“Faith is believing that God means what He said.”

 ⁷If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

John 15:7

 ³Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

Jeremiah 33:3

The Bible tells us that God doesn’t lie. When He speaks, He does so with integrity and power to bring things to pass. When God said, “light be” – light starting being! Creative power began to flow throughout the cosmos and it hasn’t stopped! That is faith! God never told the light to stop – so even in this moment stars and planets are still being created. Look into scripture. Those things that God said in the Bible are meant for you! They are sitting there ready to applied and bring forth fruit in your life. When you truly believe what God has said in His Word you will experience God’s power working in your life! Choose to believe God!

 Victory Action

I choose to act according to my belief that God’s Word lives in me and that He meant what He said.

“No battle, no spoil.”

²²And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.  ²⁵And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.

2 Chronicles 20:22, 25

No one really looks forward to a battle. We would rather float through life on a cloud unencumbered by the struggles of life. Unfortunately, that is not the way it works. Sometimes you have to fight. But we fight to win! When we use the weapons that God has given us we will be victorious in the battle. Praising God in the middle of a fight turns our attention to Him. We get our eyes off of the circumstances and begin to rehearse how good, strong and loving our God is. He never fails. God is faithful! He rewards those who stand in faith on His Word. To the victor belongs the spoils!

Victory Action

While I am battling the enemy, I will continually praise the Lord.  When I praise Him in the midst of battles, He not only wins for me, but He gives me the spoils.

“If you have no fight, you will have no faith.”

¹²Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

1 Timothy 6:12

⁶Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:  ⁷That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

1 Peter 1:6-7

Heat is a refining element. When heat is applied to gold it causes it to melt and the impurities, which are lighter than the gold, rise to the top. During the refining process this dross is removed. After it is removed the gold is purer and will harden enough to be formed into a brick. This process is very similar to what happens to our faith when we are challenged by circumstances. Just like a muscle our faith becomes stronger when it is exercised. Trials will come. The good news is that Jesus has already won the victory for us! We just need to use our faith!

Victory Action

In the midst of battles, I will choose to give God thanks for the opportunity to build my faith as an overcomer.

“Confess divine health when you are healthy.”

¹⁸There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 12:18

  ²⁰My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.  ²¹Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.  ²²For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

Proverbs 4:20-22

Confession of God’s Word is like building a brick wall. Each time you confess that you are healed by the stripes of Jesus it strengthens your faith in God’s ability to keep you healthy regardless of the circumstances. Build your faith wall before the attack comes. The Bible says that the shield of faith will quench all the fiery darts of the enemy. But if you have to go find your shield after the darts have already started…well…a few are going to get through. Then it will be harder for you to stand in faith against the attack of sickness. There is power in YOUR words when your words are GOD’S words!

Victory Action

Attacks are from the enemy.  I will speak God’s Word daily concerning my health, storing up strength against the attacks of the enemy.

“Miracles start in your spirit.”

 

⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.  ⁴⁹The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. ⁵⁰Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. ⁵¹And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.

John 4:47,49-51

¹⁹ And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.²⁰ And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:²¹ For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

Matthew 9:19-21

Surely there is a future [and a reward], And your hope and expectation will not be cut off.

Proverbs 23:18 AMP

Someone once said that expectation is the breeding ground for miracles. In Romans 10 the Bible tells that when we believe in our hearts and confess with our mouths we can receive salvation. That is pattern that is set forth in the Word of God over and over. What we believe in our hearts will come out of our mouth and produce fruit. When you are standing for a miracle it is so important to put the Word of God in your heart and your mouth. Speak those things that be not as though they are. The miracle you need is already in you in seed form. When you water that spiritual seed with the Word of God you can see miracles.

Victory Action

 The seed of a miracle is in my spirit. I will put my faith in God and be obedient to his direction one step at a time.

“Everything Jesus did, He did for us.”

¹⁸As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. ¹⁹And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. ²⁰Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; ²¹That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. ²²And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: ²³I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

John 17:18-23

^18-20 He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he’s there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so expansive, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.

Colossians 1:18-20 MSG

Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I am going to the Father.

John 14:12 NASB

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:16

 Before the foundation of the world God knew He would need to make a great sacrifice to redeem mankind. Restoration of the relationship with His children was foremost on His mind when He sent Jesus to earth. Jesus was all God and all man. It was the only legal way for God to restore us to Himself. Jesus’ sole purpose was to shed His blood for us. He had all the power and could have called for the angels and removed Himself from the cross but He stayed for us. He walked on the earth for 33 years. He healed the sick and raised the dead. He preached the Gospel. He delivered those bound by demons. He did it all for us. His power is still doing it today.

 Victory Action

Today and everyday I will bow my heart in thankfulness to God for all He has done for me. I will not allow circumstances to distract me from God’s plan and purpose. I will stay in His presence and His Word.

“Prayer changes things; the first thing it changes is me.”

¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Psalms 51:10

¹⁴If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

II Chronicles 7:14

Unfortunately we often choose other things over prayer. For example, worry won’t change things, put prayer will! Philippians 4:6-7 in the Message Bible reminds us, “Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.” When you start to practice the things you read in the Word of God you will change and your life will bear fruit of that change!

Victory Action

 Today I will pray and watch God change my heart and all the other parts of my life.

“You can have a Positive Faith Attitude.”

²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

 Romans 12:2

 ¹³I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Philippians 4:13

11 Now faith brings our hopes into reality and becomes the foundation needed to acquire the things we long for. It is all the evidence required to prove what is still unseen.

Hebrews 11:1 (TPT)

It’s impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.

Hebrews 11:6 (MSG)

You know if your faith attitude isn’t positive then it isn’t faith at all! Everyday we are bombarded with negative information. We have a choice to put that information in our heart and let it breed a bad attitude and unbelief or we can choose to fill our heart with the Word of God and develop a positive FAITH attitude. Faith repels fear and unbelief.

 Victory Action

God’s Word is the source of positive faith attitude. Therefore, I will take time to renew my mind each day in God’s Word.