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Words Heal Us – 3 Steps To Healing

February 15, 2011 by Bill 2 Comments

Given February 15, 2011

During my morning devotion this morning, I was praying for several people on my list who need healing and was reminded of the scripture in Psalms 107:20, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” I thought about that and how it related to those who I was praying for and since God was right there with me, I asked Him, “Lord, what does that mean? How do your Words heal us? How does that work?” Almost immediately, I got the answer. Now I didn’t hear an audible voice but the thought came up in my spirit just as if God was talking to me in the room.

He said, “Well, what do you do with words?” I thought, “Well, I read words, think about words, and say words.” “There you go.”, He replied. So in order for me and these people I’m praying for to receive the healing You send your Words to perform, we have to READ them from the Bible, THINK ABOUT them and get them in our spirit, and then SPEAK them out over our sickly situations. “That’s right.” He said.

God sent His Words to heal us and to take care of every other need we have. The answers to all our needs can be found in the pages of the Bible. When we read them while asking the Holy Spirit to help us understand them, they will become a part of our spirit. God’s Word is true, it has never changed and never will, and “works” the same today as it did for all those told about in scripture. So if we read His Words over and over they will get in our spirits, our hearts and we will think about what we’ve read all during the day. And what is in our hearts will come out of our mouths, (Matthew 12:34).

So here are the three steps to healing: 1. Read God’s Word about healing. 2. Think about what you’ve read during the day. 3. Speak those healing words over your situation. And do these three things over and over, like taking a prescribed dose of medication. Now, I will say sometimes God uses doctors and other medicines to heal us but His Words will always direct us in which way to go. Have you taken your medicine today?

Unhook And Get Out

September 4, 2008 by Bill 1 Comment

Given September 3, 2008

My wife and I spent the holiday weekend at Riverside Campground and RV Park, a Christian campground in Sevierville Tennesse. It’s a great facility with owners who declare “To God be the glory.”. We love to spend time there.

As I was praying this morning for several sick people on my list, I thought of the campground and how no ungodly behavior is allowed there. Sickness comes in and sets up camp in our bodies when it doesn’t have any right to. It just comes in, hooks up to the power and water, gets out the lounge chair and makes itself at home. It doesn’t even pay the lot rent!

But…as the franchise owner of the campground, (God is the main boss and the campground is our body), we can say, “Not in my campground! Unhook and get out! Your kind is not allowed here.” “And when Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I command thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him. And having cried out, and torn him much, he came out: Mark 9: 25-26“.

Now, it may take awhile for long term campers to pull up stakes and leave but we must stay after them. And they may try to come back later but if we stand on the authority of the boss, we can keep them out. “I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. Luke 10:19“. Take your authority as park owners and kick the sickness, depression, confusion, poverty, and fear bums out!

Heap O Trouble

December 31, 2007 by Bill 1 Comment

Given December 22, 2007
Jesus said in John 16:33, “In this world, you will have trouble“, and we can all agree this is true. We all have trouble of different kinds and magnitudes. I heard something the other day that made me think of troubles in a different way.

What if….a decree went out in your community to create a Heap of Troubles. This would be a voluntary thing and anyone who wanted to participate could bring their troubles to a pre-determined location and pile them up. This would go on for one week and, at the end of the week, all the troubles heaped up there would be divided into equal parts according to the number of people who had participated. These equal-sized troubles would then be re-distributed to all those involved. What do you think? Would you participate?

I can see a man with an armful of “troubles” coming up to the heap. As he begins to toss his problems onto the pile, another guy backs his pickup truck loaded with his troubles up to the pile. The first guy thinks, “Well, maybe my troubles aren’t so bad after all.” Do you get the point?

Many times, we think we have troubles and problems until we see someone else’s. Then ours don’t seem so bad. But, you know, God DOES have a program like this. He DOES want us to bring our troubles to Him and leave them there. But the good news is that they won’t get re-distributed back to us. God will take care of them all! “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:6-7“. Now, notice that, “due time” part. Most of the time, we’ll still have to deal with the results of our bad decisions but God will be right there with us to take us through. “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for Thou art with me. Psalms 23:4“.

Do you have any troubles? Toss them onto God’s heap then let Him direct your paths, Proverbs 3:5-6.

"I’ve Already Done It"

August 1, 2007 by Bill Leave a Comment

Given August 1, 2007
During my prayer time this morning, God reminded me of something that is probably obvious but I needed to be reminded of it again. As I was going down my prayer list of needs, I asked God to bless the people and thus, the church financially. He said, “I already have.” I had to say, “Oh yeah, you have haven’t you.”

Then I looked back over my prayer list and realized that many of the other things on there He had already made provision for. The problem is we hadn’t received them yet. As far as financial blessing goes, God says, “Give and it shall be given unto you…Luke 6:38“. The key is for us to be cheerful and extravagant givers. If we do that, God’s plan, which is already in place, will work!

And, it’s the same with many other needs or requests we have; salvation for loved ones, healing, wisdom, etc.. God has already done His part and, if we want results, we have to do our part. “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. Isaiah 55:11“. That’s good news!

So, God reminded me today and I pass it on to you. He’s already done His part, let’s do ours and see His purposes fulfilled in the earth.

Truth or Fact?

July 2, 2007 by Bill Leave a Comment

Given January 13, 2007
We’ve all heard the expression, “Tell it like it is”, and that’s supposed to be a good thing. Tell the truth, don’t sugar-coat it, be honest. Well, let’s look at what is truth and what is fact.

Christians believe, or we should believe, that the Words of God are absolute truth. Right? However, in this world, there are certain facts that are evident. I’ll use sickness as an example. It is a fact that there could be cancer cells in your body. The medical tests, PET scans, etc. would show this. But, the Word of God says, “and with His stripes we are healed, Isaiah 53:5“, which is truth. So, what’s real, the facts or the truth?

I submit to you that the Bible is the ultimate truth and our words can change the facts. “Yet we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, I have believed, and therefore have I spoken. We too believe, and therefore we speak, 2 Corinthians 4:13, Amplified Version“. I’ve heard testimonies galore and have experienced it in my own body that our words, based on our faith, can change the facts. If we believe God’s Word is true, we must speak it without doubt or fear and see it come to pass.

Moses told Pharaoh, “Be it according to thy word…Exodus 8:10” when Pharaoh said get rid of the frogs tomorrow. Abraham practiced this when he did as God did and, “…spoke those things that were not as though they were, Romans 4:17“. We can do it too. You can have what you say, so don’t keep saying what you have. Think about it.

Truth or fact? Find out what God’s Word says about your situation and speak His words over it. You can change fact by speaking the truth! Tell it like God says it is and don’t give up!