A
Testimony About Applying God’s Word by Faith
John 8:36
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye
shall be free indeed.
My Experience, Strength & Hope
If we are going to succeed in this life as a Christian, we have to
be doers of God’s word by faith, or it is worthless to us no matter how many
verses we can quote from memory. The morning I wrote this, 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?
During this time in my journey I was reaching new levels of
healing with food issues. I knew that I was free – once and for all. 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
speaking the word of God out loud in faith and it began to work for me. God’s
word works when we think it, say it and believe it. Now it seems such a waste
of my precious time with the Lord having gone around and around in the ring
with food when I could have been living the free life that Jesus has given me
as a born-again Christian.
At that time, I could see a real shift in my approach to food. The
day before I wrote this, I didn’t 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. We are what we
see ourselves as in our hearts. He said to stop calling 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 of Holy Spirit. Hallelujah! I will say that
by Jesus’ stripes, I am healed.
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. All we
need to do is accept the free gift we have already been given. When David cried
out for a Savior in Psalm 53:6 for example, 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 received!
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 one – the father of
lies. 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.
The night before I wrote this as I was typing at my computer, one
of my monitors had a blank 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.
The next day I had yet 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 us can be free right now if we will accept what Jesus
has already done for us. It wasn’t just the cross. That’s where it started. The
cross was just a place to go to die. The cross didn’t do anything for us in and
of itself! But it was finished when God raised Jesus 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 so the Father
could 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. 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 and become free.
There was a sick woman who could barely speak in a whisper. She
was dying of cancer. She was instructed by her pastor friend to start 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 the pastor
went to her bedside and together they spoke what the Lord put on his heart to
have her say. Months later she was all around town preaching and working and
had gained 20 pounds! Glory to God!
Friend, 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 wrestling
against in the spirit, by faith in God – His Spirit and His word.
You can start speaking out loud the results you would like to see
come to pass in your life. For example, if it is a test you will be taking, you
can 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 and take
a puff, you can say, “I am free.” In no time at all you will be free.
I printed a list of several scriptures and I started saying them
out loud over myself every single day. This gave me 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? Guess what -
you already are! Just say it and believe it. Take it by faith – freedom and
victory is yours for the taking.
After all, 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. You can start saying some good things
about your life, your family, health, finances and your future. Then stand back
and watch the miracles happen! You’ll be shoutin all over town – praise the
Lord! This will bring Him glory and help you to step into the destiny He has
had planned for you all along. Hallelujah!
Scriptures from This Message…
Hebrews 4:12
For the
word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and
marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Philippians 2:9-11
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and
given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the
earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father.
Job 22:28
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee:
and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
2 Corinthians 4:13
We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I
believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak.
James
1:22
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own
selves.
Matthew 21:18-22
Now in the morning as he returned into the
city, he hungered. And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and
found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee
henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled,
saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!
Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have
faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree,
but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast
into the sea; it shall be done. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in
prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
James
3:3-4
Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that
they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. Behold also the ships,
which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they
turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
John 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words
that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Psalm
119:130
The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the
simple.
John 8:31-32
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on
him, If ye
continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the
truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Hebrews 3:1
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the
heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession,
Christ Jesus.
Seeing then that we have a great high priest,
that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our
profession.
1 Corinthians 15:57
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Things You Can Choose to Say Starting Right Now:
· As you think about what we have
learned in this message, will you start to change your confession right away?
Will you begin to make your own
confession list from God’s word that can change the course of your life? Look
at what James said about turning the ship wherever the pilot desires. What will
you start to say to turn your life in the direction you want to see it go?
· Will you study the word of God and
seek Him through prayer to find out what He wants for you in this life?
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Be blessed!
Hanny
Hanny
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