Stop Searching For What Isn't Lost

Hi everyone,

Has this ever happened to you where you’ll be holding a thing, maybe a pen for instance and you start searching for the pen, but you haven’t calmed down understand what you are searching for isn’t lost, but is in your hand? This has happened to me on different occasion, and searching for what isn’t lost could be so stressful, likewise, in our lives we keep on searching for sound health, success, divine favour, breakthrough and many related to this depending on what your life “needs”, whereas the answer has always been with us. I’m sure you guys are guessing I’m referring to Jesus as the One who has always been around us, but no, I’m referring to something else which is related to Jesus though. Let me explain further.

Grace was given to man, and this grace is a brand new life, this new life comes with a lot of goodies attached to it like perfect health, power, love, sound mind, wealth, the wisdom of God, the mind of Christ and a whole lot more. Now, we receive all these when we choose to accept or receive them and they become ours. But because we were born into an extremely corrupt world, these things look too good to be true and we don’t find part of the grace active in our lives, as some could still fall sick, others suffer from poverty, others don’t have the wisdom to handle certain things and more like that. So, what do the sick do, for instance, they start confessing healing scriptures in order to get healed or made whole? This is good, but how it is done has been the issue as many do it wrong. Let me elaborate further.

Once you have accepted Jesus as Lord, the full package of Jesus’ perfect life becomes yours immediately which is the grace God gave everyone born of God, but as I said, because we would need to grow into believing all these, we seem not to experience the full package all at once even though they have been given to us. Now, here is where some get the confessions wrongly. You are not to confess in order to receive that which God has given you, you are to confess the scriptures in order not to be distracted by the way of the world. A sick man for instance who has received Christ is not meant to confess healing scriptures in order to get healed or whole as the case may be, rather he is meant to confess the scriptures to emphasise where he stands or what he has in his hand, which is the grace of God.

The reason why many of us do not experience a certain part of the grace which Christ has given us is that we are distracted. We are not meant to pray for healing because we are already healed, we are not to pray for blessings because we are already blessed, but because the world shouts at us at every corner, on TV, on the street, through conversations, music around us, everything speaks against what God has given us through Christ, so many times we get distracted and the moment your stand or belief at a particular time isn’t on the grace received but is on the distractions of the world, we won’t find the grace functioning. So, the confession of who we are through the scriptures is not to make us healed or blessed or acquire wisdom and so on, rather is a way we fight the distractions, by establishing who we are in Christ Jesus. When you understand this truth that you are already complete in Christ Jesus, in other words, when you find out that you have been made exactly as Christ is, it helps us understand why we are confessing, and our confessions should in form of thanksgiving to God.

Jesus told Peter to come and meet Him by walking on the water, Peter could walk on water but he was distracted by the waves and wind of the sea and he lost focus on Jesus, this was what made him sink, (ref.: Matthew 14:27-41). This is the same challenge we face as Sons of God as we live our daily lives here on earth. What God has given to us is not too good to be true, because what we have received is the truth. The world is full of lies. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers in dark places, (ref.: Ephesians 6:12). We have received the power and authority of Christ which the devil or the principalities of the devil cannot stand, so the only way he can get to us is just by distracting us.

Remember, we confess the word of God with thanksgiving to prevent us from getting distracted by the devil away from the truth, and not to acquire what has already been given to us.

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

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Unless otherwise stated, the following scriptures are gotten from New King James Version (NKJV)