Preparing the body for burial

It is not often that I speak on the topic of death. However, as I pray for those with cancer, at times the Lord directs me to the fact that He gives some people time to prepare for death. When Jesus was nearing His death, the Lord urged a woman to anoint Jesus’ feet with perfumed oil. Value and kindness was shown to Jesus, and these things validated the life He lived on earth. He said that this woman had prepared his body for burial. Some men try to mount the faith that would put death off, not seeing that time has been given to them to prepare their body for burial. The following is a prophetic lesson about this topic;

I prepare the body for burial. It is not the physical body that is My concern. It is the changing of direction in which a man or woman looks before they die. When a servant of God is nearing death it is time for him or her to stop thinking on what they will do for Me and start thinking on what the next generation will do. When Moses was nearing his death the Lord showed him the inheritance of the next generation; those who would inherite the promises of God after Moses’ leadership was ended. Moses had already begun this change of direction in his heart by prophesying what the destiny was for the tribes of Israel.

Moses was a servant who bore Me fruit. His people were his fruit. Their faith and obedience brought them from slavery to rulership in the Promise Land. A man must take time near the end of his life to look at his sons and daughters for fruit-bearing. Love of life has prevented many servants from this change of gaze because they only see that what they are doing is being interrupted by sickness, and would be terminated by death. Though the works of men are in My hands, the appointment of them to the next generation is in a man’s hands. He must speak My words to his family and to those appointed under him.

I have taken the sting out of death. Let a man change his gaze for his family’s sake, and to prepare his own heart to inhabit the glory of a new body. I will give grace for this. I will give comfort. I, Who hold time in My hands, will give new life as the old is passing away. Amen.