Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: for He maketh sore, and bindeth up: He woundeth, and His mands make whole. He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. (Job 5:17-19)
Listen for God’s hammering in the spirit. It appears that He is not there, but He is.
Perhaps you’ve said, “Where is the move of God that I used to experience? Why am I going through these fiery trials?” God is there with you even now. He is operating in a different realm.
I know so well how hard it is to trust Him when you can’t trace Him! But that’s exactly what He wants you to do—He wants you to trust Him. It may seem that everybody is passing you right now. Avoid measuring yourself against other people. God knows when the time is right. His methods may seem crude and His teachings laborious, but His results will be simply breathtaking. Without scams and games, without trickery or politics, God will accomplish a supernatural miracle because you trusted Him while He worked in the invisible realm.
I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 1:4)
And when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And He laid His hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God…. And when He had said these things, all His adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by Him. (Luke 13:12-13, 17)
Praise is contagious. Those who saw Jesus heal the infirm woman were caught up in praise as well. The Church also must join in praise when the broken are healed. Those who missed the great blessing that day were those who decided to argue about religion.
Christ unleashed power in the infirm woman that day. He healed her body and gave her the strength of character to keep a proper attitude. The woman who is broken today will find power unleashed within her too, when she responds to the call and brings her wounds to the Great Physician.
But now, O Lord, Thou art our father; we are the clay, and Thou our potter; and we all are the work of Thy hand. (Isaiah 64:8)
Where is the God who sent an earthquake into the valley of dry bones and put them together? (See Ezekiel 37.) Or where is the God of the clay, who remolds the broken places and mends the jagged edge? (See Isaiah 64:8.) The God we seek is never far away. The issue is not so much His presence as it is my perception. Many times deliverance doesn’t cost God one action. Deliverance comes when my mind accepts His timing and purpose in my life.
In my hours of crisis, many times I found myself searching for the place of rest rather than for the answer. If I can find God, my needs become insignificant in the light of His presence. What is a problem if God is there? Do you realize the power of God’s presence? I hear many people speak about the acts of God, but have you ever considered the mere presence of God?
He doesn’t have to do anything but be there, and it is over!
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou comest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. (Jeremiah 1:5)
Salvation as it relates to destiny is the God-given power to become what God has eternally decreed you were before the foundation of the world. Grace is God’s divine enablement to accomplish predestined purpose. When the Lord told Paul, “My grace is sufficient for thee…” (2 Cor. 12:9), His power was not intimidated by Paul’s circumstances.
You are empowered by God to accomplish goals that transcend human limitations! It is important that each person God uses realizes that they are able to accomplish what others cannot only because God gives them the grace to do so. Problems are not really problems to a person who has the grace to serve in a particular area.
The excellency of our gifts is of God and not of us. He doesn’t need nearly as much of our contribution as we think He does. So it is God who works out our internal destinies. He gives us the power to become who we are eternally and internally.
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:4-5 NKJV)
God has given you power over the enemy! He has given you the power to abort the seeds of failure. Pull down those things that have taken a strong hold in your life. If you don’t pull them down, they will refuse to relinquish their grip. It will take an act of your will and God’s power to stop the spiritual unborn from manifesting in your life. God will not do it without you—but He will do it through you.
The greatest freedom you have is the freedom to change your mind. Repentance is when the mind decides to overthrow the government that controlled it in the past. As long as these other things reign in your life, they are sitting on the throne. If they are on the throne, then Christ is on the Cross. Put Christ on the throne and your past on the Cross.
…If there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. (Philippians 4:8)
In this verse to the Philippians, Paul teaches thought modification. He taught that if we exercise the discipline of thought modification, we can produce internal or intrinsic excellence. The phrase, “if there be any virtue,” suggest that if there is to be any intrinsic excellence, we must modify our thoughts to think on the things he mentioned first.
The term virtue refers to intrinsic excellence. That means people who are filled with excellence achieve that excellence by the thoughts they have about themselves and about the world around them.
Thoughts are powerful. They feed the seeds of greatness that are in the womb of our minds. They also can nurse the negative insecurities that limit us and exempt us from greatness, “for as he thinketh in his heart, so is he …” (Prov. 23:7)
There is a virtue that comes from tranquil, peaceful thoughts that build positive character in the heart. As a rule, people who are cynical and vicious tend to be unsuccessful. If they are successful, they don’t really feel their success because their cynicism robs them them the sweet taste of reward.
For His anger endureth but a moment; in His favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. (Psalms 30:5)
David said that if we could hold out, joy comes in the morning. The bad news is, everybody has a bad night at one time or another. The good news is there will be a morning after. Allow the joy of the morning light to push away any unwanted patterns, curses, or fears that stop you from achieving your goal.
So let the hungry mouth of failure’s offspring meet the dry beast of a Christian who has determined to overcome the past. In order for these embryos of destruction to survive, they must be fed. They feed on the fears and insecurities of people who haven’t declared their liberty.
Once you realize that you are the source from which it draws its milk, you regain control. Feed what you want to live and starve what you want to die! Why not think positively until every negative thing that is a result of dead issues turns blue and releases its grip on your home and your destiny? It’s your mind.
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints. (Ephesians 1:18)
You want the inheritance of your earthly father to pass on to you. So, why should you sit there and be in need when your heavenly Father has left you everything? Your Father is rich, and He left everything to you. However, you will not get your inheritance until you ask for it. Demand what your Father left you. That degree, that promotion, that financial breakthrough has your name on it!
The power to get wealth is in your tongue. You shall have whatever you say. If you keep sitting around murmuring, groaning, and complaining, you use your tongue against yourself. Open your mouth and speak something good about yourself. Speak deliverance and power. You are not defeated.
When you start speaking correctly, God will give you what you say. Say what you want. God willed you something. Your Father left you an inheritance!
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. (Psalms 27:1-2)
Sometimes pain can become too familiar. Ungodly relationship often become familiar. Change doesn’t come easily. Habits and patterns are hard to break. Sometimes we maintain relationships because we fear change. However, when we see our value the way Jesus sees us, we muster the courage to break away.
He will defend you before your critics. Now is the time for you to focus on receiving the miraculous and getting the water that you could not get before. He is loosing you to water. You haven’t been drinking for years, but now you can get a drink. With Jesus, you can do it.
Some of you have been a pack horse for many years. People have dumped on you. You’ve never been allowed to develop without stress and weights, not just because of the circumstances, but because of how deeply things affect you.
For he hath regarded the low estate of His handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. (Luke 1:48)
I believe it is important that women get healed and released in their spirits. I believe God will move freshly in the lives of women in an even greater way.
God knows how to take a mess and turn it into a miracle. If you’re in a mess, don’t be too upset about it, because God specializes in fixing messes. God is saying some definite things about women being set free and delivered to fulfill their purpose in the Kingdom.
When the Lord gets through working on you, all your adversaries will be ashamed. The people who contributed to your sense of low self-esteem will be ashamed when God gets through unleashing you. You won’t have to prove anything. God will prove it. He will do it in your life. When He gets through showing that you’ve done the right thing and come to the right place, they will drop their heads and be ashamed.
If you have a past that torments you, Jesus can set you free. He will unleash your potential.
