Thursday, September 5, 2013

If You Do ... part 2

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. What are you believing God for, right now? The desire of your heart? Your greatest need? Your inmost longing? I believe that God's response back to us may be -- so, what are you willing to do differently?  What are you willing to do that you've never done before?

In need of healing?  Are you believing the promise of Proverbs 4:22 --  "for they [the Word] are life to those who find them and health to a man’s whole body."  This is an amazing promise that we all should believe and expect and accept as our own.  Why is it that many of us may repeat this promise ... we may read it ... we may meditate on it ... we may claim it as our own?  Yet, the health issue, the disease, the sickness, the infirmity doesn't change for the better.  The change we experience is for the worst. What are we missing?  We keep reminding God of His great and precious promise.  Yet, nothing changes.  Why?

In the Word, the Holy Scriptures, God has made many promises to you.  You've claimed this one, but its not manifesting. Remember, if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.  Ummmh, maybe you should look at the verse within the context of the immediately surrounding verses.  Where does the thought begin and where does it end?  Consider the passage of Proverbs 4:20-23.  It looks like there are not one, not two, not three, but four conditions that you must meet if you are to receive this great and precious promise.  You've got to do something more than lay claim to the promise.  You must meet the conditions.  What are they? Read verses 20 and 21 where the conditions are to 1) pay attention to the Word, 2) listen closely to the Word, 3) don't let the Word out of your sight, and 4) keep the Word within your heart. Read verse 23 where the fourth condition regarding your heart is emphasized.

If you want a different result, you must take different actions ... think different thoughts ... speak different words.  If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

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