THE VICTORY OF OUR FAITH

1 John 5:4-5 NLT For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith. And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God.

Do you find there are some people you talk to, who only want to tell you how awful things are in the world? They’ve watched the media till all the bad reports pour out of their hearts, but all that does is give glory to the devil and undermine our faith. It encourages doubt and fears to enter in!

God told us that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God, but if we’re listening to the world more than the Word it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing the wrong thing without realising it!😊

We all want victory in our lives, so something has to shift. Our focus has to be more on what God says than on what anyone else says. Some of the things we hear and see are undeniably facts, but the truth of God’s word can change the facts! Glory to God!

We are not helpless, or hopeless. We have all been given the measure of faith and the more we use it the stronger it will become. Even if we have faith as small as a mustard seed God says we can move mountains with it! 

Sometimes it’s good to stop and ask ourselves, “Who am I believing - my own reasoning, my own excuses, what the world says, or am I believing the Word of the Living God?” 

When we remember God has given us His name, His word, and the blood of Jesus to overcome the world, why do we listen to the lies of the enemy? It’s probably because we focus on the wrong thing, on what we see and feel, on past experience, instead of on what God has done through Jesus and what He has said in His Word.

Lack of faith is not our problem, but maybe unbelief is!😊

God says we can all have victory, so this is just to encourage us to use the faith He has given us, tell unbelief to shut up, and do some overcoming in the name of Jesus (and I’m speaking very much to myself first!) 😊 Amen.  

A TOUCH OF HEAVEN

Ephesians 5:30 KJV For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

I wonder if we’ve done any flying like an eagle lately, or do we feel like we’re still stuck in the chicken coup? Just recently I wrote about the eagle who suddenly realised who he really was and he began to soar on the thermals far above the chicken coup he’d had been raised in. In the same way God wants us to realise more and more who we really are in Christ.

Our verse says we are one with Jesus as He is now, seated with all authority and all power at the right hand of God’s throne, and everything has to bow to His name. Because He is in us, His anointing is also inside us, able to flow through us to others, but we need to believe it, for us to be able to fly like an eagle!😊

 In order to believe it we have to agree with God’s word and speak it out because our faith is released through words. “I am one with Jesus and I carry His anointing to do the things He tells me to do. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”    

1 Corinthians 6:17 AMP But the one who is united and joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. 

I was reading how that means we are permanently and deeply connected in our innermost being with Jesus and that is how God wants us to see ourselves. Our spirit is just like Jesus because His Spirit is joined with our spirit, we are one with Him!😊

When Jesus healed the sick or washed His disciples feet He knew who He was, the Son of God Most High. He was totally secure and so He was able to do the miraculous but also the mundane to serve others, knowing His Father loved Him and He carried His anointing. Wherever He went He brought something of Heaven with Him and often said the Kingdom of Heaven is near.

God is reminding us we are one with Jesus Christ, that we are anointed and equipped with His anointing to go out each day and bring a touch of Heaven to those around us whether we’re standing at the kitchen sink, doing the shopping , going to work or going out for coffee with friends. It’s so His will can be done on earth as it is in heaven. God wants us to ‘see’ ourselves doing the things Jesus did. What did Jesus do? He says we are one with Him and can do the same.

What an amazing, mind boggling thought!😊

Lord give us deeper revelation and understanding of who we really are in Jesus and what You tell us we can do. Amen.

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