KINGDOM TEXTING XV
HEALING PRAYER: "I am the God who heals you." We place our hope in Your loving and healing embrace. Please give wisdom to our doctors and deliver us from the imperfections of this world. Forgive us for making wrong choices that may have contributed to our ailment. Thank you Jesus for suffering for our sins and illnesses ("By His stripes we are healed"). Jesus, we feel You so close giving us Your strength and courage to survive these difficult times. ("Your power is made perfect in our weakness.") No matter how bad things are, we 'hang on' to Your Words, we say them, we repeat them and we know that all things will work out for the best bringing us joy and peace. Father we love You and we thank You in Jesus' Name.
Fear is trying to confuse me but I keep my thoughts focused on the love of Jesus. All is well ... there is nothing to fear. My confidence remains with God. I am at peace. Know that you are placing your life in the Mighty Hands of Jesus who has authority over ALL things in the physical and spiritual universe. We are given the perfect love of Jesus, the power of the Holy Spirit and a Sound Mind.
My personal account: For several days, I was heading in the opposite direction for recovery. My health was getting worse and I started to panic but I resisted and said to Jesus, "I am really scared ... I desperately need Your help." From that moment on, I started to take note and thank Jesus for every subtle but significant improvement in my recovery. Jesus told me to "hang on" to His promises. There were strategic moments when I needed to ask for the light of God's healing to shine - it worked! I was dead but now am alive.
Please know that once you place your problem in the Hands of Jesus, you have to let it go. The resolution may not take the course that you would prefer or a course that makes sense but you have to know and trust that everything will work out for the best. You just have to rest in the peace of the Lord even though everything around you is falling apart. "Be still and know that I am God."
Transforming your mind from the physical into the spiritual can take place when you have been pushed to your human limits by desperation, anxiety, depression, hopelessness, fear, confusion, helplessness, etc. During this very trying time, you can choose to surrender everything to Jesus whose power is made perfect in your weakness. You KNOW that even though your situation seems to get worse, that all is well, once it is placed in the Hands of God.
So many worldly distractions keep us from focusing on Jesus who wants to: show us how much God loves us, forgive us for our bad choices, escape with us from our self-made prisons, change the way we think, help us to resolve all of our problems, conquer the enemy, instruct us on helping others, fill our lives with an abundance of blessings, show us who we really are in God's eyes, how to walk in the Spirit and how to live for eternity in His Kingdom starting now.
Paul wrote to Corinthians: "Jesus said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."
Know that you are God's child, that He loves you, that He wants to forgive you, protect you and bring you to a new and wonderful life, one day at a time. Know that someday you will look back to these difficult times and you will see the Glory and Majesty of God in your life and you will joyfully and thankfully share your story with others.
Always seek the Will of God. Sometimes it is easy to obey. Sometimes it is very difficult to fit a round spiritual piece into a square earthly slot of understanding. The result, however, is always a fantastic solution. 'God's ways are not our ways ... Be still and know that He is God'.
Separation from God is Not God's choice, it is our choice. God's unending love for us provides a way to be reunited to Him. His Name is Jesus Christ. When we accept Him as our Savior and Redeemer, we get to know and fully trust in God who is now with us for eternity and will never let us go. We are restored to God's image and likeness like we were created to be.
What is our purpose in life? The Road is Narrow and the Gate is Small. We are led to discover that the Way is Our Savior Jesus Christ, we come to know the Truth about living a full Life in God's Kingdom. As we continue to walk on this Road, we realize it is full of God's grace, love, forgiveness and blessings. Our purpose in life is to share this knowledge and love with others.
We need to have a 'home base' to always return to after dealing with matters from this imperfect world. As Christians, we are a small part of a building where Jesus is the cornerstone and where God resides (Eph 2:20). This is our new spiritual 'home base', a place where the Lord calms our fears, wipes our tears, clears our confusion, controls our frenzy, brings peace to our rage, brings rest to our frantic activities and brings wisdom to our plans. Our sanctuary.
It's never too late to get things right in your life but know that God must lead the way. The Creator of all things is sending you signals to decide that whatever is going wrong in your life must STOP! You are the one who must choose to PRESS the RESET button and START again, God cannot force Himself on you. Know that He will help you to step out of your problems and bring you to a life full of love, joy and peace.
Living our life without God is like leaving your 5 yr old child alone in the busy streets of NYC. In this life, "we do not only struggle against physical opponents but against empires, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world and against spiritual evil in high places." We are totally helpless and in danger in this spiritual setting, just like a 5 yr old child. We need Our Father's powerful and loving protection 24X7.
Through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, we have been cleared to be reunited with God and we are given access to His grace. We tell everyone about our experiences with God and we accept our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance produces character; and character produces hope. Hope is needed to fill our hearts with God’s love through the Holy Spirit. (Romans 5)
