And the Axe Head Did Swim

The Power of the Blessing

Zechariah 4:6
It’s not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit saith the Lord.

Romans 8:11 NKJV
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies [a]through His Spirit who dwells in you.

To walk in this power, we need to have an ongoing awareness and revelation of what God has done for us and what He has given us in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:13-14 KJV
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

The curse of the law is three fold.
The curse is spiritual death.
The curse is sickness.
And the curse is poverty.

In Christ Jesus we have been redeemed from that.
For sickness we can have health.
For poverty we can have wealth.
And for spiritual death, we can have eternal life in Christ.

The Floating Axe Head

The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed.
The Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed.

2 Kings 6:1-6 NIV
The company of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us. 2 Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to meet.” And he said, “Go.” 3 Then one of them said, “Won’t you please come with your servants?” “I will,” Elisha replied.  4 And he went with them. They went to the Jordan and began to cut down trees. 5 As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. “Oh no, my lord!” he cried out. “It was borrowed!” 6 The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it there, and it made the iron float. Or i like the KJV that says and the iron did swim. 7 “Lift it out,” he said. Then the man reached out his hand and took it.

Jesus and His finished work of redeeming us from the curse are in this story if we’ll look.

Luke 24:44 NKJV
44 Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.”

Deuteronomy 19:4-5 NLT
4 “If someone kills another person unintentionally, without previous hostility, the slayer may flee to any of these cities to live in safety. 5 For example, suppose someone goes into the forest with a neighbor to cut wood. And suppose one of them swings an ax to chop down a tree, and the ax head flies off the handle, killing the other person. In such cases, the slayer may flee to one of the cities of refuge to live in safety.

The axe is a type of the curse.
The stick is a type of the cross.

The Waters of Marah

Exodus 15:22-26 NKJV
22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; then they went out into the Wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.  23 Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called [a]Marah.  24 And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” 25 So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a statute and an [b]ordinance for them, and there He tested them,  26 and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”

The bitter waters were a type of the curse.
The tree was a type of the cross.
God showed Elisha the stick.
He showed Moses the tree.
He has shown us the cross.
Wherever the cross is applied, there is an immediate reversal of the curse.

The Living Waters

All throughout the Old Testament there is a connection between waters and people being led by God into their miracle.

(Example: The waters of Marah, The spring waters associated with healing in Leviticus, The Jordan River for the Israelites, the Jordan River for Elisha, The Jordan River for Namaan, The Brook called Cherith, The Pool of Bethesda, etc.)

The saints of the Old Testament experienced physical things that were types and shadows of our spiritual realities.

John 7:38 KJV
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

They had to wait on the waters, but have the waters on the inside. If we’ll stir ourselves up, we can be led by the spirit just as they were in these stories right into our miracle.