For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. Matthew 9:21 This devotional was inspired by some studying that I was doing that I would have to say really stretched me! It stretched me in terms of my understanding of God and His purpose for our lives, but the good thing that I have learned about being stretched is, unlike a rubber band, once the human mind is stretched it can never go back to its former constricted state. Change has to take place. In Hebrews 11:1 it says, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” I’m learning that faith is literally the spiritual existence of what you desire to manifest in the natural. Now the key that we so often miss is that there can be no faith without thought. We have people in the church that have been trying to exercise proper faith without first developing proper thinking. You see your level of faith is only as strong as your clarity of thinking pertaining to the things of God. That’s why the Apostle Paul when writing to the Church at Philippi said, “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” because by taking the mind of Christ, we take on the thinking pattern, the obedience and the faith of Christ. It says, “Faith is the substance or the spiritual existence of things hoped for.” My daughter got me into something called “Wikipedia” which is sort of an internet dictionary/encyclopedia and Wikipedia defines ‘hope’ as, “an emotional belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances within one’s personal life.” I broke that thing down and I came to the conclusion that hope is the mental process by which our thinking is coupled with our faith or our belief for something that we desire to see manifested at a future time. If you look at verse 3 it says, “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” So, watch this, if the things we see were not created by other things we see, then all material things are nothing more than someone’s “frozen thoughts”. Follow me for a moment. You see, what you desire will manifest into reality as things, because anything you desire must first exist in your mind. If you can’t see yourself with what you desire you will never have the faith needed to call that thing into being from out of the realm of the Spirit. Matthew 9:21-22 says, “For she said within herself (thinking), If I may but touch His garment (the plan), I shall be whole (desire, belief, faith). But Jesus turned Him about, and when He saw her, He said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole” (results of thinking and faith). I’m looking into this verse for the purpose of gaining a deeper understanding and I’ve come to the conclusion that our faith has the ability to bring wholeness into our life. Now watch this, the wholeness comes from God, but here’s the thing, it’s delivered out of you! The verse says, “she said within herself”. I’m imagining that within her inner being, a dialog took place which united her thoughts with her desire. This caused faith to be activated and a plan was devised for her healing. She said “If I may but touch”, and as a result of her focusing her thoughts and faith she received her desire. What that tells me is that we need to align our thoughts with our faith, because when we align our thoughts with our faith, we can receive whatever we desire from God. Now wait a minute, understand that to align our faith with God is to confess; it’s the Greek word “homologeo”, and it means “to say the same thing”. It’s the same word we find in Roman 10:9, where it says, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” Our problem is we have not aligned our thoughts with our faith in God. You see because aligning our thoughts with God means we have to be willing to conform our will to God’s will, and a lot of us are simply not ready for that. I’m finding out that there are a lot of people who have faith but they are not thinking. They are not aligning their thoughts with the will of God. If you’re not thinking you will never get closer to the place of receiving what you desire. The woman with the issue of blood had faith, but it was her thinking – fixed and frozen, coupled with her faith that gave her a plan. Not only did she want to be healed, but because she aligned her thoughts with her faith, something inside of her automatically knew that it was God’s will for her to be healed. Therefore, God gave her a plan, an idea, to bring her desire and His will into reality. Psalm 37:4 says, “Delight thyself also in the LORD; and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.” The question is, how do I delight in the Lord? I delight in God by aligning my thoughts with God’s thoughts. That’s why David literally begged God in Psalm 51:10, “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” What David was saying was “God, I need you to cleanse my mind!” Understand something; the mind in this verse is referring to his way of thinking! David wanted to think like God because he understood that when we begin to think like God, the answers to our situations become clear. Scripture says, “We have these treasures in earthen vessels.” Our problem is that we don’t think like God. Word For Today And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched Me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of Me. – Luke 8:46 - There is no healing influence without faith; no true faith without healing influence. Prophetic Word “My Spirit is moving throughout the land making a diligent search,” says the Lord, “looking for those that will sacrifice their life, their time, their ALL to My purpose. Where are My prayer warriors? It’s time to put on your garments and take up your positions on the wall. Now is not the time to get complacent in your warfare, press in and declare that which I have already spoken, for this is the season of BREAKTHROUGH.”
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 04:10:09 +0000
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