How to see God's Word come to pass in your life

Finding a Scripture that reveals God’s truth is the first step to seeing God’s Word come to pass in your life. But as we have already discovered it is not about just quoting the literal words because the power of God is released when you believe and act on what it says. So don’t just focus on the literal words but on the message of what those words are saying!

This lesson I wanted to cover a little bit on confession…

…if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Rom 10:9-10 (NKJV)

Many believers misunderstand what it means to confess the Word. I see many caught up with declaring the literal Word without having a personal revelation on what those words are saying. We need to remember that what God has said in His Word has already been established for us. His Word is our instruction book for life and shows what we have already inherited as a believer. For this reason we don’t declare or confess God’s Word to move God or to make something happen. Instead, we confess and say what has already happened! God has already moved and done everything for us through the finished work of the Cross!

So confession doesn’t move God but moves us into what God has already provided!

The word confess in Greek in the scripture above is homologeo and means: to agree with, not to refuse or deny, to declare openly, speak out freely. So confession is to agree out of our mouth by saying the same thing as what God’s Word says about what He has done for us through His Son!

Confession is two-fold; it helps us to renew our minds with the truth and it’s also how we see God’s power released in our life when we say what God says about us!

I love what the message version says of this Scripture…..

The Word that saves is right here, as near as the tongue in your mouth, as close as the heart in your chest.
 It's the Word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming Word to God—"Jesus is my Master"—embracing, body and soul, God's work of doing in us what He did in raising Jesus from the dead. That's it. You're not "doing" anything; you're simply calling out to God, trusting Him to do it for you. That's salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: "God has set everything right between him and me!" Romans 8:8-10 (Msg)

We understand that we don’t have to confess God’s Word or what Jesus has done for us many times to come into Salvation.  We simply embrace what Jesus has done by believing and acting on it. This is the same for everything that Jesus redeemed us from through His finished work.

It is so easy to get into works and self-effort and performance mode when we need a breakthrough but we need to remind ourselves that the things of God's Kingdom are notearned but learned. We therefore need to renew our minds with what we already have in Christ so that we can see this truth established in our heart! Then out of the overflow of our heart our mouth will speak and we will start thinking and saying what God says.  Our lives will be transformed and soon circumstances as a result. The rest will be history.

Copyright Nerida Walker 2010 (God's Plan for Pregnancy and It is Finished).  If you would like to know more about the power of God's Word and how to see it come to pass in your life grab a copy of my audio message God's Living Word for Childbearing (for those wanting a breakthrough in reproduction) or The Living Word of God (for those who want to experience God's healing power in every area of their lives.

How to Squash Doubt and Unbelief

God's Word is His seed on the earth.

Because we live in a fallen world, we will all face doubts and discouragement from time to time. If we continue to feed on our doubts, or on the negatives we can become so overwhelmed that we may see no way out of our situation.  So while doubt and discouragement cannot change God’s unconditional love toward us, it can change our ability to walk in what God has freely provided for us. This very thing happened to the children of Israel.  God had said to Moses ‘Send men to spy out the land of Canaan,which I am giving to the children of Israel’ (Num 13:2). But instead of returning with a positive report and a strategy to take the land, 10 of the 12 spies came back with a negative report.  And because the people didn’t mix God’s Word with faith, but instead believed the spies’ report, the Israelites spent 40 years wandering in the wilderness.

See Beyond the Natural

When we first discover the truth for our situation in God’s Word, our natural circumstances may seem worlds apart from that truth.  Everything in the natural can seem to be against us.  We can be in debt, be broke, have no education, have a rotten past, be infertile, have an incurable disease, or be constantly sick and hurting.  But nothing in the natural can disqualify you from walking in God’s provision – unless you allow it to.  Continue to meditate on God and His Word until your perspective changes and you see yourself with what He has provided for you.  Look past the natural hindrances that are preventing your breakthrough and look only to the solution; see your situation through the eyes of faith and stop looking at your circumstances with a natural mindset!

When Joshua and Caleb spied out the Promised Land they were able to look past the natural circumstances.  They looked through the eyes of God’s promise; they saw that the giants in the land could easily be defeated.  However, the other 10 spies along with the children of Israel focused on the natural hindrances over God’s promise and provision.  Their fear of the giants and the natural circumstances caused them to doubt God’s supernatural power and ability, and the credibility of His Word.  As a result their perspective changed to the point where, instead of seeing themselves with the victory, they felt and saw themselves like ‘grasshoppers in their own sight’ (Num 13:33).  They were defeated in their own sight because they couldn’t see how God was going to get them into the Promised Land past the giants.  They looked at all the ‘mountains of impossibility’ they faced in the natural realm, and they forgot the promise of God.  We too can fall into the same trap when we look at our own ‘mountains of impossibility’ such as debt, sickness or disease, or our adverse symptoms, diagnosis or circumstances.  We need to be like Joshua and Caleb and look at our natural circumstances through the filter of God’s Word, so we are also able to see through the eyes of victory rather than through our natural eyes of defeat!

Believe and do not Doubt in your Heart!

Through our faith in Jesus we have already received everything we need to rule and reign in life.  Once we know what we have inherited through Jesus (through God’s Word) we then need to learn how to walk by this truth and not by sight, feelings, symptoms or by what the natural realm is dictating to us.  If we do focus on the natural circumstances instead of the truth found in God’s Word, then that is when doubt and unbelief can come in, and if entertained it will take root, grow and bear fruit in our life.

Mark 11:22-23 “Have faith in God”, Jesus answered. “I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

Did you know that the heart is the place where we decide which report we are going to believe?  We therefore need to spend time meditating on the truth of God’s Word until we believe and do not doubt in our heart what it says. Meditating on God’s Word is not meant to be a one-off occurrence but rather a lifestyle of feeding on God’s truth until what it says comes alive and becomes real to you personally.

Go Take the Land!

If you want to possess what God has freely provided for you through Jesus then you too need to GO and possess the land! Keep trusting, believing and pressing through past the natural hindrances until you see the provision manifest in your life.  This isn’t about self-effort in terms of working or trying to earn your breakthrough, but is simply about having an unwavering attitude that is determined to possess what already belongs to you.  God’s Word paints the picture of what you can expect to see.  So begin to see it, feel it and embrace it. Start seeing yourself with the answer rather than without it.  What are you waiting for?  Squash those doubts and unbelief and Go possess your Promised Land right now!

Copyright Nerida Walker God's Plan for Pregnancy and It is Finished - All rights reserved

Is your Past ruining your future?

I have found that besides physical healing many believers are also seeking healing for emotional issues that have arisen from the effects of what they experienced in their past.  This is an area where many remain captive, bound and struggle to break free.  But there is good news for everyone wanting breakthrough from the effects of their past.  The work that Jesus did on the Cross was a complete work and is enough for you to walk in victory in every area of your life! 

We need to understand that Satan (not God) uses our past in an attempt to ruin our future.  He uses guilt, shame and condemnation to make us feel unworthy to come before God with a clean conscience.  These can become huge stumbling blocks in our relationship with God as they can prevent us from feeling worthy to receive from Him.

While we are unable to change what happened in the past, we can change what happens today and put a stop to the affects or outworking of what happened in our life from days gone by.  When we understand what God has done for us through the finished work of the Cross, we can break free from the chains of our past and experience lasting wholeness and walk in victory over our past once and for all!

Always remember that Satan is a defeated foe!  The battle has already been won and Satan has already been defeated.  Jesus disarmed and deprived him of the power to harm us. When you understand who you are in Christ, you will realise that you no longer need to struggle with anything that happened in your past because Satan’s power and hold over you has already been broken (Col 1:13-14).  Because Satan has been disarmed, the only power he has in your life is what you allow him to have, or the power that has gone unchallenged.  We can find ourselves submitting to things rather than resisting them to see them flee from our lives.  Therefore, if he can deceive you into believing his lies then that is where he gains power in your life.  For this reason, if we are kept tied to what happened in the past through guilt, shame or condemnation we wont be able to break free from what happened in the past and experience the freedom, truth and fullness of what God has already provided for us.

Over the next few posts I will cover unworthiness, shame, guilt and condemnation and how to walk in victory over these once and for all so you can lay hold of the truth of who you are in Christ and experience healing and wholeness in every area of your life!

Now that's good news!