Topic: What Do You See In Yourself?
* Pastor Lawrence announces that Pastor Prince' baby boy has arrived!
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. So it's important to realize what you are thinking about yourself. What you think about yourself defines yourself.
Numbers 13:1-2, 27-28
Verse 2: God commanded Moses to send a tribe to spy. God said He will give a tribe.
Verse 27: After the spy, they came back with a report to say the land is flowing is milk and honey.
Verse 28: People whom dwelt in the land were strong. The decedents of Anak are the giants.
Verse 30: Joshua and Caleb believed they can overcome it.
Verse 31: Caleb said they are able but the man who went with them thinks otherwise.
Verse 32 & 33: Talks about the bad report. " .. we were grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight". How do you see yourself today? What are the labels you have placed over yourself today? Winner or loser? Success or failure? Or you are what others call you?
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if anyone who is in Christ, is a new creation. New creation is a species that has never existed before. It can only happen after the cross. It doesn't matter who this man was. The moment this man believes in Christ, he becomes new. So what is this creation and what is his destiny?
Pastor shared a joke where no one laughed. Here it goes:
There were 3 men on a top of a very high building. The first man said, "I can jump down this building and the wind will blow me up". The second man didn't believe it upon hearing it. So the first man proved it to him. He went down and back he comes. The second man was totally convinced and did the same. He went down and fell from his death. So, the third man said. "Hey Superman, you can be such a jerk when you are drunk."
*Seeing that no one laughed, Pastor said it's an uncle joke.
The bible says we are blessed with every spiritual things. And we shall lay hands on the sick and the sick will be healed. This is not a statement to comfort us but a declaration of what a new creation can do. It's not for the pastors. Even if you are a one minute believer, you can be blessed with His blessings. A new creation is more than a conqueror. Time to lay hold of God's word and believe it with all your heart. If God says if you are a conqueror, see it and meditate it. Carry this spirit in you and see it. Be like Caleb and Joshua. We need to walk by revelation of knowledge. We have the five senses and we live by senses. God doesn't want us to live by the revelation of senses but revelation of knowledge.
Are you sick or are you already healed? You may be sick physically with the symptoms, all these will not materialize. Pastor shared about declaring healing of his fever in 1997 while going to church. Though nothing seems to happen at that time after your prayer, continue to believe God's word.
Today when we pray for healing, we don't have to beg. Doing so makes it look as if it is dependent of God's mood. We should declare His healing work. "Father I declare that this person is healed". Nothing wrong with asking but Jesus always declares what He wants to see. "Fig tree be cursed". "Lazarus , stretch forth your hand!"
Blessed be the man who have not seen believes he has received. Just like Thomas in the bible who does not believe he is healed.
1 Corinthians 15
Thanks be to God who has given us the victory.
Believers do not need to be defeated by any addiction. Your life is supposed to be victorious.
Romans 6:14
Sin does not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
This is not a verse of comfort but a heavenly declaration.
Pastor shares a testimony about a medical doctor who was addicted to morphine. She thought she was under control until she realized she was a slave to drugs. All in all she tried 57 times to give up. Her nurse described her as a demon in a skeleton. Until one day she plunged to her neglected bible and believed her healing. The rest is history.
Christ is in you and you are in Him. Realize that and you will be transformed into a better person.
Ephesians 4:22-24
Verses talk about you being a new man and a new creation, in true righteousness and holiness.
In closing,
God works in you in good pleasure. Realize and walk in it.
Believe and act upon it for it is God who works in you. There's no qualification to it. Step back and let Him work.
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