Think about these words! The wife said as soon as she
heard these words - she immediately knew what God was
trying to tell her and it immediately set both her and her
husband completely free of the mental torment they were
still going through with the death of their
daughter.
God was telling them that their daughter was no longer in
their past. She had died and she was now in heaven with God and
Jesus! God was telling them that they now had to move on with
their lives, to let the past go, including the death of their
daughter, and to continue to press forward into the call that
He had placed on both of their lives.
Their daughter is now in their future! When they
both die, they will both cross over into heaven and be
immediately reunited with their daughter. God was telling
them to change the "angle" with which they were looking at
their daughter's death from.
Instead of seeing her as being "dead in the
past" - start seeing her as being "fully alive in heaven" -
and understand that you will be reunited with her in a very
short period of time. Our time on this earth is not even a
blink of an eye compared to the eternal time frame that is
operating in heaven.
1. You have to step back and look at the big
picture. We are all going to die and cross over - no
exceptions! Some just go sooner than others. When you die is
irrelevant. What you do with the time that you have down here
is what really matters. It's quality - not quantity!
When you really grasp the meaning of the words that the Holy
Spirit spoke to her - you understand that they should actually
be rejoicing. Their daughter is now in the most perfect place
imaginable and they are both guaranteed to be reunited with her
once they die and cross over. They should be keeping the
picture of their daughter in front of them - in their own
personal futures - which will also be heaven for the both of
them when they die and cross over.
God was also telling them that if they did not
quit wallowing in their past - they would eventually die in
their past and they would no longer be able to move forward
for God because they would end up staying stuck in their
past.
Too many people are bound up with things that have happened
to them in their past. They can't let go of some of the bad
things that may have occurred in their past. As a result, their
past slowly starts to eat away at them until they get to a
point where they no longer have any joy or zest for living.
They then start slipping into depressions and then lose all of
their will to even want to live anymore.
2. Shortly after receiving this direct
revelation from the Lord and being set free, they came across a
woman who had lost her son. Her son had died about a year ago
and the woman had slipped into a severe depression. She had
literally boarded up her house, closed all the drapes and
curtains, and would no longer even go outside. She had
completely shut down due to the pain and heartache she was
going through at losing her son at what apparently was also a
fairly young age.
This couple had given their testimony on the above
revelation to a church this woman had been attending. The
testimony was taped and one of the church members then slipped
the tape to this woman who had boarded herself up in her house.
The woman took the tape into her bedroom. She listened to it
over and over again all night along - literally until the sun
broke at dawn.
When the sun broke at dawn, she later testified that she
knew God was speaking to her through this couple's testimony on
this tape. She said the message and revelation from this couple
that was on this tape set her free from the mental captivity
that she had placed herself under as a result of not being able
to see the truth of her son's death. The Bible says that the
truth will set you free and this is a perfect example of this
spiritual principle coming into full operation!
Once she heard the revelation given by the Holy
Spirit to this couple - she knew she had been looking at
her son's death from the wrong angle. Her son is now in
heaven and she should be looking forward to being reunited
with him in heaven once she crosses over - not dwelling on
his death, which was now in her past.
Once she fully grasped what God was trying to tell her, and
it apparently took all night for this revelation to really sink
into her mind, she was finally set free and was able to start
fully living again.
This couple said that these specific words spoken to them by
the Holy Spirit has helped many other people deal with the
death of their close loved ones.
Scripture Verses
1. Here are 3 good verses from Scripture that
will back up the words spoken to this couple by the Holy
Spirit.
- But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his
hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom
of God." (Luke 9:62)
- "... but one thing I do, forgetting those
things which are behind and reaching forward to those
things which are ahead. I press toward the goal for the
prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."
(Philippians 3:13-14)
Look at the words in this second verse: "forgetting those
things which are behind" and "reaching forward for those
things which are ahead." This verse perfectly lines up with
what the Holy Spirit was trying to tell this couple - to let
the death of their daughter go, which was now in their past,
and to look forward - to press forward for the things which are
now ahead of them in their futures.
And one of the things ahead for this couple in their futures
will be their own physical deaths and their own crossing over
into heaven and being reunited with their daughter, where they
will never be separated from her ever again!
2. This next verse talks about plowing forward
in hope.
"... he who plows should plow in hope, and he
who threshes in hope should be a partaker of his hope." (1
Corinthians 9:10)
This verse is telling us that each one of us should continue
to plow for God with whatever time we still have left down here
on this earth - with the understanding that we will eventually
be reunited with all of our saved loved ones who have gone home
before us.
And not only should we continue to plow forward with this
hope in mind, but we should also be a partaker of that hope. In
other words - really believe that when you die, you will be
reunited with all of your saved loved ones, and this time it
will be for good - for all of eternity!
Heaven is going to be the final and ultimate reward for all
Christians. The Bible tells us that we cannot even begin to
imagine all of the good things that God will have in store for
all of those who will be entering into His dwelling place.
But one thing we do know for sure - we will all be given the
two greatest rewards any human can ever hope to receive once we
cross over to the other side.
- We will forever be united with God the Father and
His Son Jesus Christ. We will be able to see Them face to
face, and we will be able to have direct contact and
fellowship with the both of Them for the rest of all of
eternity.
- And to top it all off - we will forever be reunited
with all of our saved loved ones who have made it into
heaven - and we will once more be able to enjoy the
friendships that we had established with each one of them
while living down here on this earth.
Now that's an incredible one-two punch that can't be beat.
And to top it all off, there will be mansions and who knows
what else from God the Father.
For all those of you who have lost very close
loved ones, you have to step back and see the real big
picture - the real ending to the story. So many people have
lost the rest of their earthly lives because they could
never get over the death of a close loved one. And the
reason they could not get over their deaths is due to the
fact that they were looking at their deaths from the wrong
angle.
The Holy Spirit gave this couple what I feel is a
very powerful and liberating Word on this subject. He gave
them a Word that was pure solid God-truth. And once you
receive a direct truth from God the Father - it will set
you free if you are willing to accept it and then work with
it.
The other thing that happened with this couple is that
before they received this direct Word from the Lord, they found
themselves taking their daughter's pictures and photos out of a
lot of their family portraits because it was too painful for
them to see her and to be reminded of her death.
After receiving the above Word from the Lord, they were then
told to put all of her pictures back in with the rest of the
family pictures. He told them that she was not dead - that she
was fully alive in heaven - and that they should be rejoicing
because their time would come when they would all be reunited
with her once again.
They were told not to try and put her out of their memory.
They were to keep intact all of her photos and all of their
memories of her. They were all to look forward to the future
when they would all once again be reunited with her in
heaven.
When this couple received all of the above from God the
Father through the Holy Spirit, they were then all set free
from the mental captivity they had placed themselves under, and
they were then able to pick themselves back up and get back
into fully living in their present again.
The other revelation that the wife received from God the
Father was on the question of why - why did God allow her
daughter to be taken home so early. God basically told her
there will be times when He will not tell you why He allows
something specific to happen in your life - like the early
death and departure of a close loved one.
Sometimes it may be better that you not know why God brings
someone home so early. Maybe that person was going to have
something really bad happen to them somewhere down the road and
God wanted to spare them the pain of having to go through it -
so He arranges to have them brought home early. There could be
many different reasons as to why God may have brought this
person home early, and maybe with half of those reasons you are
better off not knowing.
She finally came to the conclusion that if it was God's will
that she not know why He had brought her daughter home so early
- that she would simply have to trust God that He did have a
good enough reason to bring her home early and to let it go at
that!
The Bible says that we can only "know in
part." We will never get all of the answers to all of
life's problems and dilemmas. God will answer many of our
questions if He is properly approached. The Bible says to
"ask, and you will receive." But when God does decide
not to answer a specific question you may have - then you have
to accept the fact that He has a good enough reason not to give
you His answer, trust that He knows what He is doing - that He
knows what is best for the situation at hand - and then move on
with your life.
If you don't, you will run the risk of getting stuck in the
misery of your past. And if you do not end up pulling up out of
the misery of your past, then you will never fully accomplish
whatever God's perfect plan and purpose would have been for
your life.
Conclusion
For those of you who have had a very difficult time in
accepting the death of a close loved one, really chew on the
above Word given to this couple by the Holy Spirit.
For those of you who may know someone who is really having a
hard time handling the death of a close loved one like a child,
a spouse, a parent or a best friend, give them a copy of this
article and/or sit down with them and give them the above Word
from the Spirit of God. Share the above testimony with them on
this couple and the other woman who had lost her son.
Pray that God will move in on them with illumination and
insight so they can fully grasp and understand that even though
the death of a close loved one is a very painful experience -
that their loved one's death is now a new beginning for
them.
Their close loved one is now in the most perfect place
imaginable and they will be reunited with them once again in
just a very short period of time. This life on this earth is
just for a very brief moment in the eternal scheme of things -
but the life to come, where they are at now, will be
forever.
Remember what the Holy Spirit Himself has spoken
- your loved one is no longer "dead in your past" - your
loved one is now "fully alive in your future" - which is
heaven.
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