TAKE UP THY BED AND WALK E.W. Kenyon & Don Gossett I AM REVEALED B. Childress Apr 28 2012 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water…And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked. (John 5:2-3, 5-9) And, behold a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: for she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour. (Matthew 9:20-22) Some are always waiting for the waters to be stirred, waiting for someone else to come with the prayer of faith, waiting for someone else to take on the burden, waiting for someone else to believe for them, and waiting for someone else to study the Bible and get to know the Father for them. Believing is simply acting on the Word. Jesus said, in effect, “Get up. Take your bed. Go home, Go to work.” To the woman, Jesus said, “Thy faith hath made thee whole.” That statement proves that we imprison ourselves in poverty, in want, in physical limitations, and in weakness by our own unbelief, our unwillingness to act on the Word of God. In Jesus’ name, we are healed. Our faith has done it – not the faith of Jesus, not the faith of somebody else. Our faith has made us whole, or else our unbelief has made us sick. We keep ourselves in poverty and want. We are living a life of weakness and want by our own volition. No one can rob us of faith. No one can rob us of health. I can “believe myself” out of any prison in which circumstances may incarcerate me. I am linked with deity. So are you. We are children of God. His life is imparted to us. We are members of the body of Christ. You haven’t any right to be sick or held in bondage, because Jesus has purchased complete redemption for you. You have yielded to sin and disease and circumstances. You have been neutral. You have become a floating atom on the sea of pain and misery. Rebel against it. Take up arms against. Join the ranks of Jesus. Say, “From this hour, Satan, your dominion over me is ended.” Rebel against Satan’s dominion. Your bondage is not the will of love. Your disease is not God’s policeman to correct our behavior. Disease is of the devil. Poverty is of the devil. That broken heart, that wrecked life, is not of God. Rebel against it. Take your deliverance.
grace. (Ephesians 1:7) Declare to them, “I am your master. I have conquered you. I am an overcomer.” Believing the Word means acting upon it. Passivity is the soil where sickness grows. Nonaction is unbelief. When you do not act, you consent to the action of disease, the action of Satan. Refuse to be in bondage any longer. No matter how long your bondage has lasted, it cannot kill the ability to act. Jesus said to that man, “Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.” This man had to form a new type of thinking. He had to awaken. He had to develop new habits of thinking. Make yourself act on the Word. Take up your pain, no matter what it is, and walk. In Jesus’ Name, take your place among the victors. You are partaker of God’s nature and of His life. The same mighty Spirit dwells in you that dwelled in the apostles Paul and John. The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead is yours. Take your place. Source: KEYS TO RECEIVING GOD’S MIRACLES, by E.W. Kenyon & Don Gossett, Copyright 2011, Whitaker House. |
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