For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8.
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. Ephesians 1:18-21.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God says:
I have been talking about healing under My Spirit. Today I will talk about the crown of them all. It is the top and final step to glory, wholeness, and great works of power in your life. It is the fifth step. Five is the number of grace and you may know that is by grace through FAITH. You access grace by faith.
Yes, you know it. It is Faith. It is impossible to please Me without it. It is the title deed to things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. It calls into the natural world the things from the spirit realm. It is your connection to the power of the Holy Spirit, resurrection power, that is within you because I have put My Spirit in your heart when you took Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Faith, unfeigned faith, being fully persuaded of the truth of My Word of power, will turn you into a super conductor of My power into your life and into the world. And that is resurrection power. The power that took a mangled broken body, whipped and beaten beyond recognition, stretched out upon the Cross, descending into the lowest depths of hell, and generated life, eternal life, to raise up a perfect body with none of the bruises, bloody wounds or ravages any longer upon it but shining forth beautifully restored to a quality much better than before. A glorified body. And that same power is in you who believe to quicken your mortal bodies and change everything around you to from glory to glory.
But to get to fully persuaded faith you must go by the way I have been showing you. Do you remember? Look back at the Daily Manna of the last four days, and you will find that the very first step is love. Unless you know you are loved and worthwhile you will never be able to have fully persuaded faith that I will do for you what I have promised. If you feel unloved and worthless you cannot receive and give love. You must come to know and believe in the love I have for you, you can see it in My Son, for seeing Him you see My heart, and He healed everyone who came to him and asked for healing and He died for your sins so you could be free of shame and guilt. I was in Christ reconciling the world to Myself, taking away all your sins and lawless deeds from before Me. And He bore in His body all your diseases and pains also.
The next step is gratitude for the abundance of things. Unless you are grateful for your life and what you are and have you will have a heart that is hardened and cannot receive, but only can find fault. Like the Israelites, and I told them that that attitude would make them not only lose all the good things that they had but eventually destroy them.
The next step is self-image. You must see yourself as you are in the mirror of My Word, a champion, or you will not have any faith for doing the great deeds I have planned for your life. You will hang back in the shadows seeing yourself as unloved, unskilled, and a failure. You need a new picture of who you are in Christ and then you can go forward to do great and mighty works of valor.
The next step is fellowship and partnership. To have faith and trust in anyone you have to have quality communication with them. And to work together for the same purpose is partnership. I want close fellowship with you so that you always recognize My voice and do not follow the voice of the stranger. When you know someone’s voice well, you recognize that voice on the telephone, and should a stranger call and say they are that person you would discern immediately it was not. Learn what I sound like and you learn from My Word. Read and meditate on it until it speaks to you just when you need a certain Scripture.
And the crowning step is faith. When you know and believe in My love for you and how important and worthwhile you are to Me and how perfect you are in My sight, when you have gratitude that gives you joy and confidence in every situation that I will come through, when you have the right self image of who you are in the mirror of My Word, and when you have close fellowship and partnership with Me, faith comes as naturally as the air you breathe. When trouble comes, you know, like David, that I am for you no matter how you got in trouble, you know you can take a whole army down, leap over a wall, and run to the finish line in victory as you foes fall by the wayside.
And today I want to talk about the aspect of faith that connects you with the surpassing greatness of the power working in you of My Spirit that will do abundantly beyond all you ask or think if you only believe and release it into your mortal body and into your life. Your spirit is My candle that I light with the fire of My Spirit and go through all your inmost parts, bringing healing and resurrection power, dividing between joints and marrow, and the thoughts and motives of the heart.
Do you remember the lady who had suffered a hemorrhage of blood within her body for twelve years? She was in a very weak point in her body and her soul. She could hardly get her breath if she went any distance. And she had spent all her savings and was now without funds but was no better but was going down to the gates of death. Death was at work in her. And you may be at that point today. But she heard about Jesus and hearing of Him her faith began to take hold of her thoughts and she no longer saw hopeless death but life in abundance. But she knew she had to connect with the power that was in Him—that light that would enlighten her with the light of life and quicken her mortal body. But Jesus had not died on the cross and taken away sin. Her spirit was plunged in the darkness and death that Adam had imprisoned all the descendants born of his perishable seed. But she knew if that power got in her body she would be healed. She did not know to call it then but it is resurrection power. She had to reach outside herself to bring it in. And that is no longer the case.
By grace, My grace freely given you in Jesus, you have been saved and born again from imperishable seed, the seed of My life giving and healing Word. I sent My Word to heal you and deliver you from all your destructions. And when you were born again your dead spirit came alive with resurrection power. You now have Jesus in you, your hope of glory, and He is the resurrection and the life for you even now in your mortal body. And My Spirit in you seals you in Him as a pledge of all the glorious things to come.
My apostle Paul prayed that the eyes of your heart would be enlightened to the immeasurable greatness of My power toward you who believe, according to the working of My great might that I worked in Christ when I raised him from the dead and seated Him at My right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And I put all things under His feet and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. Ephesians 1:19-23.
Next time you hurt your body in an accident, fall, or whatever causes damage and destruction such as illness or disease, remember that deep within you, in your spirit, there is someone far greater than you, My Spirit, who is with you and in you forever, who quickens your mortal body and raises you up to new life. You have resurrection power as a light within you lighting your lamp and that light can go through your innermost parts, imparting resurrection power, and rearranging the damage to wholeness. Your outer man may be decaying but you have found a ransom, within you is the light of life that will change your pain to the beauty of wholeness. Just like it did for woman with the hemorrhage as she connected to it in Jesus. But that was outside her and she had to go find it. Now all you have to do is lie down on your bed and release it. And declare, “By the morning I shall be healed by His resurrection power within Me raising Me up to new life.” And you know, if you release that by faith and by your agreement with My Words, you shall have it. Each morning My mercies are new. Never forget the power within you that is active and working if you will only speak it, release it, receive it, and allow it to work. Fear will stop it for it is the opposite of faith and is a hindrance to your receiving. Unforgiveness will also block it. Why? You do not feel loved.
It all goes back to love. Faith works by love and grace through faith. So unless you start on step one, which is knowing you are loved, you will never get to fully persuaded faith that moves every mountain and stops every work of the enemy. Be prepared to fight the good fight of faith. It is a good fight because if you stand on My Word you will always win. Ask Abraham. Ask Joseph. Ask Moses. Ask Joshua. Ask David. Ask Elijah and Elisha. Ask Ruth. Ask Deborah. Ask Mary. Ask Elizabeth. Ask Sarah. Ask Leah. Ask Peter. Ask Paul. And above all, just ask Jesus, in Him are all the answers.
I love you. Faith is the crown of all and connects you to resurrection power, but it comes by hearing My Word so that you know love, gratitude, the right self-image, have fellowship and partnership, and finally are fully persuaded of My goodness and power towards you and in you. Faith is the rock on which you stand unshaken and unconquerable.