Victory Life KY

FINISH WHAT HE STARTED IV

Episode Summary

Jesus is absolutely expecting us to finish what He started. As His body on the planet, our assignment is to continue all He commanded us.

Episode Notes

• John 6:38, NKJV- For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

• So, when we follow Jesus through the scriptures and He heals everyone that came to Him for healing, according to Jesus’ own words, healing is the will of God.

• Exodus 15:26, “I am the Lord who heals you.”

• 1 Peter 1:3, NIV- His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness

• MSG- Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received! 
• We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you—your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.

• Acts 1:1, NKJV- The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach

• Jesus is absolutely expecting us to finish what He started. As His body on the planet, our assignment is to continue all He commanded us.

• Remember what Paul wrote in Corinthians, We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

• Proverbs 4:20-22, NLT- My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words. Don’t lose sight of them. Let them penetrate deep into your heart, for they bring life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body. (Medicine to your flesh)

• What if you started applying God’s word to your condition, like you would be taking prescribed medication?

• And the closer I walk with Jesus, the more I’m learning that a faith life has to be developed just like a human life.

• When symptoms start dominating our thoughts, act swiftly, taking every thought captive.

• There has to be a transformation in our thinking in order for us to appropriate the things God has already done for us. For us to finish what He started.

• Romans 4 gives us very clear steps for being and doer. I call it the blueprint for fighting the good fight of faith.

• Romans 4:16-21,NKJV- Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all 
• v.17, (as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and CALLS those things which do not exist as though they did; 
• v.18, who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.” 
• v. 19, And not being weak in faith, he did not CONSIDER his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. 
• v.20, He did not WAVER at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 
• c.21, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.

• Abraham gives us 4 faith principles to successfully live by faith.

• 1. v.17, He CALLED himself what God called him, out of things not seen.

• 2. v.19, He refused to CONSIDER his body, his circumstances. 

• He didn’t deny his condition, he simply refused to consider it.

• We can’t make a faith confession in the morning, then spend the rest of the day considering our condition.

• 3. v.20, He would not WAVER on God’s promise.

• So 4. v.21, being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.

• Remember, Proverbs tells us that God’s words are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.

• What if you started using Abraham’s method in applying God’s word to your condition, like you would taking prescribed medication?

• There has to be a transformation in our thinking in order for us to appropriate the things God has already done for us.

• Remember, Peter tells us God has givenus everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of Him, and He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them we may participate in His divine nature.

• Here’s the thing, will we stay with it long enough to let the fruit of His word transform us to the place where we actually participate in His divine nature?

• 2 Timothy 3:16-17,AMP- “Every Scripture is God-breathed, given by His inspiration, and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, and for training in righteousness, in conformity to God's will in thought, purpose, and action, 
• (Instruction, rep roof and conviction, correction, discipline, training)
• v.17, So that the man of God may be complete and proficient, well fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

• I believe without a doubt, the one sure thing He gave His creation was His Word.

• And if His word was given to train us in righteousness, then why would He show us and instruct us one way in His word, 

• then expect us to live a different way and not say one word about it in the scriptures that He left to instruct us in righteousness?

• What if His word actually is His lamp to our feet, His light to our path?

• God wants us at a place where we live everyday of our live with intentional expectations. Trusting in every word He’s said to us.

• Abraham refused to waver at God’s promises through unbelief. He would not consider his natural circumstances.

• One of the biggest things that will help any believer is to make our minds up that Jesus is still the very same person we see in His word.

• Hebrews 13:8-9,NIV- Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings.

• And since Jesus lives in Heaven now, He's actually expecting His body here to be just that, His body. Empower by His Holy Spirit.

• And the only way that happens is by faith. He actually designed and commanded us to live by faith.

• Hebrews 4:2,NKJV- For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

• Faith is a spiritual substance that manifests what Jesus has already placed in our spirit.

• And this is why Paul challenges us to stay in the words of Christ until faith comes. So we can make our minds up  that Jesus is still the very same person we see in His word.

• We have to get this issue settled, Jesus has done His part. He’s actually seated at the right hand of the Father in Heaven.

• We’re His anointed vessels on the earth. And by design, it will be according to our faith, as we have believed, that we obtain any promise from our Father.

• So regardless of what we face, we’ve got to get this reality settled. He is the Lord our Healer. He named Himself that.

• Then He left us His written word to reveal His living word. To reveal Himself to us.

• Psalm 103:1-5,NKJV- “Bless the LORD, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! 
• Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: 
• Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, 
• Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, 
• Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”