Wednesday, May 22, 2013

God's Word In Your Mouth Is Your Salvation

God's word in your mouth is your salvation.  His word in your mouth and spoken out properly will produce your salvation.  The word says the word of God is powerful(Hebrews 4:12), but for it to be powerful on your behalf it has to come out of your mouth.  Romans 1:16 says, For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ:  for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.  Notice, it's the power of God unto salvation.  That word salvation is translated heal, preserve, save, make well, deliver, rescue.  So, the word of God is the power of God unto all of those things, but to him that believeth.  Well, according to 2Corinthians 4:13 when you believe you speak.  That agrees with Romans 10:10 with your heart you believe and with the mouth you speak.  And that combination brings salvation into your life. 

That's why Paul says in Romans 10:6-8, you don't have to call Jesus back, but the word is nigh you even in your mouth and in your heart.  Notice, it has to be in both places.  A lot of people have no problem believing the word has to be in your heart, but they have a problem believing that it has to be in your mouth.  But, the Bible has a lot to say about the word being in your mouth and what it will do.  Like Proverbs 12:6, the mouth of the upright will deliver them.  And the 18th verse of that same chapter says, but the tongue of the wise is health(healing).  Proverbs has a lot to say about the words of your mouth like Proverbs 14:3, the lips of the wise shall preserve them.  Now we know when the Bible speaks of the mouth, lips, or tongue it is referring to your words.  And what better words are there to use than God's words.  Because it is He that creates the fruit of your lips (Isaiah 57:19). 

Friday, May 17, 2013

Healing Belongs To You

There has been some misunderstandings about God and healing that needs to be cleared up.  Some people think that God puts sickness on people to teach them something, that is not true.  The scripture says that Jesus came to undo the works of the devil (1John 3:8).  What is one work of the devil, let's look at Acts 10:38, How God anointed Jesus of Nazereth with the Holy Ghost and power:  who went about doing good, and healing all that was oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.  So, sickness is not of God it is from the devil, and God sees healing a good.  God anointed Jesus for the purpose of healing.  Some people think healing is not important to God, but according to the scripture healing is very important to God.  And since he doesn't change it is still important to him (Malachi 3:6).
Now, let's look at another point, God has already provided healing for you.  He said in Matthew 15, that healing is the children's bread.  What is bread, another word for bread is provision.  It is something already provided.  But, here's the thing you can not let your body dictate to you what God has done.  Because your flesh can't know the things of God because they are spiritually discerned (1Corinthians 2:14).  That's why this is a faith walk, because you have to believe independent of your senses.  Let's see an example in Luke 17, ten lepers came to Jesus and asked him to have mercy on them and Jesus replied, "Go show yourselves unto the priest."  Now in that time you only showed yourself to priests after you've been cleansed.  And the scripture says that as they went they were cleansed.  Now, when did Jesus provide the healing, when he said, "Go show yourselves unto the priests", because that was all he did.  But, notice even though he provided something they didnt' look any different and they didn't feel any different.  They did not let there bodies determine whether something was done or not and jesus called that faith.
Let's clear up something else God does not heal some and not other.  God makes the provision to everyone and it's up to you to receive it.  Let's look all the way back to the old testament up to the new to see this.  Notice in Psalm 105:37 it is referring to the day after the Passover, He brought them forth also with silver and gold:  and there was not one feeble one among their tribes.  God healed everyone, not some and not others.  Let's see another example in Numbers 21:8, it refers to when serpents were bitting the children of Isreal and they were dying from the bites.  God told Moses, "Make thee a fiery serpent, and put it upon a pole:  and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live".  And it came to pass that if a serpent had bitten any man when he beheld the serpent of brass he lived.  Notice God made the provision for everyone.  Now let's come up to the new testament and again Acts 10:38, how Jesus healed all who were oppressed of the devil.  Jesus never turned anyone away that came to him for healing.  Not one time did he say no it's not God's will, that let's me know that it was always God's will for people to be healed and it's still his will.  I wanted to get those things cleared up because there may have been some wrong thinking in those areas and John in 3John 2 makes this statement, "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth."  So, your thinking can effect you receiving your healing.  So, I just wanted to clear up some thinking that may not have been in line with the scriptures so that someone would be in a better position to receive their healing.   

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

God's Word Can Heal You

I just want to encourage someone that might be going through a sickness or disease, there is hope in the word of God.  Proverbs 4:20-22 says God's word is medicine and tells you how to take it.  You need to understand the word of God and your sickness cannot stay in the same place.  For God has spoken in Isaiah 55:11 that his word would accomplish that which he pleases and that it would prosper in the thing whereunto he sent it.  The word and that sickness cannot prosper inside your body, and God has already said that it would be his word.  The word is anointed, so it is equipped to remove burdens and destroy yokes (Isaiah 10:27). God's word is a healing agent.  In Psalm 107:20 it says, God sent his word and healed them.  Look at the ministry of Jesus, a lot of the accounts of his healings was simply by the spoken word.  In fact, in Matthew 8 a centurion tapped in to that when he said, "Speak the word only and my servant shall be healed."  Jesus spoke the word and his servant was healed.  What did Jesus speak, he only spoke the words of his father, the word of God (John 12:49,50).  Notice John 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God."  So you can't separate God from his word.  So his word does heal just as sure as he heals.  For example remember in Luke chapter 1 a woman named Elisabeth was barren and the word of the Lord came that she would have a son, she was unable to have a child and yet the word of the Lord came that she would have a son, and her condition could not stay the same it had to change.  Notice when the word came on the scene things changed.  So, be encouraged the word can change your condition.  Be patient, give it some time for God is faithful and his word his powerful (Hebrews 4:12).