Thursday, April 17, 2014

Are you fully persuaded !!

Have you ever been so sure,so fully persuaded about something in your life at one time? I'm sure we can all say we were, it may of  been about a person's name or a certain way you believed and no one was going to change it?. I think you can get the just of what I'm saying! The question is though are you fully persuaded about your faith? Not just faith in God, but I mean fully persuaded that what "He said, can happen for you"? If you look at some of the miracles in the New Testament it was there faith, there believing that caused the miracle to happen. God didn't just pick people and favor them and say you deserve a healing or I like you more, no He loves us all. John 3:16- for God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son.


So right there its about all of us being loved! I guess what I'm trying to get you to see through this is that it starts with knowing  Jesus  Loves you. Then from there when you know how much He loves you, its much easier for you to receive from a loving Father. Romans 5:5- And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love. New Testament believers have much more than the people who were healed in the bible, we have Holy Spirit living in us, stop and think about that!!




Is your faith fully persuaded in knowing that God wants you to walk in all the promises, are you so fully persuaded like this woman in the book of Mark 5:25, she had an issue of blood for 12 years, doctors said they could not do anything for her. In fact she spent all she had and it grew worse. The bible said she "heard" of Jesus. I believe she "heard" lots of good things about him for weeks, maybe months. I think she started to think and say things out loud , in fact it says that in Mark- FOR SHE SAID, IF I MAY TOUCH BUT HIS CLOTHES, I SHALL BE WHOLE. This women got her thinking, believing, confession right after she heard of Jesus, she was fully persuaded!! She no longer talked about her sickness and her suffering and dying possibly. This women started to think about getting better, whole again, she started to think about the days when she was a normal vibrant women, running about doing all the things she loved to do. She maybe had children, grandchildren, she wanted to be made whole and nothing was going to stop her. If you read that chapter she pushed through the crowd, there was a lot of people around Jesus that day. This women was fully persuaded that she was going to be healed, and that's exactly what happened!! In the middle of all that Jesus stopped and said who touched my clothes? WOW! It was her faith , her faith was fully persuaded and she got her healing that day!!



People use every other thing in a spiritual battle except the Word of God. Its not our own strength, its faith in knowing God loves us and that the word of God works! When you look at the Old Testament there was Joshua and Caleb in the book of Numbers 13, go and read the whole story. In a short version, God told Moses to get men and go look at the land he wanted to give them. It was  so rich with milk and honey, all the best fruit. So they took men and went in and spied out the land, it was occupied at the moment with other people who were not covenant believers of God ,there were powerful cities and even giants in that land. The only 2 who saw something different were Joshua and Caleb the others saw in the natural. Caleb silenced the people and said "we are able to go in and take this land" that God wants us to have!. The others spread a bad report among the other people and describe what they saw, it was there words, not Gods words! They told the people there were giants in the land and we look like grasshoppers, how on earth on we going to go in and take it! They soon forgot what God said, "that he was giving them this land". How soon we forget the minute we see with our natural eyes and not with our faith eyes, they had not been fully persuaded what God had said to them. This lead the people to believe a lie, and they all started crying and wailing and saying things they ought not to have said! How did they know how they appeared in the sight of there enemy? THEY SAID- we where in our own sight as grasshoppers and looked the same to them. I remember when this story became life to me, it changed my thinking  to " not be moved by what it appears like". That's not to say I didn't have to fight the good fight of faith and start praying and declaring what God showed me, oh I did all right and still do!


Joshua and Caleb talked to the people and said this land is exceedingly good! God wants us to have it, but don't speak like this don't go against what he said we can have!.We cant be afraid of what it looks like or what some one has said it looks like, who's report are you going to believe God's or men's? The only the 2 men were  Joshua and Caleb who benefited from this land.The others refused God's promises and influenced an entire generation to believe the lie ! I believe its like this today, we have a better covenant today, but we are still required to do our part "Believe" and take it by Faith, and being fully persuaded that we can !  Your confessions will set your Landmarks!!


I know we don't get this over night. PROVERBS 24; 3-4- By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established ; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.
It takes time to build a house in the natural , you have to lay the foundation, then you start putting up all the walls. ect. In the spiritual you have to lay the right foundation  and start building as well. Wisdom is Jesus, and  having an understanding of everything he has for us will set the right foundation. When we get revelation  knowledge of what the Word of God says, then we are filled with all the treasures of Him inside of  us to flow out and make a difference in this world!









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