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."
Proverbs 4:7, 20-23 (Amplified) says, "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)." In Verses 20-23 God goes on, "My son, attend to My Words; consent and submit to My sayings. Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. For they are Life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh. Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of Life."
Most Christians have kept our Spiritual lives separate from our natural lives, because we've failed to understand God's Word. We've accepted our salvation and our new birth as Spirit, but still allow our flesh to determine our natural lives. We've come to the place, where we've overcome drinking, drugging, cursing and participating in things that are sexually deviant, but we've limited most of the Spiritual power to only these things.
The adversary has even programmed the world to believe in the separation of church and state. Satan knew from the beginning, that he had no power over the Christian's new creation spirit man and has tried keeping our Spirit life out of our natural life. It's futile to try overthrowing the god of this world using only natural forces. We've nearly dismissed healing and Divine health, saying "These have passed away" or "These things aren't for us today." We read in the above scripture that "God's Word is health and healing to all our flesh."
Health and healing are part of life. Life comes from the spirit into the flesh and not from the flesh into the spirit. The Authority of God comes from the Spirit into the natural world and not the other way around. Most of our Spiritual lives consists of going to church on Sunday and Wednesday night, while the flesh dictates the rest of our week. I'm not saying that we return to sin after going to church on Sunday, but that we tend to let our Spiritual lives lapse until next Sunday. Learning and growing in our Spirit life, comes by believing, knowing and understanding God's Word.
We've accepted the world's standard for the idea God's Word, instead of allowing His Word to set the standard for the world. Prayer has nearly become a "last resort," to the world's problems and we say, "That's the way life is," when prayers aren't answered. Most of our faith has only been to applied to living a good life here and going to Heaven, when we die. This isn't what Jesus came to bring God's family. Our Father never intended for us to suffer at the hands of satan and his cohorts.
When we were "redeemed from the Curse of the Law, we were set free from it altogether. This isn't something that we can enforce by the flesh, but only by the spirit. It's futile to walk in redemption, when we separate the Spirit from the natural. It's a Spiritual thing and can only be overcome by the Super-natural Spirit that lives in us. The new birth is ours and the Redemption is Truth, but we must activate this Law by our spirit and by the Word, in faith.
Reading God's Word, while not believing it, is merely mental exercise and has no power to bring healing and health to your flesh. When your flesh is left to it's own devices, it will accept sickness and disease as being "just a part of life." 2Corinthians 1:20 (Amplified) says, "For as many as are the Promises of God, they all find their Yes Answer in Him (Christ). For this reason we also utter the Amen (So be it), to God through Him, in His Person and by His Agency to the Glory of God."
"The health and healing to all our flesh, through God's Word," that we read about in Proverbs 4:22, is one of those "Yes Promises" to us, in Jesus. We've kept Spiritual things Spiritual and fleshly things fleshly and our mortal bodies have continued like God's Word doesn't work in the natural world any longer. We've learned so little of God's Word, that it only applies to after we leave this world and we live as mere natural men and women, even after we're born-again. We must have God's Word in our hearts, which takes time in that Word and time with the Holy Spirit. The natural man isn't supposed to run our lives any longer...God is.
1John 5:4 (Amplified) says, "For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith." To conquer the world is to allow our faith in the new creation we've become and allow the spirit to rule our lives, instead of the flesh. This is by faith, which is a Spiritual force, that will not allow our flesh to dictate our lives, but the Spirit to dictate over our flesh.
We need to get our heart and head into agreement. We must not listen only to our head or natural man, but start living by the Spirit. If God's Promise of forgiveness and new life are true, then all the other Promises of God are true too. When we accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior, all the other Promises were already ours, if we enforce them in our flesh, by the spirit. Your flesh has no power to hold them back, if we won't allow it to rule any longer.
Your natural man has ruled your life, until you received Jesus. It takes time in God's Word to walk by the Spirit and teach your flesh a new way of Life. If you can teach a dog to roll over or sit up and you can teach a parrot to talk, then you can teach teach your flesh to receive new Guidance. Don't allow the world to separate your new Life in Christ, from your old life in the world. You can never live in the total victory of Jesus, by trying to do so in the flesh. Satan is the master of this world of flesh and the only way to defeat him, is in the Spirit.
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