There is no break in Ministry!
Praise be to the Lord who makes everything beautiful in His time. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance. I can only be grateful for how much God has been renewing my mind, even since last year. I’m walking by faith and resting on what the Lord has said about me, not on my own thoughts or feelings.
The past couple of months I’ve really been reflecting on our identity in Christ, and I’m still weeding out lies in my own life that the enemy had me believing. It’s so vital to keep our ears tuned to what God says and then consider every man a liar, including ourselves.
What a marvelous thing it would be to walk in the perfect peace the Lord promised us! There is a place of peace where no situation or circumstance can move you to disbelief. Faith says “yes” to the impossible, while the devil’s lies and the carnal man say, “No, it’s not possible.” No matter what lies we’ve come to believe about ourselves, there is a way out. The real issue is that we can get comfortable with the lie, or even adopt it as part of our personality.
The Bible says, “Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow me.” It doesn’t say deny the devil. It says deny yourself. Often the reason we hold onto offense is that we haven’t denied ourselves yet. Carrying that cross means dying to our own thoughts and letting the God of the universe renew our minds. Oh, how small our thinking is if we believe our own plans for the future are better for us than God Almighty’s!
Let’s never settle in our walk of spiritual growth. When we settle, we begin to slip back toward a carnal life. For it is written that man’s ways are against God’s.
As Todd White says, “There is a place where you can be so free from you, that you’re free from others.” In that place, personal attacks and offense from others carry no weight. Many times the people who hurt us haven’t yet discovered their own identity in Christ. So why let someone’s opinion of us shape how we see ourselves?
It’s time to stop blaming the devil for all our issues, because he only has one weapon against us. The enemy has no authority over our lives unless we give it to him, and we don’t have to sit back and be passive. “Jesus has all authority in heaven and earth.” Then the Word tells us, “He gave authority to His disciples to cast out devils and sickness.” So what does the devil have left? His only weapon is deception.
As I’ve been resting in God’s truth about my identity, He has used me to minister all across Georgia, from the north by Tennessee to the south by Florida. I was blessed with a short vacation to South Carolina with some friends. I thought I’d be on a break from ministry, but God had a different plan. He actually sent somebody to our condo to be healed! Click here for that video. After my vacation, another friend blessed me with a missions trip to Costa Rica to help build an orphanage!
Everywhere in between, God has been healing everything from deaf ears to crushed backs and sicknesses no doctors could heal! After a performance, people applaud the musician, not the instrument. In the same way, God is the One making the music through this instrument. To Him be all the glory!
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