So many times I have said how much I love lying in bed, eyes just opening to a new day, feet not hitting the floor yet, no TV turned on yet, no lights turned on yet, either. Those first moments of a new day, those still, quiet moments, no voices asking, "momma do we have any bacon, where is the bread, do you want breakfast"? Those precious moments when it seems like God's voice is so easily heard, so gentle, so still, so peaceful, ...those moments that I love and cherish so much! I am certainly not saying that God only speaks in the morning at a certain time, in a certain setting. I am not saying that at all. God is always speaking to us, and He longs to fellowship with us, no matter what time of the day, or night.
This morning was a little different. God woke me up, I laid there, and I must admit that I went to bed last night, with a heavy heart. I know that the concern was in my spirit, because I awoke with the same concern on my heart, and God knew this of course, and He immediately addressed it. It is nothing bad, just a concern for someone who has become close to me, who I care about, and who has been dealing with a matter for quite some time now. I love people. I want to see people free. I want to see people be all that God created them to be, do all that God created them to do, have all that he wants them to have, and fulfill the plans, purposes, and Destiny that He has for all of us. When it seems that I meet or talk to people who are struggling in life, not living the God-kind of life, living with sickness and disease in their body, who really love the Lord, who is His child, and who are living beneath their means, not experiencing all that God has for them, here in this life, I am saddened, and usually walk away with a heavy heart. Yes, I know that even as children of God, challenges come in life. Jesus told us that they would come, but he assured us that we don't have to be defeated by the challenges, stay in the challenges, and that we can have victory over them!
Anyway, God spoke differently to me this morning. This morning, His still, small voice was not so still this morning, it was a stern, firm voice this morning, and He let me know quickly, that He meant business! It was a "I have had enough" voice! God LOVES his people, all people! He wants the very best for everyone! He began talking to me about the concern that I have for this friend. The particular concern is in the area of healing. He said that for too long, His children have put up with sickness and disease in their body, have preached about it, have taught about it, have written books about it, and have said that "God is using it to teach me something, to bless others, or to glorify Him". God said to me, "Gayle, they have said that I am the cause of their sickness. When did I have to go to satan, and use his sickness to teach them something. When did I have to turn to satan for help, why do I have to go to satan and get his sickness, to use to bless someone?" God was not playing when He spoke to me this morning. He said that too many people are caught up in believing a lie, a doctor's report, a machine! He said that, it is just a machine! Folks go to the doctor, and if a machine reveals a certain thing, a reading, a number, a picture, people will believe that, and base their entire life on it. He kept saying, "it is just a machine". God said that the machine should only confirm what you should KNOW before you get to the doctor's office, that you are healed! If the machine reveals something otherwise, you still KNOW that you are healed, you now (as my Pastor says), where to target your faith! In other words, as a child of God, if I go to the doctor, and the doctor says that he show a mass on an x-ray, I still know that I am healed, and I know that Jesus has already secured my total healing on the cross. The doctor's report may state a fact that something showed up on the test, but the TRUTH is that Jesus took all of my sickness and disease, He took it from me. If He took it, then I don't have it anymore! The enemy is trying to give it back to you, and he is using a doctor's report, or your body hurting, to do it. It is the power of suggestion. If he can suggest that you have cancer, he wants you to believe it, which means that you will take that sickness back. Your body is accustomed to being in control, and it will tell you that "you are sick, you will never stop hurting, you can't be healed, it has been sick too long, you are going to die, there is no hope, the doctor says that it is nothing more that they can do." Our body will talk to us! It will still be in pain and stay in pain, and it will convince us that God is using that pain for His glory, that that sickness is His will. (I have never been able to understand, why IF it is God's will for us to be sick, why was Jesus so out of God's will, so disobedient! My Bible says that Jesus went about healing All! All the healing that Jesus did, would have made Jesus totally out of the will of God!) Yet Jesus said that He only says what His Father says, and does what His father does! So if Jesus does only what he sees His Father do, then God must heal too! I'm just sayin'. The Word says that opening blinded eyes, lame men walking, demon possessed people being made free, is what glorified God, not sickness! God said to me, "Gayle a machine does not know you, it does not know your body from the thousands of other bodies that it is hooked up to. A machine did not make your body. He said to let The Word be TRUE, and every man and machine be a liar...God said this to me this morning! In other words, if I go to the doctor, I listen to what the doctor thinks and says to me, but that's NOT the final answer! God says, believe Me in spite of what the reports say. My report is true, the doctors report may be facts. Sometimes they even mess up the reports.
Finally, after all that He said to me this morning, He said one final thing that made me sit up in bed. I could not believe what I was hearing. God said to me, "Don't you pray for Me to heal one more person!" What? I said , "Don't you pray for Me to heal one more person! I have already healed them! You pray that their eyes will be opened, that the blinders would fall off of their eyes, that they will see, that they would get a REVELATION of WHO I AM, what I have already done, and what already belongs to them, now, today, not when they get to Heaven! And then He said, "Now Blog that!" Ok Lord, I get it! God was not playing with me this morning. He was not mad at me, He did not holler at me in anger, He just spoke in a stern, firm voice, and I knew that I must do what He said to do!
So here is today's blog...lengthy, but according to God's instruction!
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