Posted on 03/20/2023 10:19:39 PM PDT by Frank Broom
1 Thessalonians 5:23 says, And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. You are Spirit/Soul/Body that is the rank of authority spirit and soul has influence over the flesh. That's why you prosper outside in your flesh as you prosper inside in your soul. 3 John 2 says, Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. Proverbs 17:22 says, AMP Version A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing, But a broken spirit dries up the bones. Notice, the effects your soul and spirit has on your flesh. Healing is more about what goes on in you(heart) than in your flesh. If you get healing in your spirit and soul you will have it in your body. I don't think a lot of people know the influence they have over their flesh. One of the first things you have to realize is that your body is not you, just the fact that you can be separated from it tells you that. When the spirit leaves the body the soul goes with your spirit because they are connected, but your flesh goes in the ground. But, don't think your body is not important because you need it to stay on the earth. When a spirit looses their body they have to leave this planet.
God gave man such influence over his flesh that He meant to be used for good, but it can also be used for evil. For instance, there are people that have psychosamatic conditions- Of or relating to a disorder having physical symptoms but originating from mental or emotional causes. The word psychosomatic comes from two greek words psycho from the greek word psyche meaning mind and somatic from the greek word soma meaning body. It's the relationship between the mind and body and how the mind influences the body, isn't that what 3 John 2 shows us. Medicine really would be far more advanced if they consulted The Bible and God that wrote it (personal opinion). And I've even learned that medical students when studying diseases find their bodies having the same symptoms as the disease they are studying, It's called Medical Student Syndrome you can google it yourself. And if that works that way I see why God says in his word Proverbs 4:20-23 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
If studying a disease can have that kind of effect on a persons body what kind of effect do you think studying The Bible will have on your body, healing (verse 22). Notice, the same thing they do that causes symptoms of sickness God is saying do the same thing that causes healing, when it's God's word you are studying. God gave you such influence over your body look at it in James 3:1-4 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. 4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. Notice, in verse 2 that word perfect means mature and he that is mature can bridle his own body. Then in verse 3 it says, we put a bit in horses' mouths that they may obey us and you turn their whole body so by that horses mouth you control his body. He's showing you the relationship between your tongue(words) and your body. And in verse 4 it talks about a ship, the governor, and the helm. The ship is your body, the governor is you(spirit man remember your body is not you it's how you spirit get around in the earth), and the helm is your tongue. So, you the governor determines what your flesh does by your words.
I have personal experience with this. Before I knew anything about this once when I was a child I ate a banana and it made me sick to my stomach even though I was eating them just fine before. But, that time I don't know what happened, but I determined that I could no longer eat bananas so anytime someone offered me something with bananas in it I was quick to tell them that I can't eat bananas. So, when I was an adult I thought I would try some banana pudding figuring that was a long time ago when I got sick by eating that banana, but no it still had that effect. And then I heard someone preaching on The Power of Positive Confession and he said, You probably ate something one time and got sick and ever since then you've been telling people you can't eat it. If your mouth got you into it then your mouth can get you out of it. He was talking about how people tell people they can't eat something and that's probably the reason you can't eat it. So, I thought ya that's what I did so I changed what I was saying and I started saying I can eat bananas and after some months down on the inside of me when I was at home and walked past the fruit bowl I heard, "Go ahead and take one" I took one and I have been eating them ever since. That's the kind of influence you have over your flesh, in fact you have so much influence over your flesh that the word body in those verses means slave. In the Strongs Concordance that's what body means, and what do slaves do they follow commands. My body followed my commands, when I said, I can't eat bananas it carried it out. Then when I said, I can eat bananas my body carried that out. So, use your influence for good.
It is not God's will that any should perish. And I wouldn't want to end this article without giving someone the opportunity to receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior. It's very easy just pray: Dear God- I know I have sinned and I now turn from them and I invite Jesus to come into my heart (Revelation 3:20). He died for my sins and you have raised him from the dead and I now confess that Jesus is my Lord and Savior (Romans 10:9,10). I thank you for saving me, Amen
some very good teaching here brother.
reminds me of CS Lewis’ thesis that before the fall, Adam had complete control of his physical body and all of nature, to boot. but the original sin ended all that for all of us, his descendants. today, natural man has hardly any control over his body at all.
Thanks for posting.
Romans 6:16-18 (AV; superscripted explanatory notes gratuitously added):Frank, your readers should at least engage with the whole chapter, phrase by phrase, and take time to ruminate on each thought presented here by the Wondersome Holy Spirit, Who answers all questions. Each of us always faces the ultimate termination of the flesh-and-blood phase, but (if spiritually regenerated) continues on as a born-in-the-spirit eternally living holy being, to be eventually clothed with a human flesh-and-bone tangible body like that of our Resurrected Ever-living Savior.
16Know ye not, that to whomSatan or Savior ye yield yourselves servants to obey, hisSatan or Savior servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sinSatan, but ye have obeyedagreed for oneself to be unreservedly enslaved into the state of Jesus as one's Sole Proprietor/Master forever from the heart that form of doctrineJesus Saves which was delivered you. 18Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousnessSavior.
The Power of Positive Confession is steeped in Eastern mysticism.
Buyer Beware that you can be led down a dangerous path.
It is wise to investigate it for yourself. One incident does not build an iron clad case for it as I recognize that hypochondria can be a real thing.
But simply declaring something to be so does not always change it. It will if you convinced yourself something is wrong in the first place, but if not, no amount of declaring anything will change it. It’s God’s sovereign hand that changes things.
KUNDALINI WARNING - Full Documentary
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXolizIy6_g
Before?
Seems that I recall his WIFE had a wee bit of ‘control’!
Genesis 3:17
To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
So the Lord said, "If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
Yes, and also consider the man born blind. It’s easy for people to fall into this trap that because they don’t have (insert thing here) that therefore they lack faith and/or must be sinning.
The disciples asked whose sin it was, his or his parents, that this man was born blind? But Christ answered neither. The faith is submitting to the will of God, not in believing that God is, and then asserting one’s own will.
So then in this example, Christ acts in His time, and the previously blind man later demonstrates faith. Did he have faith before? Probably, but it isn’t explicitly told in that order as it is with the bleeding woman.
Point is, while one with faith *could* uproot a mulberry tree, and the article correctly gets the connection between thought and utterance (hello? The *what* made flesh? Oh, that), one shouldn’t pridefully or despairingly regard ‘my’ faith. Even that is a gift.
Like Paul’s thorn in the flesh and his problems with his eyes.
Or Timothy’s stomach problems.
There are no Scriptural examples of anyone making positive confessions for healing. They asked God or God sent someone along to lay hands on them, but it’s always God initiated, not man.
Our words do not create reality. That is God’s purview. He did not give us that kind of power.
Could you imagine the chaos that would ensue if everyone started declaring their own reality and making it happen?
Hmmm ...
That's exactly what leftists try to do when they babble about "their truth". It's what they do when they mutilate themselves or others in a vain attempt to change their sex. It's what they do when they substitute buggery for natural intercourse. It's what they do when they decree that unborn humans are not persons.
Leftism is an attempt to "be god".
> Could you imagine the chaos that would ensue if everyone started declaring their own reality and making it happen?
See above; but non-ironically the occultists who got fed up with degrees and ranks etc. that even the Crowleyites kept decided to start doing exactly that, and call it “Chaos magick.” Search it… the various results are more informative than a dry wiki article.
Praying with Commitment -Protestant Caucus/Devotional Posted on 3/22/2023, 7:44:12 AM by metmom "Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven" (Matt. 6:10). Your prayers make a difference! Matthew 6:10 literally says, "Whatever you wish to have happen, let it happen immediately. As your will is done in heaven, so let it be done on earth." That's a prayer of active commitment to God's will. |
so good, thank you.
confessing the Word of God as truth is definitely NOT eastern mysticism. It is Biblical.
further, Proverbs 18:21 says ‘death and life are in the power of the TONGUE and those who love it eat the fruit thereof’
it is all about our Words.
Paul’s thorn was a messenger of Satan, not his eyes.
I never said it was. It’s the positive confession mentality, that we create our own reality by thinking we can speak it into existence.
That is not a power or privilege God ever granted us.
Using it to try to force God’s hand to move in our lives the way WE want Him to without considering His will is fruitless and wrong.
Anyone can create a theology and find some verse of Scripture to support it. Cherry picking verses and taking them out of context leads to error.
The positive confession theology is simply not Scriptural. It was never taught by Jesus or any of the apostles.
Yes, our words can hurt people, or bring hope and encouragement to them, but it cannot change reality. Only if you have talked yourself into something, can you talk yourself out of it. Psychosomatic issues qualify, but otherwise, you cannot change what God has determined to be His will.
We need to pray to come into alignment with that and not try to force our will onto God.
If you believe every word of God is true (and I’m sure you do) then confessing his Word as it pertains to every aspect of your life, including your health, is Biblical, real, powerful and true. The word sozo is used several dozen times in the New Testament, interchangeably, for ‘saved’ and ‘healed’. Jesus died to SAVE us and to HEAL us. It is already done and when we confess His Word that we’re healed, that is not make belief, false doctrine.
Then show me that all people who believe for healing are and have been healed.
And then explain why so many aren’t.
Or are you one of those who blames the sick person for their affliction and those who die from them for their own deaths, because they “didn’t have enough faith?”
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