Today I want to share Andrew Womack's devotional because it give a little more clarity on a subject that truly does hinder many from receiving the healing that God has already provided for them!
CONFESS
GOD'S TRUTH
John
11:14 "Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead."
Jesus
spoke of Lazarus being asleep instead of dead because that is really a much
better description. Death, to their carnal minds, would be final; whereas the
word "sleep" would not. When the disciples misunderstood what He was
saying, He clarified the situation by saying plainly, "Lazarus is
dead."
This
looks like a contrary statement to what Jesus was going to do (raise Lazarus
from the dead) and indeed it would have been if He had left it at that. But He
went on to say in verse 15, "I am glad for your sakes that I was not
there, to the intent ye may believe." This was referring to Lazarus being
raised from the dead and it turned Jesus' statement of a negative fact into a
positive confession of faith.
Many
people have been confused over this very issue. Many times people will refuse
to speak of or acknowledge any situation that is contrary to a promise that God
has given them. It is certainly desirable to avoid talking about our problems
and there is scriptural precedent for this (2 Kings 4:20, 26). In this very
instance, Jesus avoided using a word to describe Lazarus' situation that would
have instilled fear into His disciples' hearts. But when dealing with people
who didn't understand, He didn't deny the natural facts.
A
true, positive confession doesn't deny natural truth. It just refuses to stop
at the natural realm and speaks forth the greater spiritual truth. This is what
Jesus did and we should follow His example. Therefore, it is not wrong to
acknowledge a physical problem such as sickness just as long as we acknowledge
to an equal or greater degree the spiritual truth, "by whose stripes ye
were healed" (1 Peter 2:24). Don't deny that problems exist, just deny
those problems the right to continue to exist in your life by confessing your
faith in God.
I totally love that last line! We do not deny the problem, we simply deny the problem the right to STAY! We do this by speaking what the Word of God says over our body, fully expecting to see the manifestation of what we believe. Now I am adding my faith with yours for some "immediately, suddenly and nows"! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Children of the Light":Shalom in Him!
