This is the victory
Once you start saying things like that, scriptural promises such as those in Deuteronomy 28 will come alive as you read them. That chapter spells out in detail the things that are included in THE BLESSING of Abraham. It says:
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee….
“Do you really believe God will do those kinds of things for us?” you might ask.
Yes, I do because THE BLESSING of Deuteronomy 28 is our blessing! It has “come upon us” through Jesus. If we’ll connect with it like Abraham did, it will do for us what it’s always done. If we’ll fill our anointed minds with it by meditating those verses and speaking them over ourselves until we are fully persuaded, no matter how impossible our circumstances might appear to be, that blessing belongs to us. It will do for us the same thing it once did for Adam and Eve…and Abraham…and Jesus. It will empower us to be fruitful, multiply and have dominion in every area of life.
Some folks think that’s too good to be true. They claim we can never enjoy that kind of blessing on this earth. But I know we can, not only because the Bible says so but because I’ve proven it in my own life again and again.
When I was diagnosed with degenerative joint disease a few years ago, for example, I knew I had to connect with THE BLESSING to turn that condition around. So I did exactly what Abraham did. I considered not my body that was screaming in pain. I focused on THE BLESSING of God instead. I fixed my mind and my mouth on the fact that I was healed by the stripes of Jesus (I Peter 2:24).
I called things that be not as though they were. I said, “I’m healed,” and I said it not just once or twice but countless times month after month.
I won’t kid you, it wasn’t easy. Sometimes I hurt so bad I thought I’d have to stuff a rag in my mouth to keep myself from talking about it. I’d sit on my back porch with heating pads wrapped around my legs and turn the heat up as high as it would go, hoping the heat would hurt bad enough to distract me from the pain in my joints.
It took effort to speak words of faith during that time. I was tempted to say things like, “Dear God, how long must I be in pain like this? How long before my healing comes?”
But I didn’t do that. I stuck with the truth. I locked on to THE BLESSING and refused to let go. I connected with that blessing by speaking, believing and acting on the Word of God and, sure enough, the impossible happened. I have MRIs to prove it. One shows my body with degenerative joint disease and ruptured disks in my back. The other, done some time later, shows all the disease is gone and all the disks healed, regenerated and standing tall!
That’s the kind of thing that happens when we make the faith connection. We open the door to THE BLESSING of God and His goodness pours into our lives. Sickness becomes health. Poverty becomes wealth. We start living like the overcomers God made us to be.
We discover for ourselves the lesson Abraham learned some 4,000 years ago: “This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee….
“Do you really believe God will do those kinds of things for us?” you might ask.
Yes, I do because THE BLESSING of Deuteronomy 28 is our blessing! It has “come upon us” through Jesus. If we’ll connect with it like Abraham did, it will do for us what it’s always done. If we’ll fill our anointed minds with it by meditating those verses and speaking them over ourselves until we are fully persuaded, no matter how impossible our circumstances might appear to be, that blessing belongs to us. It will do for us the same thing it once did for Adam and Eve…and Abraham…and Jesus. It will empower us to be fruitful, multiply and have dominion in every area of life.
Some folks think that’s too good to be true. They claim we can never enjoy that kind of blessing on this earth. But I know we can, not only because the Bible says so but because I’ve proven it in my own life again and again.
When I was diagnosed with degenerative joint disease a few years ago, for example, I knew I had to connect with THE BLESSING to turn that condition around. So I did exactly what Abraham did. I considered not my body that was screaming in pain. I focused on THE BLESSING of God instead. I fixed my mind and my mouth on the fact that I was healed by the stripes of Jesus (I Peter 2:24).
I called things that be not as though they were. I said, “I’m healed,” and I said it not just once or twice but countless times month after month.
I won’t kid you, it wasn’t easy. Sometimes I hurt so bad I thought I’d have to stuff a rag in my mouth to keep myself from talking about it. I’d sit on my back porch with heating pads wrapped around my legs and turn the heat up as high as it would go, hoping the heat would hurt bad enough to distract me from the pain in my joints.
It took effort to speak words of faith during that time. I was tempted to say things like, “Dear God, how long must I be in pain like this? How long before my healing comes?”
But I didn’t do that. I stuck with the truth. I locked on to THE BLESSING and refused to let go. I connected with that blessing by speaking, believing and acting on the Word of God and, sure enough, the impossible happened. I have MRIs to prove it. One shows my body with degenerative joint disease and ruptured disks in my back. The other, done some time later, shows all the disease is gone and all the disks healed, regenerated and standing tall!
That’s the kind of thing that happens when we make the faith connection. We open the door to THE BLESSING of God and His goodness pours into our lives. Sickness becomes health. Poverty becomes wealth. We start living like the overcomers God made us to be.
We discover for ourselves the lesson Abraham learned some 4,000 years ago: “This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”
you are in mind of God
The second thing we’re to do is study and meditate on God’s Word until it takes over our mind and nothing can shake our confidence in it. We’ll learn to think like Abraham: “Being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform” (Romans 4:19-21).
Abraham didn’t focus on his negative circumstances. He didn’t meditate on his 100-year-old body or his very old and barren wife. He fixed his mind on God’s promises. He meditated on THE BLESSING until THE BLESSING controlled his mind.
Abraham’s thinking was so dominated by and saturated with THE BLESSING that when God told him to sacrifice Isaac, he didn’t even flinch. He was able to march up Mount Moriah with confidence because he figured after he obeyed God’s command and sacrificed that boy, God would raise him right back up.
We know that’s what Abraham was thinking because Hebrews 11:17-19 says: “By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.”
When you think about it, Abraham’s attitude was amazing because he didn’t know what we know about God. He’d never seen or heard of God raising anyone from the dead. Yet he was so fully persuaded that God would keep His promise to make him a father of many nations through Issac that he expected the impossible to happen.
If Abraham could be that fully persuaded, how much more should we be? We have inherited the same blessing, and ours has been guaranteed not just by the blood of animals like Abraham’s was, but by the precious blood of Jesus, God’s own Son!
What’s more, we don’t have to believe God with our own, natural mind like Abraham did. As born-again believers, we can think supernaturally because “we have the mind of Christ” (I Corinthians 2:16). We have the mind of the Anointed One.
Talk about having an advantage! That same kind of divine mind is available to us, but we have to take it by faith. If we want to follow the faith of Abraham, we must begin to call things that be not as though they were. We must speak God’s Word over our minds and say, “I thank God my mind is as anointed as the mind of Jesus. THE BLESSING is working in me now and an anointed mind is part of my blessing. Praise God, I have a brilliant mind!” Then act on II Corinthians 10:3-6.
Abraham didn’t focus on his negative circumstances. He didn’t meditate on his 100-year-old body or his very old and barren wife. He fixed his mind on God’s promises. He meditated on THE BLESSING until THE BLESSING controlled his mind.
Abraham’s thinking was so dominated by and saturated with THE BLESSING that when God told him to sacrifice Isaac, he didn’t even flinch. He was able to march up Mount Moriah with confidence because he figured after he obeyed God’s command and sacrificed that boy, God would raise him right back up.
We know that’s what Abraham was thinking because Hebrews 11:17-19 says: “By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.”
When you think about it, Abraham’s attitude was amazing because he didn’t know what we know about God. He’d never seen or heard of God raising anyone from the dead. Yet he was so fully persuaded that God would keep His promise to make him a father of many nations through Issac that he expected the impossible to happen.
If Abraham could be that fully persuaded, how much more should we be? We have inherited the same blessing, and ours has been guaranteed not just by the blood of animals like Abraham’s was, but by the precious blood of Jesus, God’s own Son!
What’s more, we don’t have to believe God with our own, natural mind like Abraham did. As born-again believers, we can think supernaturally because “we have the mind of Christ” (I Corinthians 2:16). We have the mind of the Anointed One.
Talk about having an advantage! That same kind of divine mind is available to us, but we have to take it by faith. If we want to follow the faith of Abraham, we must begin to call things that be not as though they were. We must speak God’s Word over our minds and say, “I thank God my mind is as anointed as the mind of Jesus. THE BLESSING is working in me now and an anointed mind is part of my blessing. Praise God, I have a brilliant mind!” Then act on II Corinthians 10:3-6.
you are what Gods calls you
Galatians 3:13-14 confirms that. It says: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”
The last phrase of that passage leaves no doubt about it: We receive THE BLESSING, which is the promise of the Spirit, the same way Abraham did—through faith.
“But Brother Copeland,” you might say, “I don’t know what Abraham knew about faith. God hasn’t taught me the things He taught him.”
Sure He has. He put them down for you in black and white. Right there in your Bible, He recorded every faith lesson Abraham ever learned. Read Romans 4 and you’ll see those lessons for yourself. You’ll find out exactly how to “walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham” (verse 12).
You’ll see, for example, that God called Abraham “a father of many nations,” and He didn’t start calling him that after Isaac was born. God called Abraham the father of many nations when there were no sons in sight.
When God calls you something, that’s what you are. You may not look like it, you may not feel like it, but God’s Word is the truth no matter what you can see or how you feel.
That’s how it was in Abraham’s life and that’s how it is in ours. If God calls us overcomers (and He does in I John 5:4) that’s what we are. We aren’t going to become overcomers one of these days. We already are because God said so. If we’ve made Jesus the Lord of our lives we are born of God, and He said, “Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world.”
Abraham understood that principle. That’s why Romans 4:17 says when God called him a father of many nations, Abraham stood “before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.” Abraham not only stood before God and believed Him, he acted like God by calling those things which are not as though they were.
Since Abraham is the father of our faith, we should do the same thing. After all, the Bible says we have been born again in God’s image (Colossians 3:10). It tells us to “be imitators of God as dear children” (Ephesians 5:1, New King James Version).
God always operates that way. He speaks things into being. So He taught Abraham to do it, too. He showed him how to connect with THE BLESSING by calling himself blessed.
If we want to follow in his footsteps and enjoy THE BLESSING like he did, that’s the first thing we must do.
The last phrase of that passage leaves no doubt about it: We receive THE BLESSING, which is the promise of the Spirit, the same way Abraham did—through faith.
“But Brother Copeland,” you might say, “I don’t know what Abraham knew about faith. God hasn’t taught me the things He taught him.”
Sure He has. He put them down for you in black and white. Right there in your Bible, He recorded every faith lesson Abraham ever learned. Read Romans 4 and you’ll see those lessons for yourself. You’ll find out exactly how to “walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham” (verse 12).
You’ll see, for example, that God called Abraham “a father of many nations,” and He didn’t start calling him that after Isaac was born. God called Abraham the father of many nations when there were no sons in sight.
When God calls you something, that’s what you are. You may not look like it, you may not feel like it, but God’s Word is the truth no matter what you can see or how you feel.
That’s how it was in Abraham’s life and that’s how it is in ours. If God calls us overcomers (and He does in I John 5:4) that’s what we are. We aren’t going to become overcomers one of these days. We already are because God said so. If we’ve made Jesus the Lord of our lives we are born of God, and He said, “Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world.”
Abraham understood that principle. That’s why Romans 4:17 says when God called him a father of many nations, Abraham stood “before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.” Abraham not only stood before God and believed Him, he acted like God by calling those things which are not as though they were.
Since Abraham is the father of our faith, we should do the same thing. After all, the Bible says we have been born again in God’s image (Colossians 3:10). It tells us to “be imitators of God as dear children” (Ephesians 5:1, New King James Version).
God always operates that way. He speaks things into being. So He taught Abraham to do it, too. He showed him how to connect with THE BLESSING by calling himself blessed.
If we want to follow in his footsteps and enjoy THE BLESSING like he did, that’s the first thing we must do.
living in the reality of gods blessings
Have you ever read a promise in the Bible and wondered how it could ever come to pass in your life?
Have you ever read, “by [His] stripes ye were healed” when your body was wracked with sickness and pain? Or heard someone preach that God will meet “all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus” when your bank balance was zero and your unpaid bills were piled high?
Healed sounds great, you thought. Needs met sounds great. But I don’t know how to get there from here. It looks impossible!
Everyone who has ever lived by faith has felt like that at one time or another.
Everyone.
Even Abraham, who was one of the greatest God-believing, impossible-promise-receiving, scriptural heroes who ever lived. The first time he heard God’s promises to him, he had no idea how they would ever come to pass.
He’d grown up in a totally heathen culture—surrounded all his life by people who worshipped the moon. So when God said, “I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing” (Genesis 12:2), Abraham had no clue how to connect with that blessing and cooperate in its fulfillment.
He must have been especially puzzled about how God was going to make of him a “great nation.” After all, Abraham’s wife was—and always had been—barren. What’s more, they’d both grown too old for baby making.
How do you get from being a childless old man with a barren old wife to being a great nation? he must have wondered. It’s impossible!
Live the Life of Faith
Over the years, God answered that question for Abraham. He taught him how to think in a way that would connect him with THE BLESSING. He taught him how to talk and live the life of faith so well the Scriptures call him the faith father of us all.
Granted, Abraham’s faith made him look, sound and act different than everyone else. But it sure produced results.
It opened the door for THE BLESSING to do the same thing in his life it was originally designed to do for Adam and Eve when God spoke it over them. It empowered him to “Be fruitful, and multiply…and have dominion” (Genesis 1:28). As Abraham’s faith connected with THE BLESSING, that blessing produced such supernatural abundance in his life it created around him a kind of Garden of Eden wherever he went.
That’s how THE BLESSING works. It worked that way for Adam and Eve until they cut themselves off from it by yielding to sin. It worked that way for Abraham when God passed it down to him. It worked that way for Jesus during His earthly ministry, and it will work that way for us.
According to the Bible, as born-again believers we have inherited THE BLESSING of Abraham through Jesus. God didn’t give it to us as just an afterthought. He had us in mind from the start. When He blessed Abraham, He did it so that through the plan of redemption, we could receive that blessing too. Galatians 3:8-9 says it this way: “The scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.”
Praise God, the former heathens described in those verses are believers like you and me! We are the people who have been made righteous by the blood of Jesus and blessed with faithful Abraham.
That means if we can find out what Abraham did, if we can learn what God taught him about how to connect with THE BLESSING, we can enjoy the benefits of it as surely as he did.
Have you ever read, “by [His] stripes ye were healed” when your body was wracked with sickness and pain? Or heard someone preach that God will meet “all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus” when your bank balance was zero and your unpaid bills were piled high?
Healed sounds great, you thought. Needs met sounds great. But I don’t know how to get there from here. It looks impossible!
Everyone who has ever lived by faith has felt like that at one time or another.
Everyone.
Even Abraham, who was one of the greatest God-believing, impossible-promise-receiving, scriptural heroes who ever lived. The first time he heard God’s promises to him, he had no idea how they would ever come to pass.
He’d grown up in a totally heathen culture—surrounded all his life by people who worshipped the moon. So when God said, “I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing” (Genesis 12:2), Abraham had no clue how to connect with that blessing and cooperate in its fulfillment.
He must have been especially puzzled about how God was going to make of him a “great nation.” After all, Abraham’s wife was—and always had been—barren. What’s more, they’d both grown too old for baby making.
How do you get from being a childless old man with a barren old wife to being a great nation? he must have wondered. It’s impossible!
Live the Life of Faith
Over the years, God answered that question for Abraham. He taught him how to think in a way that would connect him with THE BLESSING. He taught him how to talk and live the life of faith so well the Scriptures call him the faith father of us all.
Granted, Abraham’s faith made him look, sound and act different than everyone else. But it sure produced results.
It opened the door for THE BLESSING to do the same thing in his life it was originally designed to do for Adam and Eve when God spoke it over them. It empowered him to “Be fruitful, and multiply…and have dominion” (Genesis 1:28). As Abraham’s faith connected with THE BLESSING, that blessing produced such supernatural abundance in his life it created around him a kind of Garden of Eden wherever he went.
That’s how THE BLESSING works. It worked that way for Adam and Eve until they cut themselves off from it by yielding to sin. It worked that way for Abraham when God passed it down to him. It worked that way for Jesus during His earthly ministry, and it will work that way for us.
According to the Bible, as born-again believers we have inherited THE BLESSING of Abraham through Jesus. God didn’t give it to us as just an afterthought. He had us in mind from the start. When He blessed Abraham, He did it so that through the plan of redemption, we could receive that blessing too. Galatians 3:8-9 says it this way: “The scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.”
Praise God, the former heathens described in those verses are believers like you and me! We are the people who have been made righteous by the blood of Jesus and blessed with faithful Abraham.
That means if we can find out what Abraham did, if we can learn what God taught him about how to connect with THE BLESSING, we can enjoy the benefits of it as surely as he did.
How do I cultivate the faith of God that is within me
As a born-again believer, you have residing within your spirit the faith of God. You have the life and nature of God. Faith is a fruit of the reborn human spirit (Galatians 5:22). Your faith has the potential to produce the same results that Jesus produced in His earthly ministry (John 14:12). Faith must be in the unseen before it can be applied to the things you can see. It is cultivated through fellowship with the Father. Your relationship with Him is the most important aspect of your faith walk. You cannot see God, but He will reveal Himself to you through His Word, by the Holy Spirit.
Faith that moves mountains is simply trusting God to keep His Word. You cannot trust God without knowing Him. Fellowship is quality time spent alone with God getting to know Him. Your fellowship with Him will develop trust. It will enhance your faith because you are giving Him the opportunity to reveal Himself to you. You will know Him. Fellowship with God Who is invisible gives birth to the kind of faith that can change things in the visible, physical realm.
You can also promote the development of your faith through meditation and confession of the Word of God. Faith is an action; when you believe that you receive, you will act like it. God told Joshua, "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success" (Joshua 1:8). Meditation reveals how to act on the Word. Confession is part of meditation. When you are speaking the Word to yourself, you are meditating the Word. You cannot say one thing and think something else. What you meditate regulates what you believe. Meditation and confession will cause you to be able to believe God's Word enough to act on it in faith.
Faith is also developed through praying in the spirit. Jude 1 says, "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost." Praying in other tongues is a spiritual exercise. As you spend time every day, praying in other tongues, you are keeping your spirit active rather than passive. You will be built up on your most holy faith!
Faith that moves mountains is simply trusting God to keep His Word. You cannot trust God without knowing Him. Fellowship is quality time spent alone with God getting to know Him. Your fellowship with Him will develop trust. It will enhance your faith because you are giving Him the opportunity to reveal Himself to you. You will know Him. Fellowship with God Who is invisible gives birth to the kind of faith that can change things in the visible, physical realm.
You can also promote the development of your faith through meditation and confession of the Word of God. Faith is an action; when you believe that you receive, you will act like it. God told Joshua, "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success" (Joshua 1:8). Meditation reveals how to act on the Word. Confession is part of meditation. When you are speaking the Word to yourself, you are meditating the Word. You cannot say one thing and think something else. What you meditate regulates what you believe. Meditation and confession will cause you to be able to believe God's Word enough to act on it in faith.
Faith is also developed through praying in the spirit. Jude 1 says, "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost." Praying in other tongues is a spiritual exercise. As you spend time every day, praying in other tongues, you are keeping your spirit active rather than passive. You will be built up on your most holy faith!
Faith opens the Door
That’s what the devil does, you know. He tries to talk you out of your inheritance. He doesn’t have any inheritance of his own. He has to steal everything he gets from the seed of Abraham, because the whole world belongs to us.
It’s true! Romans 4:13 says plainly that God promised us, the seed of Abraham, that we would be “heir of the world!”
You should never entertain another thought of poverty again. Don’t ever let the devil discourage you and push you around. Instead, you should wake up every morning shouting and singing about how blessed you are.
You may not feel very blessed right now. You may not look very blessed. When you check the balance in your bank account, it may not appear that you are heir to anything. Naturally speaking, your situation may seem absolutely hopeless.
If so, remember you’re in good company. Abraham once faced similar hopelessness. When God first promised him he’d have a son, he and Sarah both were old and wrinkled. They’d tried for years, without success, to have a baby.
But Abraham, “[human reason for] hope being gone, hoped in faith that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been promised” (Romans 4:18, The Amplified Bible).
Abraham believed God when there was no hope. He believed even when the world said, “It’s impossible.” “And being not weak in faith…He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform” (Romans 4:19-21).
THE BLESSING of Abraham comes to us when we do what he did. It comes to us when we believe God’s Word. As Romans 5:2 says, “We have access by faith into this grace.”
Faith gives us access to the favor and grace of God…and it gives God access to our lives. It opens the door to our inheritance. And since faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God, I suggest you get out your Bible.
Start reading it with a new perspective, not like a book of stories, but as the record of your forefathers. Read and believe it like you would a will that detailed your inheritance, and you will begin to enjoy the riches that are yours by virtue of the new birth.
You’ll discover for yourself that you are truly an heir to the limitless resources of the family of God!
It’s true! Romans 4:13 says plainly that God promised us, the seed of Abraham, that we would be “heir of the world!”
You should never entertain another thought of poverty again. Don’t ever let the devil discourage you and push you around. Instead, you should wake up every morning shouting and singing about how blessed you are.
You may not feel very blessed right now. You may not look very blessed. When you check the balance in your bank account, it may not appear that you are heir to anything. Naturally speaking, your situation may seem absolutely hopeless.
If so, remember you’re in good company. Abraham once faced similar hopelessness. When God first promised him he’d have a son, he and Sarah both were old and wrinkled. They’d tried for years, without success, to have a baby.
But Abraham, “[human reason for] hope being gone, hoped in faith that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been promised” (Romans 4:18, The Amplified Bible).
Abraham believed God when there was no hope. He believed even when the world said, “It’s impossible.” “And being not weak in faith…He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform” (Romans 4:19-21).
THE BLESSING of Abraham comes to us when we do what he did. It comes to us when we believe God’s Word. As Romans 5:2 says, “We have access by faith into this grace.”
Faith gives us access to the favor and grace of God…and it gives God access to our lives. It opens the door to our inheritance. And since faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God, I suggest you get out your Bible.
Start reading it with a new perspective, not like a book of stories, but as the record of your forefathers. Read and believe it like you would a will that detailed your inheritance, and you will begin to enjoy the riches that are yours by virtue of the new birth.
You’ll discover for yourself that you are truly an heir to the limitless resources of the family of God!
use the anchor
Joseph had quite a success story, but you should have an even better one. You are an heir, not only of the covenant Joseph had, but of a better one with even better promises (Hebrews 8:6). Available to you are all the natural blessings that Abraham, Isaac and Joseph enjoyed, plus the spiritual blessings Jesus won for you when He died on the cross and rose again.
Jesus obtained those blessings as an heir of the Abrahamic covenant. That’s right! God promised Abraham that “thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies” (Genesis 22:17), and on the strength of that promise, Jesus invaded the devil’s domain, defeated him and came out with the keys of death and hell (Revelation 1:18).
Glory to God! Because Jesus possessed the gates of His enemies, you have everything He had under the Old Covenant and, in addition, you have the fulfillment of the promise of the Spirit. You’ve been born again. You have the Holy Spirit dwelling in you.
You’ve Inherited It All!
God wanted you to be so sure of that, He gave you a double guarantee. He not only gave His promise, He backed it with an oath:
For when God made [His] promise to Abraham, He swore by Himself, since He had no one greater by whom to swear, saying, Blessing I certainly will bless you and multiplying I will multiply you. Accordingly God also, in His desire to show more convincingly and beyond doubt to those who were to inherit the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose and plan, intervened with an oath. This was so that, by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath], in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us…. [Now] we have this [hope] as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul… (Hebrews 6:13-14, 17-19, The Amplified Bible).
The fact that God has sworn to give you the blessing of Abraham should be an anchor to your soul! You should hold fast to it. When Satan comes to you and says, You won’t make it. You’ll never prosper. You’ll never have a good job. You’ll never have that home you need…, God’s promise and oath ought to rise up within you. You ought to say, “I am an heir. I have inherited a promise that in blessing, God will bless me. And in multiplying, He will multiply me. I rebuke you, unbelief! Now get out of here devil, you’re not going to get my inheritance!”
Jesus obtained those blessings as an heir of the Abrahamic covenant. That’s right! God promised Abraham that “thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies” (Genesis 22:17), and on the strength of that promise, Jesus invaded the devil’s domain, defeated him and came out with the keys of death and hell (Revelation 1:18).
Glory to God! Because Jesus possessed the gates of His enemies, you have everything He had under the Old Covenant and, in addition, you have the fulfillment of the promise of the Spirit. You’ve been born again. You have the Holy Spirit dwelling in you.
You’ve Inherited It All!
God wanted you to be so sure of that, He gave you a double guarantee. He not only gave His promise, He backed it with an oath:
For when God made [His] promise to Abraham, He swore by Himself, since He had no one greater by whom to swear, saying, Blessing I certainly will bless you and multiplying I will multiply you. Accordingly God also, in His desire to show more convincingly and beyond doubt to those who were to inherit the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose and plan, intervened with an oath. This was so that, by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath], in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us…. [Now] we have this [hope] as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul… (Hebrews 6:13-14, 17-19, The Amplified Bible).
The fact that God has sworn to give you the blessing of Abraham should be an anchor to your soul! You should hold fast to it. When Satan comes to you and says, You won’t make it. You’ll never prosper. You’ll never have a good job. You’ll never have that home you need…, God’s promise and oath ought to rise up within you. You ought to say, “I am an heir. I have inherited a promise that in blessing, God will bless me. And in multiplying, He will multiply me. I rebuke you, unbelief! Now get out of here devil, you’re not going to get my inheritance!”
put your name on it
Financial prosperity wasn’t the only benefit God’s blessing brought Abraham either. It also made him an overcomer. Because God had declared that those who cursed Abraham would themselves be cursed, Abraham could conquer any enemy that came against him or his family.
You can see that fact borne out in Genesis 14. It tells of the time when Lot and his family were taken captive by wicked kings who made war on Sodom and Gomorrah. When Abraham received the news about his nephew, he didn’t sit around wringing his hands wishing there was something he could do. “He armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued…and smote them…. And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people” (verses 14-16).
Imagine that. Abraham and his servants single-handedly whipped four kings and their armies, then recovered everything and everyone they had taken captive!
What gave Abraham the boldness to go after those kings? He knew he had a covenant with God. He knew God had promised to be an enemy to his enemies, and he dared to act on that promise.
Abraham understood that God was God! Abraham took God at His Word when He said, “Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward” (Genesis 15:1).
We need to do the same thing. We need to take that promise and put our name in it. After all, it’s ours! We’re the seed of Abraham.
Years ago, when Ken and I first started to walk with the Lord, we were facing debts and problems that seemed overwhelming. So I took that promise from God to Abraham and put my name in it. I read it like this: Fear not, Gloria. God is your shield, your abundant compensation, and your reward shall be exceedingly great!
I decided that since I was an heir of Abraham, those words were just as true for me as they were for him. And sure enough, they have been. In the years since, God has protected me and rewarded me beyond anything I could ask or think. He has been as faithful to me as He was to Abraham!
God keeps His promises, and He promised Abraham that He would bless his seed. He said: “I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee” (Genesis 17:6-7).
Circumstances Can’t Stop THE BLESSING
When I look at the life of Abraham, I’m convinced there is no limit to what THE BLESSING of God can do for those who dare to believe. It makes the impossible possible!
For example, when God told Abraham and Sarah they would have a son, naturally speaking there was no way. They were both more than 90 years old, and Sarah had been barren all her life. But that didn’t matter. Their covenant of blessing with Almighty God overcame those obstacles.
It not only enabled Sarah to give birth to Isaac, it kept her alive until he was 37 years old. It’s amazing enough for an old, barren woman to have a baby. But for her to live long enough to raise him to manhood, that’s really something!
The power of God’s blessing didn’t stop there, either. God so renewed Abraham’s youth that after Sarah died, he was able to remarry and have six more children. At 175 years old, the Bible says, “Abraham’s spirit was released, and he died at a good (ample, full) old age, an old man, satisfied and satiated, and was gathered to his people” (Genesis 25:8, The Amplified Bible).
What happened then? Did the covenant of blessing die too? No! Verse 11 tells us that “After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac.”
If you’ll read about the life of Isaac, you’ll see THE BLESSING of God caused him to prosper just like it did his father. It didn’t matter what happened around him, he just kept increasing.
Once, when there was a famine in the land, Isaac considered moving to Egypt to escape it. But the Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt…. Dwell temporarily in this land, and I will be with you and will favor you with blessings…and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father” (Genesis 26:2-3, The Amplified Bible).
Keep in mind, famines back then were just as terrible as they are today. I’m sure it was just like the pictures we see where the babies’ bellies are swollen from starvation and their arms and legs are little more than skin and bone. Yet right in the midst of it all, “Isaac sowed seed in that land and received in the same year a hundred times as much as he had planted, and the Lord favored him with blessings” (verse 12, The Amplified Bible).
I want you to know, that’s what THE BLESSING of Abraham will do. It will enable you to prosper no matter what’s happening around you. It will cause you to increase in the midst of recessions, depressions and every other kind of economic calamity the devil can dream up.
If you’re the seed of Abraham, you shouldn’t even worry about such things. They don’t have to affect you. You’re not dependent on the economic cycles of this natural realm. You’re not dependent on what the Federal Reserve does. You are dependent on your covenant with Almighty God—and that never changes! He never alters the Word that comes out of His mouth, and He has said you are BLESSED!
What’s more, He’s said you’re a BLESSING. That means the company or corporation you work for will be blessed just because you’re there.
“Well, I don’t know about that,” you may say. “I’m just a janitor and the company I work for is full of heathens!”
So what! Genesis 41 tells us Abraham’s great-grandson, Joseph, started out as a slave in the ungodly nation of Egypt. But because he was the seed of Abraham, he ended up saving that nation from being destroyed by famine. Not only that, he became the most powerful man in the nation next to Pharaoh himself. The entire country was blessed because of Joseph and his covenant with God!
You can see that fact borne out in Genesis 14. It tells of the time when Lot and his family were taken captive by wicked kings who made war on Sodom and Gomorrah. When Abraham received the news about his nephew, he didn’t sit around wringing his hands wishing there was something he could do. “He armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued…and smote them…. And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people” (verses 14-16).
Imagine that. Abraham and his servants single-handedly whipped four kings and their armies, then recovered everything and everyone they had taken captive!
What gave Abraham the boldness to go after those kings? He knew he had a covenant with God. He knew God had promised to be an enemy to his enemies, and he dared to act on that promise.
Abraham understood that God was God! Abraham took God at His Word when He said, “Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward” (Genesis 15:1).
We need to do the same thing. We need to take that promise and put our name in it. After all, it’s ours! We’re the seed of Abraham.
Years ago, when Ken and I first started to walk with the Lord, we were facing debts and problems that seemed overwhelming. So I took that promise from God to Abraham and put my name in it. I read it like this: Fear not, Gloria. God is your shield, your abundant compensation, and your reward shall be exceedingly great!
I decided that since I was an heir of Abraham, those words were just as true for me as they were for him. And sure enough, they have been. In the years since, God has protected me and rewarded me beyond anything I could ask or think. He has been as faithful to me as He was to Abraham!
God keeps His promises, and He promised Abraham that He would bless his seed. He said: “I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee” (Genesis 17:6-7).
Circumstances Can’t Stop THE BLESSING
When I look at the life of Abraham, I’m convinced there is no limit to what THE BLESSING of God can do for those who dare to believe. It makes the impossible possible!
For example, when God told Abraham and Sarah they would have a son, naturally speaking there was no way. They were both more than 90 years old, and Sarah had been barren all her life. But that didn’t matter. Their covenant of blessing with Almighty God overcame those obstacles.
It not only enabled Sarah to give birth to Isaac, it kept her alive until he was 37 years old. It’s amazing enough for an old, barren woman to have a baby. But for her to live long enough to raise him to manhood, that’s really something!
The power of God’s blessing didn’t stop there, either. God so renewed Abraham’s youth that after Sarah died, he was able to remarry and have six more children. At 175 years old, the Bible says, “Abraham’s spirit was released, and he died at a good (ample, full) old age, an old man, satisfied and satiated, and was gathered to his people” (Genesis 25:8, The Amplified Bible).
What happened then? Did the covenant of blessing die too? No! Verse 11 tells us that “After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac.”
If you’ll read about the life of Isaac, you’ll see THE BLESSING of God caused him to prosper just like it did his father. It didn’t matter what happened around him, he just kept increasing.
Once, when there was a famine in the land, Isaac considered moving to Egypt to escape it. But the Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt…. Dwell temporarily in this land, and I will be with you and will favor you with blessings…and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father” (Genesis 26:2-3, The Amplified Bible).
Keep in mind, famines back then were just as terrible as they are today. I’m sure it was just like the pictures we see where the babies’ bellies are swollen from starvation and their arms and legs are little more than skin and bone. Yet right in the midst of it all, “Isaac sowed seed in that land and received in the same year a hundred times as much as he had planted, and the Lord favored him with blessings” (verse 12, The Amplified Bible).
I want you to know, that’s what THE BLESSING of Abraham will do. It will enable you to prosper no matter what’s happening around you. It will cause you to increase in the midst of recessions, depressions and every other kind of economic calamity the devil can dream up.
If you’re the seed of Abraham, you shouldn’t even worry about such things. They don’t have to affect you. You’re not dependent on the economic cycles of this natural realm. You’re not dependent on what the Federal Reserve does. You are dependent on your covenant with Almighty God—and that never changes! He never alters the Word that comes out of His mouth, and He has said you are BLESSED!
What’s more, He’s said you’re a BLESSING. That means the company or corporation you work for will be blessed just because you’re there.
“Well, I don’t know about that,” you may say. “I’m just a janitor and the company I work for is full of heathens!”
So what! Genesis 41 tells us Abraham’s great-grandson, Joseph, started out as a slave in the ungodly nation of Egypt. But because he was the seed of Abraham, he ended up saving that nation from being destroyed by famine. Not only that, he became the most powerful man in the nation next to Pharaoh himself. The entire country was blessed because of Joseph and his covenant with God!
receive your inheritance
Have you ever been invited to an attorney’s office for the reading of a will?
I haven’t. Where I come from, there was never enough money left for the relatives to fight over when someone died. Most of the people I knew didn’t leave wills…they left bills.
But, glory to God, that’s not the case anymore. I became heir to a fortune more than 40 years ago in Little Rock, Ark., when I gave my life to Jesus. At that moment I was born again into the richest family ever known. I was born into the royal family that owns and operates the universe. I received an inheritance so vast it will take me all of eternity to fully comprehend it.
Some people get excited about tracing their natural family history. They like to know if they have great people in their family tree because it makes them feel they’ve come from good stock.
You and I ought to be that way about our heritage as believers. Our ancestors are the greatest men and women who ever walked the face of the earth. We can trace our lineage back to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, King David…all the way to Jesus. Think about that! Those are our forefathers.
“Now wait a minute,” you may say. “Those are Jewish men. They lived in Canaan and Israel. You’re an American from Arkansas! You’re not part of that family.”
Well, not physically. But spiritually, according to the Bible, yes I am. And if you’ve made Jesus Christ the Lord of your life, you are too, because Galatians 3 says:
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise (verses 13-14, 29).
Let’s Read the Will
As a Christian, you are the seed of Abraham! What does that mean? It means everything God promised him belongs to you. It has been passed down to you through Jesus.
Abraham’s blessing is your inheritance! It has been willed to you by the Word of God. So let’s read the will today. Let’s look in the Bible and find out how God treated Abraham, because that’s how God has promised to treat us.
Genesis 12:2-3 is a good place to start. There we see the first promise God made to Abraham: “I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
To fully grasp what God was saying here, you must realize when He blesses someone, He is not just telling them to have a good day. He is conferring upon them the power to increase and prosper in every area of life. In fact, according to W.E. Vine and Webster’s dictionary, the true definition of bless is “to cause to prosper, to make happy, to bestow favor upon, to consecrate to holy purposes, to make successful, to make prosperous in temporal concerns pertaining to this life, to guard and preserve.”
It was actually THE BLESSING of God that made Abraham rich! It caused him to prosper wherever he went.
In fact, he became so “very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold” (Genesis 13:2) that he and his nephew, Lot, who was traveling with him, eventually had to go separate ways “for their possessions were too great for them to live together” (verse 6, The Amplified Bible).
Do you know what Abraham did when that happened? He gave Lot first choice of the available land. He said: “Is not the whole land before you?… If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you choose the right hand, then I will go to the left. And Lot looked and saw that everywhere the Jordan Valley was well watered…. Then Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley…” (verses 9-11, The Amplified Bible).
Notice that Abraham wasn’t greedy or concerned about his own welfare. He didn’t have to be. He had a covenant of blessing with God and he knew God would bring him success no matter where he lived.
I haven’t. Where I come from, there was never enough money left for the relatives to fight over when someone died. Most of the people I knew didn’t leave wills…they left bills.
But, glory to God, that’s not the case anymore. I became heir to a fortune more than 40 years ago in Little Rock, Ark., when I gave my life to Jesus. At that moment I was born again into the richest family ever known. I was born into the royal family that owns and operates the universe. I received an inheritance so vast it will take me all of eternity to fully comprehend it.
Some people get excited about tracing their natural family history. They like to know if they have great people in their family tree because it makes them feel they’ve come from good stock.
You and I ought to be that way about our heritage as believers. Our ancestors are the greatest men and women who ever walked the face of the earth. We can trace our lineage back to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, King David…all the way to Jesus. Think about that! Those are our forefathers.
“Now wait a minute,” you may say. “Those are Jewish men. They lived in Canaan and Israel. You’re an American from Arkansas! You’re not part of that family.”
Well, not physically. But spiritually, according to the Bible, yes I am. And if you’ve made Jesus Christ the Lord of your life, you are too, because Galatians 3 says:
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise (verses 13-14, 29).
Let’s Read the Will
As a Christian, you are the seed of Abraham! What does that mean? It means everything God promised him belongs to you. It has been passed down to you through Jesus.
Abraham’s blessing is your inheritance! It has been willed to you by the Word of God. So let’s read the will today. Let’s look in the Bible and find out how God treated Abraham, because that’s how God has promised to treat us.
Genesis 12:2-3 is a good place to start. There we see the first promise God made to Abraham: “I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
To fully grasp what God was saying here, you must realize when He blesses someone, He is not just telling them to have a good day. He is conferring upon them the power to increase and prosper in every area of life. In fact, according to W.E. Vine and Webster’s dictionary, the true definition of bless is “to cause to prosper, to make happy, to bestow favor upon, to consecrate to holy purposes, to make successful, to make prosperous in temporal concerns pertaining to this life, to guard and preserve.”
It was actually THE BLESSING of God that made Abraham rich! It caused him to prosper wherever he went.
In fact, he became so “very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold” (Genesis 13:2) that he and his nephew, Lot, who was traveling with him, eventually had to go separate ways “for their possessions were too great for them to live together” (verse 6, The Amplified Bible).
Do you know what Abraham did when that happened? He gave Lot first choice of the available land. He said: “Is not the whole land before you?… If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you choose the right hand, then I will go to the left. And Lot looked and saw that everywhere the Jordan Valley was well watered…. Then Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley…” (verses 9-11, The Amplified Bible).
Notice that Abraham wasn’t greedy or concerned about his own welfare. He didn’t have to be. He had a covenant of blessing with God and he knew God would bring him success no matter where he lived.
A Light in the Midst of Darkness
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a peck-measure but on a lamp stand, and it gives light to all in the house. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your moral excellence and your praiseworthy, noble, and good deeds and recognize and honor and praise and glorify your Father Who is in heaven. —Jesus, Matthew 5:14-16 (The Amplified Bible)
Whether you are in a school or job setting, let me assure you, unbelievers are reading you like a book. Understand that people who do not know your God will probably not pick up the Bible and read it. But they will study your life, even from afar. You may not know who they are or what they do, but they notice you. And my prayer is that what they see in you will ignite within them a desire to enter a personal relationship with God.
This is why it is vitally important that we live the life of victory God has planned for His people. There is a reason why He blesses us. God wants us to find a way to do good things for others. He is looking for true Christians who can be a light in this dark world.
As a Christian, you may find that God often leads you into settings with many non-Christians. At times, you may look around and discover that you are the only Believer in certain places. Instead of becoming offended by everything that is going on around you, ask the Lord: is there something you want me to do here? Many times, God wants to use you to be a witness to people who do not know Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior.
God wants His people to operate by His power and love on a day-to-day basis (John 13:35). In the grocery stores, malls, salons, barber shops, restaurants, on our jobs, etc., our lives should stand out, like a flashlight in a dark room. People everywhere should see Christians as loving, extraordinary people who change their immediate environment.
Our lives should exemplify that of a conqueror who constantly wins with tenacity and courage. This is why God wants us to meditate on His Word day and night. Then we are able to do what He says, and therefore, deal wisely in the world, making our way prosperous (Joshua 1:8). His Word is the origin of our prosperity. It is the origin of our financial stability, our healed bodies, our blessed families, and our overall success in life. As we live successful lives, we must always be mindful of who our source is. God blesses us to live successful lives so that we are empowered to bless others (Deuteronomy 8:18). When we let our lights shine, we prove to the world (or society) that there is a God, and He is good! More importantly, as people of integrity, excellence, and success, we serve as a part of His big, soul-winning plan! Let your light shine brightly for all to see.
Whether you are in a school or job setting, let me assure you, unbelievers are reading you like a book. Understand that people who do not know your God will probably not pick up the Bible and read it. But they will study your life, even from afar. You may not know who they are or what they do, but they notice you. And my prayer is that what they see in you will ignite within them a desire to enter a personal relationship with God.
This is why it is vitally important that we live the life of victory God has planned for His people. There is a reason why He blesses us. God wants us to find a way to do good things for others. He is looking for true Christians who can be a light in this dark world.
As a Christian, you may find that God often leads you into settings with many non-Christians. At times, you may look around and discover that you are the only Believer in certain places. Instead of becoming offended by everything that is going on around you, ask the Lord: is there something you want me to do here? Many times, God wants to use you to be a witness to people who do not know Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior.
God wants His people to operate by His power and love on a day-to-day basis (John 13:35). In the grocery stores, malls, salons, barber shops, restaurants, on our jobs, etc., our lives should stand out, like a flashlight in a dark room. People everywhere should see Christians as loving, extraordinary people who change their immediate environment.
Our lives should exemplify that of a conqueror who constantly wins with tenacity and courage. This is why God wants us to meditate on His Word day and night. Then we are able to do what He says, and therefore, deal wisely in the world, making our way prosperous (Joshua 1:8). His Word is the origin of our prosperity. It is the origin of our financial stability, our healed bodies, our blessed families, and our overall success in life. As we live successful lives, we must always be mindful of who our source is. God blesses us to live successful lives so that we are empowered to bless others (Deuteronomy 8:18). When we let our lights shine, we prove to the world (or society) that there is a God, and He is good! More importantly, as people of integrity, excellence, and success, we serve as a part of His big, soul-winning plan! Let your light shine brightly for all to see.
PASTOR JOSHUA OYAKHILOME
Be Relentless!
Years ago, my friend Dodie Osteen had to take healing in just that way. She was given a report that the cancer in her liver was fatal. The doctors offered no hope. So, Dodie went home from the hospital. She and her husband took forceful action! They stood in agreement on the healing promises in the Word of God. They confessed God’s Word over her body. They were relentless. Dodie faithfully took those healing scriptures every day, just like medicine.She fought the good fight of faith by using the sword of the Word to resist fear and all the lies of the devil (Ephesians 6:17; James 4:7). It was a battle that took awhile, but Dodie was completely healed of cancer and remains free today. In fact, she has been cancer free for more than 22 years. She says she stays well by consistently taking God’s medicine. Proverbs 4:20-22 explains this process for healing. It says: “My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.” The Hebrew word translated health there means “medicine.” Healing scriptures are God’s medicine for your body. So, take that medicine daily, be relentless about it and take your healing. The fact is, as a child of the living God you are more than a conqueror in Christ (Romans 8:37)! So, if you’re believing for healing, you can kick the devil out of your life with the Word of God! If it takes time to obtain a complete healing, don’t give up; be determined to persevere until you win! And, don’t fall prey to self-pity or seek sympathy from others. That is not what you need. Faith is what you need. Do the Heavy Lifting Let’s look at the important lesson Jesus taught His disciples about faith and receiving from God. In Mark 11, we find He charged them simply to “Have faith in God”(verse 22). By way of explanation about this scripture, Any amount will be a blessing in paying the school fees for this less privileged Africa children,thanks for considering this children at this economic hard times.your labour of love not be forgotten in Jesus name |
PASTOR CHINELO OYAKHILOME
DON’T GIVE UP!
Years ago, my friend Dodie Osteen had to take healing in just that way. She was given a report that the cancer in her liver was fatal. The doctors offered no hope. So, Dodie went home from the hospital. She and her husband took forceful action! They stood in agreement on the healing promises in the Word of God. They confessed God’s Word over her body. They were relentless. Dodie faithfully took those healing scriptures every day, just like medicine.She fought the good fight of faith by using the sword of the Word to resist fear and all the lies of the devil (Ephesians 6:17; James 4:7). It was a battle that took awhile, but Dodie was completely healed of cancer and remains free today. In fact, she has been cancer free for more than 22 years. She says she stays well by consistently taking God’s medicine. Proverbs 4:20-22 explains this process for healing. It says: “My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.” The Hebrew word translated health there means “medicine.” Healing scriptures are God’s medicine for your body. So, take that medicine daily, be relentless about it and take your healing. The fact is, as a child of the living God you are more than a conqueror in Christ (Romans 8:37)! So, if you’re believing for healing, you can kick the devil out of your life with the Word of God! If it takes time to obtain a complete healing, don’t give up; be determined to persevere until you win! And, don’t fall prey to self-pity or seek sympathy from others. That is not what you need. Faith is what you need. Do the Heavy Lifting Let’s look at the important lesson Jesus taught His disciples about faith and receiving from God. In Mark 11, we find He charged them simply to “Have faith in God”(verse 22). By way of explanation about this scripture, the margin of my |