I really love today's "Faith Food" by Kenneth E. Hagin!
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"Do you not know that your
body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within
you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own, You
were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His
own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body" (1 Corinthians 6:19-20 AMP).
I like the way I saw a missionary, who had
returned from the field, minister to the sick. Ministering to one woman, he
prayed first:
"Father, this woman is Your child. She
belongs to You. It's not right for the devil to dominate her. You laid her
sickness and disease on Jesus, for it is written, '…Himself took our
infirmities, and bare our sicknesses'" (Matthew 8:17).
Then the missionary talked to the
devil:
"Satan, this woman's body is
a temple of the Holy Ghost. It belongs to God, and you have no right to
trespass on God's property. Remove yourself from God's property!"
Then he talked to the woman:
"Satan has oppressed your
body with sickness, but God has made provision for your deliverance. Your body
is a temple of the Holy Ghost, and you are commanded to glorify God in your
body. Can God be glorified in your body by the devil dominating it? No.
Therefore, stand against this sickness with me. We demand that Satan stop trespassing
on God's property!"
Confession: I will honor God
and bring glory to Him in my body.
Shalom in Him!