This blog is a follow up to my earlier blog, God Says I Am Healed Yet Symptoms Persist. In this blog we will explore the topic of speaking life to our bodies as a means of sending symptoms into remission.
What do you see as your basic identity? Does being a child of God seem too simple? Do you feel the need to embellish this with group identification, academic and other achievements, titles, offices, successes, skills, and honors? Be careful. Anything you attach your identity to you must defend at all costs, because you must regard an attack on it as an attack on the essence of your being. These are not false or bad things, but they are not the real you either. Don’t you find it tedious to be around those who are so insecure they must spend their time proving they are somebody?
Do you think narcissism is a serious and widespread problem today? Do you find it easy to identify in other people? This is basic selfishness that has gone by various names and has been a characteristic problem of humanity from the beginning. Do you know anyone who thinks it is a problem for them? By inference, would you know if it is a problem for you? My word gives the cure. Deny yourself, lay down your life, and pick up your cross and follow me. But there are more people who can readily identify narcissism in others than those who are eager to embrace the cure for themselves.
When we fail, we can beat ourselves up for several hours, days or months, or we can be cleansed instantly and return to peace and rest. Demons howl in laughter if I beat myself up, for I have removed myself from God’s presence, and stepped out of the Kingdom of peace and joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17) and into the kingdom of demonic lies and accusations.
Do you expect to go to heaven when you die? Do you think that you went to heaven when you were born? Do you think of this as a fallen world and see only problems? This is a negative and inaccurate view. Consider the conditions that you inherited that are favorable to life. The magnitude of gravity is just right for you. The atmospheric pressure which depends on it is perfect as is the composition of air.
Have you heard that you can’t buy happiness? This has become such a mindless cliché that people do not ask the next obvious question. If you can’t buy happiness, then how do you get it? If the pursuit of happiness is a fundamental right then how can you obtain it? The first premise above implies that it lies outside the realm of commerce. I have a destiny for you that is as unique as your DNA. I don’t intend to keep it a secret from you but you won’t find it if you don’t look for it.
How well do you receive criticism? Do you find it easy to receive correction when it is given graciously in love? What about when it is not? What about criticism that is mean and harsh? Do you find it easy to dismiss correction that is not given in love? Yet it may be just as valid as criticism that is. It takes a greater measure of grace to receive mean criticism, but I call you to a level of maturity that the only thing that matters is whether you will benefit from it. Joseph told his brothers that what they meant for evil God meant for good.
Restless leg syndrome started seven weeks after open heart surgery. I prayed for healing and then journaled and God has told me I was healed physically. Yet the symptoms of the infirmity persist. So now what do I do? Acknowledge I still have restless leg syndrome, or acknowledge that I’m healed?
Download this “Inner Healing for an Organ” – Prayer Worksheet and complete it (free and interactive), or you can do your journaling in your journaling notebook.
Do you consider it important to be a peacemaker? I said that such people are my children. In what situations would you be able to make peace? How many people does it take to make a conflict? Some people are conflicted within themselves but there is an underlying reality to the proverb that it takes two to tangle. But not just any two. It takes two ungracious people to sustain a conflict. If one gracious person is involved they will go the extra mile and turn the other cheek to avoid sustaining a conflict.
Are you familiar with the concept of going through the motions? This implies that there can be the right movements without deliberate thought or heart engagement. You have heard this phrase. Have you ever done it? The rituals of your faith can be powerful tools to take you to places you could not go without them. They can also be dead and dry and devoid of life. At the end of the Old Testament I said that no one closes a door for no reason. If this tiny action is done for a purpose then how much more should you have a purpose to kindle a fire on my altar or anything else you do for me?
