Your Beliefs, Your Reality

Satan has no power over believers—he deceives us into using our own power against ourselves! He uses fear and deception to lead us away from the truth of the Word. We create false beliefs, which in turn create false realities. And since 'as a man thinks within himself, so is he...' those false beliefs create a false identity, which in turn creates a false reality.

For example, 'I could never do [fill in the blank]' is, for a believer, a false belief. The truth says "All things are possible to him who believes."

Jesus repeatedly told people seeking His help "According to your faith, be it done unto you." He was in fact showing us spiritual law, how to operate in life. Faith is based on a person's beliefs, whether good or bad, and creates their own personal reality.

Destiny?

The great thing about the Word is that it IS truth.

What it says is true, even though it may look at the moment that it is not.

Destiny, as the world sees it, is fate, locked and loaded. As Christians, our faith—in our hearts and in our mouths—give us the power to reign in life. We are not pawns of some destiny carved in stone.

We do, however, have a spiritual destiny. Our destiny as a born-again child of the Most High God, is one of blessing, power, health, wealth, angelic protection, favor, blessed offspring, days of Heaven upon the earth. Not to mention the very Zoe—the Life of God—within and eternal life in heavenly places [where you are seated already].

So if your current circumstances don't look like that right now, remember your destiny. You are what the Word says you are...believe it, see it, confess it. It MUST come to pass.

It is your destiny.

God's Good Will 2

Last week at church they sang a song about saying 'yes' to the will of God. It was sung in an attitude of self-sacrifice...sort of 'even though Your will may be terrible and may not be what I want, I will do it.'

What rubbish! How about saying 'yes' to the will of God as revealed in the Word? How about saying 'yes' to His desire to give you the desires of your heart? Or saying 'yes' to 'by His stripes you were healed...' or 'He will give His angels charge over you to guard you in all your ways...?'

Instead of screwing up our courage to accept Him killing our children or burning our churches down or losing our homes, how about saying 'yes' to His revealed will of blessing and wealth and health and glory? To long life and honor? To seeing our children's children? To our sons being blessed within us...to their well-being being great? These are all scriptures!

Daily Power Confessions

Here are just a few words to confess whenever feeling down or defeated...this is just a start, by no means an exhaustive list.

• By God's doing, I am in Christ Jesus, raised up and seated with Him in heavenly places
  
• I am one Spirit with the Lord--strengthened with all power in my inner man, the temple of the Holy Spirit
  
• I am the Word multiplied in the earth, born of the incorruptible seed that is the Word of God, a new creature in Christ Jesus
  
• I am the righteousness of God in Christ, Who has been made unto me wisdom from God, righteousness, sanctification and redemption
  
• All things belong to me, I belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God
  
• God has given me all things richly to enjoy--it gives Him great pleasure to give me the Kingdom
  
• I believe that what I say happens--it only takes a tiny bit of faith to move mountains and trees
  
• As He is, so am I in this world

Lumps of Clay

'The idols of the nations are but silver and gold, the work of man's hands. They have mouths but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see; they have ears, but they do not hear, nor is there any breath at all in their mouths. Those who make them will be like them, yes, everyone who trusts in them.' [Psalm 135:15-18]

This is an amazing passage. But to understand what is really being said here, we need to go back to the beginning...

Genesis 2:7 says 'Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.'

The Targum Onkelos, an ancient Aramaic translation says '...and man became another speaking spirit.' God breathed Himself into the lump of clay, and man, both male and female, became another speaking spirit!

Meditate on that for awhile. Talk about being made in His image!