Would you believe it if I told you there is, according to
the Word of God, a place in our walk where we can live continually in His
presence and literally be surrounded by His blessings and protection. When you and I as believers are living in
that place of supernatural blessing, people can’t help but notice.
Psalm 92
says: (Amplified Bible) “The
(uncompromisingly) righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. . . (They are
living memorials) to show that the Lord is upright and faithful to His
promises. . . (verses 12, 15).
Deuteronomy
28:9-10 says, “The Lord will establish you as a people holy to Himself…IF you
keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. And all people of the earth shall see that
you are called by the name (and in the presence of) the Lord, and they shall be
afraid of you.” (The Amplified Bible).
As
born-again children of God, we should be living in safety, divine health, and
prosperity. Either God and His Word are
true 100%, or they are not. I choose to
believe they are.
I
have lived in divine health for a few years now. As of this last year, I am completely out of debt, and I expect
to be safe everywhere I go. I am not
being cocky here or high-minded, or “who does she think she is?” I am here to tell you that there is safety
for you in spite of all the terrorist and fearful things that go on today. It is possible to live in divine health and
be completely out of debt. So, how can
this be done?
Learn
how to live from the inside out. As the
scripture I just quoted for you shows, there are conditions to living this type
of life. Living in a continual place of
blessing and living a healthy, prosperous life means living a life of
obedience. Yes, even driving the speed
limit is included. It means walking in
God’s ways, or “walking in truth.”
We
have grown up being taught traditions, reasoning and the world’s way of
thinking. We have to go to the Bible to
find TRUTH. (John 17:17).
Spending
time with God and spending time in His Word will teach us how to be obedient
and walk in truth.
Jesus
told the disciples to continue in the Word, “and you shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you free.” (John
8:32). Free from what? Fear, sickness, debt, lack and poverty. God has given us clear instructions in black
and white that will bring freedom and blessing to our lives.
James
1:22 says, “But be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own
selves.” This would say to me there
will be more required than just going to church on Sunday and hearing the
Word. James says after we hear the
Word, we have to be doing it. Part of
that Word says, “study to show yourself approved, rightly dividing the truth, a
workman that needs not be ashamed.”
We
won’t get very far with God without doing things the way He said. We can’t make up our own ideas about what
God would want us to do, because He’s written out his instructions in His Word. For some reason, we think we can come up
with our own ideas. Then when it
doesn’t work for us, we come up with something like, “why did God allow
that?”
Learning
to live from the inside out is a life-saving key here. In 2 Corinthians 5:17 it says, “old things
are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” Our old sin nature is gone forever. The Holy Spirit dwells within us and we are made righteous. However, we still live in a natural body and
initially it is just as untrained as it was before we were born again.
Our
flesh has to be trained and disciplined by the Word of God. We have to learn to cooperate with the Holy
Spirit living in us. We have to learn
to tell our body, “No, you can’t do that.”
That’s why we have to be in the Word of God, to learn what will cause us
to be prosperous in all aspects of our lives.
Find
out what belongs to you in Christ and begin to renew your mind with the truth
of the Word. Soon your soul will begin
to prosper. Third John 2 says you
prosper as your soul prospers. There
isn’t anything mystical about that. If
you are going to learn a new profession, you will become adept at “being that
profession” as you learn about it and act accordingly. It’s the same as the profession of being a
Christian, you must learn how to do it if you are going to act accordingly.
That’s not a hard thing to do.
Receiving
the blessings of God begins with believing what God says in His Word and then
walking in that truth. When you
reverence and honor God enough to obey Him, you are operating in “the fear of
the Lord.” The Bible says, “The fear of
the Lord is the beginning of wisdom…”
(Psalm 111:10, Proverbs 9:30).
And wisdom is what will bring true riches, spirit, soul and body, to
your life.
Renew
your mind with the Word of God and depart from the things in your life that are
not pleasing to God. Choose to walk in
godliness, purity, power and prosperity and you can experience days of heaven
on earth.
Meditate
in Psalm 91. It is such a good teaching
from God’s Word of what you need to do.
When
you know from the Bible what God expects of us, then you can answer people who
say, “well, why did God allow this or that?”
You will be able to, in love, give them the direction they need from
what you have learned. Psalm 91 tells
us clearly that we can be safe from all harm, at all times, if we do what is
written in that Psalm alone.
Hebrews
2:3 tells us, “How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at
the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who
heard Him.
So,
for this month I will close by saying, “delight yourself in the Lord, and He
will give you the desires of your heart.”
Not what you desire, but He will give you His desires for your heart. You can’t lose by doing that.
Everything
we need to be able to be safe, free from harm of all kinds, healthy and
prosperous is in God’s Word. It’s up to
us how much of it we want to learn and know about.
As
for me and my house, we want to “know it all.”
