Truth Triumphs Over Experience

Truth Triumphs Over Experience

In the world, you speak because you have experiences.

In the kingdom, you speak because you have truth. 

This is why we are to preach the Gospel.

Somebody once said, “Preach the Gospel. If necessary, use words.” What the person meant is that you should just use your lifestyle to represent the Gospel.

That’s not complete. You need to use words to fully preach the Gospel. The early church all spoke the Gospel. Yes, the lifestyle is important, but you still need the words because you are not 100% perfect in your lifestyle.

Truth always triumphs over experiences. The enemy often uses experiences to silence truth. And this is why the world uses their vast experiences to deny the Gospel truth.

“Your life experience is not enough. Better be quiet and don’t talk about the Gospel.”

“Who are you to minister healing? You haven’t even received your own healing.”

We must understand that identity (truth) always supersedes experiences. The enemy exalts experiences. We as people of God must exalt truth.

The enemy: “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” He wants Jesus to prove who He is by experiences.

Jesus: “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ “ Jesus responded and spoke truth. By the way, there is no difference between rhema and logos. It’s the WOF that separates them. Scriptures confirm that they are interchangeable.

The enemy: “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down.” Again, the enemy wants Jesus to prove who He is by experiences.

Jesus: “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ “

The enemy took Jesus up on an exceedingly high mountain to SEE all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, hoping that Jesus would want to EXPERIENCE them. “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”

Jesus replied, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only you shall serve.”

Jesus always spoke and lived by the truth. That kept Him unchanging and unshakable in the face of temptations and challenges. In a world where everybody exalts experiences, we need to be people of truth.

I used to live and find value in experiences years ago even as a full-time minister. But when I began to live by truth, I found authority and kingdom reality beyond what I ever had.

The temptation of Jesus in Matthew 4 is a warfare between experience (sight) and truth (faith).

We are called to live by faith, not by sight. Sight includes sensuality, the visible, the tangible and the experiences. 

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing the Word of Christ (Rom 10:17). In other words, to live by faith is to live by the Word, which is Truth, so that my eyes are not set on what I see and experience, but my eyes are set on the unshakable, unchanging, unwavering, steadfast and immovable Word, which God exalts above His name (Ps 138:2).

When we keep establishing ourselves in His truth and live by His truth, even if our reality hasn’t aligned to His reality, the day will come when our world will supernaturally be conformed to His. Jesus!

Disclaimer: Experience is not necessarily bad, if it is established, aligned and derived from truth. Otherwise, it is just sight-experience. We all need truth-experience. But our focus must be truth instead of experiences. 

“If you abide in My Word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the TRUTH, and the TRUTH shall make you free.” (John 8:31-32)