The message in today's "Faith To Faith" by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland is vital for the believer who wants to walk in the faith and power of the early church!
Jesus Can Set Them Free
There are those who've said that some of the diseases that are on the rampage right now, diseases such as AIDS, are God's way of punishing immoral people today. There is absolutely no scriptural basis for that!
God does not bring disease on the human race. In fact, if there's anyone in heaven and earth who hates it, it's Jesus. The devil is the one who's trying to tell us otherwise. He's promoting a lie, trying to get us to believe God is the One who's inflicting these diseases on people because he knows that if the victims believe that, it will drive them further from God than ever. And that's his aim.
It's time you and I as believers put a stop to that lie. Some time ago, the Lord spoke to my heart and told me so. He said, Reach out to those who are suffering. Let them know I didn't do this to them. Let them know I'm their Deliverer!
That word was not just for me, it was for the whole Body of Christ. We need to tell people who've been afflicted with AIDS or any such disease that Jesus is Lord over it. We need to tell them that God loves them dearly, and He has the desire and the power to heal them.
God is not responsible for the suffering we're seeing around us. That's just a nasty lie the devil is passing around. And if you and I do our job right, very soon another word is going to start spreading through the streets. The news is going to get out that Jesus Christ is not their captor, He's the One who can set them free!
The world, and those believers who are ignorant of the Word of God, have come up with some very pathetic things to blame God for! Remind yourself that THIS is the TRUTH from the Word of God found in James 1:17:
17 Every good gift and every perfect (free, large, full) gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of all [that gives] light, in [the shining of] Whom there can be no variation [rising or setting] or shadow cast by His turning [as in an eclipse].
HE never changes! Hebrews 13:8:
8 Jesus Christ (the Messiah) is [always] the same, yesterday, today, [yes] and forever (to the ages).
We see HIS desires for us revealed in 3 John 2:
2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.
So renew your mind with the Word of God until YOU think like HIM! When THAT happens, you will never settle for less than God's very best for you AND your family! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Young and Free with "Brighter":
Shalom in Him!
