ACTING ON THE WORD OF GOD

       Sometimes the things that we need to hear do not come the way we think they should.  God has a way of meeting us where we are if we are willing to listen.  I was resisting a cold that was trying to work its way into flu symptoms.   My nose was stopped and my sinuses began to hurt.  I told my wife that I was going to stop by the store that night on the way to church and get some aspirins.  She said "That is some kind of way for you to think."   I was already thinking that the symptoms would stay until I took the aspirins, all the while confessing the word that I am healed.  You see, just a little reminder that if I believed the bible for my healing then I would have already been expecting a change.  I was using a bible principle without looking for immediate results.  I was actually in Sense knowledge faith:  Believing that when the sign and symptoms left I was healed.  I then began to see the light.  If I believed God and His word, I would have known that I was healed in spite of how I felt.  This reminded me of how I felt about four or five months ago.  My body was aching with pain and I had a fever, and all the flu symptoms where trying to take a toll on my body.  I had believed that I had conquered sickness and diseases because of my studying and confessing of the scriptures and praying for others who were healed.  As I was thinking about this and questioning whether I was healed, I went to bed and then I heard these words "Are you healed?"   I sat up in bed and asked the question again "Am I healed?"   The scriptural answer to the question is yes.  Regardless of how I felt, if I believed God, then I was healed.  Without any change in my body and the way I felt, I began to know that I was healed.  The more this knowing began to take over my mind, my body soon followed suit.  The next morning I felt great.  I am seeking to find how I let these symptoms get so far into me without stopping.  I always exercise the biblical principles. (Pray, meditate on the word and thank God that I am healed according to the scriptures. Confess that I am healed, lifting up holy hands showing that I do not doubt or have any wrath.  Giving, receiving and worshipping My Father in the name of Jesus.) And when I feel something trying to take place in my body, I apply the principles more often.   As I continue, my mind begins to renew itself to the scriptures, line up with the word of God, and my body follows suit.  To believe is to receive.  I must believe that I know that I have received and the answer has come regardless of how I feel or what I see.