I want to remind you this morning to continuing fighting with your faith for all the things that the Lord has promised you and especially the things that He has confirmed through prophetic words that you received recently. God wants you to have them and it gives Him pleasure to give them to you.
All you have to do is see it in your heart and believe that you receive.
Daniel 11:32 New King James Version (NKJV)
32 Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits. The enemy will always be attempting to corrupt you, but if you know God then you shall be strong and carry out great exploits.
When you look at growth you need to look at some sort of measurement in order to see the growth.
How many of us when we were children had measurements marked on a wall or a door to keep track of your growth?
You want to see growth, your parents what to see you grow and your grand parents keep saying to you, “look how much you gave grown”.
Often we will begin to measure ourselves off of others in the natural in a good way and then in a bad way.
People always try to measure themselves against someone who makes them look better. For example:
Tall people measure themselves against smaller people and where weight is concerned, slightly overweight people will try to be around someone who is fatter than they are so they don’t feel so bad.
Matthew 6:27 The Message (MSG)
27 “Has anyone by fussing in front of the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as an inch?
So the Word of God is saying forget the comparison or concern physically because there is something much more important to work on and that is your spiritual growth.
To grow spiritually we have to imitate Jesus Christ, that is to walk and talk like Jesus. We need to conduct our lives like Jesus and speak like Jesus spoke.
The apostle Paul said in..
1 Corinthians 11:1-2 New King James Version (NKJV)
Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ
So to measure up spiritually against another brother of sister in Christ is biblical pattern. But we are only to do this as they imitate Christ.
Regarding the account in Genesis 28 of Jacob and the ladder or staircase reaching from earth into heaven and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. Why would they be doing this? I believe that it is in response to what we are calling for. Because they are ministering spirits sent out in the service of Christians, their job is to is to go into the invisible realm, the realm of heaven and bring back what you are calling and believing for based on God’s word.
God has chosen things which defy natural logic to operate the Supernatural realm.
God has chosen: foolish things, weak things, base things of the world, things which are despised and the things which are not To bring to nothing the things that are
Voice activation is where you use your own words to activate things and this is not something new. In April 2011 Apple launches Siri, the first digital assistant and we were all wowed by the technology where you can say things and the technology responded. Hay Siri! What's the weather forecast today? Hay Siri! Turn the volume up.
We can get so amazed by technology especially the things that make our lives easier, that it tends takes away from the method or systems put in place by God. From the dawn of creation, God chose voice activation as a way to create things and He Himself uses the same method and calls things that do not exist as though they did. I want to show you this scripture in Rom 4 regarding God’s method of voice activation.
Romans 4:17 (NKJV) 17 (as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;
For we walk by faith, not by sight. - In these eight words the apostle Paul is giving us great insight how to operate in faith and he is saying to be successful in the kingdom of God, because you have to walk by faith and not by what you see in the natural. We all have the power of God, the Holy Spirit abiding on the inside of us, ever present to empower the things that we say in faith, but the pressures of the natural realm are continually working against your faith and your confession.
Believing is not hard, it is just a choice. We are always given two choices when it comes to you needing a miracle. Either to believe the word of God or to accept fear.
Believing is a choice and we have to become like children in regards to believing because children will believe whatever their parents tell them and that’s why it is so important what we tell our kids. My favorite thing to do with my children was before they went to sleep was to tell them a bible story about men and women of faith. Believing is not hard, it is just a choice.
The anointing of the Holy Spirit has amazing qualities which is well beyond natural things or abilities. The anointing that you receive from Him abides in you and that same anointing teaches you concerning all things. So, when you realise this, you can begin to exercise your faith and ask the Holy Spirit to teach and instruct you regarding the issue or yoke that is hindering you.