Using our authority as believers to speak to our mountain: Part I

Using our authority as believers to speak to our mountain: Part I
                        
In this series I have been doing on healing, I have tried to hit home many points. First we need to know deep in our hearts that healing is God’s will for us, we can see Jesus healing everyone He came in contact with. Next, we need to know that healing has already been provided for us on the body of Jesus over two thousand years ago (1 Peter 2:24, Isaiah 53:4-5). As I have mentioned in my past two columns, the authority we have been given as believers is a crucial component that needs to be understood as well. So if we have received and understand those foundational truths, what is the next step to receiving our healing? Pay attention closely because I believe this is a key point where many people miss it. Since we know that Jesus has already provided healing and that we have God’s same power working in us that raised Jesus from the dead, we should use that authority and speak directly to our sickness. Yes, I said for us to speak directly to our sickness. I will show you with scripture. “Jesus came across a fig tree that had leaves on it. Since it had leaves it was supposed to have figs, although it was not quite the season for it yet. Jesus spoke directly to the fig tree and said, ‘Let no one eat fruit from you ever again’.”—Mark 11:14 The next morning Jesus and His disciples passed by that same tree, and it was dried up by the roots. Mark 11:21-24 states: “And Peter, remembering, said to Him, ‘Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away!’ So Jesus answered and said, ‘Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them’.” It says right there that we are to speak to our mountain (sickness), not speak to God about our sickness. I think that is where so many people miss it. We beg and plead for God to heal us, thinking we need to twist His arm. But He has already given us authority to speak directly to our mountain to receive our healing. As I was meditating on those verses I asked God about something that seemed a little confusing. Verse 23 tells us to speak directly to our mountain and then in verse 24 it says whatever we ask when we pray we should believe we received. “Father,” I said, “People are going to wonder about that. I’m going to be telling them to speak directly to their sickness, but then in the next verse you mention about us asking when we pray. I know your word does not contradict itself, so please give me wisdom on this matter.” God revealed to me something profoundly deep, yet at the same time quite simple. And it was something I already knew, but needed reminded of. How we are to pray depends on the situation. Sometimes we speak directly to our mountain, and other times we ask God for things. No, this is not blasphemy; it is doing what the word says. Do you need wisdom? Ask of God, and believe you will receive it (James 1:5). Do you want to receive the Holy Spirit? Ask the Lord, and believe He will freely give it to you (Luke 11:13). The key to knowing how to pray is understanding what Jesus has already purchased for us on the cross. He already died for all of our sickness and diseases (Psalms 103:3, Isaiah 53:4-5, 1 Peter 2:24) so we could be healed. He has given us authority over all demons, unclean spirits and the power to heal all sickness and diseases (Matthew 10:1, Luke 9:1). Sickness and disease are works of the devil (Acts 10:38, John 10:10), so in that case we should use the authority we have been given and speak directly to our mountain. It isn’t our power but His power working in and through us. Both ways of praying show a complete dependence upon the Lord, and in either case we are to believe that we receive when we pray. To be continued...


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