I once heard a true story about a woman who worked as a housekeeper for a very rich man her whole life. She cared for his physical needs but also grew to care for him very much and felt honored to serve him and blessed to work for him into her old age.
When he passed away she had trouble finding work and lived in a tiny apartment barely making ends meet. When a welfare worker came to check on her to see if he could sign her up for services they provided for the poor, he visited her apartment to verify her poor living conditions.
She welcomed him in and made him some tea. While he was sitting with her he noticed a framed document hanging on her wall. He looked at it closer with an inquisitive look on his face and asked her what it was.
She replied that it was a gift from a wonderful man she had worked to serve for many years. She said it was her most prized possession that was delivered by his lawyer and she framed it because she treasured the memory of who it was from.
He asked her if she knew what it said. She sadly replied that she didn't because she was ashamed to admit that she had never learned how to read. She asked him if he could read it to her. He told her that it was a legal document stating that her former employer, having no children or living relatives, and because of her fine service of care and friendship for many years, had bequeathed his entire fortune to her. She was a very rich woman yet lived in poverty due to her ignorance.
If you believe Jesus will heal you SOMEDAY, you sadly won't receive it until you change the SOMEDAY to TODAY! You must recognize that He has ALREADY done it!
Faith is what we've heard and accepted as truth. Faith is always NOW. Faith is not a past event or even a future event, it is right NOW! Hebrews 11:1 "NOW faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
When you are in faith, you don't say God will heal me someday, you say God's will is that I take my healing RIGHT NOW. I see healing belongs to me and I take it by faith!
1 Peter 2:24 says, "By Jesus' stripes I WAS healed!" Therefore you ALREADY ARE HEALED! No matter what symptoms you may be facing, those may be the "facts" but the TRUTH that Jesus took your symptoms supersedes any facts. Facts are therefore subject to change. And they begin to change only when you put the Word in your mouth and act like it is so!
If we don't know what belongs to us and what God ALREADY made ours to enjoy, how can we walk in it and fully enjoy it? We don't have to beg God to do for us today what He has generously ALREADY DONE! We are to feed our faith and then RELEASE only words of faith (and not doubt) with our mouths! We stay in that place of an occupying soldier until it comes to pass! If the devil can blind us with lies we will be like that woman and not reach for what is RIGHTFULLY OURS! ~Be Blessed, Jenny xoxo
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