Friday, July 04, 2008

Possess Your Promises

Possess Your Promises

Clara Iverson
http://www.elvisiverson.com

We are all in a journey to our promises. It’s like we are on this train—a long train. Some get off earlier. Some get off later. Some are closer to the promises. Some still have certain faith lessons to learn. No matter what, we must possess our promises. Through faith and patience, we must inherit our promises.

We have a measure of faith in our hearts. According to your faith, so shall you receive. Your faith may be small as a mustard seed. That’s enough to cast out mountains. That means we can all cast out our mountains. How come some still lose their victory easily?

Because the devil will surely attack your MIND. Your mind is the battlefield. You cannot allow DOUBT to creep into your mind. The devil just needs to suggest one doubtful thought. Once you receive it into your mind, you start to doubt your promises. The promises may be your healing, prosperity or any good gifts from God. So this doubt will soon develop into a stronghold and you will eventually be filled with unbelief.

We must GUARD our mind day and night. If you want to please God, you must keep your mind on the promises of God. You must fill your mind with hope. Hope is the anchor of our souls. Hope is a helmet of salvation. Put the helmet on everyday. Protect your brain. Protect your head from doubt.

James 1:1 says very clearly, those who doubt are like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind, for let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord. You do want to receive something from the Lord. You are desperate, right? Then keep your mind simple. Fix your eyes on Jesus. Simple means composed of only one thing. Double-minded is a sin. Our mind must be single-minded. We must focus on our promises until we possess them. We must see our enemy flees from us.

Enoch pleased God because he has faith. (Hebrews 11:5) But we must keep our faith, develop this faith and grow in faith. Command our mind to subject to the mind of Christ. When we keep doing this, we will please God. He only rewards those who diligently seek Him. He only rewards those who obey faith. We cannot listen to feelings. We cannot yield to hopeless feelings. We cannot allow negative feeling such as self-pity, sadness or depression to creep in. These are self-defeating feeling. We cannot permit self-destructive thoughts.

We have gone this far. Next station, the train will drop you off and that is your destiny. Desire fulfilled is a tree of life. (Proverbs 13:12) You are almost there. Don’t give up. Be sober. Be self-controlled in your mind. The just shall live by faith. Walk by faith, not by sight. Walk by faith, not by feeling. Remember the very hope God put into your mind and heart in the very beginning. That is the evidence and the substance of your faith. (Hebrews 11:1) Keep it FIRM till the end. It will be richly rewarded. Keep that hope. Keep that faith. My Beloved, let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.(Hebrews 10:23) Jesus told us very clearly in Mark 11:22, whoever SAYS to this mountain, be removed and be cast into the sea, and DOES NOT DOUBT IN YOUR HEART, but believes that those things he SAYS will be done, he will have whatever he SAYS. My beloved, whatever you SAY shall be done. Whatever you SAY in prayer shall be done. DO NOT DOUBT! AGAIN, I SAY DO NOT DOUBT.

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