5:18am Fighting
Fighting for freedom. Fighting for our rights. Fighting for what is ours. Even in spiritual matters we see fighting (or contending). Fighting for justice. Fighting against spiritual wickedness in high places. Fighting (like Jesus) the enemy with the words (His sword and His words) that comes from our mouth. Even the Lord’s very name used the most in scripture is “the Lord of angel armies” or “the Lord of hosts”. Since we serve THE God of angel armies we should do like Paul encouraged us and as a faithful soldier not entangle ourselves with certain matters.
For example why should we worry and fight about what is “ours”? Have we as a faithful soldier not already given everything to Him? If we have then; is it really ours to fight over? But, conversely should we not engage the enemy (us being soldiers) over things our Master has bled and once died for??!!
Why does the enemy engage in deception or twisting of the truth anyhow? Since it doesn’t really matter (we say) how we feel (what we believe) about whatever subject is being twisted. Do we have to be “right” about everything and have “it” altogether (whatever “it” is) before God can use us in an area? NO! GOD FORBID! Then nothing for sure would get done in advancing HIS Kingdom. But, the enemy is not totally stupid. he knows that if he can twist certain aspects of THE truth that we will NEVER arrive at that truth. Unless we repent and change our agreement with darkness and the twisting of truth.
How better to keep people from being healed than to twist the truth of it until people can no longer find what God FREELY has made provision for!
Healing by process…part 2
God doesn’t want us to remain in a twisted condition. Physically or spiritually or in any way! Yes, He has used people with messed up theology, messed up personal, or business lives to heal others! So should we just stay or is it okay to stay messed up in our thinking then?
Does God not want us to think rightly about Him and His ways?
Does not the enemy seek to pervert our views about God and His ways?
Even to the point of how we view ourselves?
If we are to walk in the “right paths” can we do it with messed up gps coordinates in our head about God? Won’t those messed up coordinates eventually lead us off of the path of everlasting life, when we follow them?
Process is : “a series of steps or actions taken in order to get to a particular end.”
A checklist; if you will. God doesn’t want us going down a checklist in order for someone to receive healing. We would surely mess it up then. Like the children of Israel taking the 10 commandments and turning them into the 613 “fence” laws to supposedly keep people from even coming close to sinning. So Jesus whittled it down to two. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and strength. And love your neighbor as yourself.” Yet, they still choked on that!
What I was trying to say is that there maybe a required action (OBEDIENCE) (there definitely & most assuredly will be OBEDIENCE!) by the one receiving healing and/or the vessel through which healing comes. But, every leperous person was not healed in the same manner or “process” if you will. Naaman had to dip 7 times in the Jordan (I’m sure other people after Naaman was healed tried the same process, of dipping in the Jordan; without being healed).
Jesus just as easily could have said to the 10 lepers (in Luke 17:11-19) “go dip 7 times in the Jordan River”.
He would have even had “scripture” for it. And the ones hearing it (the 10) surely would have known the story of Naaman. So their faith would have been greatly increased! With great gladness they would have said “We will be like Naaman, our skin will become like a baby’s again!” And they might have also been able to say to Jesus before they went to dip themselves in the Jordan
“Thank you Master, for now we know you are who you say you are because you are telling us the way to scripturaly be healed of leperousy.”
But, Jesus went seemingly out of His way to NOT heal as Elisha had done. Why? Because He desires/wants obedience! Not religious & witchy formulas! Only Love FROM Him and obedience OF Him. It’s the only way!
And as for it taking time …we see in one of the most remote references such as:
2 Kings 20:7 NLT Then Isaiah said, “Make an ointment from figs.” So Hezekiah’s servants spread the ointment over the boil, and Hezekiah recovered!
We don’t know nor does it matter how long it took Hezekiah to recover. I see nowhere in the scriptures where we are supposed to relent and say “Well, I guess it’s just going to take some time…time heals all.”
NO JESUS HEALS ALL!….
Even those that are sick and oppressed of the devil!
Does the “it takes place over time” mantra cause us to press in more; or to slowly but surely let our passion for that person/area/situation fade further and further away? That’s why we don’t see in scripture; that it took someone 3 minutes, 4 hours, 6 months, or 7 years (or any particular/specific time frame) to be healed by God. Because then we might be tempted to say
“Oh well, it wasn’t 3 minutes. I guess I’ll wait til 4 hours. Oh well 6 months isn’t that long to wait”.
God creates! the hater of our soul waits!
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Eric
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Don’t let the devil turn your know of Jesus into a no to Jesus! To say no to further messages from this vessel reply “stop”
To contribute to the work and to enable us to expand our vision…we say thanks, in advance! (an opportunity; not a burden)
September 10th, 2016 by Eric