Monday, May 3, 2010

Subject to Change

I had the Lord drop this in my spirit a few weeks ago, and it seemed particularly relevant with what Dad has been teaching lately, so, I feel led to share it with you.


Discouragement comes to all of us in life. “Why isn’t this working?” “Why did God allow that to happen?” “I don’t understand how this is all gonna work out. I thought God told me to do this.” “No one has ever had to deal with something this difficult before.” We have all either said or thought variations of this in our lives. However, there is good news for you! First of all, God didn’t cause the situation. Give it the John 10:10 test. If it steals, kills, and destroys, it’s from the devil. If it provides life, and life more abundantly, it’s God. Sounds simple enough, right?


Next, remember that you aren’t the only one going through this situation. 1 Corinthians 10:13 says, “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.” So, God has given you a way out! Bless God, your way out is in the words you speak. The Word says that you are justified and condemned by the words of your mouth. (Matthew 12:37). Start talking the solution, not the problem. Facing a mountain of debt? Check out 2 Corinthians 8:9. “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might be rich.” You know what the two words translated rich here means? Material wealth and finances! Bless God, it’s a grace issue! He became poor at the cross (while becoming the curse of the law for us, so we could live in the blessing, Gal. 3:13-14, Deut. 28) so that we would be rich! Same thing with sickness, or anything else in the curse. He bore it for you, and provided a way out!


Paul said this in 2 Corinthians 4:17. “For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!].” Notice that phrase. Our light, momentary affliction. It’s only temporary! Paul continues on, and tells us that we aren’t looking at what is seen, but what is unseen, (remember that faith doesn’t deal with the unknown, only the unseen). Because what is seen is temporal, or temporary. Do you know what that word means? Temporary means that your situation is subject to change!


Your situations are subject to change. As a believer, all you have to do is speak the Word in faith. You say what God says, and watch the results. Check this out. Micah 4:9 (ESV), “Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you?” The Lord is speaking to Zion, and the church is referred to as Zion! Now, according to Revelation 1:6, “[Jesus] has made us kings and priests to His God and Father.” Jesus has made us kings and priests! Bless God! He is the King of kings, but we’re the kings underneath Him! Now, what do kings do when they are faced with a situation? If a king needs something done, he doesn’t fret about how he’s going to do it. He declares it. If the king wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about the cost. He says, “We’re going to go here on this date.” That’s it. Discussion is over.


Does that verse jump out at you a little more now? "Why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you?" You are a king in Christ, and when you speak what the King of kings has said, in your authority that He has given to you, Heaven HAS to back it. Jesus said that whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven! (Matt. 16:19 and 18:18)


So start declaring what God has said! When you are being discouraged by a situation, don’t look at the problem, look at the solution! Have faith in God! He’s bigger than any situation that you are facing! You declare what He has declared, and do not doubt in your heart. Once it has been declared, it has to come to pass, for God said that His Word would not return unto Him void, but it shall accomplish what He set it out to do. Start declaring, as a king and a priest of the Almighty God, what you see in His Word over your finances, over your health, over your relationships, and over anything else that needs to change, and watch it come to pass!


Man, I just preached myself happy while I was typing this out! Let me know any testimonies you have as a result of taking your place as a King and a Priest of the Almighty God! Be blessed!