If
we find that we have cursed ourselves our
situations or others in the past we can
ask the Lord’s forgiveness, cancel
the agreement we made with the negative
and begin to bless our selves our
situations and others.
Using
Our Tongues To Rule & To Decree
We
can us our tongues
v
in prayer to God,
v
in declaring the will of God over our
live and situations and
v
In authority over every hindering force
that hinders the plan of God,
v
in bringing encouragement and blessing to
every situation.
We
can use our tongues to formally and
deliberately come into agreement with
God’s plan, and in rejecting any
other plans or directions of our lives.
We can also use them to speak forth the
plan of God and to speak against natural
forces, illegal spirits and
even inanimate objects that hinder
the plan and purposes of God.
“You
shall also decree a thing,
and it shall be established for you: and
the light shall shine upon your
ways.” (Job 22:28)
“For
truly I say to you
that whoever shall say to
this mountain, Be moved and be cast into
the sea, and shall not doubt in his
heart, but shall believe that what he
said shall occur, he shall have whatever
he said. Therefore I say to you, All
things, whatever you ask, praying,
believe that you shall receive them, and
it will be to you. And when you stand
praying, if you have anything against
anyone, forgive it so that also your
Father in Heaven may forgive you your
trespasses.” (Mark 11:23-26)
If
we attempt to exercise dominion over
situations that God has providentially
permitted for our growth we will fail to
overcome, so Before we use the prayer of
authority, command and decree, we should
ascertain that this situation is not a
providential circumstance, permitted so
that we can overcome evil with good.
It is assumed that when we
use the prayer of command, we are abiding
in love and
forgiveness
and are speaking in line with the heart
and mind of God. Jesus rebuked His
disciples when they wanted to use their
tongues to cast down fire on a village
that did not welcome them. They were
using their authority without being in
the positive and blessed spirit of Jesus.
“Let all bitterness and wrath and
anger and tumult and evil speaking be put
away from you, with all malice.”
(Ephesians 4:31) The authoritative
use of our words requires that we are
walking in forgiveness and without anger
or bitterness towards anyone. It is
unthinkable for a Christian to try harm
others with negative words, and something
we should never do. However there are
many demonically engineered
circumstances, where it is appropriate to
take dominion and speak words of command.
In these cases we can speak forth in
authority against obstacles that hinder
the will of God in our spheres of
responsibility and influence. And command
positive changes into a situation in
blessing
Words
Keep The Life Of The Spirit Active
‘Be filled with the spirit
speaking to yourselves in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and making melody in your heart
to the Lord.” (Ephesians 5: 19)
we are to use our tongues to
continuously speak the praises of God and
celebrate His goodness. This builds us
up in the Lord and keeps the life of the
Spirit flowing in our lives. Negative and
complaining words on the other hand
quench and dampen the life of the Spirit
within us. Many have experienced been
filled with the Spirit, but unless we
tame our tongues and learn the way of
positive and blessed speech, that life
will be quenched.
Habit
#7 THE HABIT OF OVERCOMING LOVE
Overcoming
love is the habit of maintaining, the
attitudes of the kingdom of God: love,
joy, thanksgiving, forgiveness etc even
in the face of adversity. It is the key
to abiding in God’s love. Jesus said
he who overcomes will inherit all things,
and he who abides in Him will ask
whatever.
All
the most effective believers live a life
of steady overcoming love. With this they
maintain vital connection with the life,
glory and joy of the kingdom. In fact it
is impossible to be an effective believer
without being and overcomer.
As The believers of old disqualified
themselves from entry into the Promised
Land because of grumbling and
complaining. New Testament believers
disqualify themselves from full entrance
to the blessings life and joy of the
kingdom of God by not abiding in
overcoming love. (1 Cor 10:11 Numbers
14;17) Revelation 2 & 3)
God wants more than our
orthodoxy and faithful service .. He
wants our love. Only by developing
the habit of overcoming love can we
live in union with God’s highest.
Those who develop the habit of overcoming
love will become the most effective of
all believers and they will “inherit
all things”
and be given “dominion
over the nations.” (Rev. 21:7)
Revelation 2:26)
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Jesus
says that the overcomer “will
go out no more” (Rev. 3:12) He
will not go in and out of God’s
presence but abide continually in
God’s presence and glory. Those who
do not develop the habit overcoming love
are in and out of the love and joy of the
Lord. Effective believers learn not to be
up and down and in and out but learn to
remain in the blessedness of the kingdom
of God even in the face of adverse
circumstances, irritations, injustices,
inconveniences, disappointments etc.
Receiving
& Giving Love
Jesus’
new commandment “love one another
as I have loved you” (John
13:34) is the basis of the overcoming
life and of inheriting the promises that
Jesus gave to the overcomers in His in
revelations chapters 2 and 3).
This
looks easy, but we can only fulfill this
commandment as we constantly allow His
love come into us and constantly release
it out even in the most adverse
situations.
Abiding
in love has two major aspects
q
receiving continually the inflow of love
and
q
continually passing it on.
when
we fail to continue to receive
this love, our connection with the vine
is loosened. When we to fail to
pass on this steadfast love (even in
the face of adversity) we
also loosen the connection and stem the
flow.
“As
the Father has loved me, so have I loved
you; abide in my love… These
things I have spoken to you, that my joy
may be in you, and that your joy may be
full. “This is my commandment,
that you love one another as I have loved
you.” (Jn 15:6-12)
As
we abide in continuing love, continually
receive the Lord’s presence. They
invite Him into every part of their life
and into every moment. They receive and
transmit His love continually.
Some
people try to have Jesus’ life
without His love and some try to
have His love without His life. Both fall
short of the overcoming life. The
effective believer has both. Some receive
from the Lord without transmitting His
love and some try to transmit without
receiving. The effective believer does
both.
We
can only love others with the love the
Lord supplies, we can only be joyful with
the joy that Lord supplies. we can only
produce the fruit of the spirit with the
life of the spirit.
“This is the
victory that has overcome the world
– our faith.” (I Jn 5:4)
Through faith we draw in the love of God
and through love we release it. This is
why Paul sys that faith works by love
(Gal.). What we draw can only be
expressed as it is released in love. That
which is received by faith dies if it is
not released in love. As we abide
in the life
of
overcoming love, the life of the Spirit
stays remains vibrantly in us and
the blessings of the kingdom continue to
overtake us.
Overcoming
Love Requires Death To Self
“And
they overcame him
because of the blood of the Lamb, and
because of the word of their testimony.
And they loved not their lives even to
the death.” (Rev. 12:11)
The
way of overcoming love requires that we
v
recognize that our old man is dead in
Jesus, (Romans 6:6)
v
drawing from the life of Jesus and
yielding only to the Holy Spirit.
It takes faith, utter dependence, and
death to self, but the result is joy,
peace and abundant life.
Death to self should not be seen as a
sorrowful self-denying self-frustrating
martyr complex, but as liberation
from all that drags us down to the
tyranny of self centeredness, selfishness
and religious self-energy to life of love
and joy. Only the loving overcoming
Christian can stay in the love
commandment and stay abiding in the vine.
The great paradox of the effective
follower of Jesus is summed up in Jesus’
words “Truly, truly, I say
to you, unless a grain of wheat falls
into the earth and dies, it remains
alone; but if it dies, it bears much
fruit. He who loves his
life loses it, and he who
hates his life in this world will keep it
for eternal life.” (John
12:24-25) Overcome hate with love
v
Overcome complaining with thanksgiving
v
Overcome fear with faith
v
Overcome despair with hope
v
Overcome injustice with forgiveness
v
Overcome hypocrisy with truthfulness
sincerity
v
Overcome pressure with patience.
One
can be in the most hellish of places but
if we give out love we will bring heaven
into the situation.
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