Indeed, today is beautiful because every time when we look up to the blue sky, we are reminded of His Grace. For that very same reason, when God instructed Noah to build the ark, He specifically told Noah to have a window at the top of the ark and none at the side. This is because God do not want us to look to the boisterous winds and waves around us, He want us to look up to Him and be reminded that His Grace is sufficient for us in any situation. He does not want us to look around us and be distress, He want us to look up to Him and be at rest. Amen! Hallelujah!
One of the distinct difference between a believer and a non-believer is in the manner of interpreting the word "hope." This hope we have in God is not a worldly hope. The worldly hope is "maybe so", "hope so." The posture of worldly hope is positioned with uncertainty. There is an element of doubt to some extent in them.
The Bible says it's not according to God's will be it done unto us, it's according to our faith be it done unto us (Mat 9:29). We are not saying that life is always filled with a bed of roses when we come to know Christ. But in the midst of our storms, Jesus will give us the peace (not as the world gives do He gives to us John14:27). Jesus said "Be of good cheer, I've conquer the world. " In the world there are troubles, but be of good cheer, be cheerful, Jesus has conquered this world. Amen!
"O curse, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? (1 Cor 15:55)"says the children of Most High God. The ultimate in life is death, yet even when death comes, it is not a defeat for us Christians because to be absence from our bodies is to be presence with our Lord. If death does not frighten us anymore, what can hold us back in life? What would we embark on if we know we cannot fail? If we have a confidence expectations of good?
Therefore, let's not entertain the thought of worries & doubts anymore. For in God's perfect love, there is no fear. Way before a man can sin or perform the act of sin, he first entertain that thought of worries or doubt or fear. Why did Eve eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil? Because the serpent cast doubts in her about God and she entertained that thought. We can never stop birds from flying over our heads, but we can definitely stop them from building nests on our heads. We cannot stop Satan from talking, but we can stop entertaining those thoughts he put in our mind. Amen!
In the second chapter of Genesis, the Bible describes the creation of man: "And the Lord God formed man [from] the dust of the earth, and He blew into his nostrils the breath of life. And man became a living soul." Onkelos, a Aramaic translator/commentator on the Bible, translates the words "And man became a living soul," as "And man became a speaking spirit."When God made man from the dust of the ground, man was lifeless.Then God breath into man. Man became a living soul, in the Aramaic, man become a speaking spirit. What make us different from animals? We speak, the animals don't. What make us in the image of God and set us apart from the rest of God's creation? We speak. Amen!
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Isaiah 55:11 (NKJV)
11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
On the contrary, man has the tendency to speak what he sees and not speak what he wants to see. The mindset is "If I don't see it, I won't say it." When he sees darkness, he has the tendency to say "So dark". When he sees his wound, he tend to say "It's getting worst." Man has fallen in reverse the ways of God. Instead of speaking of what we see, let's learn to speak what we want to see.
2 Cor 4:13 (NKJV)
13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,
Faith is not a formula, faith is a spirit. Faith is not an emotion; it should not be dependent on whether we feel good or not. Faith does not dwell in our souls. No, faith is a spirit. It has nothing to do with how we feel.
After God delivered Israelite from Egypt, in the wilderness, God said to them He had given them the promise land,. When God delivered us out of Egypt (bondage or situation), He does not leave us in the wilderness. He bring us out , so that He can bring us into the land flowing with milk and honey.
But when the Israelite looked around, they saw gaints. They saw the walls of Jerico were thick (enough for chariots). They were already troubled in their mind. They were already defeated mentally. Worst of all, when the ten of their spies came back, they said they cannot take the land, there were gaints. They spoke what they saw.
But, there were two other spies saw the same giants like the other ten, they saw the same walls of Jerico as well and they proclaimed God was well able to bring them into the promise land. Subsequently, they were the only two that made it to the promise land but not the other ten.
But, there were two other spies saw the same giants like the other ten, they saw the same walls of Jerico as well and they proclaimed God was well able to bring them into the promise land. Subsequently, they were the only two that made it to the promise land but not the other ten.
The ten did not include the "but God" factor. Yes, we are not denying there are giants out there and the walls of our troubles are thick but we have God who brought us out of Egypt, He will bring us in to the promise land flowing with milk and honey! We can speak forth what we want to see in the name of Jesus! Amen! Hallelujah!
In Num 14:24, God said "But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it." Caleb was one of the spies who include "but God" factor in his speech. He was confident about God bringing them to their promise land. He had a different spirit.
Faith is spirit and it is contagious, so is unbelieve. When we start talking about the disease and negativity in life, we are accumulating the spirit of fear and doubt, it is contagious too. What we speak is what we get.
In Hebrew, the word "speak" is the word "dabar". Interestingly, in a magic show, we often hear the magician saying "abracadabra" and out of the empty hat, he pulled out a rabbit.
The word "abracadabra" is derived from an Aramaic phrase meaning "I create as I speak." Notice the "dabra" is the same Hebrew word "dabar" and it mean "speak". In the Hebrew language, the phrase "Abracadabra" translates more accurately as "it came to pass as it was spoken." The principle is we create as we speak, just as God called forth His creation through speaking.
Faith is spirit and it is contagious, so is unbelieve. When we start talking about the disease and negativity in life, we are accumulating the spirit of fear and doubt, it is contagious too. What we speak is what we get.
In Hebrew, the word "speak" is the word "dabar". Interestingly, in a magic show, we often hear the magician saying "abracadabra" and out of the empty hat, he pulled out a rabbit.
That is why it is important we do not entertain the thoughts from the devil or the negative thoughts. When we say "I am fat", our mind will register "fat" and the body will retain it. Our minds are activated by the words we speak. When we speak forth "I am fat", we create what we spoke.
Kenneth E Hagin was an influential American Pentecostal preacher. He is often referred to as the "father" (or "granddaddy") of the "Word of Faith" movement.
According to Hagin's testimony, he was sickly as a child, suffering from a deformed heart and what was believed to be an incurable blood disease. He related that he was not expected to live and became bed fast at age 15. In April 1933 during a dramatic conversion experience, he reported dying three times in 10 minutes, each time seeing the horrors of hell and then returning to life. He shares he was raised from his deathbed on August 8, 1934 by "the revelation of faith in God's Word." It was in Mark 11:22-24 he had the revelation. Ever since then, he had preached to thousand of people on this passage:
Mark 11:22-24 (NKJV)
22 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. 23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
One day, after preaching a number of times on this passage, Jesus said to him, that in verse 23, the word "say" is mentioned three times, whereas the word "believe" is only mentioned once. It is therefore important to confess three times more than one believe in his heart.
According to Hagin's testimony, he was sickly as a child, suffering from a deformed heart and what was believed to be an incurable blood disease. He related that he was not expected to live and became bed fast at age 15. In April 1933 during a dramatic conversion experience, he reported dying three times in 10 minutes, each time seeing the horrors of hell and then returning to life. He shares he was raised from his deathbed on August 8, 1934 by "the revelation of faith in God's Word." It was in Mark 11:22-24 he had the revelation. Ever since then, he had preached to thousand of people on this passage:
Mark 11:22-24 (NKJV)
22 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. 23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
One day, after preaching a number of times on this passage, Jesus said to him, that in verse 23, the word "say" is mentioned three times, whereas the word "believe" is only mentioned once. It is therefore important to confess three times more than one believe in his heart.
Many of us are believing the right thing now, but not many of us are saying it. God want us to speak as much as what we believe in His Words. If there's problem in our heart, let's speak faith into it and command all arteries to open and be unblock in Jesus's name, We should then confess that we have the strongest heart in our country. Amen!
Rom 10:8-9
8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”[e] (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Notice the Word (in Greek : rema - specific word for the situation) is first in our mouth,then it drop into our hearts. When we believe in our heart on what Jesus has done for us and we confess that belief, we are made unto salvation (in Greek: soteria - salvation, deliverance, preservation, health, well-being). Amen!
What Jesus came to give us is not just about eternal salvation, it is about the total well-being, soundness and wholeness of our earthly life. When we confess and declare Jesus's victory over Satan at the cross, our whole being will response to what we confess. Our speech should to open the door for Jesus to come into our situation.The Bible says "He is our High Priest, let us hold fast our confessions (Heb 4:14)".
Let us therefore entertain not the lies of the devil, but anchor our souls with hope [joyful and confident expectations of good] and speak forth in boldness not what we see in our lives but what we want to see in our lives! Amen! Hallelujah!
Rom 10:8-9
8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”[e] (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Notice the Word (in Greek : rema - specific word for the situation) is first in our mouth,then it drop into our hearts. When we believe in our heart on what Jesus has done for us and we confess that belief, we are made unto salvation (in Greek: soteria - salvation, deliverance, preservation, health, well-being). Amen!
What Jesus came to give us is not just about eternal salvation, it is about the total well-being, soundness and wholeness of our earthly life. When we confess and declare Jesus's victory over Satan at the cross, our whole being will response to what we confess. Our speech should to open the door for Jesus to come into our situation.The Bible says "He is our High Priest, let us hold fast our confessions (Heb 4:14)".
Let us therefore entertain not the lies of the devil, but anchor our souls with hope [joyful and confident expectations of good] and speak forth in boldness not what we see in our lives but what we want to see in our lives! Amen! Hallelujah!
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