Sunday, July 17, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
God's Word: The Disciples Medicine
Many make the mistake of substituting belief in healing for the actual taking of God’s medicine – His Word. They say, “I believe in healing” without actually taking the medicine. What good would it do for you to believe in food if you didn’t eat it? You would starve. What good would it do for you to believe in water if you didn’t actually drink any? You would die of thirst.
God’s Word is His medicine. There are several parallels between God’s medicine and natural medicine.
First: God’s Word is a healing agent, just as natural medicine is a healing agent or catalyst. In other words, the medicine itself contains the capacity to produce healing. Inherent within God’s Word is the capacity, the energy, the ability, and the nature to effect healing in your body.
Second: We might say that medicine is no respector of persons. It will work for anyone who takes it. It is not a matter of if God is willing or not willing to heal any individual, but whether or not the individual will receive healing by taking the medicine that produces it.
Third, and most important: Medicine must be taken according to directions to be effective. Some medicine labels read, “Take internally”; others say, “Take externally.” To rub it on your body externally when the directions say to take it internally will not work. To take it after meals when the directions say take it before meals will reduce its effectiveness. To take it once in a while when the directions say three times a day will mean limited results, if any. No matter how good the medicine is, it must be taken according to the directions or it won’t work. So it is with God’s medicine. It must be taken according to directions for it to work.
We might say that attending to them, inclining your ear to them, and keeping them before your eyes causesthe Word to get into the midst of your heart. Notice this: It is only as God’s Words get in the midst of your heart and stay there that they produce healing in your body. Head knowledge won’t do. They are going to have to penetrate to your spirit through meditation – attending, hearing, looking, muttering, musing, pondering – to produce healing in your body. But once they do penetrate, they will surely bring health to all your flesh. … let them penetrate deep within your heart.
You can see again that God’s way of healing is spiritual. Power is ministered first to your spirit, then distributed to your body. God’s medicine must be taken internally. Listen, instead of wondering whether you have enough faith to be healed, just take the medicine. This handout contains Healing Scriptures. Feed on them several times a day, repeating them over and over again to yourself. The medicine itself will work if you will get it inside of you.
Fourth: Remember that it takes time for medicine to work. Most people give natural medicine a lot of time, patience, and money to work. They take the prescription back for refills and more refills. They are diligent about it. They don’t just take one dose and expect a miracle. Keep taking God’s medicine. Give it time to work.
Take your medicine. Say these Scriptures to yourself. Think on what you’re saying in your heart. Use them in praise to the Father. His Word is medicine to all your flesh.
God’s Word is His medicine. There are several parallels between God’s medicine and natural medicine.
First: God’s Word is a healing agent, just as natural medicine is a healing agent or catalyst. In other words, the medicine itself contains the capacity to produce healing. Inherent within God’s Word is the capacity, the energy, the ability, and the nature to effect healing in your body.
Second: We might say that medicine is no respector of persons. It will work for anyone who takes it. It is not a matter of if God is willing or not willing to heal any individual, but whether or not the individual will receive healing by taking the medicine that produces it.
Third, and most important: Medicine must be taken according to directions to be effective. Some medicine labels read, “Take internally”; others say, “Take externally.” To rub it on your body externally when the directions say to take it internally will not work. To take it after meals when the directions say take it before meals will reduce its effectiveness. To take it once in a while when the directions say three times a day will mean limited results, if any. No matter how good the medicine is, it must be taken according to the directions or it won’t work. So it is with God’s medicine. It must be taken according to directions for it to work.
We might say that attending to them, inclining your ear to them, and keeping them before your eyes causesthe Word to get into the midst of your heart. Notice this: It is only as God’s Words get in the midst of your heart and stay there that they produce healing in your body. Head knowledge won’t do. They are going to have to penetrate to your spirit through meditation – attending, hearing, looking, muttering, musing, pondering – to produce healing in your body. But once they do penetrate, they will surely bring health to all your flesh. … let them penetrate deep within your heart.
You can see again that God’s way of healing is spiritual. Power is ministered first to your spirit, then distributed to your body. God’s medicine must be taken internally. Listen, instead of wondering whether you have enough faith to be healed, just take the medicine. This handout contains Healing Scriptures. Feed on them several times a day, repeating them over and over again to yourself. The medicine itself will work if you will get it inside of you.
Fourth: Remember that it takes time for medicine to work. Most people give natural medicine a lot of time, patience, and money to work. They take the prescription back for refills and more refills. They are diligent about it. They don’t just take one dose and expect a miracle. Keep taking God’s medicine. Give it time to work.
Take your medicine. Say these Scriptures to yourself. Think on what you’re saying in your heart. Use them in praise to the Father. His Word is medicine to all your flesh.
Prophecy- Rev.Kenneth W. Hagin
Don't give up. Don't give up.
Put that dream back together.
Put it back together
and do what you know to do,
and it will come out all right.
Don't lay it down.
If you lay it down,
I don't have anybody else to pick
it up, saith the Lord.
You've got to do the job.
I gave it to you to do.
Don't transfer it to somebody else.
You do it.
Many have I called.
Many have I spoken to.
Many have I showed the dream
but they have rejected;
they have turned Me aside.
To you I have given
what they would not take.
To you I have given
because you said,
"Lord, here am I; send me."
When others turned aside
because it wasn't big enough.
When others said,
"Lord,I want the big ministry."
You did what I told you to do.
Relax in ME, and quit comparing
yourself with your fellow
ministers and your peers.
Quit comparing your ministry
with their ministry.
Compare your ministry
with what I told you to do,
and you'll rejoice,
because you'll see that it already
has surpassed what I told you to do
and you have gone on to a bigger dream.
You have advanced to another dream.
Keep moving with My Spirit,
and I will show you
the greatest victory of all.
Put that dream back together.
Put it back together
and do what you know to do,
and it will come out all right.
Don't lay it down.
If you lay it down,
I don't have anybody else to pick
it up, saith the Lord.
You've got to do the job.
I gave it to you to do.
Don't transfer it to somebody else.
You do it.
Many have I called.
Many have I spoken to.
Many have I showed the dream
but they have rejected;
they have turned Me aside.
To you I have given
what they would not take.
To you I have given
because you said,
"Lord, here am I; send me."
When others turned aside
because it wasn't big enough.
When others said,
"Lord,I want the big ministry."
You did what I told you to do.
Relax in ME, and quit comparing
yourself with your fellow
ministers and your peers.
Quit comparing your ministry
with their ministry.
Compare your ministry
with what I told you to do,
and you'll rejoice,
because you'll see that it already
has surpassed what I told you to do
and you have gone on to a bigger dream.
You have advanced to another dream.
Keep moving with My Spirit,
and I will show you
the greatest victory of all.
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