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5) Confess, confess, confess!Once we settle the questions of God 's will and get into a place where God is able to heal us, we must start to confess the truth. We must not underestimate the importance of this. We know it is God's will to heal us and we accept it, which enables God to work for us. God however will not override our free will. If we are at times strong in faith, then other times warring through doubt and unbelief then we are not there yet. When doubts arise the devil is attempting to knock us off our faith stand. He knows if we abandon our stand he wins and sickness will not leave. If we continue to fight the doubts by confessing the truth, we will eventually come to the place where we receive the very thing that we want. Remember faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word. The more we confess God's word and apply it to ourselves the An example of a confession is: I am a child of God. There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. I am in Christ Jesus and I am not under condemnation. By Jesus' strips I have been healed. It is God's will to heal every sickness and disease because Jesus healed all who were sick and Jesus only did what the Father willed to be done. My healing is God's will. It is in this battle that there may be demonic assaults against us. The symptoms of the illness may grow more intense as we battle or just after we are done. Do not retreat in fear, it is only an attack of satan. Stand your ground and believe. Even if it doesn't subside. Just declare that regardless of what it feels like or looks like, the truth is eternal and that satan is a liar. The devil was a liar from the beginning and there is no truth in him. Therefore we must not submit to his tricks.
6) Cast down every thought that isn't of GodThere are other attacks that satan will launch at us. He is fond of using
thoughts in our mind that appear to be our thoughts. This is difficult to
overcome at first because of the idea that "they must be my thoughts."
We must never own the thoughts that plague our minds. Unless we are actively
contemplating the idea and have initiated them ourselves, they may not be our thoughts. Even this can be a deception.
Satan may interject a It is common for satan to tell us constantly that we are going to die or be killed. He would like nothing more then to eliminate us from the earth. He will also make us fear that every symptom of sickness that we experience is an indication that we are going to become increasingly more ill or maybe even die. This is a war that we must not neglect. 2CO 10:4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. 10:5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, If we ever hear yelling inside our minds or uncontrollable voices, that is evidence that we are possessed by demons and have a need for deliverance. The most common ideas that will come to our minds are thoughts that what we are doing is not helping or doing any good. If the casting down of thoughts is new to us we must not think that we are going to make ground the very first time we do it. Just like most things in life we may not see much improvement for a while, but we need to believe that it is working. If we are diligent to continue to daily stand on God's word and spend time in prayer we will start seeing victory before long.
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greater faith we
will have. It is important that we receive each and every word that we confess
as something that applies directly to us. We are the children of God and He has
provided healing through the death of Jesus. We need to own these facts for
ourselves.
thought that we pick up and begin to consider as our own.
Satan's goal is to get us to accept a lie as truth. When we accept a lie as
truth we shut the door to God and His supernatural ability. If we believe God is
able to heal but we are not worthy or deserving of healing, then we just set our
will against God's will. God will not force us to accept His will but will
respect our free will.