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!

The Yad of God

Pre-Reading
Psalm 136 [key verse is 12, but read the whole chapter]
Isaiah 59:1
Isaiah 49:22
Isaiah 50:2
Isaiah 60:21
Isaiah 66:22

Also, please refer to an earlier post, Yad, for important background...

Yad
We know that, for man, the power [or yad, which means 'hand' in Hebrew] of life and death is in the tongue. [Proverbs 18:21] Two other frequently quoted meanings of yad are 'strength' and 'power.'

So we know that man can work either with his physical yad, or hand, or the yad in his mouth. But we are made in God's image, and He does all things with the Yad of His Mouth!

Fear

Fear is a spirit. You think it's an emotion, but it's actually a spirit. Listen to Job 4:12-16 describe it perfectly:

'Now a word was brought to me stealthily, and my ear received a whisper of it. Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, dread came upon me, and trembling, and made all my bones shake. Then a spirit passed by my face; the hair of my flesh bristled up. It stood still but I could not discern its appearance; a form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice...'

2 Timothy 1:7 tells us that God has not given us a spirit of timidity—fearfulness, cowardice, fear—but of power, love and discipline. Hallelujah! Our reborn spirit is one of power, love and discipline!!

Think about this...if fear is a spirit, what is it's purpose? To deceive us into stopping or changing our direction. Why? Because wherever that spirit is standing to bring fear and dread is the the edge of your promised land.

Remember the giants in Numbers 13? Right at the edge of fulfilled blessing! And the spies said '...we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.' Not the other way around! They became afraid and felt small and defenseless—and that's how the giants saw them! They demonstrated Proverbs 23:7...'For as he thinks within himself, so is he.'

A Clue
Look at it this way...it's a clue.

Wherever fear manifests itself in you life, you know you're on the brink of fulfilled blessing in that area. God has already blessed you—spirits of fear are there to deceive you into believing otherwise, to keep you from walking in the fullness of abundant life.

Romans 12:2 tells us to be transformed by the renewing of our minds, that we may PROVE what the will of God is, that which is GOOD and ACCEPTABLE and PERFECT. If we are deceived we cannot prove how wonderful His will is, and that is the whole point.

So, if you're afraid of money issues, know for a certainty that you are already rich...if you're afraid of public speaking, know that you will have tremendous success in speaking. If you're afraid you're not going to get your healing, know for sure that you are already healed and that the spirit of fear is trying to make you believe otherwise.

Because faith, or belief, is how we access the things freely given to use by God.

The Highways to Zion

The highways to Zion are supply routes!

'How blessed is the man whose strength is in You, In whose heart are the highways to Zion! Passing through the valley of Baca they make it a spring; the early rain also covers it with blessings. They go from strength to strength, every one of them appears before God in Zion.' [Psalm 84:5-7]

The strength, the blessings, the provision--come from Zion through the portal in your heart! And passing through the valley of Baca [weeping] they make it a spring. They make it a spring! Not God, they! They make! They go from strength to strength!

In other words, the heart is the portal to Zion, but we must access it by faith! We have to exercise our part! So pass through the valley of weeping--you pass through--don't stay there, pass through! Decide--set your intent--to pass through!

Then, make it a spring! You make it a spring--a spring of refreshing, of blessing, of provision! You decide...'I'm passing through this valley of weeping, but while I'm here, I'm making it a spring of blessing!' Hallelujah!

In your heart are the highways to Zion...use your supply route, travel back and forth...make your life a watered spring! His will be done on earth as it is in heaven!

Faith etc.

We have the faith of God inside because we have Him inside. Faith is so powerful that it only takes a pinch--the size of a tiny mustard seed--to move a mountain!

A Very Little Thing
In Luke 12:26, Jesus called adding an hour to a man's life a "...very little thing..." We consider such a thing impossible--when medical reality says that's it, we see adding hours or days or years to a dying life as an impossibility that only a mighty miracle can accomplish. And of course, we've been brainwashed to believe that it might not be God's will to heal, He might want to kill [or 'take' in Christian-speak] instead of restore, depending on the whimsy of His Benevolence.

But Jesus, who also said that nothing would be impossible to us [Matthew 17:20] and that all things are possible to him who believes [Mark 9:23] calls adding an hour to a man's life a "...very little thing..."

Possibilities

ALL THINGS are possible [to him] who believes...

Pas [gr], meaning each, every, any, all, the whole, everyone, all things, everything. All means all.

All things ARE POSSIBLE [to him] who believes...
Dunatos [gr], meaning able, powerful, mighty strong, mighty in wealth and influence, strong in soul. To be able to do something, having power for something. Dunatos is from Dunamai, meaning to be able, have power. Looks like it might be related to Dunamis--strength, power, ability, power for performing miracles, the power and influence belonging to riches and wealth. In other words, possibility power.

All things are possible [to him] who BELIEVES...
Pisteuo [gr], meaning to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to place confidence in the thing believed.

In other words, you have the power, strength, might and wealth to do any and everything when you are persuaded and have confidence in your ability to do so. Jesus summed it up when He told people "By your faith be it done unto you."

It's a verse of unlimited potentiality...a quantum verse. Believe it! Meditate on it...see it as true in your life. Close your eyes and watch it in your imagination--the eyes of your heart!

Related posts: All Things, Anything?