Victory Life KY

FINISH WHAT HE STARTED III

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

• Mark 3:13-15,NKJV- “And He went up on the mountain and called to Him those He Himself wanted. And they came to Him. 
• Then He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach, and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons.”

• Acts 1:1-2,NKJV- The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen.

• 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.

• Matthew 9:38,NLT- “So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask Him to send more workers into his fields.”

• Workers to do what?

• Remember, “The things Jesus began to do and to teach.”

• We have to remember, faith for any subject comes from hearing the word of God on that subject. 

• So unless we preach and teach healing, there’s no way there can be faith for healing.

• Think about it, if you were one of Jesus’ first disciples, you went everywhere with Him, and you were telling new people about Jesus, how would you describe Him?

• I believe that’s the question we need to ask ourselves, do we honestly believe that Jesus still heals, or are we waiting for a confirmation?

• In other words, are we still walking by sight instead of faith when it comes to healing?

• Remember what Jesus told Jairus?
• And the nobleman’s son?

• Think about this, if Paul told us that the accounts of the OT were written for our admonition and correction, why would the accounts of Jesus be any different?

• 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.

• 1 Peter 2:24,NIV- He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”

• Everything Jesus did while He was on the planet in a human body was not only fulfilling the prophetic, but pointing us to what He was about to fulfill at the cross.

• 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.

• 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 taking prescribed medication?

• Because we live in a fallen, cursed world, outside the practice of medicine, or a miracle, healing only happens by faith.

• 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.

• When we don’t see or feel immediate change, this is where believing actually comes into play.

• 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.

• Deuteronomy 30:19,NLT- Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live! 

• God gave us the power to choose. Our lives aren’t just on automatic. We actually have to choose God’s blessing.

• Even though God designed us to live a certain way, until we make a conscious evert to stop resorting to our human reasoning to determine the realities of His word, our faith will remain undeveloped.

• Here’s the thing, follow Jesus’ life through the NT and there’s no way you can honestly say healing isn’t part of His purpose.

• Matthew 28:18-20,MSG- Jesus told His disciples: “God authorized and commanded me to commission you: 
• Go out and train everyone you meet, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 
• Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you. I’ll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age.”

• What if, we don’t see something like healing operating in our church today simply because we fail to talk about it enough to allow the Holy Spirit to establish faith in us concerning healing?

• 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?

• Keep in mind, the Kingdom of God only operates one way, through God’s ordained system called faith.