John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share, and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
Many in today's Church believe that some of the above things "aren't for us" and/or "aren't needed to get to Heaven, so I don't need to know about them or walk in them." The Father though, thought they were necessary for our full deliverance, otherwise He wouldn't have put them on Jesus, during His earthly walk.
The Curse of the Law still functions in even the lives of born-again believers, today. We continue to walk in the very things that the world walks in, despite our being redeemed from them. Many believers don't understand what the Blessings of Abraham have provided them and believe it doesn't make a difference in their lives. The Blessing God Promised to Abraham, was the Promise of the Holy Spirit, as well as the Blessing in our earthly form. When we received the Holy Spirit as Promised, we received God Himself into our very spirit and natural body.
The indwelling Promise that's within us, lived inside Jesus, Paul, John, Peter and those before us. We have the same Spiritual Blessings at work within us, just like they had. Errant preaching and teaching has left us not understanding these Blessings in our Christian walk. Proverbs 4:7 (Amplified) instructs, "The beginning of Wisdom is; get Wisdom, skillful and Godly Wisdom! For skillful and Godly Wisdom is the principal thing. And with all you have gotten, get understanding, discernment, comprehension, and interpretation."
Many who have Wisdom, which is God's Word, have no comprehension, discernment, interpretation or understanding of what it really means for their life as a new creation in Christ Jesus. We conduct our lives, as though we're still only human, but we're not. We are born of God, filled with the Spirit of God and are children of God. God left nothing to chance, when He sent Jesus to the cross for our sake.
We've never been taught who we are in Christ and conduct our lives believing that the only benefit of being born-again comes when we leave this earth for Heaven. We've abstained from sin (as well as we're able) and have tried walking upright with the Father, but we've neglected the things of the Spirit that would make it easier to walk our earthly lives.
We've mostly neglected the Spiritual Blessing and the Holy Spirit's Presence living inside us. 1Peter 2:24 (Amplified) says, "[Jesus] Personally bore our sins in His Own Body on the tree, as an altar and offered Himself on it, that we might die (cease to exist) to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed." Isaiah prophesies about Jesus in Isaiah 53:4-5 (Amplified) saying, "Surely, He has borne our griefs, sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses, and carried our sorrows and pains of punishment, yet we ignorantly considered His stricken, smitten, and afflicted of God, as if with leprosy. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities, the chastisement needful to obtain peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes that wounded Him we are healed and made whole."
When did we stop believing that the same Jesus Who bore our sins, didn't bear our disease and peace and well-being? When did we forget that the Father thought everything Jesus did, was important for us? We've stood against sin in our lives and have abstained from sin as we knew it, but somehow we've forgotten that the other things Jesus suffered on Calvary, are no longer important for us. We get sick, depressed, fear punishment from God and continue to carry our own sorrows and pain. Do we believe that these things are valid to our redemption or do we really think that Jesus did these things for nothing?
The Father thought our wellness of heart and mind were equally important or He would never have placed them and allowed Jesus to bear them. We need to learn to resist sickness and disease, just like we learn to resist temptation and sin. The Same Holy Spirit Who works by God's Word to keep us from the evil one, works in the same manner to keep us in all other things included in our Redemption.
We've come to believe that, "Everyone gets sick sometime, just like everyone sins sometimes." We don't have to sin at some time or anytime. If we sin, then it's because we choose to do so, instead of resisting and the same is true in every area of our redemption. When symptoms of sickness come upon us, then the Same Word and Holy Spirit Who keeps us from sin, will also bring to pass His part for healing. We've never been taught to resist sickness, only sin.
Many of the Spiritual Blessings found in John 1:16-17, are never brought to manifestation in our lives, because we continue to see ourselves as being "only human." These Spiritual Blessings come from the inside-out, not from the outside-in. Healing comes from the strength of the new creation spirit and is manifested in the natural man, just like our righteousness and peace with God. If the inward man isn't allowed to live through you, then you still only live through you as a natural man and by your own merits. You cannot be righteous before God, except by faith in His Grace.
Romans 4:16 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, inheriting the Promise is the outcome of faith and depends entirely on faith, in order that it might be given as an act of Grace (unmerited favor) to make it stable and valid and guaranteed to all his descendants." The same faith that led you to receive and believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, is the same faith that inherits the Promise of His full redemption in our natural bodies too. It works from our born-again new creation spirit and is made manifest in our natural man.
Many of today's believers don't resist sickness, but believe that the Father puts it on us, in order to teach us something. This rejects and dishonors what Jesus accomplished for us, on the cross. Even if you succumb to sickness, then you must not allow the enemy to condemn you it in, anymore than if you commit sin after being saved. You go to God's Throne of Grace, receiving mercy and Grace in your time of need and continue to stand and trust in God's Word. You will find that you will get sick fewer and fewer times, just like when you first got saved and yielded less and less to sin.
Satan is a liar and deceiver and his plan is based upon trying our faith, so that if something doesn't work the first time, then we quit trying. This is the entire arsenal satan uses against us. If we don't quit, then we will win. Faith must be allowed to grow in our hearts and in our spirits, so we will be strong in the Lord and in the Power of His Might. God's Might and strength is in His Word and His Spirit, which abide within our spirit.
Do the things we say, have anything to do with how we believe? Definitely! We speak our faith in either good or bad. We speak what we believe. God cannot bring things that we speak which are contrary to His Promises, to pass in our lives. When we speak sickness, God cannot honor that, but He will not override our right to say those things.
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