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God doesn’t cause His joy, peace, anointing, and healing to come and go.
TEXT:Romans.11:29.
for the gift and the calling of God are not things he will regretWe do. God isn’t the variable. We are. He’s not the One who moves in “waves.” It’s the body of Christ who receives in waves what Jesus has already provided. The Lord is constant, but we’re not. He doesn’t do this for a while, and then change His mind and do “that” instead. Everything Jesus Christ lived, died, and resurrected to provide for us has been constantly available since He sat down at the right hand of the Father. just like a television station constantly transmits its signal, God is always transmitting. However, whether we perceive that signal or not depends on our receiver. Is it plugged in, turned on, and tuned in? Whether we experience God’s provision or not depends on whether or not we’re receiving. If we aren’t, the problem is with our receiver, not God’s transmitter, and there are specific things we can do to fix our receiver. The vast majority of the body of Christ begs God for things He’s already given. If you pray that way, you’re just going to get silence on the other end because God can’t do anything that He hasn’t already done for you. You just need to learn how to receive what He has already provided. But after you receive, you must also maintain it. In some ways, it’s more important to know how to maintain what you’ve received than it is to receive God’s touch in the first place. In order to maintain consistency and keep the things of God fresh and alive in your heart, the first key is you must glorify God. This means you must value and prize Him. Many of our problems come as a result of misplaced values. We let other things compete with and occupy the place that God alone should have in our life. Your Spiritual Smell The second key is to be thankful. God’s Word reveals that we give off a spiritual smell. That’s what the word savour means in these verses: For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. The praise and thanksgiving of the redeemed like sacrifice in the Old Testament-produces a spiritual aroma that blesses God. However, just like the smell of manure attracts flies, griping and complaining attract demons. Have you wondered why bad things always seem to happen to you? It may be because you’re a griper and a complainer. If that’s true, you’re drawing all of the demons in the county to yourself. You need to be a God-praiser. Praise is one of the most important things you can do. It makes you focus on what the Lord is doing. If you’re the kind of person who tends toward the negative, you won’t continue in praising God. If you make a decision to start praising the Lord, you’ll have to start seeing the positive side of things. Why? There’s nothing praiseworthy in the negative. This forces you to focus on the things of God. **text:Phillipians. 4:4-8**
4 Always rejoice in the Lord. Again I will say, Rejoice! 5 Let your reasonableness become known to all men. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious over anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication along with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your mental powers by means of Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are of serious concern, whatever things are righteous, whatever things are chaste, whatever things are lovable, whatever things are well-spoken-of, whatever things are virtuous, and whatever things are praiseworthy, continue considering these thingsCounterfeits and Abuse The third key comes from Romans 1:21 where it says they “became vain in their imaginations.” If you’re a leaky vessel, one of the main holes where God leaks out of you is your not glorifying God. That leads to not being thankful. These two things combined cause your imagination to become vain.To be vain is to be idle or non-productive. It’s not that your imagination isn’t functioning. It’s just not benefiting you. Many Christians don’t like to talk about imagination. They often think it’s childish, saying, “Only kids daydream and imagine things. I’m logical and deal only in reality,” They pride themselves on being a “realist” instead of a visionary-imaginative-person. Others see imagination as something associated with Eastern religions. “Sit down in a lotus position and visualize world peace.”]ust because something is abused doesn’t mean we should chuck it. Eastern religions abuse prayer too, but that doesn’t mean you should quit praying. Satan only counterfeits something that’s real. The very fact that other people have counterfeited this shows that it has genuine value. It’s Always Working Your imagination is important. It’s functioning all the time. You may think, I "m not a person who sits around imagining things, but you are-constantly. It’s how you do everything. You don’t have a choice whether your imagination works or not. You just get to choose whether it’s working for or against you. If you quit glorifying, magnifying, praising, and thanking 30d, your imagination will automatically gravitate toward negative things. You can’t control that. Your imagination is basically a by-product of your focus. If you are really valuing the things of God-praising and thanking Him your imagination will begin to see things happening properly in your life. Whether you realize it or not, your mind functions through imagination. You can’t really do anything about it. As a matter of fact, the word imagination: in the Old Testament literally means “a form and figuratively means “conception.Your imagination is the part of you where you conceive things. If you didn’t have an imagination; you would be totally noncreative. Just like an animal, you’d have to be taught and learn things by repetition. But one of the distinguishing characteristics between human beings and animals is our imagination. It’s a powerful part of who we are. Whether you recognize it or not, your imagination is the part of you that conceives everything. Before you can act anything out, you have to conceive it first in your imagination.if you can’t see it with your imagination, you can’t do it.
