Doing the Word 4/1 Monday Meditation

Colossians 3:10, "And have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of Him that created him."
The mind is renewed by studying the Word and by acting upon it.  One may study the Word for years, but if he does not act it, live it, is not a doer, the mind is not renewed.
James gives us the secret in James 1:22, "Be ye doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves."
Many Bible students are deceiving themselves because they are not acting, living, doing the Word.

--E.W. Kenyon

Complete in Him 3/29 Friday Faith

From today you are taking your place in Christ.  You recognize that you have been delivered out of Satan's dominance .  You recognize that you have been translated into the kingdom of the Son of His love.  You are in the Father's family.  You have a perfect right to the Throne Room now, and you have seen that every sin that you have ever committed has been wiped out as though it had never been.  You stand complete in Him.

--E.W. Kenyon

The Word is Always Now 3/28 Thursday Thoughts

Here are some facts about the Word.
The Word is always Now.
It has been, it is, and it will be, the voice of God.
It is never old.  It is always fresh and new.
To the heart that is in fellowship with the Father, the Word is a present-tense, living voice from heaven.
The Word is like its Author:  Eternal, Unchanging, Living.


--E. W.  Kenyon

I Am a Conqueror 3/27 Wednesday Wisdom

When one becomes God-inside minded, when he takes for granted that "greater is He that is in him than he that is in the world," he goes out and faces life's problems with the sense of a conqueror.
This is almost an unknown practice in the church for men and women to say in every crisis of their life, "I am a conqueror; I am more than a victor, because the Creator dwells in me.  He can put me over.  He can make me a success.  I can't fail."

--E.W. Kenyon

The Secret of Faith 3/26 Tuesday Truth

Get so that your spirit is sensitive to His desires.
If you live with a loved one, and it is a love union and a love walk, you are very sensitive to the things that the loved one enjoys and desires.
Now you begin to live with the Father and the Master until after awhile you will say as Jesus did, "I know my Father."
You will say, "I know my Master.  I am getting to know what the Holy Spirit desires and loves most.  I am learning to walk in the spirit; that is, in my recreated spirit.
"I am walking in the light of the life of God in my spirit.
"I am visiting with the Father almost continuously."
That is the secret of faith.

--E.W. Kenyon

If We Walk in Love 3/25 Monday Meditation

If we walk in love, we never pray out of His will, and if we know that He heareth us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions we ask of Him...

This love life permits us to walk into the very presence of the Father.  You may go into the throne room and stand in His presence and make your petitions known in that name, and as sure as you do, that petition is heard.

--E.W. Kenyon

Bitterness and Sickness 3/22 Friday Faith

It makes no difference how many promises you plead, if you are not walking in love, your prayer life will be a failure.
Many people have come to me for prayer when they were sick and I have prayed for them and obtained no results.  When I asked them why my prayers were not answered, they confessed that they had bitterness in their heart toward someone.  The moment that bitterness was taken away, they were perfectly well.

--E.W. Kenyon

James 5:16

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

You Can Pray 3/21 Thursday Thoughts

You can pray, for you know how...
Dare to act your part.
Dare to let God use you.
Dare to let Love reign in your life.
Dare to be in your daily life what He says you are.
Dare to do what He says you can do.
Dare to confess that you are what He says you are!
All is yours.  Use it.

--E.W. Kenyon

Act on the Word 3/20 Wednesday Wisdom

We contact God through the Word.  God contacts us through the Word.  We act on the Word. 
Now arise in your prayer life.  Take the place God has given you.   Set men free; heal the sick; save the lost.  You can do it.

--E.W. Kenyon

Every Word of God Abides 3/19 Tuesday Truth

Now we have the Father and Jesus and the Throne back of every word.
If that Word should fail, it would dethrone God.  It cannot fail.
God cannot be separated from His Word.
Every Word of God abides.
The word of man is as grass, but the Word of God lives on through the ages.

--E.W. Kenyon

Dare To Do Exploits 3/18 Monday Meditation

Can you believe this ministry is in its 14th year?  I started in 2006 with emailing a quote to a friend every weekday, which we then discussed by email.  After he and I spoke at a men's retreat in 2007, a few other men joined the email discussion group.  Since I started posting on blogsite.com several years ago, I've had 2036 posts.  Later I began to post on my Facebook timeline and in a Facebook group.  The counters on these pages show an average of 60 readers a day.  

You have seen what you are in Christ, now take your place as a prayer warrior.  Make hell fear you.  Make heaven glad.  Fill heats of men with joy witnessing your winning prayer life.
Healing the sick is His will.  Saving the lost is His will.  Breaking Satan's dominion over men is His will.
Praying for ministers and missionaries is His will...
Now swing free in your prayer life.  Be big!  Honor the Word.
Dare to do exploits for Him.

-- E. W. Kenyon  

We Have Never Taken the Word Seriously 3/15 Friday Faith

We have never taken the Word seriously.  We have never acted as though it were true.
If someone wrote you a letter and told you that he had deposited $5000 to your account in the bank to take care of your bills, and if you knew that he was financially able to do it, you would not hesitate a moment.  You could hardly wait to get to the bank.  You would hand the letter to the cashier with confidence. You know the man who wrote the letter; you know the promise he made; you know the money is there waiting for you.
Is the Word of your Father, the Word of the Master to be depended upon as the word of a friend?
What a background is this for faith!   What a prayer life can grow out of truth like this!
You can see what He is to us and what we are to Him.
Nothing is impossible to Him, and all His ability is ours.
What an opportunity to bless and help by our prayers!

--E.W. Kenyon

The Word Can't Lie 3/14 Thursday Thoughts

The Word can't lie.  It is a part of God Himself.
We act on the Word.  God will make it good.
What a foundation is this for a prayer life!
We have God's own Word to back us.  No Word from God can fail.
We can have real assurance in our prayer.  When we pray in Jesus' Name, it is as though He prayed.  It is answered.

--E. W. Kenyon

Prayer Responsibility 3/13 Wednesday Wisdom

Prayer is fellowship with the Father and with Jesus, a cultivation of a habit of communion.  It is learning to take advantage of our rights in Christ.  It is assuming the responsibility that those rights give us.
Prayer privilege means prayer responsibility.

--E.W. Kenyon

Prayer Preparation 3/12 Tuesday Truth

A prayer life doesn't mean hours spent in actual prayer, but hours of study and meditation in the Word until the life becomes literally absorbed in the Word and the Word becomes a very part of us.

One could spend hours in prayer fruitlessly if the heart is not prepared beforehand.

The preparation of the heart comes from meditation in the Word, meditation on what we are in Christ, what He is to us, and what the Holy Spirit can mean to a life that becomes God-inside minded.

--E.W. Kenyon

The Successful Prayer Life 3/11 Monday Meditation

The successful prayer life is one of self-denial.  It is a recognition of His Lordship, a giving up of much that is not wrong in itself but that hinders and takes our time.

--E. W. Kenyon

Our Rest With Him 3/8 Friday Faith

Not only were we made alive and raised, but in the mind of Justice we are seated with Him today.
What does that mean?
It means absolute dominion over our enemies.
It means utter oneness with Christ.  As the branch and vine are one, so are the individual and Christ one.
His victory was our victory.
His mastery over the forces of darkness was our mastery.
And so when He sat down, He entered into His rest, for His work was finished.
When we understand, we enter into His rest with Him.

--E.W. Kenyon

Jesus Our Healer, by Rev. John Soper

HEALER

A great portion of Christ’s time was dedicated to healing the sick. He healed all kinds of people: the blind, the paralyzed, the lame, the deaf, lepers, those who had fevers, and many with chronic illnesses.

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  Savior

  Acts 4:12
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  Sanctifier

  1 Corinthians 1:30
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  Healer

  James 5:15
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  Coming King

  Acts 1:11

“Jesus Is Still the Healer”

We find no record in the gospels of Jesus turning away anyone who came to him for healing, nor do we find that any disease was too difficult for him to heal. He even raised the dead. Miraculous healings still occur today—evidence that Christ is still our Healer.

The Purpose of Divine Healing is to Glorify Jesus. In the Book of Acts, we find three important truths we need to grasp: Jesus is still the Healer, Healing comes from Jesus alone, and the purpose of divine healing is always to glorify Him.

As a pastor, I was called to meet a couple at a hospital. Their daughter had suffered a seizure and was not breathing. When I reached the hospital, neither the parents nor the doctor were with the child. A nurse was unplugging the flat-lined machines.

The Holy Spirit prompted me to do something I’d never done before — pray over the girl’s lifeless body. I asked the nurse if I could pray for a minute, to which she replied, “You know she’s dead,” but allowed me to go ahead.

I asked God to restore the little girl. Then I went to next room and found the parents witnessing to the doctor. About a minute later, we heard a scream, then the little girl crying for her mommy. It’s never happened to me before or since. But Jesus is still healer.

Why did Jesus Heal so Many People?

• To get attention: Jesus knew that by meeting a physical need, healing, the door would be open to speak about Jesus’ greater mission—to bring salvation to souls. We see the same pattern throughout Jesus’ ministry. Whenever Jesus made an intangible claim, He backed it up with a tangible act of compassion. Jesus said He was the bread of life and fed 5,000 people with a few loaves of bread.
• To prove He could forgive sin: How do you prove such an intangible thing? First, Jesus lived in a culture where the assumption was that sickness was a result of sin. Second, based on the same assumption, healing comes with forgiveness of sin. To prove that He had the power to forgive sins, Jesus said to the man who was lowered down through roof on a mat, “Friend, your sins are forgiven…take your mat and go home” (Luke 5:20).
• To prove He was God: Jesus healed to prove He was the Messiah. Only One has authority to forgive sin—God alone—a charge the Pharisees made when Jesus healed sickness and at the same time forgave sins. He was claiming authority to be God.
• To show His compassion: Jesus healed because he cared. There is no record of Jesus turning anyone away who asked for his help.
• To show that He is the Lord of all of life: Jesus is the Lord of compassion—not just Lord of our souls but of our bodies as well.
• To show that salvation starts now: Jesus’ wonderful, compassionate willingness to reach out and touch our physical needs demonstrates that it’s not just future tense but present tense. Salvation starts now. He heals in this life, in this moment, in anticipation of something much more complete as eternity rolls on.

The Healings Did Not End With Jesus

• He Said They Would Continue: Healings did not end with Jesus. He told his disciples they would do greater things. Although there is some dispute as to the validity of the end of Mark’s gospel (Mark 16:18), it is clear in the Book of John that Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I am doing. He will do even greater things than these” (John 14:12).
• The Apostles Continued His Work: Nothing in the New Testament says or even implies that the healing ministry would stop at end of the New Testament. In fact, it says the opposite. Healing ministry will continue in age of the Church through His Body, the Church. The apostles continued his work.
• Jesus Is Still The Healer! Jesus is still the healer today. Why don’t we see it as the disciples in the Early Church did? They were full of the Holy Spirit. We leak. They were fully obedient. Too often, we are not. They fully expected to see Him work. We are often surprised that He does.

The Power Comes From Jesus

• Not From Our Faith: The power comes from Jesus. The power doesn’t come from faith. There is interaction with faith. Jesus challenged people to have faith. He even said, “Your faith has made you whole.” But faith was a response to the person of Jesus. It was power of Jesus and not individual faith that brought healing. If you believe the power comes from faith, there’s a problem. Faith is a necessary component but not what heals.
• Not From Within: Healing does not come from within us. It is not a matter of getting everything in balance. A great, satanic error of our day teaches that healing flows from inner peace or balance, some resource inside us, even if God put it in us. That simply is not true. Healing comes only from the hand of Jesus.
• Not From Faith Healers: Healing does not come from faith healers. There are gifts of healing. God uses prayer to raise up people who need a touch by Him. But the power is in Jesus, which means, if you need a touch from the Lord, you don’t need to look to a faith healer.
• Not From Crystal Skulls: Healing does not come from any occult objects, such as crystal skulls.

Why Isn’t Everyone Healed?

Why do people get sick in the first place? The Bible gives a theology of sickness as well as a theology of healing. There are a number of reasons for sickness. The first is sin. The Pharisees were right that some get sick because of sin but wrong that all get sick because of sin. In 1 Corinthians, we are warned about abusing the table of the Lord. “That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you sleep.”

Sometimes God allows the enemy to make us sick. Sickness definitely is related to the curse, the fall, and the work of Satan. There is no better example than Job. In the testing, our faithfulness can be perfect. God allows sickness or disabilities to teach us lessons that would not be learned any other.

Healing also can be God’s way of taking us home, the moment of eschatological healing that ultimately comes when we are made perfect. No more glasses, no more insulin pumps. I won’t walk with a limp.

How Do We Respond?

Our prayers for healing tend to be, “Jesus heal me because I want to serve you more, I don’t want pain, or I want to be a testimony of your faithfulness. See how much more faith I have now.”

The only possible right response is: “What ever brings You glory, Lord. I believe you can. With the absence of a firm word to the contrary, then I believe that you will. But the only reason I want to be healed is because I want to bring You glory. If something else brings You more glory, that’s ok with me. It’s not about me. It’s all about Jesus.”

“In The Name Of Jesus Christ Of Nazareth, Walk!”

The power comes from Jesus. The purpose is to bring glory to Jesus. It is not to meet my needs, to make me feel better, or relieve me of my pain, although that is a nice side benefit.

The disciples with Jesus encountered a blind man (John 9). One of the disciples asked, “Who sinned—the man or his parents.” Jesus explained that neither the man nor His parents had sinned but “this had happened so that the work of God would be displayed in his life.”

Healing is all about glorifying Jesus. It’s not about us. It’s all about Him!

By Rev. John F. Soper

The Highest Order of Prayer 3/7 Thursday Thoughts

The highest order of prayer is a dialogue:  you and He conversing about His work.
You are there to talk things over with Him.
You are a son taking a son's place.
You are not conscious of your standing or righteousness.
You are intent upon doing His will, carrying out His will.
You and He are working together.
You see, He has made you not only a New Creation and a Son but He has made you a partner in this work.
You are the fruit-bearing part of the company.
You are the hands and feet and the voice of the company.

-- E.W. Kenyon

Prayer Is a Love Affair 3/6 Wednesday Wisdom

The highest order of prayer is a love affair:  two lover meet, sharing with each other.
Not slaves and the master; neither servants or an overlord; but a Father and His children...
This is not talking at Him.  Much praying is merely talking at the Father.
This is a meeting together.  Jesus said, "There am I in the midst of them."
It is a business meeting.  It is a meeting in loving council.
You speak telling your needs, then wait listening for Him to bring to you the Word of assurance.

--E.W. Kenyon

If We Ask Anything... 3/5 Tuesday Truth

No matter how much you pray, your prayers will not be effective until you know His will.
I John 5:14-15:  "And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us; and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him."
That settles the issue.
If we are in His will, our prayers are heard and answered and we get the thing for which we are praying.

-- E. W. Kenyon

In All His Fullness 3/4 Monday Meditation

You not only received the Nature of God, but when the Spirit came into your life you had in you the ability of God, the very Resources of Heaven.
No one yet knows the limit of that ability.
It must be exhaustless.
Col. 2:9-10 gives us a suggestion.  "For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, and in him ye are made complete or full, who is the head of all principality and power."
Take with that Gal. 2:30, "For it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me."
He has come into me in all His fulness.

-- E. W. Kenyon