Over the last 2 weeks, my daughter has been battling a bad case of coughing, which in time turned into pneumonia. of which we needed to take her to the Hospital, and she stayed there for 5 days, on antibiotics This is challenging for someone who understands that as Christians, we have authority over sickness. The obvious question that our carnal mind jumps into asking is what happened? Why didn't it work? Was it unbelief? but more so new questions starts coming up, which are related to Does Jesus' stripes cover everything? or is it something only?
So I was asking God about this, and my understanding is, the devil is here to steal, kill and destroy, Jesus came to give us life, and life abundantly, (John 10:10). So surely coughing and having a fever is NOT life abundantly. So why is she not recovered, and at the same time showed signs of deterioration.
I was shown by the Lord, a game of Show hand. the devil has his hand, we had ours, we opened our 3, and the devil his, he had a pair of ace, and a king, and I had 2,4,6. so he calls the shots, he raises me half my stack, I followed and put in my chips. The next card rolls out. He gets another king, netting to a "2 pairs", and I am with a 3. I had really crappy cards, Devil's call again, he does an all in, and he is telling me I should fold, you win some and you lose some, cut your losses early. So in my mind the idea of yea, maybe you do win some and lose some, cut lose early, gain back on a better hand. But if I get a 5, it will be a 5 in a row, and will win his two pairs, but he just needs either an ace, or a king to do a full house. So contemplating a little, I wanted to stick to the game plan. Put it all in. and as the card was dealt, I get a 5, which gives me 5 in a row, and wins over the devils two pairs.
The notion is that, whilst the devil looks to have the upper hand in between, but the game is rigged for you.
The moral of the story, is we need to know what is reality, and make a stance on it. When the bible said, by his stripes you were healed, 1 Peter 2:24. Is he saying by his stripes SOME were healed? no the connotations is for all. all who believes. if you don't believe in it, you can't receives it. But I was believing, why didn't I see it healed immediately? this gave me a revelation of a few different things, which I will study further, and if there are others who has better revelation on this, do share in the comments.
1) The devil will fight you, primarily not for your health, he fights you for your revelation. He wants to steal your revelation, he wants to plant Doubts into you, on the following 3 things, God's promises, God's Nature, and Your identity. it is his oldest trick. He wants to give you an idea that, well the Bible says, but not everyone can pull it through, there are limitations to God's healing power, it is a fallen world and decease and sickness are here because of Adam's fall, and you can do nothing about it. This is the message that he wants you to believe in, and as such puts you in a position of unbelief, of which he then gains grounds on you.
2) The Devil has always had a limited budget, its all a facade. He puts up these big posters of bad report, telling you he is winning, he is here to stay, you can't do nothing about it. but in the background, he is struggling to lift these posters up, every time you hit him with the truth of God, he gets shattered, and new reinforcement needs to come in to hold up these bad reports. He is on a limited budget.
3) We have a wrong definition of what is being "healed" is. Lets look at it this way. John Doe owns a property that under neath it had billions of barrows of oil, one day an oil company came by his house, and said they wanted to test to see if the ground had oil, of which if it did. they will buy it or go into a joint venture with John. and as they drill, the oil exploded out of the drill. and John Doe signed a contract with the company and receives 10 Million dollars and became partners in the oil company.
Now did John Doe became a millionaire over night? or John was a millionaire because of what he had, but he just didn't know it?
Healing, came when we believe in Jesus, we already have it. The manifestation of those healing on the physical body comes because of that healing. It is the bases of what you believe, do you believe in the word of God that says you are healed, or do you believe because you see that this sickness is still on you, hence you call yourself sick? Think about this, this is profound. Do you reckon yourself to be sick, because there are symptoms of the sickness or bacteria on you? of do you reckon yourself well, because Jesus has healed you, and the sickness will have to leave, because you believe in God's word. Never take possession or identity in sickness. It is against everything of God. God wants you well.
Back to where I am today, I also have the devil attacking me, with cough and sickness. It was trying to steal me revelation that I had supernatural immunity. I recall the days I use to get sick really easily, its like, on I have the flu AGAIN!, looking back, I have not had the flu on me since maybe a year ago, and at that, I took a day off, slept, drink water, and was out of it, by the next day.
So what to do if you are under such attacks? Draw near to God's words, anchor in deeper in the revelation of what Jesus has done. Make your reality based on the works of Jesus. Always remember this, the enemy has limited ammunition, he has limited budget, he is barely pulling through to put that sickness on you. He is one step away from it all falling apart. Don't give room for his evil doctrines, if you believe in his lies, he gains ground, and uses that against you. Get into the word of God. Then the next thing that the bible tells you to do is do this,
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
2 Corinthians 10:5
Think about what this scripture is saying, casting down imaginations that exalt itself against, the knowledge of God.
in relations to sickness this is about sickness being more powerful than what Jesus has done.
What do you do? you don't let it slide, you grab that thought by the throat, and you bring it down to the floor in submission to the obedience of Christ. Sickness, in Jesus name, Submit to the authority of Jesus Christ, get out of my Body in Jesus name.
Can you feel the warrior nature of the Holy Spirit, coming against the things he hates?
Everyday your sickness drags, as you are commanding the sickness to go, we are using up the limited ammunition of the enemy, he is thinking, I don't know how long we can hold on here, these children of God are getting aggressive. Know who you are in Christ. Righteousness of God.
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