You Are Not Just Healed. You Are The Healed

You Are Not Just Healed. You Are The Healed

Salvation is not just about going heaven. It is about having heaven in you.

Salvation is not about a location. It's about a position. You are not just saved. You are the 'Saved' of the Lord. You are the redeemed one.

And if we understand that salvation includes 'healed, delivered, protected, preserved, made whole, kept safe and sound', then we will realise that healing is not an event, but a position.

He Himself bore our sin in His body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by His stripes, you WERE healed. - 1 Peter 2:24

Jesus became sin (2 Cor 5:21) and died to sin (Rom 6:5, 10) so that we might die to sin (Rom 6:11) and become righteous in Him (2 Cor 5:21). 

"By His stripes, you WERE healed." In the Greek, the tense used for the verb 'healed' is considered without regard for past, present, or future time.

In Isaiah 53:5, Isaiah prophesied "By His stripes, we ARE healed". In the Hebrew, the type used for the word 'healed' is perfect (qatal), which is considered as a single event.

While Isaiah was pointing to the specific event of Jesus' whipping that brought us physical healing, Peter pointed us to the reality that His whipping delivered the whole timeless position of healing to us.

In other words, as born again believers, we no longer get healed as an event. We were healed (past, present & future) as a position. We have become the 'healed' of the Lord.

If you are the redeemed of God, hell cannot touch you. For you have been delivered from that kingdom (Col 1:13a). You can no longer go to hell.

Therefore, if you are the healed of God, sickness cannot touch you. For you have been transferred to the Kingdom of Righteousness (Col 1:13b). You can no longer be sick.

Healing is no longer an event for you, unless you are not born again. Once you are born again, healing is a position for you. This means that you are the HEALED of God, and you permanently walk in that healed position where no sickness or disease can enter your body.

Eat Into Health

Eat Into Health 

A man without Christ was able to eat his way into health. He knew that faith in God surpasses what he eats.

“Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king's food be observed by you, and deal with your servants according to what you see.” So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days. At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king's food. - Daniel 1:12-15

The king's food during the Babylonian period was likely unclean according to the Law of Moses. One of the reasons the Law was given to the Jews is to set apart the nation of Israel from all other nations; to reveal the holiness of God.

Daniel was resolved to keep the Law (Daniel 1:8) by not eating the king's food. He put his faith in God, trusting that by eating vegetables, he and his friends would appear stronger, healthier and 'fatter in flesh' than all others.

The word 'fatter' in Hebrew means 'fat, or plump and healthier'. In the ancient Hebrew culture, fatness was a sign of blessing and prosperity. It was the mark of divine favour. Fattened animals were always selected to be offered to the Lord as offerings.

In the natural, if you only eat the 'seed of the ground' aka vegetables, you will not be fattened. Unless you are a cow.

But Daniel, by entrusting himself to God, walked in the supernatural at the end of 10 days. He didn't let what he ate affect his body. He let faith in God affect his body.

We are talking about a man without Christ. Today, you and I are in a far more superior covenant because of Christ. Avoiding this food and that food, getting obsessed with supplements and fearful of preservatives can only do this much to your body. In fact, it can make your body worse if the motivation is fear. Because fear always steals, kills and destroys.

Everything can be eaten when we eat in faith, entrusting ourselves to God. Because our body was bought at a price (1 Cor 6:20). It's not what you eat that defiles you (Matt 15:11; Christ came); every food can be good (1 Tim 4:4); preservatives cannot hurt you (Luke 10:19). God has all these covered, knowing the fallen world (1 John 4:4; 5:4).

I know alot of us experience the negative effects of eating unhealthily as we grow older. This is because our mind has been subconsciously filled with that idea given by older people and medical personnel. But your experience cannot change the Word. So it's better to let the Word change your experience by renewing your mind.

Therefore, the rule of the thumb is this:

If you cannot eat in faith, avoid it.

If you can eat in faith, eat it.

Your health doesn't come by you eating or not eating, but by faith in Him.

Warfare Victory

Warfare Victory 

The enemy finds opportune time to war against the Kingdom of God. Since you are in Christ, you become the target. But the more you think it's about you, the more you can't see victory.

The war is not against you, but against the Kingdom of God. The enemy wants to make it personal so that you get affected and even discouraged. In other words, he will make the events/incidents personal to you, so that you forget about the Kingdom.

I'm going to start something in a day. I have committed to it.

Last night, all of a sudden, I felt a very familiar and sharp pain at the back near my pelvic. I could hardly get up from my bed to go to the bathroom.

My first thought was, "This is not possible. Because I was already healed so many years ago."

The next immediate thought was, "There is nothing new under the sun. The enemy can't stop me."

I didn't rebuke the enemy. I didn't command him to leave. I simply submitted to God and thanked Him.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. - James 4:7

You don't resist the devil by resisting him. You submit to God. The power to resist comes from your submission to who God is.

I fell asleep and had a dream. In the dream, I was witnessing to two staff at Starbucks, through healing and word of knowledge. Then I was sharing my healing testimony and the Gospel of the Kingdom to one of them.

I woke up from my sleep. All the symptoms disappeared. I just shook my butt (against the devil) in front of my wife as I shared with her what happened. And I reminded her, "Warfare is real. We don't take life as it is."

The kingdom of darkness wars against the Kingdom of God. You and I happen to stand in the way. But do not take it personal. Submit to God as His Kingdom is way bigger and way more powerful, compared to the minions.

If you get hit, you advance the Kingdom harder. You don't draw back or waste time resisting the devil. Because submitting to God will automatically cause him to flee.

The Interpretation of Tongues Part 2

The Interpretation of Tongues Part 2

Have you seen churches where one 'appointed' person (or two) would always release the interpretation of tongues during or after the worship segment?

While we should applaud the practice of releasing the prophetic to encourage, edify and bring comfort to the Body of Christ, having one or two appointed ones will develop spiritual pride, because it makes the rest seem unable to do so.

The manifestation of the Spirit is meant for ALL believers. If we don't empower believers, they don't become sons. They remain as slaves.

For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged... - 1 Cor 14:31

The Corinthian church was baby Christians according to apostle Paul. They were carnal and not mature believers. Yet most of them moved in the gifts of the Spirit, including speaking in tongues and interpretation of tongues. You can't be prideful in the area of the gifts of the Spirit IF everyone is able to do so. You are not special.

In a church setting, how do you know if someone interprets the tongues correctly? By having people (the Body of Christ) confirm it.

If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret. But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God. Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge. - 1 Cor 14:27-29

Since there needs to be proper order in a church setting, each time when (public) speaking in tongues is involved, let two or three speak in tongues, one person at a time, and let the Body of Christ interpret.

'...two or three prophets speak, and the others judge...'

By the count of two or three witnesses, a matter is established (2 Cor 13:1). This also works when (public) speaking in tongues is not in a church setting.

If there is no interpretation, according to verse 28, the person is to stop (public) speaking in tongues but he is allowed to speak to himself and to God (private tongues).

The interpretation of tongues is simple and it should be encouraged in the church. With two or three witnesses, you can confirm the message of the tongues.

The Interpretation of Tongues Part 1

The Interpretation of Tongues Part 1

Most of us pray in tongues but we seldom interpret the tongues as we think that it is either difficult or not possible.

But apostle Paul made it simple for us in his words. He wrote that the interpretation of tongues is as good as prophesying (1 Cor 14:4-5, 12-13).

In other words, interpreting tongues is similar to receiving a prophetic word from God. To put it more practically and in an extremely simple way, the way you prophesy is the way you interpret tongues.

Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also... (1 Cor 14:13-15)

The word 'unfruitful' in Greek is 'akarpos', which means 'any thought that is not born of faith'. Any decision that is not born of faith is fruitless.

When you pray in tongues, you are making a decision to yield your tongue to the Holy Spirit aka God. In other words, when you pray in tongues, you are in faith.

But you are NOT yielding your mind to God. This is why your mind is fruitless. Your mind can wander as those thoughts are not born of faith.

To interpret the tongues, you need to make the decision to yield your mind to God. In other words, you operate by faith to receive thoughts/images/words/visions from God the SAME WAY you prophesy.

Remember: Interpretation of tongues is NOT translation. It doesn't mean that you translate word by word. In other words, you can pray in tongues for 5 minutes and you get one simple message (prophetic word) out of it.

When you understand this, you will get extremely excited to pray in tongues all over again.

Rekindle this gift of the Holy Spirit that God has freely given to every believer.