The Firstfruits of Redemption
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The earnest of your inheritance for your body includes the quickening of this mortal flesh, the
life of Jesus being made manifest in this mortal body. How would that affect you? Would it heal
you? Would it pep you up? Would it strengthen you?
You’re not going to be able to claim the whole thing right now. “I’m just going to believe God
that my whole body is changed from corruptible to incorruptible.” No, you can’t claim it right
now; that’s going to happen later. The Bible says, “Then it’s going to be brought to pass.” What
you can do, though, is claim your earnest. Claim the firstfruits of it, and you can have what my
father in the faith, Brother Hagin, used to call “a mini quickening.” What do I mean? You can
have a little mini resurrection—I mean
little
. You can have a little mini resurrection in your
kidney, in your heart, or in your liver, or a little quickening in your blood, and in your immune
system. The Holy Spirit is already in there. He’s the One Who is going to raise your whole body
from the dead one day. Why couldn’t He just reach over and touch your lung a little bit? Why
couldn’t He touch your glands? Why couldn’t He touch your blood vessels, your heart, your
bones, your joints, and your nerves? Why couldn’t He touch them with a little quickening?
He said, “That’s just a little, itty, bitty taste of what you’re going to get one day.” But it’s enough
to sustain us in this life, to heal us, strengthen us, and keep us until we finish our course.
If you believe in the resurrection, you shouldn’t have any trouble believing in this. If you believe
God could really change your body from mortal to immortal and from corruptible to
incorruptible, you shouldn’t have any trouble believing He could heal it. It’s all part and parcel
of the same thing. You just can’t claim all of that right now, but you’ve already been given an
earnest, a firstfruit. We need to meditate on this more.
So this is reason number 12 why we’re sure it’s God’s will for all of us to be healed today. It is
because of the earnest of our inheritance, the firstfruits, a little foretaste of the resurrection.
If you have ever had any quickening or any healing, then you know that’s exactly what it is.
There have been times when I was so tired and so fatigued, but I wasn’t finished; I had
something else I needed to do in kingdom work. You shouldn’t just push yourself for no reason,
because your body is still mortal, but there are times when you need to do things. You need to go
on. There have been times when I did not feel like I could do it, like I couldn’t drag another foot
in front of the other, and the Spirit of God just came on me and quickened me, and I began to do
it and get anointed. I forgot about being tired, and I was just able to do it, and be quickened.
What is that? That’s a little taste of what’s coming down the road. It will heal you, it will
strengthen you, it will sustain you, and it will enable you.
Romans 8:11 says, “But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,”
what will happen? We’re talking about the same Holy Spirit Who was in the tomb that morning.
It is the same Holy Spirit Who flowed over Jesus’ body that was cold, stiff, and dead, and
changed His body, until He reentered it and walked out of that place, never to die again. That
same Spirit lives day and night in you. That Spirit lives in me. It’s the same Holy Spirit Who is
going to resurrect this body later on, Who is going to change this body. He is the same One.
