FAITH TO BELIEVE, ABILITY TO RECEIVE

God gives us His faith to believe (Romans 12:3, Mark 11:22) and then gives us His grace, His ability to receive.

God is so good to us.  When we are born again, He comes to live in us with all that He is.  His faith is inside us.  People have believed that one person has more faith than another.  No, no!  God is no respecter of persons.  That is what His Word says, so for one person to have more faith than another would be contrary to God’s Word.  The reason it appears that some have more faith than others is that they have developed their faith more than others.

We are all on an equal playing field the minute we get born again.  We all are given the Holy Spirit of God Who dwells in us with all the attributes of God.  Faith is one of those attributes.  It is part of God’s makeup.  As we study God’s Word and learn of Him, our faith grows and develops.  We have the faith of God dwelling in us because He is dwelling in us.  It is actually not our human faith that is our title deed to all that God has for us.  It is confidence in His faith in us giving substance to the things that we have Bible hope for.  Both hope and faith are developed in us.

Here is the neat part!  God even gives us His ability to receive what He gives us the faith to believe.  I think that is so wonderful.  He helps us to receive what He has for us.  He gifts us with His ability to receive what we are desiring and believing.  What an awesome God!  He wants us to be able to receive what He has for us more than we want to receive.  He is there cheering us on!

Say this:

I have the measure of the faith of God on the inside of me.

I do not lack faith!

I have faith, the faith of God living in me!

God’s faith in me is causing my faith to become stronger and bolder every day.

God’s faith in me is causing my faith to be built up every day.

I have God’s ability to receive.

He has gifted me with His anointing to receive.

I HAVE FAITH!  I RECEIVE!

I RECEIVE IT!  I HAVE IT!  I TAKE IT!

IT IS MINE NOW!

PROVIDER

“What began as an inspiration, a dream without limitations, has become a reality you’ll never forget.”  I just read this on an email from a cruise line which launched their newest ship.  It struck me that that is the way God is.  He gives us dreams without limitations.  Everything about Him is a reality we will never forget.  He is above and beyond what we can dream or think or imagine possible.  He is The Provider of all providers.

In Genesis 22:14 we see the first time that God revealed Himself as Jehovah-Jireh, our Provider.  We all know the story of Abraham being willing to offer his only son Isaac in response to the Lord’s request.  We know that he was a type of the Father Himself offering His only Son Jesus for us on the altar as our substitute.  God provided the ram for the offering in the place of Isaac.

The word Jehovah-Jireh literally means, The Lord will see.  God sees ahead of time, down the road, what you and I will need for our lives.  Even when it looks like things are really tough and there appears to be no way to take care of a situation, we must remember that God already saw us in that situation and He has a provision made for us.  He is always our answer.  He will always take care of us.  It is our Father’s good pleasure to do things for us.  He delights in giving us His best.

When tough times come, look to Him.  There are no tough times in God’s Kingdom.  There is no such thing.  We get uptight when we depend on our own ideas of provision instead of allowing God the freedom to make provision.  Yield to Him!  Deliberately, by an act of your will, depend on Him, even when you feel like you can’t.  He will even help you to believe and yield to His ability to provide.  Living with Him is living the good life!  Yield!  He will come through for YOU!

HE IS MY PROVIDER!

GOD’S HEALING TOUCH

Have you ever been in a place, or maybe you are there right now, where you needed to know that God was with you in a personal, touchable way?  You know the Word says He is in you and you have accepted it by faith that He is there, but you would like to have some indication He knows what you need.  Oh, come on now, don’t be so pious with me.  We all have needed that, haven’t we?

Today, let’s talk about God’s healing power, His ability to take care of us in any situation.

The 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language defines healing as wholeness, soundness, to return to a sound state, to cure of a disease or wound and restore to soundness, or to that state of body in which the natural functions are regularly performed, to restore to soundness, to cure.

When something is sound or whole, it is in a state where it operates and functions the way it was created to function, without hindrance.  It is complete, with nothing missing that would contribute to that perfect state of operation.

When Adam and Eve sinned, they lost the capacity for their bodies to stay sound, operating in the way that God had created them.  Oh, but Jesus came and He paid the price for a sound physical body once again.  When His blood was shed at that whipping post for our sicknesses and diseases, every stripe represented another category of disease where the body was concerned.  And when He hung on that cross and took upon Himself all of the curse of the law, He took every symptom, pain, sickness and disease that would ever come on us.  He took it all.  Now we are free of the curse of the law.  He became a curse so that the Blessing of Abraham might come on us.  Part of that blessing is health and healing.

So, what are we to do when pain hits our body, when symptoms appear, when sickness attacks?  We take authority over that pain, that symptom, that sickness and command it to leave.  It comes from satan and we refuse to receive any of his package.  He is a liar and a thief and a destroyer and a killer.  We stand our ground.  We refuse to let go of what Jesus has purchased for us.  It is ours.  It legally belongs to us.  He is illegally trespassing on our bodies and he is to leave, to be evicted.  He is not to be allowed to take up residence or even rent a room.  We are the temples of the Holy Ghost.  Jesus has bought and paid for us.  We are not our own.  We are bought with a price.

In Isaiah 53:4,5 and 1 Peter 2:24 we are told that with the stripes that wounded Jesus we are healed and made whole.  In other words, we are restored to health.  We are restored to soundness and wholeness.

I think that is the best news I have ever heard.  Believe what the Word of God says is yours personally.  Trust the Lord to bring to pass in your life personally what His Word says about healing.  Choose to believe that you will be made whole.  Choose to believe that Jesus took care of your own body and freed you from sickness and disease.

We all live on this earth and we all will have to battle symptoms from time to time and pain that attempts to convince us that there is something dreadfully wrong with us.  Just say, NO!  NO, YOU DON’T!  YOU ARE NOT TAKING MY HEALTH FROM ME.  IT BELONGS TO ME!  I HAVE RECEIVED IT AS A GIFT FROM MY FATHER, AND I REFUSE TO GIVE YOU MY GIFT, SATAN.    GIT!!!!!

We have to stand our ground and refuse to give up territory which has been gained.  We stand firm in the face of every contradictory word spoken over us and every report given to us that is contrary to the Word of God.  That is our stand.  So what if the doctor tells you that you are going to die?  So what if the report comes back positive?  Whose report do you believe?  What does the Word have to say about that?  You have Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling in you.  He is the power of God.  He is the life of God.  How can two live in the same space?  Life is living in you and death has no room.

I love Proverbs 12:28 which tells us that in our pathway is life and there is no death.  Take that scripture, believe it, dwell on it until it becomes more real to you than any doctor’s report that is contrary to life and health.  It takes a while to renew our minds, but we can renew our minds to think the way God thinks.  God thinks like this:  LIFE!  HEALTH!  HEALING!  His Word says this:  LIFE!  HEALTH!  HEALING!  And what are we to say then over ourselves?  LIFE!  HEALTH!  HEALING!

Healing is yours.  It is the touch of the Master on your life forever, eternally.  Take it.  It belongs to you.