How To Receive and Keep Your Healing and Other Blessings.... A science teacher was grading a science test at home that she had given to her elementary-school class and was looking at some of the answers. The subject was “The Human Body,” and the first question was: “Name one of the major functions of the skin.” One child wrote: “One major function of the skin, is to keep people who look at you from throwing up, skin covers a lot of gross looking things”.... That’s a lot like the grace and mercy of God... It covers a lot of gross looking things!!!
So then, let’s get started with Luke chapter 4....Jesus stood up in the temple, took the scrolls and here, He is reading from Isaiah’s Messianic prophecy....
Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”…
Park the car right here for a moment please, but leave the motor running!
Jesus fulfilled this prophecy in Isaiah, and repeated it here in the gospel of Luke, to let those who were listening know, that this prophecy was about Him. Then He made it clear in John’s gospel, that the Spirit which anointed Him, was going to take what was on Him, and put it on every believer who received Holy Spirit into their lives.
John 16:13 “When He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me, for He shall receive of Mine, and shall shew (Aw-saw) (to perform, accomplish or demonstrate) it (in and through) you”.
Jesus told us that Holy Spirit would perform and accomplish to us and through us, liberty to the captives, healing to the sick, freedom to the oppressed of the devil, and the favor of the Lord!
This is a transfer, from Jesus to us... When someone had Covid, they had to be Isolated or quarantined so everyone around them wouldn’t catch it and spread it to others.
Listen, Satan wants to isolate everyone who catches John 16:13, because he knows if we get it, it will start to spread to everyone around us and it will be unstoppable!
That’s why scripture says “the disciples went everywhere spreading John 16:13, (the Aw-saw) and turned the city upside down” Let me tell you, you won’t have to drag people into church, if we get this, because we’ll be doing John 6:13 and they’ll want to come and see it and get it for themselves!
Let’s look at how to increase your faith and anointing for these things. Jesus said in John 6:63 “The words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life.” So, First....Get full of the Word of God.... That’s every believer’s first priority.....The Word is anointed and Spirit breathed. If you want to see people saved, fill up on scriptures about people getting saved. If you want to see captives set free, fill up on scriptures about captives being set free. If you want to see the sick healed, fill up on scriptures about the sick getting healed. If you want to see the oppressed of the devil set free, fill up on scriptures about deliverance. (Faith comes through and by the Word of God)
Everyone say with me....”I will believe God’s word, more than my current situation, my feelings, or my own thinking and reasoning...”
Philippians 2:5 “I will Let this mind be in me, which was also in Christ Jesus”
As a believer, your Spirit will receive a transfer of the anointing embedded in the Word, which will cause those very things which are declared, to begin to happen in your Christian walk. If the Devil hits you, the Word should come forth from you, instead of that other blankety, blank stuff!
The word of God will retrain your brain from all the stinkythinking which we’ve all been programed with all of our lives. Every believer’s brain is begging for the Word so it can be whole and healthy. The Word is referred to as fire, because there are some things in us that need to be consumed, that are nothing but brain trash....CONSUME US, WORD OF GOD!
The Word is referred to as water because you can’t go without water for much more than 3 days without systemic body failure. Water is also a cleanser, and we need a good cleansing with the heavenly cleanser. WORD OF GOD, CLEANSE US!
The Word is referred to as God breathed, because there are things that are depriving us of the heavenly atmosphere. May God breathe upon us mightily once again. BREATHE ON US WORD OF GOD!!
When you get your healing, your freedom, your deliverance, if you don’t stay in the word, and keep fueling your faith and your confidence, you will find that the enemy will come and sow doubt, fear, and carnal thinking to steal it from you and make sure you’re worse off than you were before. I see it all the time.
Stay free, by staying in the word, staying in prayer, and stayfilled with the Spirit! You were born free by the spirit, stay free in the word!
Your Spirit man needs to feed on the Word just as much if not more so, than your physical man needs nourishment. What you feed will grow and develop and what you starve, will wither and die, or at least be sickly and unwell. You can’t be victorious,separate from the word of God and you can’t be strong spiritually if you’re not full of the word. Consume the word, devour the word....People should know you’re full of it!!
Genesis tells us that Spirit was breathed into man by the very breath of God. God Himself "breathed into (man's) nostrils the breath (The RU-WACH) of life and He became a living soul or PSYCHE, a conscious being, capable of knowledge, reasoning, emotions, and inter-relations". Notice that the spirit came first, because it came forth out of God, who is self-existant, and then came the soul, and these made the body alive. God created the order in which man was to function and we only function well and whole in God’s order.
1 Corinthians 2:14 “But the natural man (body and soul) does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, nor can he know them, because they are spiritually (of the Spirit) discerned”.
When the body rules, sight, taste, touch, smell and hearing are in control. When the soul rules, emotions, intellect, and self willare in control, and rebellion against God is the norm. When the Spirit rules, there is harmony with God’s plan, purpose and intentions, because the spirit is in God’s image and likeness.
Many people are physically well, but their spirit is diseased, deformed, stunted, or totally subjected, because the wrong ruler is in control! Body and soul will constantly pull your Spirit away from what God wants you to have because they are all about themselves. Several years ago at a Promise Keepers conference, Dennis Rainey placed animal traps on stage. They were big ones too. Bear traps and even an African safari large animal trap that took two men to open. There were a dozen or so traps, and he set them all across the stage. Then Dennis had a father blindfold his teen-age son, the father walked to the other side of the stage and Dennis called the son to come to him. The men in the audience gasped, but before the boy could take one step, the Father called out, “Wait! I’m going to walk with you, I’ll keep you from stepping in the traps.” So this Dad took his son’s hand and “led” him through the difficult maze of traps. This is what having your spirit filled with the word is about. You escape the traps that have been set for you to fall into.
Because many are in a state of confusion about the importance of the connection between the Spirit and the soul and the bodywe have an entire society that struggles to stay healthy physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually....while doctors are getting rich!
We are not a body, we LIVE IN a body. (someone said, “as long as we have a body we are never homeless”) Pinch someone and tell them, that’s not really you.....We are not a soul, we HAVE A soul. We ARE A SPIRIT that has a soul, which lives in a body. This body is the earth vehicle which we have each been given, so that we can operate in and have authority in this physical realm, which by the way, God designed to be a very spiritual place! God had to have a body, (Jesus) in order to operate in the earth realm, because He gave it to Adam, who failed. He needed to win it all back in a physical body. This realm was given to man as a spirit being, who could interact with God the Spirit, in a body. That spirit is designed to behealthy, prosperous, wise, fully equipped, eternal, and operate with dominion in the earth realm.
Romans 8:16 “The Spirit itself (God’s Spirit) bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children (having the image) of God.” Your spirit knows, whither your soulish self acknowledges it or not,Holy Spirit is there pressing against your own spirit and constantly bringing up the important subject, of your being created in the image of God. Holy Spirit is a master of communication, and He’s speaking to you again this morning about who you really are.
We hold the key that opens the veil which allows the Spirit’s promptings to enter our physical reality. We must intentionally give attention to these inner spiritual messages, images, spiritual urgings and red flags.
Hebrews 5:14 “But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age, (who have developed in spiritual principles) even those who by reason of use,have their senses (faculties) exercised (through obedience and self-denial) to discern both good and evil”. We may refer to it as conscience, a moral gyroscope, an inner compass, core values, a sense of duty, inner promptings, scruples, gut feelings, or an inner voice. But for believers, we fine tune those senses by the Word of God!
Reagan called it the “Trickle down effect”.... Whatever happens at the center always spreads out to everything else. Jesus compared it to yeast that spreads throughout the entire loaf of dough.... If you’re full of the word, there’s no room for it to spread. Matthew 16:26: "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and neglects (training) his soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for (not training) his soul?"
This is a self evident truth, it is as apparent as the sunrise or sunset. This is not rocket science. These things are self evident. If you’re looking, no one has to tell you that the sun is rising! Darkness is leaving and light is coming! It’s like asking someone if they are a Christian. If they are, it will be self evident. I have seen so many folks who received Christ as their savior, but never retrained their soul, so the soul continued to run the show and convince them to focus on their career, to leave the church, and their faith, leaving them spiritually shipwrecked and physically needy. Everything gets out of God’s order.
Matthew 6:22 that says, “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes (your perspective) is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness.”
If you seek happiness for happiness sake, you will never find it, because it is the bi-product of a positive view of life, a good conscience and healthy life values. God has already decided that we are highly blessed, anointed and with authority in the earth. That’s in the spirit, but the soul and body has to be trained and convinced that it is who we are.
Ephesians 1:3 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”
Now, that’s how God sees us Spiritually... Redeemed, healed, spirit filled, filled with wisdom and knowledge, anointed and FREE AT LAST, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY, FREE AT LAST!!! No matter how it looks or feels in the moment, WE WIN!
I believe your job, your neighborhood, your community, your home, your car, your friends, etc. are all blessed by you being there, if your Spirit is in alignment, and your soul and body are trained, to operate in harmony with God’s will, plan, purpose and intentions....
But if the soulish man is not subdued, ruled over, and trained, then it is, “HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT”....It’s not Good morning God, it’s good God it’s morning!!
Now notice Ephesians 1:4 “According as He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love.”
God decided that we were chosen, holy, without blame, and loved with Agape love, before the world was formed. Because God thought it, and God said it, it was so. So now we have to rule our soul, and train it, so that our soul will not contradict what God has decided, and stop blocking it in negative, toxic messages to our body and our emotions.
Ephesians 1:8 “God has abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence, (the ability to do the right thing) 9 Having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He has purposed in Himself, (since the foundation of the world)
So we see here that we were designed and fashioned to be filled with all wisdom and the ability to do the right thing, and know the mystery of His will...You have the ability to always do the right thing because Holy Spirit, who is in you, always knows the right thing....
Put your hand on your chest, and say “Thank you Holy Spirit, that I can know the right thing to do, because you are hererevealing the right thing through my spirit, with understanding”
Ephesians 1:11 In Him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all thingsaccording to the counsel of His will.”
It says, You Have already obtained it....Now based on that, we can say... ”The Best Is Yet To Come”.....
Listen to me, please. Before the world was formed, God saw you, loved you, had a plan for your life, adopted you, and gave you an inheritance. If your daddy was a billionaire, and you were 3 weeks old. You might be crying and complaining about a diaper rash, and needing your bottle, and needing a nap. It’s all you can see in life, but you are the heir of a billion dollars, even though you don’t understand it yet. You’re going to grow up, and one day you can get your head around it, but it’s still true before you can even understand it..
Say with me, “I am an Heir, and joint Heir with Christ” ..... Don’t let your soulish self, talk you out of receiving and keeping your inheritance. It’s yours!!
Hebrews 4:12, For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart”.
Notice it says that the word of God puts up a barrier between the soul and spirit, so that the soul doesn’t pull down the spirit, but the Spirit trains the soul, and the physical body, (joints and marrow) so that our intentions are transformed.... 1 Thessalonians 5:23 “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify (set you apart for Himself) completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
The anointing for all you need in life is activated by worship... giving Him the honor and reverence which He is due. Giving accolades and revelings in His presence. Getting overwhelmed by His very majesty and splendor of His eternal omniscience. When you enter His presence with praise and worship, He enters your circumstances with power!
He so longs for mankind to know Him....His will, His intentions, His pleasure, His plan, His love, His power, His provision... Wow! When we touch the heart of God, we move the hand of God...
The anointing is activated through prayer, or intimacy with Him. Oh how much He wants us to access a new level of intimacy with Him. Where you talk together about everything through out the day. And you let Him into your deepest inner conversations, where no one else is allowed to enter.
You will never spend another lonely day in your life. You’ll never be bored again. You’ll never lack something to do. Your schedule will be so full of His appointments, His stuff..... you could be the only one on a deserted island and still be busy for Him!!
Living His life through our spirit isn’t something we’re used tobecause our spirit is so used to competing with our soul and body for every decision and every action.
When our thoughts, feelings, and intentions of our soul are directed by our spirit, we find it easier and easier to release the things God has already planned into our lives.... Health, joy, prosperity, and fullness of life. When we exercise our spirit by praying the Word of God, the Word releases the full life and health of the spirit through us.
I started this message with “How to receive and keep your healing”....
How many can see, that receiving and keeping your healing, and your emotional and mental health, has a lot to do with retraining your soul and keeping your spirit in charge of your total well being.... Our Spirit is ready for a demonstration of liberty to the captives, healing to the sick, freedom to the oppressed of the devil, and the favor of the Lord!
God said it was yours, don’t let your soul or your flesh talk you out of it!
The more we train our soul, the more healing, gifts and blessings we will see in our lives....and the more our flesh will surrender.
It’s already yours, don’t let your intellect, emotions, sensory faculties, social self, will, and desires of the flesh, talk you out of it. Receive your inheritance. It’s waiting for you.
In 1829 a man named George Wilson was arrested for robbery and murder in a US mail heist. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. Some friends intervened on his behalf and were able to obtain his pardon from President Andrew Jackson. But when told of this, Wilson refused it saying he wanted to die. Well, the sheriff didn’t know what to do, how do you execute a man who is officially pardoned? An appeal was made to the President who turned the matter over to the US Supreme court. Chief Justice John Marshall gave this ruling: A pardon is a piece of paper, the value of which depends on its acceptance by the person implicated. Anyone under the sentence of death would hardly be expected to refuse a pardon, but if it’s refused, to that person it is no longer a pardon. Thus, George Wilson was executed while his signed pardon lay on the sheriff’s desk!
It's all ours, but only if we are willing to receive it.... So receive that promise which God gave you today!
