Sometimes we focus too much on the ‘right’ words and not the correct perspective. For example, our confession according to God’s word should be “I am healed!” However, if those words don’t cause you to ‘see’ yourself well, they’ll do you no good (even worse, if saying them draws your attention towards the sickness and not your freedom from it). If you are dealing with a sickness in your body right now, say “I am healed.” What did you ‘see’ in your heart, what were your thoughts as you spoke them? Did you see wholeness and wellness, or did you also see that sickness?
Let me give you another example to demonstrate this. Some support organizations that help people dealing with alcoholism or drug abuse teach them to see themselves as ‘recovering’ alcoholics or drug addicts. So, sure they are free from the addiction, but should still carry the problem with them so they never go back to that lifestyle. But I’m telling you emphatically, if you don’t see yourself that way, it won’t have power over you. What about receiving God’s grace and changing your perspective of how you see yourself once you accept salvation? Are you an old sinner…saved by grace? Or were you once a sinner but now you’ve been saved by grace? Big difference! You can only be one or the other-not both at the same time. Your perspective will dictate how you live. So back to my original point.
You can say the right things, tell yourself the right things (I am healed) and still see yourself sick. That happened to me. I was confessing this over and over until one day I realized that whenever I was saying the word ‘healed’ it also made me think about the sickness, and since the symptoms of that sickness lingered, it was easy for me to continue to let those thoughts of sickness share space in my mind with ‘I am healed.‘ I believed, but also waivered because I continued to see the sickness with as much power as my healing.
Don’t get me wrong, “I am healed” is a perfect confession if you see wholeness and health. But you can’t let it share space in your mind and heart with what you say you’re healed of. That’s being double minded. (James 1:8). To help myself with this, I changed my thoughts (the angle I was looking at it) by instead thinking “I am well.” That may seem insignificant but I’m talking about the perspective of what’s in your heart. Just as you are not recovering-you are DELIVERED, you are not an old sinner saved, you were an old sinner but now you are SAVED and you are not sick trying to be well, you are WELL.
By focusing my attention on “I am well,” my thoughts were more on my wellness than the symptoms of the disease. Eventually, what I believed became what I saw, and then what I expected. Praise God! I am well. Why? Jesus took every sickness and left me whole! Any sickness or disease that comes on me isn’t mine. It never was. I am the WELL resisting sickness, not the sick trying to be well.
Again, it’s not in the words alone that have power, but in the words you believe. It’s what do those words convey to you, personally! So train yourself to speak the word of truth that helps you see yourself from the right perspective. But make sure they mean something to you!
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