Spend time with the Father and grow up in Him.Walk by faith, depending on Him to perform His Word.It's our privilege to walk by faith.
Colossians 2:"6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving."
God won't force His truth on us. But if we're willing to learn, He will show us how to rightly divide His Word.2 Timothy 2:15 " Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
When we start to hear and apply the truth of God's Word, it will change our lives.We start receiving answers to our prayers according to our own faith.
After we've had time to grow spiritually, God usually doesn't move on our behalf with sovereign miracles or manifestations of the Holy Spirit that requires no faith on our part.He holds us responsible to learn how to believe His Word. He expects us to switch over from the natural realm and begin operating in the faith realm.
Our God is our healer, and He has magnified [made greater] His Word above His own [holy] name.So according to His Word, we believe healing is ours!
By the order of His own Word, God is a merciful, loving Father who has only good gifts to give.James 1:17 "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
God is saying He can sovereignly manifest anything promised in His Word through signs, wonders, miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit, but He can't sovereignly steal, kill, and destroy.That's the work of the Devil, John 10:10.
God is the sovereign God of the universe, but He has elevated His Word above His name.He has limited Himself to His Word.
People have said, "I know what His Word says, but God is still God and He can do anything He wants."Yes, He could but He won't! He has bound Himself to His own Words.
Some think God is sovereign, so He can make people sick if He wants and heal them if He wants.But God gave us His Word, which says He is our healer and promises He would never go outside its boundaries.
Psalm 138:2 "I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name."
Everything our Father God has is ours.He has everything we could ever need.So we are to receive what He has now in Jesus' name.
We must find out in the Word of God what belongs to us, then we are to take hold of it by faith.Everything He has is ours, it belongs to us!
So often we've wanted God to do something special just for us.But He expects more out of us as His children.He didn't say, "the just shall live by the sovereignty of God".He said, "The just shall live by faith" Romans 1:17.
"All that I have is tine." This is what God says to His children. Often believers ask God why He doesn't work a miracle for them, but He says "Child, you are with Me. Everything I have is yours."Healing is ours. We are not to wait for him to sovereignly do something for us.We can come and get it any time we want and receive it by faith!
Because we are children of God, everything He has is ours.Healing is ours and by faith we can accept it any time.
We are grateful when God performs sovereign miracles in our lives, but we can also depend on Him to perform His Word as we walk by faith.
God performs miracles in two different ways:By sovereignly initiating a miracle at His own will, ORinitiating a miracle at our will in response to our faith.
Some times God moves in miraculous or unusual ways, but we don't have to wait for that to happen.We can go to Him any time and receive by faith whatever He's promised in His Word.
God left Himself room to sovereignly intervene in a person's life, like He did with Saul.We may wonder why He intervened with Saul. We don't know why but it was good that He did because Saul became Paul who wrote half of the New Testament.
God is the sovereign Creator of the universe, He's the God of heaven and earth.He can work miracles within the boundaries of His Word any time and any where.Just think of our own lives when He has given us something we haven't believed for.Most of us wouldn't be alive this long if He hadn't sovereignly done some things for us along the way.
When God's Word is firmly lodged down in our hearts, we can enter into rest.God's Word is greater inside us than what we see with our natural eyes.Then it is so good to be healed!
Hearing produces faith;
faith produces rest and
the rest of faith produces results!
We are to say what God says about us!"I know I'm healed because the Bible says so. God says healing is mine and I have whatever God says!"
To produce faith we need to: listen to good teachings on healing,
read good books on healing,
speak the verses on healing, and act like we are healed,
ALL until faith is strong enough to produce the manifestation of healing.
Belief produces rest and what we hear determines what we believe.If we see we haven't entered into the rest of faith, we are not suppose to waste our time feeling condemned, discouraged or upset about it; we are to realize our belief isn't strong enough yet to produce rest.What do we do? Go to God's Word!
"For only we who believe God can enter into his place of rest."Hebrews 4:3 TLBWhen we are in a difficult situation and we need a miracle, we must locate what we believe.Do we believe what God's Word says or what people or circumstances say?
When we need healing in our body, we must put our faith in God and His Word and enter into rest.We enter into rest by believing God's Word.We are confident we are healed; for we know our God has already won our victory.
"Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." Hebrews 4:1,2
Hebrews 4:3 talks about the rest of faith, "For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, . . ."God isn't talking here about physical or mental rest.Even when our minds give us fits, a quiet peace is deep down inside.
Everything is looking bad; it sounds and feels bad.There seems to be no way out. But for some reason we can't work up worry.People may ask why. We just walk around grinning; everything will be all right!How do we know? We just know!That's called 'the rest of faith'!
