Yesterday, Rob was filming the birds in our garden eating seeds, for a devotional video of how the Lord takes care of the birds and how we shouldn\u2019t worry about life (Matthew 6). Rob then went out for his morning run up the mountain. I was working on my next book (on demons) and was writing the story of the woodpecker that I raised from the dead some years ago, when the grocery delivery man arrived. Without knowing any of this, he just happened to start asking me about the birds in our garden and how he\u2019d love to see a woodpecker in his garden. I thought it a bit strange that he brought up the subject of woodpeckers randomly.<\/p>\n
He seemed a bit surprised when I offered to pray for him, but he asked me to pray for a family member who had just received some bad news from the doctor. I prayed, told him more about Jesus and then he left. I walked into another room and almost straight away I heard a loud bang on the window right where we\u2019d been standing. I went back to look and saw a woodpecker on the ground which looked dead. I couldn\u2019t see it moving and its eyes were closed.<\/p>\n
I started to pray through the window and watched as its eye opened and I could see it begin to breathe. I started videoing. Watch the video and as I say, \u201cI speak life and resurrection power\u201d the young woodpecker immediately gets up on its feet! Keep watching to see what happens next…<\/p>\n
Now I\u2019m writing this the next day and literally as I\u2019m writing this, the same woodpecker (I think) starts tapping on the window. I\u2019ve added it onto the end of the video. How weird. They\u2019re usually very timid birds and I\u2019ve not seen that before.<\/p>\n
Woodpeckers to me speak of resurrection power (because I raised one and now possibly two, from the dead). Jesus \u201cgave us\u00a0resurrection\u00a0life\u00a0and\u00a0drew us to himself by his holy calling on our lives.\u00a0And\u00a0it wasn\u2019t because of any good we have done, but by his divine pleasure\u00a0and\u00a0marvellous grace that confirmed our union with\u00a0the\u00a0anointed Jesus, even before time began!\u201d (2 Timothy 1:9 TPT).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/sup>\u201cDo not worry\u00a0about your life\u2026 or about your body…\u00a0Look at the birds of the air; \u2026 are you not much more valuable than they?\u00a0Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?\u201d (Matthew 6: 25-27).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The woodpecker knocking on the window reminds me that we have an invitation to know the power of the resurrection released in our own bodies and through us for others as we are united with Jesus, one with Him. Instead of worrying and cutting short our lives through coming into agreement with death, let\u2019s believe the truth, that Jesus has defeated death and let\u2019s step into eternal life as we\u2019re united with the anointed Jesus who is the resurrection and the life!<\/p>\n Join our online community here at SpiritLifestyle.com and learn how to operate in resurrection power and live the life you were created for!<\/p>\n<\/div>