Deuteronomy 30:19 " I call Heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed (offspring) may live."
I have a print of this "Laughing Jesus" hanging in my office. I oftentimes wonder what He is laughing about. I don't think He's making fun of someone or taking part in an off color joke. I believe that He has just observed someone breaking free from the Law of sin and death. Somebody just got healed or delivered. I believe that this is a laugh of great joy.
I don't believe that there is anything more fun than to watch someone who is lost, sick, hurting, diseased, bruised or broken grabbing on to the Word of God and having life and blessing flow into their lives. I want you to take a brief moment and go back to the Website and re-read the Part 1 of Healing and the Law of the Spirit of Life. Remember that Laws, whether physical or Spiritual, will work for anyone who applies them. Laws are consistent and constant and since God is "no respecter of persons." Acts 10:34, His laws will work for anyone who discovers and applies them!
According to the leading Scripture today, Living and Dying is our choice. You made a decision for Salvation and now its time to make a choice for healing. The decision for healing is your's not His! He has already made His decision. Look at this brief synopsis of the Ministry of Jesus as described in Acts 10:38. "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him."
David, a man who was able to capture the very heartbeat of God also declared by the Spirit of God..."Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgives all my iniquities; who heals all my diseases;" Psalm 103:2-3
God's Healing Power does not come on the body. In Proverbs 4:20-23 we are told the following:
1) Discover the Word (Promises) of God.
2) Keep focused on the Word of God alone.
3) Get them deep in your spirit (heart).
4) The Word of God will bring life and health to ALL who discover the truth.
5) Work at protecting and growing the Word in your Spirit (heart).
6) Out of your Spirit flow the issues (forces, outpourings) of Life!
The life force of God, which makes healing available to "all who were oppressed of the devil," flows out of your spirit man. The process is like this. As we discover truths contained in the Word of God, they begin to take root in our hearts. The more we feed on the Word of God and spend time in His presence, delighting in Him, the more that Word causes the "issues of life" to flow out of our spirit and surface in our flesh; our physical being.
Here's what the Bible says in the Gospel of Mark 4:26-29 "...the kingdom of God, is like a man casts seed into the ground...And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed will spring and grow up, he does not know how. For the earth brings forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is ready, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."
God's Word is planted in the ground of our hearts or spirits (Which have been regenerated in the image and likeness of God) and the combination of God's Word and a regenerated spirit produces fruit! That's the way it works in God's Kingdom! "Well, I thought..." It really doesn't matter what you think...God's way is to plant the seed of His Word in your heart. Feed it and watch His Word issue forth healing in your sick or diseased body!
God does not reach out to the symptom. He goes right to the source; your spirit man. Look at the ministry style Jesus employed.
Mt 4:23 "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people."
Mt 9:35 "And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people."
Very simply, He taught them the Law of the Spirit of Life. He taught. He preached. He healed "all manner of sickness and all manner of disease" and "EVERY sickness and disease among the people."
1) He taught them concerning the laws of faith. Things like trusting God, and the importance of feeding on His Word; the confession of our mouths; faith without corresponding actions is dead; and keeping our eyes on the promises instead of the circumstances. He also taught them of the kind of environment necessary to cultivate and promote the growth of healing seeds.
IF YOU DON'T GET ANYTHING OUT OF THIS TEACHING BUT ONE...YOU NEED TO CAPTURE THIS... The Lord spoke this to me last week...loud and clear!
Faith Seeds, Kingdom Seeds or Healing Seeds only operate and grow in an environment that is an Obedient, Forgiving, Connected and Loving relationship with God and with each other.
Hebrews 10:38 "Now the just shall live by faith..."
2) He preached... "The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand...among you...here right now, today!" He boldly proclaimed that the power of God was here and now, ready, willing, and able to heal. He stirred up hope in His bold proclamations. You saw last week that in Luke 5, the "power of the Lord was present top heal them," even those who didn't deserve it. It was there for them too!
3) After he taught and preached...He healed!
Dive into the Word of God today! Jesus said that Man lives by "every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." Matthew 4:4 He said that "if we've seen Him, we've seen the Father." John 14:9 Watch the character of God in action as you read and meditate on the Gospels. Jesus didn't turn anyone down, except in Mark Chapter 6, when unbelief was overwhelming the atmosphere and literally binding the healing hand of God from moving on the sick!
Listen to what He teaches and what He says! Watch as He heals! Then reach out for Him and protect His Word as it sprouts and grows in your spirit man. "It will grow!"
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Extremely powerful word! Keep up the good work preacher man. I can feel His healing rising up in these old bones!
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