When my husband and I first got married I rode in a semi truck with him while he drove his truck for a living. We lived, and slept in that cab traveling the countryside. During that time I really got to see, up close and personal, what my inner struggles were. These issues I had dealt with my entire life but in my stubbornness I chose not to accept them as truly things that I needed to change or allow God to.
We lived in a semi with a cab measuring approximately 61 inches high by 42 inches deep by 75 inches wide. We traveled the country for anywhere from 2-3 weeks at a time. When I began to really hear how I spoke to my new husband, how it broke his heart it was then that it broke my heart as well. That’s when the Lord spoke to me about getting serious in fighting the battle with my mouth. This really challenged my faith in the Bible and showed me that it truly was my sword I needed to use to cut out of me those unruly thought patterns that led me speak out those nasty words.
God led me to search His Word to find Scriptures that could change my attitudes, words and behaviors. I found verses that literally changed the words coming out of my mouth. It was then God made Himself very real to me and I saw the way to fight any battle in my life and be successful at it was to throw God’s Word at it. It was truly taking God at His Word and applying it like medicine in order to experience healing.
Since then there have been so many opportunities in my life, as well as in my marriage, to apply the Word in medicinal ways and I have been more than a conqueror, not through myself and my strength, but through Christ’s strength.
Take your time today to apply God’s Word to whatever struggles you have and see how He makes a way where there is no way. God is our ever present help in times of trouble (Ps 46:1) “My strength is sufficient for my power is made perfect in your weakness.” (2 Cor 12:9) Experience that in your life so that you can genuinely teach that to someone else.
Today be strong in the Lord and the power of His might. Blessings to you this day in the mighty name of Yeshua My Savior and Lord.
I once fell into the category of failure. I believed that my life was what it was and there was nothing I could do about it. My health was destroying my mind day by day. I would get caught up in thoughts of “what if”? I would imagine if I passed away who my husband might marry instead. I just kept going round and round in a loop with my thoughts. They led me to thoughts of detrimental fears not hope or peace.
And then I got the revelation of who I am in Christ. My healings didn’t happen overnight. As a matter of fact, in my mind and spirit I felt the tug of war taking place within me by demonic powers using recurring seizures to try to steal my mind, my memory, and my peace from me. In that war I was fighting against forces of evil in this dark world, not Epilepsy as my Dr’s kept telling me. I had one Dr in particular tell me I would never be healed from that disease. Instantly I rebuked his words and I stopped seeing him after that.
For a time I sought more Natural Physicians for answers. I was led to undergo Oxygen Therapy for the healing of my brain. I did this on a regular basis at least twice per week for an entire year. I saw a nutritionist there who gave me vitamins to take and suggestions for kinds of foods that may have been linked to the seizures. And then very quickly the nutritionist was gone. At my final appointment for oxygen I experienced a seizure inside the oxygen tunnel during the treatment. I never went back after that. I had spent much time pursuing what I thought may have been the answer. NOTHING WORKED.
Then I began seeking revelation of God even more and I spent lots of time in His Word learning about who I am in Christ and realizing what authority I could walk in if I chose to do so by His grace. I went after healing listening to ministries that taught about this. And basked in these truths.
After confessing the Word over myself for an extended period of time eventually I saw fruit from that. After the first time I experienced healing I laughed out loud and the light finally came on concerning this. I was thinking about how I’d lived under Satan’s hand for so long, many years, and it all was a lie. God exposed him to me. He showed me the power I have to fight even for my physical health and well-being. I had to mature in my understanding of using God’s Word so I just continued to seek more of God regularly by FAITH.
He is my answer. God is faithful to do according to what His Word says He will do and it may not look like how others think it should but God’s Word is clear. That He has good plans for me . Plans to prosper me not to harm me. Plans to give me a hope and a future.
While I was waging war with that battle in my body I changed fellowship, I renewed my mind with God’s Word, I did what the Holy Spirit led me to and now I walk in freedom.
The Word of God is planted in me and now I understand more. I am not satisfied but I have grown tremendously because of that battle and I continue to draw on the grace of God to teach me. I imagine good things for myself not bad. I have dreams and aspirations to fulfill in my lifetime. I have a great desire to help people who are stuck. Not for any other reason except that I was there and I found THE ANSWER.
I pray that if you’re reading this you aren’t turned off or fall into the lies of the enemy and resist the truth. Greater is He that is in the believer than He that is in the world. Go after what Christ died for you to have before it’s too late.
My posts when I’m scripting them in my mind, usually begin with a thought and then I have a going back and forth with my thoughts and connections I make; it’s like I’m writing the posts internally before I get them down on paper. Sometimes I hear them, sometimes I jot little notes down for later or other times I let them go and dismiss them. Today I grabbed a hold of the thoughts and began meditating upon them and this is what came forth:
Comparing yourself to someone else isn’t usually healthy or helpful. However, when you’re a believer in Christ, this can be a useful gauge to track the progression of your faith; using other fellow believers in Christ in your vacinity. If we are to sharpen one another as the Bible says, how is this possible if your brother or sister is struggling with either the same things you are or they’re living in a state of defeat; being overcome with wrong thoughts, wrong actions, and wrong circumstances?
It’s true to say that if someone remains in the same spot for long enough, it can be relatively easy to fall into the trap that there becomes no need, no urge, no push to get out of the pit and if that’s us we need to recognize that. If someone is in the same boat as everyone else in their sphere of influence, it could be said that there may be something wrong, not just physically but spiritually. It may be happening in fellowshipping with the wrong people or listening to wrong teaching or not listening to the right teaching.
If there’s not a check in your spirit and you’ve remained in the same spot for many years, that’s a good sign you’re living comfortably. I believe this is the number one enemy of our success in Christ. I’ve heard it said that the place you can find the most people with the most potential is in a graveyard.
Now, I realize that we as believers become a family with church members or friends, so some choose to remain in the same place for fear of change. But what if you stepped out in faith and started following God’s leading to be an overcomer through Christ? What if you were challenged and strengthened in a new atmosphere with new people who are further along in their faith walks, so you could become a tool, a special utensil for honorable use?
You don’t want to sit idle and waste your life floundering around in the dark, especially if as a believer you have the Spirit of God living in you. You are to be enlightening and rejoicing the hearts of others because of the light you carry within you.
I took a step back a little over a year ago as I was pursuing healing, health, and wholeness in my brain physically, in my heart spiritually, in my soul emotionally and seeking change in my life overall. I had to question a lack in my own life. I have served the Lord for many years on my own in public as well as in the church. Where I was residing, I had not been serving in the church and I got comfortable there. There was no need. No growth, just comfort.
However, I had felt a pull for a long time to teach people how to grasp freedom in Christ, using His Word as their Source through meditating upon it. I really didn’t know how I was to do that. I knew what I had experienced without truly understanding it or even how to explain it. I almost stepped into starting a ministry in my own power but in the end I backed away from that. I sensed it the wasn’t the time.
My family relocated into a different church. I couldn’t explain it to the leadership of the prior church but somehow, I got confirmation and the Holy Spirit led us to go where we were supposed to be fellowshipping. I can say, in this amount of time I have noticed a substantial change in myself, my thoughts and my words; as well as in my husband. Like many, we don’t depend upon our church to be the only spiritual food we receive throughout the week. We both have plugged into some great teachers and spiritual mentors to help us along in our journey’s. I really feel like something is ahead and I’m praying Scriptures regarding this in faith for both of us.
I guess the point I wanted to get across to my reader is just to encourage you that if you’re comfortable but not growing or being challenged in your faith where you are, you may want to consider if you’re in need of a change. In the Bible there were followers of God who stepped out and attempted impossible situations, and did amazing acts, as they were led to by the Spirit of God to move locations; even packing everything they owned and moving into new countries. Often times these people were loners or steppedout of the normal temple crowd or churchy flow in order to bow the knee, spend time with the Lord getting to know Him personally, or getting refreshment from His Spirit to prepare them for His call.
Just really pray on this and listen for answers. Write your thoughts down. God is always speaking to us, but we aren’t always aware. Get alone, take time away from life in the fast lane and enjoy growth and prosperity in your relationship with the Lord. As the Word of God says, those who humble themselves will be exalted.
Man I lived in the state of sickness and hardship for like 17 years of my life before I got the real revelation of the Power of God’s Word and experiencing it in my life at a greater capacity. I had no idea that my brain was not too hard for God to touch. Even if what I experienced was because of my sin; because the grace of God was, is and will always be enough. When I plugged into God as if He was my ONLY hope, when I took Him at His Word He blew my mind! He became my HEALER, my DEFENDER, my unfailing HOPE, my REDEEMER, my SAVIOR, my EVER PRESENT HELP… It wasn’t until I had grasped at building my FAITH in HIM that this came to pass. It took my time and energy, my devotion and reliance upon only Him to see HIS PROMISES established and fulfilled in my life. It wasn’t a waste of time but worth every second, every minute, every day, every year; it was worth every tear I shed in hopelesness. HE showed Himself to me and that I was not to forget those benefits available to me when I became His child. Something that I felt like God reminded me of was when I had a friend that I told all of my junk to she spoke out a verse from Proverbs: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat their fruit.” When she said that I didn’t get offended. I took it to heart and began searching for truth based upon THE WORD OF GOD. It set my feet upon the Rock of Christ Jesus.
Start wielding your Sword daily. If you’re a believer the only weapon are supposed to be using is God’s Word. This is for everyday life, for whatever comes at us; but also to keep us up and floating above things not below them. Ephesians 6 calls the Bible the Sword of the Spirit. This tool in the original language comes from a root meaning fighting, or striving. This is not a passive thing. I believe that this is not taught well in the church. Lots of believers walk around in defeat because they don’t know what their weapon is to use against the enemy and his tactics.
I am very passionate about this. I want to encourage you that if you aren’t in the Bible every day you need to be and not just mentally reading. Reading asking the Holy Spirit to speak to you and to help you understand. Then take that Word to speak to your mountains with. We’re supposed to be overcomers in every situation not being overcome by evil. And if you’re not it’s not God’s fault or your pastors fault; it’s your fault.
You need to see yourself as God has portrayed you in the Bible to be. Speak out God’s Word, pray it out loud until you get that picture in your mind and you become what Christ died for you to be.
A verse I’ve turned around recently to speak forth over myself in first person point of view and may be one you should also comes from 2 Tim 2:21: “If you keep yourself pure you will be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work”.
See your life as something better than it is. Lift up your eyes. Get your hopes up. Fix your focus on Jesus and see what happens to your life.
I don’t want to be identified as a person who lives in despair or poverty or sickness or even as a survivor of these things. I will however share things about trials I have faced when I’m led to; though they are not who I am anymore. For many years, I lived my life at the bottom; taking pity from anyone because of where I was, instead of rising above my circumstances.
As a believer my identity is supposed to be in Christ. Jesus boldly confessed HIS identity and purposes throughout the Gospels and NOT his enemies. Therefore, I should not give any glory or even any attention to sickness or tribulations or trials. I am to shift my attention from them to who my identity in Christ is and His purposes for me; using the Sword of the Spirit. When I do this my faith rises and I overcome. I don’t live expecting bad things to happen or anticipate them happening. Therefore, because of the shift in my thought life I do not experience half of the battles I used to.
We are to use all things we’ve overcome as pads to launch us further into greater things; enlightening the eyes of our hearts in the riches available to us in Christ Jesus (Eph 1).
The Bible says we are to keep our eyes fixed on Him not on the devil or his tactics. There’s a miracle in our mouths and minds. Death and life are in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21).
I challenge you to test this in your own life. I can tell you that I began noticing that when I changed what was coming out of my mouth from the cares and worries of my life to the expectations of the Promises of God being fulfilled that my life radically changed.
2 Cor 13:5 says examine yourself to see if you’re in the faith. Build yourself up in your most holy faith; not the enemy.
Think about this: If you’re in the same boat as other people around you, there’s a good chance you’re in the same the boat battling just as they are too. Get out of the boat and walk on water just like Jesus. He’s our example we’re to follow.
I am glad that no one pitied me when I was lagging behind because of my lifestyle choices. More than twenty years ago as my brain healing occurred over a period of years, with lots of tears and angst, I was pushed by family to keep going. No one in my circle felt sorry for me but they just kept pushing me to keep moving forward. It was not easy. NO, IT WAS NOT.
Even after that time when my brain would lapse in memory, I’d experience fogginess that I couldn’t escape. I did have seizures at different times both day and night for many years but I was encouraged to keep pushing forward.
When I was sick of being sick the Holy Spirit gave me revelation knowledge of what rightfully belonged to me, despite my previously bad decisions that led me to where I was. He said in John 19:30, the debt was paid in full. He helped me to see that God is a restorer of the breach (Is 58:12). And that it was His will to heal me (Is 53). That He does not steal, kill or destroy but gives life and life abundantly (John 10:10).
I certainly don’t know what my life would look like today had I not come to understand what is mine in the Spiritual realm through Christ Jesus. The enemy tried to squash me way too many times; physically, mentally, emotionally and Spiritually. I experienced near-death experiences in my waking after seizures, or after taking bad seizure medication that my Doctor prescribed. God always spared my life and helped me to pull through as I knew there was still more for me to accomplish here on earth with His help. And pushing through with the help of the Holy Spirit I got up in faith and pressed through. Using God’s Word I strengthened myself mentally, physically, emotionally and most importantly Spiritually. I became the new creation He was crafting me to be.
I know who I’m not in my strength but I also know who I am in Christ. His strength is made perfect in my weakness and His grace sufficient for each day (2Cor 12:9). His mercies are new every morning and He is FAITHFUL to the end; His love is unending, and immeasurable (Lam 3:22-24, Eph 3:19).
A Life Redone 