Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
As I’ve said before, we are living in exciting times. In the natural, this sounds like a crazy statement given everything occurring in the United States and around the world. However, in the spiritual realm, there is great excitement. Why? The prophecies of God for the last days before the Church is taken out of the earth in the Rapture are occurring before our eyes. I’m not going to delve into prophecy in this message. If you are a student of God’s Word, you know what is happening. Let them that have spiritual ears to hear, hear The Word.
Let me clarify “the Church.” No, it is not a physical church location or denomination, etc. There are several denominations who believe they’re the only ones who will be raptured. Let me assure you “the Church” are the Believers in Christ Jesus as the Son of the Living God and the one-time sacrifice for all the sin of mankind Who resurrected the third day and sits at the right hand of the One True Living God. There are going to be a lot of people left sitting on the pews of churches after the Rapture wondering what happened. Even more who thought because they were a good person who did good deeds they were going to Heaven.
Our Father God’s will for His children, the Believers, and their families, is to live long, healthy, fruitful, rich, compassionate, and giving lives.
III John 2
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper [financially] and be in health [physically], even as thy soul [spiritually] prospereth.
Do you want your life and the lives of your family to manifest according to God’s will? Of course, you do. Only a fool would say differently. What happens with most Believers, and this was me at one time, is the moment we dare to try and believe our family and we can live long, healthy, fruitful, rich, compassionate, and giving lives, we have thoughts of the opposite. In our mind’s eye we see sickness, disease, infirmity, weakness, financial and material struggles, children gone astray, lack, disappointment, rocky marriages, etc. Almost immediately, if not immediately, the certainty of God’s Word is stolen away from us. Instead, the way of the world – fear, doubt, unbelief – enters in our minds and then our hearts. Satan’s programming takes over. You’re beaten at this point.
The primary problem we have is our identity. We don’t understand who we are as Believers. We can’t see past the world. When we speak, we speak as the world speaks. We say the words the world says. We believe the word of the world more than we believe The Word of God. When we decree The Word of God over our situation, we still have the fear, doubt, and unbelief of the world lingering in our hearts. What does God say about this?
James 1:6-8
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
God’s Word in James 1:6-8 tells us when we ask or decree, we must do it in faith. Period. End of conversation. Notice what it says in verse 7. If you don’t ask in faith, absolutely believing, YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE FROM THE LORD. If we decree, but we have fear, doubt, and unbelief lingering, God says we are “double minded.” One who has two minds. It must be one mind, one answer, one focus.
II Corinthians 1:20
For all the promises of God in Him [Christ] are yea, and in Him [Christ] Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
II Corinthians 1:20 tells us God doesn’t say “no.” Only “yes” and “amen” [so be it].
Job 22:28
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
What are we to decree? ONLY THE WORD OF GOD. There is not one man on this earth whose own words will help, save, or forgive you and yours. Not one. Only The Word of God can do it.
I love I John 5:14-15. It completely clears up any fear, doubt, or unbelief that tries to creep in about the promises of God to me.
I John 5:14-15
14 And this is the confidence that we have in Him [God the Father], that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us:
15 And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.
God’s will is revealed to us in III John 2, among many other verses. Knowing God wants you to spiritually (soul prospereth), physically (be in health), and materially (thou mayest prosper) prosper, you decree the verses from God’s Word that promise you this. You do it in faith because as I John 5:14-15 says, “this is the confidence,” or faith “that we have in Him…..” Ask according to God’s will and you know you have what you desired of Him. It can’t be any simpler than this.
Please hear this. You ARE NOT an “old sinner saved by grace.” You ARE a son or daughter of the Most High God. You ARE NOT the sick trying to get healed. You ARE the healed Satan is trying to make sick. You ARE NOT the financially struggling trying to make it. You ARE the rich Satan is trying to steal from. Quit letting him!!
In closing, the memory of a potato cannot feed you. You must put The Word of God in your system constantly: eyes, ears, mouth, and heart. A steady diet of The Word is paramount to faith, to battling Satan when he comes to steal away The Word from your heart. If we depend on the word of a man, the wisdom of the world, and not The Word of God, life on this earth is going to be tough for us. We are going to suffer with struggles, fears, doubts, unbelief, a lack of peace, a lack of joy, a lack of good health, finances, marriages, etc. This is NOT God’s will for us as Believers. How can we be the light of the world if we look, speak, and act like the world?
In Christ,
Larry