By: Hanny Lynn Stearns
Fish N
Loaves Ministries, Inc.
“Multiplying
God’s Word Around The Globe”
September 9, 2016
A Testimony
About Working The Word
John
8:36
Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.
We have to work the word, or it is worthless to us no matter
how many verses we can quote from memory. Just this morning I woke up with a
terrible leg cramp. The spasms were so intense I could not stand the pain. I
cried in anguish a couple times and then I started thanking Jesus. I thanked
Him and said “By Your stripes I am healed.” I kept thanking Jesus. After a few
moments of this, the pain subsided. Do you see that I had to stop fighting with
the symptoms and start fighting the good fight of faith in the power of the
name of Jesus?
Recently I have reached new levels of healing with food
issues. I am free. Every day I began to quote verses from the Bible that say “I
am free because the Son has set me free.” I also decree that I will follow my
plan of eating for the day. I finally stopped fighting with the food and
focusing on it. Instead I started working the word of God and it began to work
with me. God’s word works when we work it. It is terrible how long I went
around and around in the ring with food when I could have been living a free
life that Jesus has given me as a born again Christian.
Recently I could see a real shift in my approach to food.
Even yesterday I didn’t even feel like taking the time to mess with lunch, so I
grabbed something easy and less than what I normally have. The Lord spoke to my
heart and told me to never call myself an addict again, and to not even call
myself a former addict. He wants us to disassociate with that title altogether.
From now on all I will say is that I am a healthy person with a healthy
attitude about how I treat my body which is the temple off the Holy Spirit.
Hallelujah!
Today Christians all over the world are crying out to God to
be set free from bondage. But the truth is, we have already been set free. What
we need to do is accept the free gift we have already been given. When David
cried out for a Savior in the Psalm today, Jesus had not yet come. He was used
by Holy Spirit to pen the request in writing of what he wanted to see. Then the
Lord God Almighty brought it to pass one day in a stable for animals in Bethlehem!
Rejoice saints! No gift is any good if it is not used.
The only ones who will get set free from any bondage they are
in are the ones who will believe in God and take Him at His word. Once they do
that, they are home free. Religion tries to tell people all kinds of junk about
what Jesus said and did. That is all coming from the evil spirits. But Jesus
didn’t tell us He gave us all this authority for nothing. He meant what He
said. The problem is that many do not believe it. It is the doers of the word
of God who get results. We have to speak the word over our lives in faith, out
loud. Once we do that we keep thanking the Lord that His word is working in our
lives.
Just last night as I was typing at my computer, one of my
monitors had a black screen. The other two were fine but the third one was
blank. I said out loud, “I wonder why my monitor is not working.” Then I
thought, “Oh well, I will have my husband look at it.” He is the “techy guy”
around here. Later the Lord spoke to my heart. He said, “Don’t ever say
something is not working.” What He wanted me to see was to speak the desired
results over every situation. Jesus spoke to a tree and because He cursed it,
the thing was dead a short while later, leaving His disciples marveling. Holy
Spirit helped me to realize I had said the wrong thing about my monitor.
Today I had another opportunity to speak to something that
was not functioning properly. This time it was the vertical blind in my office
window. So I spoke to it. I said to the blind, “You will work.” That was all I
said. A couple pulls and down she came – working just fine. When God spoke,
things happened. We are created in His image and Jesus came and gave us every
example of how to make things cooperate for us. He didn’t talk just to “chat.”
When He spoke it was to teach or to make something happen. It should be the
same with us.
So many of you can be free right now if you will accept what
Jesus has already done for you. It wasn’t just the cross. That’s where it
started. But it was finished when God raised Him from the dead. He went to hell
for you and me so we wouldn’t have to. He took our infirmities so we could be
well and whole. He came to set the captives free. He came to pull us all out of
bondage. One can only try to imagine how it must break the Lord’s heart to see
all these people of His suffering loss and devastation in their lives because
they do not believe in His word.
So many of His children are in bondage so deep
and don’t realize that they have all the power right there inside of them to
step up and out of it to become free.
A sick woman who could barely speak in a whisper started
saying I am strong. Forty-five minutes later she was sitting up on the death
bed shouting I am strong. Instead of throwing up all her food, she started
confessing that she had a voracious appetite and everything she ate stayed
down. This had been a lady who was a minister and believed in healing. But she
had gotten worn down by the disease and she needed a faith buddy. So our pastor
went to her bedside and together they spoke what the Lord put on his heart to
say. Months later she was all around town preaching and working and had gained
20 pounds! Glory to God!
Friends, if you have been struggling with anything that has
been making you feel trapped, be encouraged. You can talk your way out of your
bondage and step right up into the freedom that Christ died and was raised to
give you. Whatever you have been fighting in the flesh, you can start fighting
in the spirit, by faith in God and His word. Start speaking out loud the
results you expect. If it is a test you will be taking, say something like
this, “I will pass that test with an A+.” If you are addicted to cigarettes,
every time you think about them or pick one up or take a puff, say, “I am
free.” In no time at all you will be free.
Recently I printed a list of several scriptures and I started
saying them out loud over myself every single day. And recently I have had a
major breakthrough with those “once upon a time eating issues.” I am really
free. Glory to God! The same thing can happen to you. Do you want to be free my
friend? You already are! Just say it and believe it. That’s how you got born
again. You had to say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your
heart that God raised Him from the dead. It was a matter of faith and
confession. Remember, Jesus is the High Priest of our confession. Come on now.
Start saying some good things about your life, your family, your health,
finances and your future. Then stand back and watch the miracles happen! You’ll
be shoutin all over town – praise the Lord!
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