Are You Ready To Argue?

The good fight of faith is an argument between God's Truth (His Word) and any other words spoken in opposition to that Truth. God's Word says in 1 Peter 2:24 that by His (Jesus') stripes you WERE healed. The doctor's report says you are sick. The doctor's report argues against God's report (Isa 53:1). Who will believe God's report over the doctor's report? The one that does receives his healing, the one that doesn't receives what the doctor's report says.

2 Cor 10:3-5 says that we (the Believer) are to cast down arguments (imaginations) that oppose the Word of Truth. This is how you fight the good fight of faith ( 1 Tim 6:12) by casting down arguments. Why is it called a good fight? Because the battle is not mine, but the Lord's (2 Chor 20:15). God uses me to take Him into the battle, but it is His fight. The victory has already been determined. It's a good fight because we win!

This is how you live by faith in the Kingdom of God. Jesus said that we (Believer's) are in the world but not of the world (John 17:14-18). Believers don't live like those in the world live. Believers live by faith in what God says, not by what those in the world say. When someone speaks the World's words to a Believer, the Believer casts them down by exalting the Word of God over it. The Believer wins every argument against those in the World if the Believer will hold fast to the Word of Truth.

The Believer will have to argue with those in the World, but God declared us Believers the winner every time for the Holy Spirit says in Rom 8:37, that we Believers are more than conquerors through Him (Jesus) who loved us.

Now let me say this in closing. Your argument is not with the Doctor who gives you his report. Your argument is with the devil when he tries to use the doctor's report to defeat your faith in God's Word. Jesus is the Truth and the devil is a liar, so just by knowing this, it's not really a fair fight at all. The devil is a loser and he knows it, he just hopes that you don't.

Be Blessed!!!

Are You Still Trying To Get Something From God?

Are you still trying to get healed? If you are then you don't believe that you are healed (1 Peter 2:24). If you are still trying to get, then you don't believe that you have. If you are striving for it you don't believe that you have it and you are still working to get it. If you believed that you had it (that you were healed) you would be resting in your faith rather than trying to obtain it (Heb 4:3).

The reason you are still striving to get healed is because you are looking at the wrong thing. When you look at the symptoms on or in your body, it will tell you that you are sick. If that is what you believe then you will continue to strive after healing. But if you will do what God says to do and that is to look at His Word (Prov 4:20-22)) and not at your body (Rom 4:19) , then that Word (Jesus is the Word made flesh) will tell you that "by His stripes you WERE healed", and if you believe that, then you'll no longer strive after healing, for you already have it.

Hebrews 11:1 says, "NOW faith is...........", faith is always right now. Whatever faith is believing, it believes it has it right now. So if you believe what God says over what your body is telling you, you will enter into the rest of God (Heb 3 & 4) and you'll no longer be going after something you already have, and when you are resting in the Promise of God, this is when the Word of God does it's greatest work, and you will then see the manifestation of what you have been believing for.

If you are resting in God, you know that you are in faith. If you are anxious and fretting, and still trying to get, you are in fear and fear does not receive anything from God but rather keeps you from it.

If you've never experienced peace in the middle of the storm (of life), you've never experienced the genuine place of faith. God has enabled His man to be at rest in the middle of the mess, if that man will do what God says rather then what the circumstances are saying.

What you listen to is a matter of life or death, peace or anxiety. God said His Word did not prosper His people because they did not mix faith with what they heard (Heb 4:2). What are you mixing with God's Word today? Faith or Fear? Jesus has one thing to say to you today, "according to YOUR faith, be it done unto you!" ( Matt 9:29)

Simply, whatever you believe in your heart and say with your mouth, that is exactly what you will have. I pray that God's Word abides in your heart and it's coming out of your mouth, for if it is, you are resting (in God) and not striving after something and this is the place God desires you to be. God says, "be still and know that I am God" (Ps 46:10). Be still and rest and let God be God in your life.

Here is my closing thought that I have taken from a man of faith that God used mightily upon this earth, his name is Smith Wigglesworth, and he said; "You will be strong if you believe this truth: faith is the victory--always!!!!!..........Glory to Jesus"

And with that I say, "Yes and Amen!!"...............Be Blessed!!