Read 100 Days of Right Believing: Daily Readings from The Power of Right Believing Online
Authors: Joseph Prince
Victory comes when I know the truth of the Lord’s grace and rest in His finished work.
Father, You have destined me to have victory over every sin, addiction, and fear in life through Jesus, Your Son. I come to You and I choose to rest in the finished work of Jesus at the cross. I believe His forgiveness, His victory, His grace, and His love are mine. I receive Your perfect love and power to break free from all guilt, condemnation, and shame. I am free in Jesus’ name. All praise and glory to You! Amen.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the L
ORD
, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
J
EREMIAH
29:11
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can still remember what happened when I visited a lady from my congregation in the hospital. Heather had suffered a stroke that completely paralyzed the left side of her body. As I prayed for her, she lifted her right hand in a gesture of prayer. Amazingly, her left hand followed suit, albeit slowly. This was something that she had been unable to do following the stroke. By the grace of God, she was beginning to experience healing in her body, with sensations starting to seep back into her left arm.
Within a few moments, though, as she lay in the intensive-care ward, intubated and hooked up to incessantly beeping medical equipment, her left arm started to tremble with strain.
“Don’t worry about praying for a breakthrough,” I assured Heather. Smiling at her, I gestured to one of my pastors who was with me and told her, “Leave the praying to us.”
Then, tapping my index finger on the side of my head, I told her, “But watch your mental movies. Make sure that you play the right movies in your mind.”
What did I mean by that? I was telling her to see what God sees and ignore all the
sounds, scents, and sights that her natural senses were picking up in the hospital environment
. I was encouraging her to fill her mind with mental images of herself being healthy, strong, and basking in the love of her family at home. I didn’t want her to keep seeing all the worst-case scenarios in her mind.
Then I said to her, “It takes a thought to heal a thought.”
It was a word that I had received in my spirit for her. For some reason, I just felt like the enemy had succeeded in planting a wrong thought or mental
picture in her mind, and that had to be removed and replaced with the right thoughts, pictures, and beliefs that are based on the unchanging Word of God. Shortly after our meeting, Heather was discharged from the hospital and her condition improved.
My friend, if you are being tormented by wrong or negative thoughts in your mind, you need the truth of God’s Word to uproot them. Keep meditating on God’s Word and promises to you. As you do, the negative, defeatist thoughts that have kept you in fear and anxiety will be replaced with God’s good thoughts to bless you with peace and wholeness in every area of your life. Let His Word give you a vision of a bright future full of hope and good things!
It takes a thought based on God’s Word to heal a negative or defeatist thought.
Father, thank You for showing me in Your Word today that You have an awesome plan for my life right now, and for my future. Let Your Word take root in my heart and mind, and help me see beyond all that my natural senses are picking up about my situation. Help me to see what You see and to fill my mind with the truth of Your Word that uproots all that is wrong and destructive. I believe that the light of Your Word has the power to expose, remove, and replace any lie of the enemy, and I choose to believe Your Word. Amen.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind…
R
OMANS
12:2
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earning to see what God sees is a powerful key in right believing. It involves replacing your wrong beliefs with right beliefs based on God’s Word. When Jesus saw the man with the withered hand, He didn’t just see the withered hand, He saw that there was more than enough grace for that hand to be made completely whole. Jesus said to the man, “Stretch out your hand!” The man did as told, and his hand was completely restored and made as whole as his other hand (see Mark 3:1–5).
Now, you don’t say “stretch out your hand” to someone whose hand is obviously shriveled and disabled unless you see differently. Jesus sees differently from you and me. That’s why we need to go back to God’s Word and learn to see what He sees. When Jesus sees a disease, a lack, or someone trapped in fear, guilt, addiction, and sin, He doesn’t just see the problem. He sees God’s healing, grace, and power superabounding in that area of weakness.
You too can change what you believe by seeing beyond what your natural eyes see. Press in to see what God sees. In your very area of lack, struggle, or challenge, see His superabounding grace all around your current situation. Jesus says to you today, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness” (2 Cor. 12:9). Give all your weaknesses, failings, and mistakes to the Lord Jesus and see Him transform your weaknesses into strengths.
What you believe is powerful, so are you going by what you see or what God sees? You may not be able to stop negative thoughts from passing through your mind or unhealthy emotions such as fear gripping your heart, but you can definitely anchor your thoughts and emotions on the unshakable Word of God. You can certainly ensure that you believe right regarding what God says about you in His Word, which contains His precious promises to you. The more you learn and believe right about His love and what His Word says
about your situation and your life, the more your thoughts will line up with His thoughts about you. You’ll begin to develop thoughts of peace and not of evil, thoughts of hope and a bright future (see Jer. 29:11). And you’ll be transformed!
In my very area of lack, struggle, or challenge, God’s superabounding grace is all around my current situation. I choose to see and believe that His grace is sufficient for me.
Lord Jesus, thank You that right in the midst of the lack, struggles, and challenges I’m facing, Your superabounding grace is all around me, forgiving me, healing me, providing for me, and transforming my weaknesses into strengths. Help me to always go to Your Word to see my situation as You see it, and to anchor my thoughts and emotions on Your unshakable Word. I believe that as I choose to believe what Your Word says about me and my situation, You are transforming me from the inside out. Amen.