How satan steals the word from you:
Jesus said a REALLY important statement about this and its vital we give attention to what He said..
I consider it one of the MAIN reason we fail to receive or understand the things of God..
Mark 4: "And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?"
So we can see the VITAL importance of understanding this..
Mistakes we make:
OK John, "I'll give that a try!" Don't bother.. It doesn't work by trying, it works by believing. You will 'try' it for a few days or weeks and then give up and get discouraged.
Why? Because what are you are trying to achieve is based upon your efforts to produce something, instead of letting Gods grace do the work.
"All this are possible to those who BELIEVE"
"When you pray , BELIEVE you have received it and you shall have it"
I was reading this scripture one time when the Lord spoke to me..
"and this is the confidence we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, he hears us and if we know He hears us, whatsoever we ask, we receive from Him"
I focused on the words '.. if we know.." The Lord spoke and said. "Do you know God hears you, or do you wonder?"
I thought and said.. "mmm.. sometimes, I wonder Lord"
That's one aspect of faith.. It KNOWS God hears us.. Jesus said "Whatsoever we ask the Father in my name, He WILL give it you"
so faith believes and acts upon that scripture and gives thanks.
Faith is not 'what' you believe.. It's ACTING upon what you believe. Look at the Bible examples.
The woman with the issue of blood.. She SAID "If I so much as touch the hem of His garment, I SHALL be healed" Then she went (acted on what she believed) and did it!
Jesus said.. "Daughter... your faith (acting on what she believed) has made you whole"
Jesus said.. "The sower sows the Word" This is the primary parable that Jesus said it was VERY important for us to understand.
"so is the Kingdom of God as if a man should cast seed into the ground" The 'seed' is the Word of God. The 'ground' is the soil of your heart.
Mark4:24 "And He said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given" In others words, the measure of thought and study you give to the truth you hear, will deterine how much comes back to you.
The amount of seed you sow and the attention you give to it, will determine your harvest. We measure to ourselves the blessings and things of God.
"For he that hath, (to him/her that sows the seed and pays attention to looking after it) to him shall be given: (the seed starts to grow and produce)
and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath. (Don't do anything with it and you will lose it)
And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. (it's growing, just believe and give thanks)
For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; (This Greek word is the word we get our word 'automatically' from. You heart will produce whatsoever you sow into it) first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. (The harvest is 'faith' and will enable you to freely receive from His grace by believing)
FIRSTLY:
1) We have to 'sow' the Word into our hearts.
We do this by 'hearing and hearing by the Word of God' and by meditating upon it.
This agrees with Proverbs 4:24.
"My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. (Why?) For they are life (Zoe.. the God kind of life) unto those that find them, and health (medicine) to all their flesh.
Keep thy heart with all diligence;(Why?) for out of it are the issues (the forces) of life.
MY EXPERIENCE:
This is what I did with healing. I wrote the scriptures down concerning healing on a small card and kept it in my pocket. I went to work as normal but for the next 3 DAYS (not 3 minutes) I would pull the card out and read the scriptures over and over
and then meditate upon them. That's what God told Joshua to do. "..but you shall meditate upon them day and night.. " Jos1:8
I would then spend some time praising God quietly (I was at work) and then back to thinking about the healing scriptures. I would speak them out quietly over and over again.. "By Whose stripes we were healed"
When I got home, I continued to do this.. Jesus said "IF (our choice) in your continue in my word, you are my disciples indeed and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free"
So I went to bed, looking at the dozen or so scriptures I had wrote down and went to sleep thinking about them and praising God.
If you are Spirit filled as in Acts2:4, then spend a lot of time praying in the Spirit (1Cor14:2) If not, then just keeping thinking about and meditating the Word of God. 'Meditate' means to mutter' - to chew over' (Much like a cow chewing grass)
I did this for 3 days.. For the first 2 or so days, I felt nothing. I was just acting on the Word of God.. Jesus said: "He that hears my Word and doeth it.. Him I will liken to a man who built his house upon a rock.." So I was building mt 'healing house' through faith (believing) in His grace
and just allowing the Word to be planted and grow in my heart. By the end of the 3rd day, the power of God was so strong upon me! The tangible healing power of God was present! The 'harvest' had come PLUS I KNEW' that I KNEW' that healing was for me.. and everybody else!
THIS IS HOW WE GET ROBBED!
NOW.. PLEASE NOTICE THIS! Jesus said.." But he that received seed into the good ground, is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Here is the key.. 'understands it'.. IE: He that sets his heart and spends the time, by pondering, meditating and sowing the Word into their hearts, will 'understand' it..
Jesus also said "And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts'
Why is this? It was because they didn't spend the time sowing the word into their heart! We can 'hear' and yet not hear! That's what Jesus meant when He said "He that has ears to ear, let him hear"
Satan, our enemy, steals the word from us! How many of us can remember what our Pastor preached on last week? If we had taken what was preached and spent some time each day meditating upon what was said and studying the Scriptures he spoke about, the devil wouldn't be able to steal it!!
People 'receive the Word with joy' IE: we get all excited about it but fail to do anything with it.
Faith is a product of the Word of God.. "so then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God" The word 'Word' there, is the Greek word 'Rhema' and it means the 'spoken word' as opposed to the 'Logos' or written Word.
Faith comes when the 'Logos or 'seed' of God becomes the 'Rhema' of God. The harvest has come and faith rises in our hearts.
Don't allow the devil to steal the Word from you! All you have to do to allow him to do this is... nothing.
Jesus said "He that follows me shall have the light of life" (King James version) This is not a salvation scripture. You get saved by repenting of your sin and accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and saviour.
This is a 'LIFE' statement! I'll put it to you as the Lord showed me one day..
"He that practices what I preach shall have entrance into the God kind of life, here and now" As you become a 'doer of the Word and not a hearer only" and put into practice what Jesus and James said,
the Holy Spirit will open your eyes to the God kind of life (Zoe) that is available here on this Earth. The life of God that Jesus walked in is available to us by the grace of God.
RECAP:
1) Believe the Word of God to be true, despite what things look like.
2) Plant the seed in your heart by hearing and meditating up on the Word of God.
3) Act upon the Word of God. (Do what it says)
4) Forgive, if you have anything against anybody. (and pray for them)
5) Give thanks.
Do the 3 day seeding like I did! God is no respecter of persons.. What do you need a harvest of? Sow some seed into your heart!
God has said: "As long as the Earth remains, it shall be seedtime and harvest" This is not just talking about growing corn, this is God's principle!
"So is the Kingdom of God as if a man should cast seed into the ground"
God Bless
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