Where is God?
Have you ever heard those words in your mind?
It may sound like, “…the symptoms seem worse today, the pain is back, it’s the last day and no money, you need to do something, it’s irresponsible to do nothing…”
All of those thoughts are the devil mocking you; trying to get you to give up your victory! If he could take your victory, it would already be gone. Those thoughts are proof that he can’t take your victory, he is trying to get you to surrender it to him, that’s the goal behind those thoughts.
Don’t give up your victory!
The thoughts of the enemy are designed to draw you into the flesh, into your effort, your works, you ‘doing something’, so that your faith is made void;
Romans 4:14 – For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
The enemy wants to disquiet you to your very soul, to convince you that you don’t have the victory. All those suggestions on what you should do so you can be healed, or what you should feel like if you were really healed, are from his goal to move you to unbelief and doubt so you give up on your victory. Let the devil and your own soul know you are not giving up anything that God has already given you in Christ; that if the Lord has healed you, you are healed now, not when your symptoms change!
Psalms 42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope/trust thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health/salvation of my countenance, and my God.
Jeremiah 17:14 Heal me, O Jehovah, and I am healed, Save me, and I am saved, for my praise art Thou. (YLT)
When your heart is fully persuaded there will be no place in your mind and heart for any of those thoughts from the devil, they will have no influence on you. You will be giving God glory, not to get something, but because you have it already!
Romans 4:18-21 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, so shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform!
We are instructed not to look at the things we can see with our natural eyes but to use our spiritual eyes to see, 2 Corinthians 4:18 and 5:7. This is important because our God is a spirit, John 4:24. So, to see him we must look into the spiritual world. That’s why the enemy wants to keep you in the flesh or natural realm so you cannot see the victory that God has provided for you in the spirit.
2 Corinthians 4:18, 5:7; we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. …For we walk by faith, not by sight:
John 4:24; God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Ephesians 6:10 tells us that we are to be strong in the Lord our God and in the power of his might, which is spiritual. Jesus said the words of God are spirit and life, John 6:63. We are blessed with spiritual weapons that God has given to us to defeat every attack of the devil at its very root, which is spiritual. Those weapons are God’s words of truth. Submitting to those words with a believing heart and condemning those thoughts of the devil will cause him to flee and our victory will spring forth, James 4:7, Isaiah 54:17.
John 6:63; It is the spirit that gives and preserves life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
James 4:7; Submit yourselves therefore to God (his word). Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Isaiah 54:17; No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of Jehovah, and their righteousness is of me, saith Jehovah.
When we use those weapons, even though they are spiritual, they produce victory in our natural physical world.
“Where is God?” the devil taunts… our heart replies with the sword of the spirit, “it is written; the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead is dwelling in me giving and preserving life to my mortal body, (Romans 8:11)….for Jehovah my God is with me wherever I go… he will never leave me or forsake me, (Joshua 1:5,9).”
Because our heart is fixed on those truths we see clearly where God is in our situation and the victory he has provided! This is what Jesus said in Matthew 5:8, “blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.”
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