Genesis 1:26-27 (Amplified) says, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), make mankind in Our Image (after Our Own Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them."
Notice how, in the beginning mankind had complete authority over all the earth and everything in it. The Father never subjected mankind or the earth and creation, into the enemy's authority, but it was Adam who had the authority to do so. When Adam and Eve submitted to the lies and temptations of satan, the Blessing became the Curse and Life became death, because the sins cut man off from God's Spirit and His Life. Jesus said in John 10:10 (Amplified), "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy Life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)."
It's been hard for God's children to trust His Word and His Intentions for us, because we've been taught contrary to the Truth, for so long. Paul writes in Romans 1:17 (Amplified), "For in the Gospel a Righteousness that God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith (disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith). As it is written, The may who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith." Paul writes to the Church in Ephesus, about living by faith, saying in Ephesians 2:12 (Amplified), "Remember that at that time you were separated, living apart from Christ, excluded from all part of Him, utterly estranged and outlawed from the rights of Israel as a nation, and strangers with no share in the Sacred compacts of the Messianic Promise with no knowledge of or right in God's agreements, His covenants and you had no hope (no Promise), you were in this world without God."
Galatians 3:7 (Amplified) says, "Know and understand that it is really the people who live by faith who are the true sons of Abraham." Our faith has been limited, because of the things we've heard and have been taught for two thousand years. Paul writes in Romans 10:17 (KJV), "So faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God." In other words, "Faith in God, comes by hearing God's Word. Faith in any other thing, comes likewise, by hearing it. People can hear messages about Communism over and over, until they build a Communist nation.
The worship of other gods, comes too, by hearing someone teach and preach about those gods. After hearing about these gods for so long, people develop faith in them, so that nothing can be done to save a nation or the people, other than hearing about the One True God. Jesus says in Mark 4:24 (Amplified), "Be careful what you are hearing, The measure of thought and study you give (to the truth you hear) will be the measure of (virtue and knowledge) that comes back to you-and more besides will be given to you who hear." We've allowed things to come into our hearing that have undermine the Truth of God's Word, giving entry to the enemy. We must be careful of what we hear.
We've erroneously allowed sickness and calamity into our lives, by hearing that, "It's God's will for these things to come upon you" and "God's using these things to teach you something." After hearing these things long enough, it's difficult for us to resist them. We've accepted the same lie that the enemy told Adam and Eve. Satan asked them, "Did God say?" We've limited God's ability in our lives, believing it's only for when we die and go to be with Him in Heaven. It's True that this is our greatest hope, but it's not all that Jesus came to bring to God's people.
God says in Isaiah 54:14-15,16 -17 (Amplified), "You shall establish yourself in Righteousness (rightness, in conformity with God's will and order): You shall be far from even the thought of oppression or destruction for you shall not fear, and from terror, for it shall not comes near you. Behold, they may gather together and stir up strife, BUT IT IS NOT FROM ME. Whoever stirs up strife against you shall fall and surrender to you." We need to hear and put faith in the Words our Father says and He says, "It is not from Me." In Verse 16, God takes complete responsibility for satan, as being the one He created. But, God declares this to His people in Verse 17, to say, "But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise up against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong. This peace, Righteousness, security, triumph over opposition, is the heritage of the servants of the Lord (those in whom the ideal Servant of the Lord is reproduced), this is the Righteousness or vindication which they obtain from Me, This is that which I impart to them as their Justification, says the Lord."
It's important that you realize where the things coming against you in this world, come from. The Lord says, "It's not from Me." Being double-minded about the One in Whom your faith is in, is devastating to the people of faith. 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 reasons 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 Promise God gives in Isaiah 54, is "Yes and Amen in Christ Jesus, to the Glory of God," just like the other Promises He made to us, through Jesus. These Promises are ours here and now, as well as when we go to be with Him in Heaven. This Promise is only good for us, while we're here on earth, because there won't be any "weapons formed against us, nor will there be oppression, destruction or fear." These are earthly things, that the enemy comes against us with. God Promised that He will "keep us, as the heritage of the servants of the Lord."
The Same Jesus Who bore our sins, in His Own Body on the cross, also bore our sickness, the Curse, our unrighteousness, and everything that stood between us and our Father. Our Redemption is complete with the exception of a glorified body, which we'll receive when Jesus returns or we die and go to Heaven. I truly believe that most of us will be here when Jesus returns and we're caught up in the rapture. We'll return to what the Father Planned for us, before the fall of Adam and we'll truly live with and in God's full Blessing and Presence.
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