YOUR BELIEFS ~ Precious Victor Akah
It is of a truth that what you believe in God's Word is what you experience as a child of God. The Holy Spirit gave me an unusual understanding of this scripture - Habakkuk 2:4: "...but the just shall live by his faith", while meditating on 1 Timothy 5 verse 23. In the Kingdom, your beliefs does not just influence what you experience, but your beliefs determines what you experience; put simply, your beliefs forms your experiences in life.
Your experiences in life as a child of God is not independent or unconnected to your beliefs. Your experiences are a direct function of the word of God you understand and believe or the word of God you misunderstand and believe. You cannot experience God's word you do not believe; you only experience God's word you believe in (whether positive or negative).
For instance, a Christian can read 1 Timothy 5 verse 23 and believe that being sick is part of the Christian life since Timothy, though a believer and an Evangelist, was frequently ill, and so, he/she keeps falling sick every now and then. This person's belief that sickness is normal or part of the Christian life keeps him/her perpetually sick: they frequent the hospital or live on drugs. Such persons may still go to heaven, but due to the wrong belief they have, they cannot enjoy good health on earth as children of God, even though divine health is part of their redemptive heritage.
These kind of persons may attend healing services, ministrations and programmes, yet come back unhealed. Why? The wrong belief they have is a strong barrier to their healing. Some of them may even get healed but will not sustain the healing; they'll keep getting sick, recovering and getting sick again, due to the wrong belief they have. That is how powerful our beliefs are as children of God.
When you read the Bible, you'll come across Scriptures where Jesus or the apostles is telling a sick person that their faith (belief) had made them whole:
"And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace." Luke 8:48
"And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee." Luke 18:42
"And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole." Luke 17:19
"And Jesus told the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace." Luke 7:50
"Daughter," said Jesus, "your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be free of your affliction." Mark 5:34
"Jesus turned and saw her. "Take courage, daughter," He said, "your faith has healed you." And the woman was cured from that very hour." Matthew 9:22
In other words, there are sicknesses that will linger due to lack of personal faith and only flee at the presence/introduction of faith. If you do not have faith that you can be healed or you'll be healed when prayed for, you may not be healed. If you do not believe in divine health - where you permanently live healthy - you cannot experience it.
Another Christian, on the other hand, who has seen from God's Word: "... by his stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53:5), and "He Himself took our illnesses and carried away our diseases" (Matthew 8:17) and believe these scriptures, confessing that he CANNOT be sick because Jesus has healed him and has taken away his sicknesses and diseases, such a Christian will live in good health; he will have what he believes. These are the kind of Christians that live in good health and enjoy divine health. They're never sick. Even when sickness attacks, they fight back with God's word and promise and beat back the sickness.
Therefore, it is very important for us to build our faith with God's Word. The righteous shall live by his faith (his own faith), not another man's faith, your own faith. So if your faith is little, it'll affect your life experiences. Therefore, to improve your experiences in life and have better and more pleasant experiences, build your faith with God's Word and boost your faith in God's Word. You're not helping anyone but yourself when you spend alone time with God, studying and meditating on His Word. God's Word is light. Until the light of God's Word shine on the dark areas of your life, darkness will never flee.
Light represents truth, knowledge, right beliefs, prosperity, blessings, divine health, wealth, wisdom, etc. While darkness represents ignorance, wrong beliefs, sickness, retrogression and stagnation, curse, lies, and everything evil. The way to put a stop to all bad/evil happenings and negative life experiences is to introduce the light of God's Word. Once you discover the truth and believe the truth, your experiences will positively change. If you discover from God's Word that prosperity, divine health, blessings, wealth, wisdom, favour..., are meant to be your experiences as a child of God and believe it, you'll start experiencing them (it may take a while to manifest physically but if you firmly hold on to your beliefs, you'll eventually experience it).
Finally, 1 Peter 3:10 says if you want to enjoy life and see many happy days, keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling lies. Also Proverbs 18:21 says the tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. So if you've DISCOVERED the truth from God's Word, BELIEVE the truth, and then CONFESS that truth with your mouth. This is how you can live long and have a good life on earth.
"RIGHT BELIEFS plus CONTINUOUS POSITIVE CONFESSIONS brings POSITIVE EXPERIENCES."
God bless you.
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