Agree With The Word Of God
You have to call yourself blessed in Christ. Meditate on what He has given you already, and the authority you have been given to live the abundant life. Occasionally I get depressed, but I now know it’s really a challenge to a seed of the Word of God sown in me. As I was on the way back from the grocery store one day, I started to feel this heavy tearful oppression, and immediately I asked the myself if there was any other day more glorious than this one right now in the Lords presence. I asked, isn’t right now a glorious moment according to the Word of God. I asked, "Lord is there any day, hour or minute that you are subject to this heavy oppression?" Immediately the oppression lifted, because the Lords given authority rose up in me. I didn’t want to accept the oppression, because I knew the Lord didn’t bring it, and he never does. He has set me free!
Your belief or confession of faith must agree with the Word of God if you expect to see the glory of the Lord; and His Glory is your success. We have the total "Power of God", the Holy Spirit as our counselor who presents our agreements of belief to God the Father. When you pray, present the Holy Spirit (the Power of God) with the living Word of God (Jesus) from your mouth and your inner being. Meditate, ruminate, speak the living Word of God, joyfully allowing Him to build His Life in you. Think of the Word as living food more real than your daily meal of toast and jam, steak and eggs. This will be graphic, but you will understand. Steak, eggs, toast and jam you will poop out at the end of the day, but the living Word of God has NO waste product. The more living Word you eat, the more Jesus comes out. The Living Word of God is eternal, and all other things are temporary.
Agreeing with the Word
-If Jesus says that He will provide all of your needs according to his riches an glory, then it’s as good as money in the bank.
-If Jesus says you are righteous because of his sacrifice on the cross then you are righteous.
-If he says He is the bread of Life, then you best eat until you live abundantly.
You have an adversary Satan who doesn’t want you to know the truth about your authority over him. He doesn’t have to be close by plaguing you personally when he has laid a smörgåsbord of unbelief all around you, knowing that you will consume it. Jesus has disarmed him, but if you consume his lies, you lose ground. Be always seeking out belief in the Word of God, to deflect Satan’s false advertising.
To disagree with what the Word of God says creates a problem you see, an internal conflict that will pin you down. If we disagree often enough, our soul considers what we have to say over the truth found in the Word of God. Through our pains and frustrations, we must confess the truth found in scripture. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit agree in all things, and have come to live in you. If you disagree with them, power is not released for the glory of God in your life. God does not muscle us into submission, he loves us all the way. Sometimes our lack is just that, a lack of belief, or a lack of experience with the one who loves us most.
We all get weak now, in fact we are weak vessels, but the Word of God has overcome all things for us. Drink up the light of Life, the Light that eternally burns in your lamp.
Jesus talks about the substance of real life
John 6 (Message Bible)
43-46 Jesus said, "Don’t bicker among yourselves over me. You’re not in charge here. The Father who sent me is in charge. He draws people to me—that’s the only way you’ll ever come. Only then do I do my work, putting people together, setting them on their feet, ready for the End. This is what the prophets meant when they wrote, ’And then they will all be personally taught by God.’ Anyone who has spent any time at all listening to the Father, really listening and therefore learning, comes to me to be taught personally—to see it with his own eyes, hear it with his own ears, from me, since I have it firsthand from the Father. No one has seen the Father except the One who has his Being alongside the Father—and you can see me.
47-51"I’m telling you the most solemn and sober truth now: Whoever believes in me has real life, eternal life. I am the Bread of Life. Your ancestors ate the manna bread in the desert and died. But now here is Bread that truly comes down out of heaven. Anyone eating this Bread will not die, ever. I am the Bread—living Bread!—who came down out of heaven. Anyone who eats this Bread will live—and forever! The Bread that I present to the world so that it can eat and live is myself, this flesh-and-blood self."
In one great season of your life, a wealthy friend, a good and generous life long friend chooses to spend time with you, and through that association he recognizes your need for $100,000 dollars to get you started in a noble business. Your billionaire friend realizes that he can easily afford to just let you have the cash without repayment, for he always believed in you since you were young. The only requirement is that you go withdraw the funds from his personal vault in NYC, using a secure passcode he will provide for you, if you’ll just allow his business management team to counsel you along your new journey. Would you hesitate?
Jesus has secured eternal wealth for us at the throne of God, and guess what, our pass word is the identity of Jesus, an uncrackable code. We go to God the Father covered in Christ (the uncrackable code), because Jesus has died for us, and as us on the cross of shame, and he rose up providing us literally all things, even His Life. Now, the beauty of this fully good news should get us wanting to spend a lot more time with the Lord in counseling, but unless we abide in Him, hearing His Word, letting those seeds mature, we end up not having the confidence we need to go to NYC and withdraw funds. No, no no; we won’t have confidence to go to the throne of God in which we have full access through the Holy Spirit. It would be like going to NYC, trying to withdraw funds from our friends vault without considering the wise advise of his business management team.
Your good friend gave the $100,000, but he is such a good friend that he doesn’t want you to stress about the money, so he provided more than the money. He provided safety, security, counseling, love, potency, and his good name. Anyone could receive $100,000 and be very blessed, but what if you had the name of a billionaire to drop, plus the $100,000? What if you could say, Myown Billionaire’s management team will meet with your team to sign all agreements. Everyone involved with you would have to assume that you were already a success, with his team working for you. Although you were weak, and not heading in a progressive direction, your wealthy friend sought to love you and back you, thus giving you His name.
This afternoon my son Hanan has an exam in Tamil his mother tongue, and Indian language. I asked him to read aloud 20 minutes for me, and then I would let him play xBox or watch TV before the school bus came at 12:15. The whole time I never heard any reading aloud, and soon after he began, he claimed to be finished. I reminded him that he was to read aloud, and of course he was upset that he had to read again. He ask me, "how long is 20 minutes anyway dad"? I just said, "Hanan, please trust daddy, and you’ll be playing xBox very soon. Like my baby boy Hanan, we often want to get to the fun of life without considering God’s program for success, and that’s not an offense, but we really need to sit at Jesus feet and feast on His Word, realizing God’s ever increasing greatness. We may find that sitting at Jesus feet is more of a party that we have ever imagined. He has the ultimate spiritual affairs management team, and has always loved us from before the foundation of the earth. Wisely spending time with the Lord Jesus after we have heard the Fathers call is all we really have to do to prosper. ’And then they will all be personally taught by God.’ We are naturally ’being’ about Jesus the everlasting life when we abide, by hearing the living Word, believing the Word, agreeing with the Word, Loving the Word, and finally with boldness speaking the Word into our world. Choose the very best thing.
Shalom and Love in Christ,
Otrie