Preacher: Pastor M Mukosi | We live in a world full of opinions, perspectives and views. In our country we are told to respect everyone’s beliefs. People live the way they want and they claim it as their right.
The fact that people are left to live the way they want doesn’t make what they do to be right.
Romans 1:24-32 | ERV
24 People wanted only to do evil. So God left them and let them go their sinful way. And so they became completely immoral and used their bodies in shameful ways with each other. They traded the truth of God for a lie. They bowed down and worshiped the things God made instead of worshiping the God who made those things. He is the one who should be praised forever. Amen. Because people did those things, God left them and let them do the shameful things they wanted to do. Women stopped having natural sex with men and started having sex with other women. In the same way, men stopped having natural sex with women and began wanting each other all the time. Men did shameful things with other men, and in their bodies they received the punishment for those wrongs. 28 People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed them to have their own worthless thinking. And so they do what they should not do. They are filled with every kind of sin, evil, greed, and hatred. They are full of jealousy, murder, fighting, lying, and thinking the worst things about each other. They gossip and say evil things about each other. They hate God. They are rude, proud, and brag about themselves. They invent ways of doing evil. They don’t obey their parents, they are foolish, they don’t keep their promises, and they show no kindness or mercy to others. They know God’s law says that anyone who lives like that should die. But they not only continue to do these things themselves, but they also encourage others who do them.
God created us with free will and He respects our choices, let’s not abuse the freedom God gave us.
Even in families, some hold onto their traditional viewpoints, some are modernists, some are feminists.
Romans 3:4 | NIV
4 Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written: “So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.”
Some of the Christians are more inclined to quote their favourite preachers more than quoting God.
2 Corinthians 4:1-5 | NLT
Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this new way, we never give up. 2 We reject all shameful deeds and underhanded methods. We don’t try to trick anyone or distort the word of God. We tell the truth before God, and all who are honest know this.3 If the Good News we preach is hidden behind a veil, it is hidden only from people who are perishing. 4 Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.5 You see, we don’t go around preaching about ourselves. We preach that Jesus Christ is Lord, and we ourselves are your servants for Jesus’ sake.
Instead of going by what people say, we should go by what God says.
Instead of always saying what your favourite preacher says, you need to speak what God says. God is only bound by His word and not by people’s opinions.
Even concerning healing, you need to believe what God has said, rather than people’s reports or views, not even our feelings.
A lot of People believe and trust people more than God.
Isaiah 53:1-5 | KJV
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
One of the devil’s key weapon to torment mankind is sickness. But Jesus has already dealt with sin and sickness on our behalf.
He dealt with sickness when he was on this earth, and he finally nailed it to the cross together with our sins (Isaiah 53:5)
Acts 10:38 KJV
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
Sickness is the oppression of the devil. The devil wants us to speak and confirm sickness upon our lives. We should reject sickness and embrace the word of God.
God wants us to speak His language – His word
Proverbs 4:20-23 JUBILEE
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my words. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them and medicine to all their flesh. Above all else, guard thy heart; for out of it flows the issues of life.
The word of God is like medicine which gives health to the body. The word can even work like a vaccine that protects against certain infections. Confess the word to get healed. Confess the word to maintain divine health. Maintain your health by embracing divine health promises.
Psalm 91:6-10 ERV
You will have no fear of diseases that come in the dark or terrible suffering that comes at noon. A thousand people may fall dead at your side or ten thousand right beside you, but nothing bad will happen to you! All you will have to do is watch, and you will see that the wicked are punished. You trust in the Lord for protection. You have made God Most High your place of safety. So nothing bad will happen to you. No diseases will come near your home.
Romans 8:11 KJV
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
The life of God flows in my body – quickens every cell in my body. The Spirit of God gives life to every part of my body.
Exodus 23:25-26 NIV
Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you, and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.
Deuteronomy 7:14-15 ERV
You will be blessed more than all people. Every husband and wife will be able to have children. Your cows will be able to have calves. The Lord will take away all sickness from you and he will not let you catch any of the terrible diseases that you had in Egypt. But he will make your enemies catch those diseases.
3 John 1:2 ERV
My dear friend, I know that you are doing well spiritually. So I pray that everything else is going well with you and that you are enjoying good health.
3 John 1:2 TLB
Dear friend, I am praying that all is well with you and that your body is as healthy as I know your soul is.
Matthew 8:2-3 NKJV
And behold, a leper came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Luke 13:16
Shouldn’t this lady whom Satan has bound, being the daughter of Abraham be freed