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Keep Standing
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By:
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caseybell
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Mood:
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Encouraging
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Date:
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08/14/2008 17:14:03
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None
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If you are in the midst of a battle right now, if you are believing for healing, financial breakthrough, restoration, whatever you are believing for, keep standing.
If you have been standing on the word and it does not seem like anything is moving in the natural, keep standing on the word.
take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: '"> (Eph 6:13 KJV)
alert and on your guard; stand firm in your faith (your conviction respecting man relationship to God and divine things, keeping the trust and holy fervor born of faith and a part of it). Act like men and be courageous; grow in strength! (1 Corin. 16:13 AMP)
When we do not see the results, we think we should see that does not mean that God is not working.
If you do not see the Lord working in the natural, you may want to pray and ask the Lord if you have any un-confessed sin or un-forgiveness. Sickness or any other thing does not mean you have sin in your life, however, it is a possibility, and you need to ask Father about it.
Let us talk about faith for a moment. There are two things in scripture I want to focus on today. One, faith comes be hearing the word, and two faith brings about patience in our life.
hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Rom. 10:16b-17 KJV). No matter what lies the enemy is telling you, no matter what the doctor says, no matter how much debt you have, no matter whatever your situation is. You have a choice to make are you going to believe the enemy, or are you going to believe God? If you are going to believe God, you have to build your faith, if you are going to build your faith you must be in the word. Listen to the word, listen to preachers that teach truth, read the word, and pray the word. Find scriptures pertaining to your situation and decree and declare them over your life. Job 22:28 declares shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. title=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">
style="COLOR: #000000">Be assured and understand that the trial and proving of your faith bring out endurance and steadfastness and patience. 4But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be [people] perfectly and fully developed [with no defects], lacking in nothing. 5If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of [a]the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him. 6Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. 7For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord, 8[For being as he is] a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), [he is] unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything [he thinks, feels, decides]. style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: '"> (James 1:3-8 AMP)
We cannot have a testimony without a test! In the midst of your standing in faith, the Lord is working patience and perseverance into us, Praise God! Remember Romans 8:28 tells us that all things work together for good to them that love God and that are called according to his purpose. So praise God during this time of growth, and keep standing fast, and know that the Lord is always on time. I encourage you to read Mark 5:25-34, and do what the woman with the issue of blood did. She heard the word, acted on the word, received the word, and then testified to what the word accomplished.
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