Mark 11:23 ‘Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.’
DAILY READING; • 2 Timothy 3; Jeremiah 9-10; Psalm 123
Paul Porter is a founding member and lead vocalist of the legendary Gospel music group ‘The Christianaires.’
In the three decades of his musical career, he has earned numerous nominations and awards—including Grammy, Dove, and Stellar awards—and was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
However, in 1996, Paul Porter’s career came to an abrupt halt when he suffered a brain aneurism. As a result of the aneurism, he lost his sight, his voice, his ability to walk and motor skills. He lost his memory and stayed in the bed about a year and a half.
He was in a wheelchair for three years and had multiple surgeries. With no improvement, the doctors eventually gave up and gave him up to die.
However the sickness was a wake-up call that drew Paul closer to God. And rather than accept the doctors’ verdict he chose to seek God’s face and hold on to His Word. Though his recovery seemed impossible, he began telling people that God was going to heal him and restore him.
Eventually he spoke his healing into existence. One day, he was able to get out of his wheelchair and began using a walker. As he continued to believe God and speak in faith, after a while he dropped the walker and began using a cane. Then finally in 2006, he was able to get rid of the cane and walked free, totally healed and whole and resumed his musical career.
He teamed up with Smokie Norful and Erica Campbell to release his music Album titled “F.R.E.E, in celebration of God’s faithfulness. One of the very personal songs in the Album “You Can’t Give Up” is a testimony of his holding on to God’s Word and refusing to give up until he got his miracle.
Though Paul Porter seemed to have lost everything, yet he experienced divine recovery, because he chose to believe and speak God’s Word.
Indeed there is power of deliverance in God’s Words.
What becomes of us is largely determined by the words we speak. Matthew 12:37 says you are either condemned or justified by the words of your mouth.
Most sicknesses and afflictions have spiritual root. God’s Word alone has the spiritual capacity to destroy the evil roots of these problems. Therefore to see recovery and restoration, we must keep declaring God’s counsel, no matter how impossible any situation.
The word of God, spoken in faith in the Name of Jesus, has awesome power to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
God has given us a mouth and wisdom that all our adversaries ‘shall not be able to gainsay nor resist’ and every tongue that shall rise against us in judgement we are destined to condemn.[ (Luke 21:15, Isaiah 54:17].
Certainly, to pursue, overcome and recover everything missing in our lives, we cannot afford to keep silent in the face of any challenge or confrontation. This is because in spiritual battles, silence is taken for consent. If you are not condemning, then you are condoning. It is therefore time to begin to speak out against any mountain confronting you today.
Whether it is a mountain of sickness, financial challenge, spiritual laziness, relationship problems, etc, you cannot afford to keep watching it. The spirit of faith demands that we declare what we believe in order to see our deliverance and salvation.
Romans 10:10 tells us that it is with the mouth that confession is made unto salvation.
However, we cannot speak effectively with faith and power, until we have first been filled with God’s Word.
It is as we in-depthly study God’s Word, and speak boldly with faith, that we will experience our desired miraculous turnaround.
Certainly, in this season the wind of change is blowing and our circumstance is about to shift. No matter what may have happened in the past, today, the grace for recovery and restoration is available.
Let us therefore continually praise and bless the Lord for His faithfulness, because we are about to see a speedy manifestation of His promises.
As we stay in faith, God will convert every breakdown into a breakthrough for us and we will have cause to continually glorify Him throughout this year for His wondrous dealings in our lives.
PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for the grace to speak with faith and power against every confrontations to my destiny. As I keep praising You, I know that there shall be speedy manifestations of Your wonder agenda for me this year in Jesus’ Name.
QUOTE;
You have got to learn to acknowledge the report of God’s Word in your life and ignore what the devil is reporting- WORDBITE 222.