Break Through

and

Break Free!

How to Use Bible Meditation

to Turn Head Knowledge

Into Revelation Knowledge

and Receive What You Are

Believing For

Vicki Heymann

Eloquent Books

Copyright © 2010

All rights reserved – Vicki Heymann

Scripture quotations taken from The Amplified Bible, expanded edition copyright 1987 by the Zondervan Corporation and the Lockman Foundation; Holy Bible, New Living Translation copyright 2004 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc; The Message: The Bible in contemporary language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson; Spirit-Filled Life Bible,New King James Version copyright 1991 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

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ISBN: 978-1-61204-860-4

“This Book of the Law

shall not depart

out of your mouth,

but you shall

meditate

on it day and night,

that you may

observe and do

according

to all

that is written in it.

for then

you shall make your

way

prosperous,

and then

you shall deal wisely

and have good

success”

(Josh. 1:8 Amp.).

Contents

Acknowledgments

Endorsement

Part A—Theory

1. Meditation

2. The Image of God

What God Is Like

God Is Love

God Is Good

God Is Faithful

3. Instruction

Part B—Meditations

Identity and Self-Worth Meditations

Healing Meditations

Prosperity Meditations

Against Anxiety and Worry Meditations

About the Author

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my husband, Marius, for always believing in me and encouraging me to write. This book is the result of his support and belief in me. Thank you Marius; you are a blessing to me.

Thanks to Sonja, Mary, Linda and Chris for editing this book. Your help had been invaluable to me.

Jeanne, thank you so much for the cover painting that speaks without words. The dove has always been the symbol of God’s power, who brings us His revelation through meditation.

Endorsement

This is a book written by a woman with tremendous faith in God. It is not based on Vicki’s Biblical theory, but rather, it encapsulates who she is and the life she lives.

We count it a privilege to call Vicki Heymann our friend. She is a woman of impeccable character. Vicki knows what it means to persevere, to overcome difficulties, and to remain steadfast until there is victory. The secret of this success lies within a heart that is devoted; disciplined in meditating, confessing, and acting on the promises of God’s Word.

We commend Break Through and Break Free: How To Use Bible Meditation To Turn Head Knowledge Into Revelation Knowledge and Receive What You Are Believing For to you.

It will take you beyond learning to living. These life-changing principles will unlock the ability to bless and release life and will catapult you into hearing and seeing with much more clarity, resulting in an increase of effective Christian living. In every chapter you will find powerful truths that will lead you through meditation to become the person God designed you to be, marked with blessing and fruitfulness.

As you read, open your heart, and allow the Word to transform your life!

—Marty and Margot McCrindle

Newcastle Christian Centre

Part A

Theory

Meditation

“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success” (Josh.1:8 NKJV).

Here we have a specific formula from God that guarantees us prosperity and success. He said here that meditation in His Word will result in prosperity and good success.

What is meditation? To meditate means “to dwell on anything in thought; to contemplate; to study, and so on.” In Joshua 1:8, the word meditate comes from the Hebrew root word hagah, which also means to “murmur, speak, and talk.”

The question here is: why did God tell Joshua (and also us) to meditate, dwell, contemplate, speak and talk the Word of God? What is the result of meditation? What do we get in return for pondering, studying, speaking, and applying God’s Word to our lives?

The result of meditation in God’s Word is that we receive God’s instructions, wisdom, promises, and directions into our hearts and lives, which give us the way to live, so that we can be prosperous and have good success. In other words we get blessed!

Meditation makes God’s Word alive in our hearts because it builds a picture of what that specific scripture says in our hearts. Once the picture is complete, faith attaches itself to it and we receive the manifestation of what we’ve seen in our hearts.

This is what Hebrews 11:1 says: “Now faith is the substance of the things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (NKJV).

Hope is the plan or the picture of what we confess and on which we meditate. Hope creates the atmosphere in which faith grows.

Hebrews 6:17–20 (NKJV)

“Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”

I do believe that our faith, without hope to anchor in, causes many faith-filled, Bible-believing, Spirit-filled Christians to stumble when they are confronted with serious, seemingly hopeless situations. Meditation keeps hope alive. The definition for this Bible hope is not wishful thinking; no, it means confident expectation.

Over the years many whom I believed were solid faith-filled Christians, were taken hostage by fear and hopelessness when confronted with bad news concerning their health, their families, or any situation which they perceived as hopeless. I was perplexed by this. Why did they stumble? What made fear come in like a dark shadow and overtake even their strongest knowledge of the Word of God? Why did fear have such a stronghold on seasoned Christians when they were confronted with bad news that they literally went into shock from which they were unable to come out? Why weren’t they rooted and grounded in the truth of their salvation and its benefits?

I do believe that God revealed the answer to me on how to stay strong in our faith despite circumstances; how to laugh in the face of the impossible, and how to walk in victory no matter what we see, feel or experience. It is through Bible meditation.

I do believe as Christians we must develop Bible hope—a confident expectation—through meditation on the Word of God. This hope becomes the anchor of our souls when the going gets tough.

In Romans 5:5 (NKJV), we read something very interesting about Bible hope:

“Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”

This tells me something very interesting about this hope. It says here that this hope does not disappoint us. What does this mean? It means that this hope is alive and active. If it does not disappoint it must do the opposite—it must appoint! It brings focus, steadfastness, and expectation on our way to a place of results.

Now let us look at a simple definition of hope. What is Bible hope? How can we develop it? How do we walk in it? Bible hope is not wishful thinking; no, as I said before, it is a confident expectation in the Word of God to bring results.

Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (NKJV).

Hope is the confident expectation to receive the inner image of the things you meditated on and believe for. Without faith, there is no substance; without hope there is nowhere (no plan) for the substance to go.

I do believe that faith without hope has no real chance of manifestation. I mean, it is clear that without hope our faith has no foundation to stand on. Without hope, there is no goal for the substance of the things we desire to come to pass—the things we are dealing with in the faith realm to bring into our life to go to. This makes hope a very important ingredient in our faith walk. You have to believe to receive. You need Bible hope developed to receive what you believe for.

We need to develop this hope, this image of Hebrews 11:1, and the way to do it is through meditation. Once you see the picture complete on your inside, it will manifest and no devil in hell can stop that from happening. Once this picture is complete, it comes alive inside, and you know that you know that you know whatever you believe for is yours. It is done. You receive it on the inside before you ever receive it on the outside.

The Image of God

What is the image inside of you that you have of you that you walk around with day by day? What do you see when you look inside of yourself? Do you see a winner or a loser? Do you see sickness or health? What do you see?

The Bible tells us that we were made in the likeness or image of God. Genesis 1:26-28 in the New Living Translation put it like this: “Then God said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.’ So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Then God blessed them and said, ‘Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.’”

According to this scripture, we are made with authority over the animal kingdom as a whole. Do you know that? Are you walking around every day as one with authority? Are you exercising your authority? Remember what Paul did when a snake bit him on the Island of Malta after he had been shipwrecked?

Acts 28:1-6 (NLT) says, “Once we were safe on shore, we learned that we were on the island of Malta. The people of the island were very kind to us. It was cold and rainy, so they built a fire on the shore to welcome us. As Paul gathered an armful of sticks and was laying them on the fire, a poisonous snake, driven out by the heat, bit him on the hand. The people of the island saw it hanging from his hand and said to each other, “A murderer, no doubt! Though he escaped the sea, justice will not permit him to live.”

But Paul shook off the snake into the fire and was unharmed. The people waited for him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But when they had waited a long time and saw that he wasn’t harmed, they changed their minds and decided he was a god.”

Paul exercised authority over the snake because he had the right image of God in him in his heart. He knew his authority and walked in it. Meditation will help us to regain our position of authority on earth that Adam had and lost in the Garden of Eden.

This authority goes even beyond the animal kingdom. Remember what Genesis 1:28 said? Fill the earth and govern it. In James 5:17-18 (NKJV) we read about Elijah who prayed for the rain to stop and it did for three years. Then he prayed again for the rain to start again, and it did.

Elijah lived in the Old Testament and he knew his authority better than most New Testament Holy Spirit-filled believers today!

Today we have a much better covenant with God in the fact that Jesus restored us back to our original state before Adam and Eve sinned and gave our God-given authority to Satan. Jesus got it back for us and said that we will do the same things He did and even greater, because He went to heaven and sent heaven into us by giving us the Holy Spirit.

John 14:12 (NKJV): “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.”

The first time I realised that I have this authority was during flood rains. We were living on a forestry plantation in Zululand, Natal, South Africa. We lived high upon a mountain with only gravel roads for about ten kilometres before we could get to the tar road. I needed to take my children to catch the school bus every morning. The school bus waited at the tar road, which meant that I had to travel ten kilometres on the gravel road to get there.

My husband left very early every morning to go to the plantation so he could not take them. I did not have a four-wheel drive vehicle and had to use my normal truck. It was nearly impossible to get to the bus without getting stuck in the mud.

This is when I learnt about Genesis 1:26-28. I suddenly realised that because I was created in the image and likeness of God, I had God-given authority on this earth and over this earth. I am to steward this earth. The earth was made for me to rule and reign over! What a revelation it was to me. So the next morning, just before I took the children to the bus stop, I walked out on the veranda and commanded the rain to stop. But it kept raining. I commanded the clouds to keep their water. Nothing happened. It kept on raining!

So I put the children in the truck and drove, praying and sliding as we travelled each day to the bus stop. Every day I tried it again and again without result. Then I realised that trying is not believing. The image inside of me was more doubt than faith. I had to work on the image inside of me before I would get any results on the outside.

I started to spend more time in the Bible meditating on my identity and self-worth: who I am in Christ and who Christ is in me. As I studied and meditated, I could feel the change taking place in my heart. I could feel the image change from loser to winner. I grew from religion to relationship. Then, suddenly one morning as I got up to speak to the rain; I knew that I knew that I knew that the rain would stop. I did not need to yell or scream. I just quietly and calmly told the rain to stop and it did.

I had authority that was born out of relationship! I knew who I was in Christ Jesus!

I had the image of God inside of me restored through meditating on God’s Word and by spending time with God in prayer and conversation daily.

Joy Dawson puts it like this, in her book Intercession, Thrilling and Fulfilling,11 “Meditation is of even more value than memorisation because meditation encourages revelation. And revelation of truth is the most powerful factor to motivate us to make application.”

Ana Mendez in her book Seated in Heavenly Places 22 says it like this: “Jesus came to restore that which was lost. And that, which was lost, was the image of God in man. It is conforming ourselves again to this image, that which will allow us to move in all the power of the kingdom of God.”

I want to ask again: What is the image you have within yourself of yourself? Winner or loser? Victorious or defeated? Wealthy or poor? Healthy or sick?

What image do you have of God? Is He good or bad? Faithful or disappointing? Real or someone you read about in the Bible? Do you see yourself as God’s beloved child and Him as your beloved Father?

What do you think God’s image is of you? Is it the same as the image you have of you? Do you see yourself as God sees you?

Genesis 1: 26-28 tells us that we are made in the likeness and image of God. Do you believe it, really believe it? This is true, almost incomprehensibly true!

So, let us take a look at God to know how we are supposed to be.

What God Is Like

There are too many aspects of God to be covered in one book, so I am only going to cover three aspects of Him that I believe are in line with the purpose of this book. They are: God is love, God is good, and God is faithful. These three characteristics of God should be imprinted on our hearts in such a way that we can say with the apostle Paul:

“And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8:38-39 NLT).

Are you in that place that no matter what is going on in your life, you still believe that He loves you and that He is good and faithful? This place of trust can only be achieved when you truly know God.

The Bible defines knowing as having a personal knowledge of His mercy, love and kindness—trusts and relies on Him, knowing that He will never forsake you, no, never (see Ps. 91:14 Amp.).

How do we get to this place described in Psalm 91? As I was pondering—meditating—on this question, God revealed to me the process from believing to receiving. As I go through this process, you will see how vital meditating is in this process.

The process starts with fellowship, which means spending time with God. This fellowship, or spending time with God, results in relationship. Relationship is a more intimate form of fellowship. Now you get to know each other a little bit better than just fellowshipping. The secret here is each other. Too many Christians treat this relationship as one-sided. God should know them and their needs, but they don’t take the time to know God. He becomes a need-solver, a shop where they go to with their shopping lists to get their needs met. Once they get their product from the shelf, they don’t go back to the shop unless their cupboard is empty.

The next stage in this process is from relationship to intimacy. You see, relationship brings you even closer to a person. Now you discover things about the person you did not know as a casual friend. Suddenly you see them, “warts and all.” This stage can either bring you closer together or drive you apart. This is a very important stage of the process. When you stay, trust develops out of it. Psalm 91:14 says that knowing brings trust. Intimacy brings trust. Trust cannot come if you are not going through things together. Things can be described as disappointment, hard words, misunderstandings, anger, offence, and so on—sticking it out in good times and in bad.

When you stick it out during times of war and during times of peace, a confidence will develop out of the relationship. This confidence will result in boldness. Now you “know that you know that you know” that these individuals will come through for you. Your expectation level is high and your doubt level is nonexistent. Because you know them, you trust whatever they say is true. Confidence brings boldness. You can speak on their behalf, recognize the way they do things, and identify when a situation wasn’t their doing. You know them!

Boldness brings authority. When you speak on their behalf, people listen because you speak out of a place of knowing. Look at this scripture in Acts 4:13: “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marvelled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus” (NKJV).

They realised that they had been with Jesus. Look at the authority of this statement!

Authority brings the last stage of this process, namely breakthrough or manifestation. Now nothing can stop this breakthrough because you have this authority that came through a process of spending time together called meditation. Without spending time together, this process would never have happened.

Today, we spend time with God by reading and pondering His Word and listening to what He reveals to us through His Word. So we need to dissect His Word, the Bible, little by little and bit by bit to get the fullness of it. This is called meditation.

Creflo Dollar from the World Changers Ministries in America says it so beautifully:

“True meditation is to fill your thoughts with the thoughts of God; to be consumed with the things that God has said. When you become consumed with what God has said, then it becomes effortless to do His Word and work.”

We must work the Bible for the Bible to work! Meditation is not reading the Word; no, it is dissecting the Word you read until you get revelation from it. No meditation, no revelation, and no revelation without meditation.

God Is love

What does this mean?

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NLT) describes love as the following:

“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!”

The New King James says in verse 8: “Love never fails!”

This is a mouthful. I think this is a good time to differentiate between human love (phileo) and the God kind of love (agape).

Let us look at our human love (phileo) for a moment. When we really, really love, we will do anything we can to keep that person or get hold of that thing we love. We will kill, steal, and destroy for the one we love. We will throw away all our values and beliefs for the one we love and that person would expect it of us. People usually say: If you really love me you would do this or that for me! This human kind of love is nothing but a selfish emotion!

God, on the other hand, sets all that He loves (agape) free. You see, He believes that in setting free, He will receive a love without restrictions. Agape love is a love that crosses boundaries and brings fulfilment on the highest level—a love that will make you grow and grow and grow; a love that will bring you to a mature, independent fully developed human place. This love brings trust to the highest level. And in becoming that person, you return that awesome, unselfish love with all you are now, to do the same unto others.

This is the love God gives, brings and is a love that makes you intensely happy and satisfied with who you are, and what you are. This love brings you into His level of life. It is a mighty force—not an emotion!

God’s love (agape), for us means that nothing that we can do will make Him seek anything but our highest good. Though we injure Him and insult Him, He will never feel anything but kindness and love toward us. This quite clearly means that this agape love is not an emotional thing. It is an act of the will. Can you see why love cannot fail? This is how God loves us. And this love is inside of us. The love of God is poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 5:5 (NLT) says, “For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.”

The agape love of God is unconditional, free, bringing freedom that is one-sided and other-centred, not self-centred. It is a commitment kind of love. If we allow this love to get inside of us and function properly, it will enhance our faith to believe for anything and receive it. We must develop a consciousness of the reality of God’s love inside of us. This love gives us a supernatural confidence and trust that God will do what He said.

The work of Jesus clearly expresses and declares God’s extreme love for mankind. This is the place where peace is made between God and man once and for all. God cannot be angry with you ever again, no matter what you do or don’t do.

Isaiah 54:10 says, “For though the mountains should depart and the hills be shaken or removed, yet My love and kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace and completeness be removed, says the Lord, Who has compassion on you” (Amp).

God did not start to love you when you were saved. No, God loved you at your worst as a sinner. He loved you even before you were born! Nothing that you can do can make Him love you less. His love is unqualified and unconditional. His love never changes. God never changes. His emotions follow His actions. His actions do not follow His emotions. This is true love!

You and I are worthy of God’s love! God loves and enjoys you. Take a look at Zephaniah 3:17: “The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing” (NKJV).

Can you see it? God is rejoicing over you! This means He is jumping up and down, shouting and clapping His hands, because every time He thinks of you His heart overflows with joy. He loves us, enjoys us and … hold your breath, even likes us!

In Zechariah 2:8, God calls us the apple of His eye. In the New Living Translation we are called God’s most precious possession! This deserves a “Wow!” We must get our identity and security based on God’s love for us and not on what the world thinks of us.

Let God’s love sustain you. What a precious hiding place in this hard world. However, to experience His unconditional love in your life you must make a conscious decision to believe it and to meditate on it until you cannot contain yourself. Then you will start to jump up and down, overflowing with joy in the awesome reality of this fact.

I want to make this statement: It is very hard for you to receive what you believe because without an every-day, every-hour, every-minute, and every-second reality in your thinking that God loves you and nothing can ever change that. He loves you even on your worst day. The bottom line is God is pleased with you. It is hard to receive from God without knowing this. You will establish this truth only through meditation on His Word. You must meditate on His love for and in you until you really believe it.

This knowledge that God loves you unconditionally all the time will cause you to never give up or lose hope and push through with your faith to receive what you believe for. You will never get discouraged and say, “I’ve been waiting so long; when will the breakthrough come?” No, you will wait with patience and contentment in the knowledge that God cannot fail you. “ … for He [God] Himself has said, ‘I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!]’” (Heb. 13:5 Amp.).

In 1 John 3:1, 2 God calls us His sons. Son is a position in Christ, not a gender. This is a position that changed our condition. God adopted us when we were saved. With this position of sonship, God gave us creative and productive power to rule and reign on earth. We are as heavenly as God Himself.

Ephesians 3:19 tells us that we are indwelt with the fullness of God! We are as much gods of this earth as God is God of the heavens. We are made in His image, according to His likeness. We must practise to develop and stay in this love, and then we will experience the manifestations of God.

Ephesians 3:19 (Amp.): “[That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!”

This reality of God’s love for and in you needs meditation to bring fruit in your everyday life.

Do you really believe that God lives in you; that He lives in you in all His fullness? This is so powerful that I do believe that we say it so easily, but we do not realise it fully. That is why we are defeated in so many areas of our lives. I do believe that this is also the reason why sin has a grip on our lives. You see, when you know that God lives inside of you, sin would have no grip on you. I do believe our sin problem has only one solution—meditate on the One who is inside of you, and sin will lose its grip on the outside of you.

This makes me wonder why our salvation is so cheap in our lifestyles. We say we believe with our mouths, but we live in such a way that it is hard to differentiate between God’s children and the world’s children. God said to live in such a way that our lights shine before men so that they know where to go when they only have darkness around them.

Is your light shining in such a way that people flock to your light? Or are you moping around in darkness too?

God Is Good

God is always good. God is extremely good and God is unfailingly good. God is always in a good mood and God has planned only good for your life. Do you believe this? Can you believe this? It is so important to believe it.

This reality can only come through meditation in His good, unfailing Word. We have been so brainwashed to believe the opposite by people and even in some churches who don’t know God because they are too lazy to get to know Him. This is the difference in being religious and being in relationship with God.

Knowing God, can only happen when you make the effort yourself to know Him. I cannot do it for you; the church cannot do it for you, and the world won’t do it for you!

Let us take a world-known leader as an example. The whole world knows about President Bush, the previous president of America. Many stories are told about him—some good, some bad. Everybody made up their minds through the media as to who he is and what he is. But those who are close to him know a different person than what the world perceives him to be. Those who are close to him know why he made the decisions he made. They know how he struggled with certain issues, what he really believes, and why he acted the way he did. Those people have more confidence in him than the rest of the world who do not have the same access to him. But then, there is his wife. She lives with him, she sleeps with him, she cries with him, she laughs with him, she encourages him when he is down, she defends him, and so forth.

Can you see the difference? His wife knows the real George Bush because she lives with him. She is with him day and night. He tells her his heart’s desires, the things he doesn’t like, and the things that make him glad and vice versa. She almost knows him inside out! She will tell you that her husband is a good man because she knows him intimately.

Former President George Bush is but a mere man. How much more good is God to those who know Him? The Bible says He is light and in Him is no darkness at all!

This is what is required of us: to know God inside out! You may say this is impossible because He is God! I tell you, it’s possible to know Him better than you do right now!

Look at Ephesians 1:17-19: “But I do more than thank. I ask—ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of glory—to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally, your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for his followers, oh, the utter extravagance of his work in us who trust him—endless energy, boundless strength!” (The Message).

First Corinthians 2:16 says, “For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart” (Amp.).

Oh, how powerful are these scriptures! We must make it our hearts’ desires to become closer to Him, ever closer to Him! We have no excuses any more. Get into His Word, get on your knees, spend quality time with Him, draw near to God, and He will draw near to you (see Jas. 4:8). We must come to the point where God calls us His friends, as He said of Moses.

God Is Faithful

When I think of God’s faithfulness, I stand humbled before His goodness.

My husband and I are currently living in our dream house. For about fifteen years I have planned and dreamt my dream house. I put scripture seed in my heart and confessed while planting seed into church building funds. I would often talk to God, telling Him what I would like to have in my home. I would like a veranda right around the house, a study, enough space for people visiting, and so forth. God gave me what I wanted and more! He is good; He is faithful; and He is abundant. Everything about Him is abundant. Every day that I wake up I am still awed by His goodness and faithfulness. My dream house is absolutely beautiful. The most awesome part of it all is that He remembered what I wanted; although some of it I kept in my heart because it was too indulgent. Still, He knew my heart and gave it to me anyway. God is good and God is big.

What are your dreams? Give them to God; talk to Him about them. He can and will give them to you and much, much more.

“Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]” (Eph. 3:20 (Amp.).

Look at the last part of this verse that says, “ … infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams.” This describes our house!

This also describes our journey from South Africa to Australia where we are living now. In 2000 God told us to move to Australia. For me it was one of the hardest things I had to do. We were happy in South Africa. We had a faith-believing church. My husband and I had good jobs, and the children were in a very good school. We had lovely Christian friends we knew for years, and my future did not include any other country than South Africa. I did not want to leave.

My husband got excited and immediately started to get the migration process rolling. The more he organised, the more I prayed against it! Being in our forties, I thought we were too old to start all over again. But the more I prayed against it, the faster the process went. Then suddenly we stood at the airport, passports in our hands, ready to leave for our new fatherland. At that moment, I decided to accept the fact that God was involved and He wanted us in Australia. As we boarded the plane I said to God, “Whatever You want us to do, You make it happen.” Nobody knew us, for them we had no past. We needed God to open doors.

That is just what He did. We landed in Newcastle, NSW in a wonderful church. The pastors were anointed and called by God to raise the church to a Word-acting, Word-believing, life-changing environment and we had the privilege to be part of this.

During all this time I marvelled at God’s faithfulness. He led us hour by hour. We never lacked; provision was always there.

After six years in Newcastle, God called us to a little town north of Newcastle and this is where He gave me my dream house—and an assignment! Part of that assignment is writing this book and the rest is to pray for revival, an awakening toward Him in this beautiful little town. Again, my prayer is: God, make it happen, help me. Without You, I am nothing.

The miracle to be here in Australia for only six years and see what God has done for us is humanly impossible. It is impossible. Firstly, the salary my husband gets cannot buy what it buys on a weekly basis—yet we buy it. We could never afford the private schools our children have attended—and yet they did! We paid everything, every time, on time! Every need was met right on time!

God’s faithfulness humbles me so often that I just burst into praise and worship. Through all of this, God taught me how to cast my cares onto Him. He taught me that by casting all of my care onto Him, I really make Him feel valuable to me, because this shows Him that I trust Him. When He revealed that to me I was surprised by how much my behaviour affects God. I never thought of it this way. Since then I deliberately worked on casting my cares onto Him and now today, I can really do it. What a change in my life that one command of His did to me.

He cares for me! The faithful, never-changing, all powerful God cares for me and He perfects that which concerns me. What a life!

The act of meditating on God’s Word until you get revelation knowledge is a faith builder that no sermon or convention can give you. It is God talking to you and to every cell in your body, and it is revelation that you never ever forget. It stays with you and it brings freedom, direction, peace, clarity of mind, and instruction.

Nothing can take the place or time of meditation on the Word of God in your life. It is priceless and really the only way to live as a Christian because this is God’s way to reveal Himself and His ways to you.

1   Joy Dawson. Intercession, Thrilling and Fulfilling. YWAM Publishing, 1997.

2   Ana Mendez. Seated in Heavenly Places. Voice of the Light Ministries.

Instruction

I am so excited about this part—the main part—of the book. If you are diligent in doing these exercises, your life will change drastically to that of a successful soldier in the army of God. You will be an overcomer because through this meditation process, you will learn to hear the voice of God clearly and accurately for every situation in your life.

The next part of this book is scriptures that I took under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. I dissected them line by line to get all the fullness I could get from them.

I divided them into four areas where I found Christians need revelation knowledge the most, namely: identity and self-worth, healing, prosperity and against anxiety and worry.

Read every scripture slowly, thoughtfully and prayerfully. Do every declaration and exercise diligently. Declare everything out loud, remembering that words create. Put your words out there. If you feel you should stay on one scripture, do it. If you feel you should read through all seven per section to find the one that speaks to you best, do it. Just stay with it until you believe it.

The main purpose of meditation is to renew your mind to the point of believing in your heart what you meditate upon. Once you believe it and you can see it in your heart, then it is yours!

Remember to finish every section with praise and thanksgiving. You will find the “prayers answered” confessions at the end of the seven different confessions after each section. This will “cement” your belief system and establish your faith.

God bless you abundantly as you become who Jesus died for you to be.

Part B

Meditations

Identity and Self-Worth

I believe the number one enemy we have in this life consists of a lack of identity and self-worth. We all want to belong, to be loved, to be associated with someone—anyone! This is how God made us. We are all family, His family, and He put within us the longing to belong.

We are created to belong to God. We are His family. Our identity and self-worth find total fulfilment in Him. The problem is, however, that we are trying to find fulfilment of our emotional needs with each other outside of Him. This cannot work out. This is a sure way to disaster.

Each of us has an emotional emptiness within us that only God can fill. When filled, this emptiness will make us contented, peaceful, joyful and will bring us to a place of “rest” in God. But we are running around, putting pressure on each other to fill that emptiness. This cannot work. It’s a “God-emptiness,” not a “human-emptiness.”

The sad thing is that most Christians also run around in this world, seeking for identity and self-worth because they have no idea how to fill that emptiness in their own lives. They are supposed to have the answer, but they run in circles trying to find it outside of God.

Why?

I firmly believe there are a few reasons for it:

• It is because they have no idea how much God loves them.

• It is because they do not know who they really are in Christ.

• It is because they have no idea who God is.

• It is because they do not own the reality that God is in them.

Let’s face it. Can you say “yes” to all these questions? Now, wait a bit; don’t just say yes because you know it in your mind. I want you to think about it and answer “yes” from your heart. Ask yourself the question: Do I really know how much God loves me? Do I know? Do I really know? If the answer is yes, how does that affect your everyday living? If your answer is no, how does that affect your everyday living?

Let’s go to question 2. Do you really know who you are in Christ Jesus? Really? Is it a reality to you that you are the son or daughter of Almighty God? Do you know what it means when the Bible says that you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus? Do you have more of a sin-consciousness than a righteousness-consciousness as a born-again believer?

Then there are questions 3 and 4. Do you really know who God is and that He lives inside of you? Just think about it. The God who created the universe, who is all-powerful, all-present, never changing, is inside of you! Think about it. How does that make you feel? Does it wow you or … not?

Then I want to ask you: “How big is your God?”

This is a serious question. How big is your God? You see, His size has everything to do with your battles on this earth. His reality in your soul and heart has everything to do with your identity and self-worth on this earth.

These self-worth and identity scriptures are important to bring you to a place of identity and belonging, to a place of peace, and to a place of contentment. These scriptures will bring you to a place where God can fill your emptiness and bring you to a place where you can be who Christ made you to be without feeling threatened, self-conscious or having any low self-esteem.

These scriptures will lift you up and bring you to a place where your happiness and joy does not depend on people but on knowing who you are, and that who you are is very important to God. He gave the life of His only Son to die for you because He loves you, because He made you, and because you are everything to Him.

It sounds too good to be true. Yet, it is the truth. You are special to God. You were planned by God and you are important to God. See, you were planned to be born for such a time as this. You have a special assignment from God that only you can do. That’s a “Wow!”

Meditation

Now, let’s get to work to become who God says we are because other people’s lives depend on us! This is an exciting adventure that will change your life forever and will cause you to walk in victory now, here on this earth.

The next seven meditations will be on your identity and self-worth. Start seeing yourself as God’s beloved child, with God as your Father and because He loves you and He will look after you. Get the image of God inside you completely. You have a powerful God inside you; therefore, you have tremendous power available to you to overcome every obstacle in your life with the help of the Holy Spirit.

Stay with each confession until you believe it. Then move on to the next one. Make sure that each promise comes alive in you before you move on. A definite sign that you made a promise on your own is that excitement, peace, and joy will start to bubble up on the inside of you until you are “careless in the care of God” (Matt. 6:26 The Message).

After the seven confessions is a section on “prayers answered,” and after you have meditated on the confessions, always finish your confession with confirmation, praise, and thanksgiving. Praise God all through the day for who you are now after Jesus restored you back to your rightful place alongside Him in heavenly places.

Praise God because you are blessed and made whole because of what Jesus did for you on Calvary when He died so that you can live an abundant life now on this earth.

God bless you as you become who He died for you to be.

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! (1 John 3:1 NIV)

See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! (1 Jn. 3:1 NLT).

This IS BIG! This IS REALLY BIG!

Read it again:

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us that we should Be called children of God!

We ARE children of God!

YOU are a child of Almighty God,

The self-existing One

Who never changes,

Who created the world

And everything in it, and

Who upholds everything with His right hand—

The great I AM WHO I AM!

You … yes you! Tiny little you … are His child! Here and now … when you made Jesus the Lord of your life. Now, how do you make Jesus the Lord of your life?

Romans 10:9-10 (NKJV) tells you how: “If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

When you do this you become born-again (spiritually, on the inside)

And at the same time God becomes your Father

And you become His child;

And when you die, you will go to heaven

to live with Him forever and ever!

You want to do it now?

Go ahead … do it; it is so important. Okay.

Now you are born-again and now you are a child of God!

(This is a good time to shout!) Awesome! Great! Powerful!

Yes, now you are awesome, you are great and you are powerful

You are still in your natural earthly family—that’s true

But now you have a second family—

God’s family!

In God’s family you are lavished with love (John 3:16)

You are chosen (1 Pet. 2:9)

You are delivered (Ps. 107:6)

You are accepted (Eph. 1:6)

You are healed (1 Pet. 2:24)

You are prosperous (Ps. 1:3)

You are satisfied (Jer. 31:14)

You are an overcomer (1 Jn. 5:4-5)

You are victorious (1 Cor. 15:57)

You are able (Phil. 4:13)

You are anointed (1 Jn. 2:20)

You are blessed (Eph. 1:3)

You are cared for (1 Pet. 5:7)

You are cleansed (1 Jn. 1:7,9)

You are coheirs with Jesus (Rom. 8:17)

You are favoured (Job 10:12)

You are free (Jn. 8:36)

You are holy (Eph. 1:4)

You are forgiven (Eph. 1:7)

You are dead to sin (Rom. 6:11)

The list goes on…and on…and on…and on.

Grab your Bible now and search for more.

When Jesus died for you and you accepted Him into your life …

Your whole life changed from

Darkness to light

Bottom to top

Loser to winner

The best of the best

Jesus died, picked us up and put us on the throne of God with Him

That’s not a bad deal!

That is worth meditating on isn’t it?

Declaration

I declare now that I AM a child of Almighty God.

I declare that I am loved by God.

I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and that God raised

Him from the dead and therefore I am saved.

I declare that I am approved, accepted, and in right relationship

with Him—

not because of me but because of what Jesus did for me.

God is my Father and I am His beloved child.

I declare that Jesus is Lord over me and my life

now and forever.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am healed!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on this scripture. See yourself now before God, accepted, approved, and beloved and without any fear or guilt. See yourself as ruler with Him over all your circumstances. See God smiling at you. Feel the peace in His presence. He is your Father and you are His child.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: God is my Father and I am His beloved child!

Hallelujah, amen!

“The same glory you gave me, I gave them, so they’ll be as unified and together as we are—I in them and you in me. Then they’ll be mature in this oneness, and give the godless world evidence that you’ve sent me and loved them in the same way you’ve loved me” (Jn 17:23 The Message).

“I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me (NLT).

GOD LOVES YOU AND ME JUST AS MUCH AS HE LOVES JESUS.

What a statement!

How do we comprehend such a statement?

GOD LOVES YOU AND ME JUST AS MUCH AS HE LOVES JESUS.

Listen, you are loved, don’t ever doubt it again!

God loved you so much that He sent Jesus to die

For you … for me … for us!

Now, this IS love.

God loves you with agape love.

(This is just a big word for the God kind of love).

Agape love is ENORMOUS.

Agape love is an act of the will.

I will love you even when you are ugly toward me.

I will love you even when you are unkind toward me.

I will love you even if you don’t love me.

I will love you even when you insult me.

I will love you even when you don’t deserve it.

I WILL and I AM loving you!

The agape love of God is unconditional,

free and brings freedom,

one-sided and is other-centred

and not self-centred.

It’s a commitment kind of love.

We must develop a consciousness of the reality of God’s love inside of us.

This love gives you a supernatural confidence and trust that God will do what He said.

God, on the other hand, sets all free that He loves (agape).

You see He believes that by setting free, He will receive …

a love without restrictions.

a love that crosses boundaries and brings fulfilment on the highest level.

a love that will make you grow and grow and grow.

a love that will bring you to a mature, independent fully developed human place

This love causes trust to rise to the highest level.

And in becoming that person,

you return that awesome unselfish love with all you are

now

to do the same unto others.

This is the love that God gives, brings, and is–

a love that makes you intensely happy and satisfied with

who you are and what you are.

This love brings you into His level of life.

A mighty force—not an emotion!

God did not start to love you when you were saved, no!

God loved you at your worst as a sinner.

He loved you even before you were born!

Nothing that you can do can make Him love you less.

His love is unqualified and unconditional.

His love never changes.

God never changes.

His emotions follow his actions; His actions did not follow His emotions.

This is true love!

This is big!

This is powerful!

This is the new you!

That’s right!

This love with which God loves you is in you now … yes.

The Bible says that this love is inside of us!

The love of God is shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Spirit (Rom. 5:5).

Now we can love each other

as He loves us.

Isn’t this powerfully perfect!

Declaration

I declare now that I AM a child of Almighty God.

I declare that I am loved by God.

I declare that the agape love of God is shed abroad in my heart;

therefore, I love now as He loves.

I declare that I will love no matter the circumstances.

I am dedicated to the love walk.

God is my Father and I am His beloved child.

I declare that Jesus is Lord over me and my life

now and forever.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am healed!

Exercise

Take ten minutes to meditate on this scripture. See yourself now before God, accepted, approved, and beloved and without any fear or guilt. See yourself as ruler with Him over all your circumstances. See God smiling at you. Feel the peace in His presence. He is your Father and you are His child.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it. See how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: God is my Father and I am His beloved child!

Hallelujah, amen!

“He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves

Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him”

(Jn. 14:21 NKJV).

“Those who accept My commandments and obey them are the ones who love Me. And because they love Me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal Myself to each of them” (NLT).

God loves us just as much as He loves Jesus … We have discussed it…

To stay on this subject of love,

Here we see God gave us commandments …

And when we obey them, we show God that we love Him!

What are those commandments He gave us … to keep?

To show Him that we love Him?

Let us have a look to see what shows God how much we love Him

“‘And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’ The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these’” (Mk. 12:30-31 NLT).

Wow, this is a mouthful!

Let us dissect this one to understand God’s love for us a bit better.

Jesus said to love God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. Then He goes on to say to love your neighbour as yourself.

I believe what Jesus is saying here is that we do love ourselves with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind, and all our strength. That is why we need to love God and our neighbours as we love ourselves!

Now, will God tell us to do something

that He is not willing to do?

No! A thousand times, no!

So, when He tells us to love Him and each other with …

all our heart, all our soul, all our mind, and all our strength

isn’t it the same way He is loving us? Remember … God is love!

So, when Jesus tells us in Matthew 22:37-40 how we should love God … and each other …

With all our heart, all our soul, all our mind, and all our strength

He is telling us in John 14:21 how He loves us

With … all His heart, all His soul, all His mind, and all His strength.

Wow! This is life-changing!

God loves me with all His heart!

all His soul!

all His mind!

all His strength!

God loves me with all He is!

And then Jesus went on to say that He will love us the same way.

This is shouting ground!

God loves me with all His heart!

all His soul!

all His mind!

all His strength!

Jesus loves me with all His heart!

all His soul!

all His mind!

all His strength!

I am loved by God Almighty who is never changing,

who created the universe,

who is the same today, yesterday and forever.

I am loved by Jesus

who showed me His love

by dying on the cross for me.

I am loved by the King of Kings.

I am His beloved and He is mine.

This makes me: Special,

Very important,

Wanted,

Cherished.

This gives me my identity in God,

not in Man.

I AM His beloved and He is mine.

Declaration

I declare now that I AM a child of Almighty God.

I declare that I am loved by God.

I declare that I love the Lord my God with all my heart and with all my soul and with all my mind and with all my strength.

I declare that the Lord my God loves me with all His heart and with all His soul and with all His mind and with all His strength.

I declare that I love my neighbour as myself.

God is my Father and I am His beloved child.

I declare that Jesus is Lord over me and my life in love

now and forever.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am healed!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on this scripture. See yourself now before God, accepted, approved, and beloved. See God embracing and accepting you as His beloved child for whom Jesus died to save, on God’s command, because of His love for you. See God smiling at you. Feel the peace in His presence. He is your Father and you are His child.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: God is my beloved Father and I am His

beloved child!

Hallelujah, amen!

“But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you,

and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches

you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him” (1 Jn. 2:27 NKJV).

“But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you,

so you don’t need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit

teaches you everything you need to know,

and what he teaches is true—it is not a lie.

So just as he has taught you,

remain in fellowship with Christ” (NLT).

The anointing, which is the Holy Spirit

Lives in you and me,

And this anointing or Holy Spirit

That lives in you and in me

Teaches us all things.

What things?

Things we need to know about

God,

Jesus,

And the Bible.

Things like:

God’s love,

Jesus’ death

That bought us identity and victory,

Who we are in Him; what we can do in Him; what we have in Him.

These are things the devil does not want us to know!

He tries to hide from us

Who we are in Christ;

What we can do in Christ;

What we have in Christ.

Many times the devil succeeds because we believe his lies and we do not know the truth.

But, praise be to God,

He gave us help to know the truth

to overcome the devil.

He gave us His Word (the Bible) and His anointing (the Holy Spirit)

To teach us and show us the way to victory over all our

circumstances!

Listen to Isaiah 10:27 (NKJV):

“It shall come to pass in that day

That his burden will be taken away from your shoulder,

And his yoke from your neck,

And the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil.”

Because of the anointing, your burdens and yokes of life will be destroyed!

Hallelujah!!

What are some of your burdens and yokes?

Think about them;

write them down.

What are they?

Low self-esteem … fears … loneliness … sickness … lack … depression….

Write them all down;

look at them, and then

allow the anointing within you

to take them away

and destroy them.

No more burdens for you and me!

No more yokes for you and me!

We have the anointing of the Holy Spirit

Within us,

And as we

Give them

To Him

One-by-one,

They are being taken away and destroyed!

Now, we are clean;

Now we enter into the process of restoration.

Now we need the anointing, the Holy Spirit

To teach us how to heal,

how to forgive,

how to receive,

how to live without the yokes and burdens,

how to live in victory

.His way

Because His way

Is the only way

That leads to life

And life abundantly … in all areas of our lives—

Heart, body, soul, and mind.

Declaration

I declare now that I AM a child of Almighty God.

I declare that I am loved by God.

I declare now that the anointing of God, the Holy Spirit lives in me.

I declare now that the anointing of God, the Holy Spirit leads me into all truth and teaches me all things in truth.

I declare now that all my burdens are taken away and all my yokes are destroyed because of the power of the anointing of God that abides in me now.

My mind is renewed—I am “anointing-in-me” minded.

I depend on the anointing in me to do God’s work through me on this earth

today and forever.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am healed!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on this scripture. See yourself now walking around with the anointing of God, the Holy Spirit operating through you and ministering to you all day long. See it, practise it, rely on it, call on it, and depend on it. Your victory in this life depends on it. So practise the presence of the anointing, the Holy Spirit, every day.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: The anointing of God, the Holy Spirit lives in me now and is destroying all the yokes and burdens in my life as I give them to Him.

Hallelujah, amen!

“For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor. 5:21 NKJV).

“For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness]” (Amp.).

Christ didn’t have any sin. But God made him become sin for us. So we can be made right with God because of what Christ has done for us (NIRV).

Christ did no wrong thing. But for our sake God put the blame for our wrong ways on Christ. So now God sees us as good, because we are in Christ (Worldwide English New Testament).

I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus

This is BIG?

Very, very, very BIG!

Why? You may ask, what’s so BIG about this?

I am so glad that you’ve asked.

It means that when you accepted Jesus into your life,

You immediately became the righteousness of God … in Him

This means we became immediately a new creation in Christ …

we became approved by God in Christ

we became accepted by God in Christ

we entered into the right relationship with God in Christ

we became blameless to God in Christ

we became to God as Jesus is to God.

Now we have the ability to stand before God

Without any sense of guilt,

Without any sense of inferiority,

As His beloved child

With all the privileges of a child.

He loves us unconditionally because of what Jesus did on the cross.

Jesus became sin for me so that I could become right with God.

Jesus took my wrong and now God sees me as good.

By realizing His righteousness in me, all the wrong in my life can

be fixed.

Yes now … I have the right to be healed.

I have the right to be prosperous.

I will always have victory in ALL circumstances.

I have the right to be delivered from …

All addictions,

All bondages,

All danger,

All sin.

Just believe it!

The day you said “yes” to Jesus, He made you the righteousness of

God in Him.

It’s done!

You can’t get more righteous than you are right now.

You can’t work at it; you just need to believe it.

You see, it is a gift given to you by God.

Your behaviour has nothing to do with it—good or bad.

Regardless of my past behaviour,

Regardless of my future behaviour,

My faith in Jesus makes me the righteousness of God.

We are the children of God and He is our Father.

He is a good Father.

He is a loving Father.

He is a forgiving Father.

Start to declare out loud: I am the righteousness of God in Jesus.

Keep your mind renewed by the Word of God.

Get it in your mind.

Get it in your heart.

Say it with your mouth.

Often …

I am the righteousness of God.

Now take control of your circumstances;

…take control of your life

And get rid of everything that Jesus died for.

You are the righteousness of God in Jesus … never forget it

It is the difference between victory or defeat, blessing or curse, life

or death!

Declaration

I declare now that I AM the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

I declare that I am approved, accepted and in right relationship with Him

not because of me but because of what Jesus did for me.

I decree and proclaim that I am saved, healed, delivered, prosperous, loved, and protected

by the blood of Jesus.

It is my right as the righteousness of God.

I declare that Jesus is Lord over me and my life

now and forever.

I am who the Bible says I am;

I can do what the Bible says I can do;

I have what the Bible says I have;

In the wonderful Name of Jesus

I am healed!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on this scripture. See yourself now before God, accepted, approved, and beloved and without any fear or guilt. See yourself as ruler with Him over all your circumstances. See God smiling at you. Feel the peace in His presence. He is your Father and you are His child.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: I am the Righteousness of God in Jesus slowly, prayerfully

and joyfully.

You are righteous; God says you are, so you are!

Walk in it, it is yours.

“Is there anyone around who knows God’s Spirit, anyone who knows what he is doing?” has been answered: Christ knows, and we have Christ’s Spirit” (1 Cor. 2:16 The Message).

“For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge?

But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart” (Amp.).

“For, ‘Who can know the Lord’s thoughts? Who knows enough to teach him?’ But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ” (NLT).

We have the mind of Christ, which is the same as the Spirit of Christ.

When you are born-again (accepted Jesus in your heart) you have the mind and the Spirit of Christ.

In you … now!

Understanding who you are and Who He is who is inside of you,

will bring you to a victorious life

Full of the splendour of God

And of unlimited power

We have Christ’s Spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:17 (Living Bible) says:

“But if you give yourself to the Lord, [being born-again]

You and Christ are joined together as one person.”

Say it again … let these words penetrate your innermost being:

I am joined to Jesus Christ.

I have the mind of Christ.

I have the Spirit of Christ

in me … now!

Every born-again man has joined his spirit to God and therefore is able to know God intimately and is able to hear His voice.

Isn’t this what 1 Corinthians 2:16 says?

Read that scripture now again … slowly … out loud …

until it explodes on the inside of you!

Get the revelation concreted into your mind.

Because I have the mind of Christ,

the Spirit of Christ

inside of me now,

I hold the thoughts,

Feelings, and purposes

of His heart …

now!

To hear God’s Spirit speak to us we need to spend time with God

in the quietness of our spirit.

Learn to look inside of you;

listen inside of you;

yield inside of you.

Learn to quiet the noise of your thoughts.

Let your mind become quiet.

Listen to worship music.

Praise God in a soft voice.

Pray in the Spirit.

Just listen.

Just wait …

Expecting,

Looking,

Watching.

He speaks all the time so

Practise,

Practise,

Practise.

Somebody once said: “Show me your hunger with your boldness;

Show me your searching with your perseverance

And then I believe that you will find Him.”

You will find Him when you search for Him with all your heart.

He is not far;

He is inside of you.

Discover Him in you;

Unlock His potential in you;

Allow Him to live through you;

Now … that’s life and life abundantly!

Declaration

I declare that I have the mind of Christ in me now.

I declare that I have the Spirit of Christ in me now.

I decree and proclaim that I hold the feelings and purposes

of His heart in me now.

I yield to His voice, His Spirit, and His mind now.

I seek Him; therefore, I will find Him.

God teaches me daily and daily I listen, learn, and obey.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am healed!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on this scripture. See the mind and Spirit of God inside of you. See how God speaks to you. Listen intently to what He is saying. God speaks all the time. See yourself talking to God and Him talking to you. You are important to God’s plan on earth. Receive your part in His plan by yielding to His Spirit within you. Read the Bible prayerfully, listening to the Holy Spirit.

Confess the scripture again; and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: I have the mind of Christ, the Spirit of Christ within me, and therefore I know the feelings, counsels, and purposes of His heart.

Praise be to God who has created and called us to fulfil His purposes on earth.

You are special, precious, and valuable to God.

Never forget it!

“He is so rich in kindness and grace that He purchased our freedom with the blood of His Son and forgave our sins” (Eph, 1:7 NLT).

By this time you should get it!

God loves YOU so much that He purchased YOUR freedom

with the blood of His Son … and at the same time

He forgave you of ALL YOUR sin!

Say out loud:

I AM blood-bought.

I AM free.

I AM forgiven.

Why?

Why would God do this for you and for me?

Why?

Because He is so rich in kindness.

What does this mean?

What is kindness?

Let us look closer at the definitions of kindness and grace

Kindness is goodness, gentleness, showing favour, gracious, love.

Goodness is righteous, kindness of heart, grace, tenderness, compassion.

Gentleness is good, kind, easy, gracious, to bear gently with.

Favour is grace, special privileges, freely bestowed.

Gracious is good, kind, freely bestowed.

And then kindness is love.

What can I say about God’s love?

It is too much!

God’s love is agape.

This is the essential nature of God.

He is love (agape)

The agape love of God seeks the welfare of another—

more specifically … the welfare of YOU and ME!

The agape love of God works no ill to any but

seeks opportunities to do good to all.

God’s love …

is unconditional,

free and brings freedom,

one-sided and is other-centred

and not self-centred.

It’s a commitment kind of love.

God is committed to you and me

now and forever.

You are not on your own

now and forever.

You matter to God

now and forever.

You belong to God

now and forever.

He is rich in kindness and grace.

What does this mean?

What is grace?

Grace is unmerited favour freely bestowed.

Grace is God’s ability on my ability when my ability cannot do it.

Grace is God’s willingness to use His power and His ability

on my behalf although I don’t deserve it.

Grace gets God personally involved in my life.

Can you see the wonder of your freedom and forgiveness?

It is God instigated.

It is God in action.

It is God in action for you and me.

Although we do not deserve such goodness, mercy, and kindness;

God gave it anyway because

He loves you;

He honours you;

He favours you;

He made you!

God bought your freedom and forgiveness with a very high price through

the death of His beloved Son, Jesus.

It cost Him; it tore from Him

His beloved Son.

Accept this precious gift into your life.

You are worth it.

He’ll do it again for you … knowing you!

Declaration

I declare now that I accept the price paid for me on the cross.

I declare that I have the Spirit of Christ in me now.

I am born-again, free, and forgiven.

I am free from all bondages, spirit, soul, and body.

I am forgiven and therefore I forgive,

God teaches me daily and daily I listen, learn, and obey.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am healed!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on this scripture. Take hold of your freedom. Accept the blessing of God into your life right now. See yourself free, delivered, healed, prosperous, and forgiven. God has forgiven you; forgive yourself, and then others.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: I am free and forgiven through Jesus’ blood.

Praise be to God who has created and called us to fulfil His purposes on earth.

You are special, precious, and valuable to God.

Never forget it!

Prayers Answered

“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! Father I thank you that I am your child because of what Jesus did on the cross” (see 1 Jn. 3:1).

Father, I thank You in Jesus’ name that You love me just as much as You love Jesus! (see Jn. 17:23)

Father, I thank You that You love me, that Jesus loves me, and because I keep Your commandments by walking in love, You manifest Yourself to me in Jesus Name (see Jn. 14:21))

Father, I thank You that my prayers are powerful and effective because I am the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ (see Jm. 5:16)

Father, thank You that Your anointing abides in me and He is teaching me all things that are true, in Jesus Name (see 1 Jn. 2:27).

Father, I thank You that I have the mind of Christ, and therefore know all the thoughts, counsels, purposes, and plans of His heart (see 1 Cor. 2:16).

Father, thank You that because of Your kindness and grace, I am free and forgiven by the blood of Jesus (see Eph. 1:7).

Whatever things I ask for when I pray, I believe that I already have received them, I believe, therefore I have them in Jesus’ name (see Mk. 11, 24; Matt. 21:22).

Now, this is the confidence that I have in Him, that if I ask anything according to His will, He hears me. And I know because He hears me, whatever I ask I receive of Him (see 1 Jn. 5:14-15).

Healing

God assures us throughout the whole Bible that healing belongs to His children.

When Adam and Eve were created, they had the Zoë life of God. What does this mean? It means they received the God-kind of life. They received the same life that God is living in heaven right now—blessed, healed, wealthy, and so forth. After they sinned, the curse with sickness, disease, sorrows, and pain entered into their lives and all mankind’s.

But God in His mercy gave them, and us, a choice. If we choose to follow Him, we will be blessed with life, health, wealth, and peace. In Deuteronomy 30:19 (NLT) God tells us to choose the type of life we want: “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!”

Then God sent Jesus to earth to tell mankind that God has made a plan to redeem mankind back to the Zoë life of God. Jesus taught and demonstrated for three years the will of God where healing is concerned. Wherever He went, He healed all kinds of sicknesses and diseases and delivered people from every kind of bondage.

After Jesus was raised from death, before He went to heaven to be with His Father God, He told his followers and believers that healing belonged to them and that they must go and heal all those that believe in His Name.

Well, that’s exactly what they did. They prayed, commanded, expected, and received healing on their promises.

For us to believe and receive on the scale that they did, I do believe that we need to renew our minds to who we are in Jesus and what belongs to us in Jesus. We need to do more than confess the Word. We need to restore the image of God back to our minds by renewing our minds with the Word of God (in this case) on healing.

Added to confession, we need meditation to give our faith a plan on which to work.

Following are seven healing scriptures in a confession form that will renew your mind. Stay with each confession until you believe it. Then move on to the next one. Or, if any of the seven immediately stands out for you, start with that one.

As we meditate on the healing scriptures, we will build the plan or picture that it paints in our hearts. Once it comes alive in our hearts, we will receive what we see.

Meditation

Now, let’s get to work to become who God says we are—divinely healed! This is an exciting adventure that will forever change your life and will cause you to walk in victory, now here on this earth. Your testimony will also help to raise the level of faith concerning healing in other’s lives who desperately need a touch of God concerning healing for their own lives.

The next seven meditations will be on your healing. Start seeing yourself as God’s beloved child, with God as your Father and because He loves you that He will look after you. Get the image of your healing inside you, complete. See yourself doing what you couldn’t do before. See yourself enjoying life in good health, helping others to receive their healing the way you received yours. You have a powerful God inside you; therefore, you have tremendous power available to you to overcome every obstacle in your life with the help of the Holy Spirit.

Stay with each confession until you believe it. Then move on to the next one. Make sure that each promise comes alive in you before you move on. A definite sign that you made a promise your own in your heart is that excitement, peace, and joy will start to bubble up on the inside of you.

After the seven confessions is a section on “prayers answered.” After you have meditated on the confessions, always finish your confession with confirmation, praise, and thanksgiving. Praise God all through the day for who you are now after Jesus restored you back to your rightful place alongside Him in heavenly places. Praise God because you are blessed and made whole because of what Jesus did for you on Calvary when He died so that you can live an abundant life now on this earth.

God bless you as you become who He died for you to be.

“Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed” (1 Pet. 2:24 NKJV).

Write down all the sins you struggle with. Take your time, write them all down.

Put them one for one, name by name on Jesus while you see Him hanging on the tree.

See how the exchange takes place.

Your sins for His righteousness.

See it happen. Do it until you can see it happen.

Can you see that you don’t have a sin problem anymore?

Can you see how Jesus took it all …one by one?

Can you see it? Your sins have no power over you anymore!

Why? Because you don’t have them anymore!

Now, burn the page and rejoice. You are free!

“ … might live for righteousness … ”

What does it mean to live for righteousness?

It means

to live free of blame;

to be in right standing with God;

with no sense of fear or guilt or inferiority toward Him.

Is that how you are living right now?

Why not?

Jesus died for you to live this way.

Close your eyes and see how Jesus smiles down from the cross, looking at you with His eyes filled with love, accepting you just as you are–

Dying for you just as you are;

Loving you just as you are;

Setting you free;

Just where you are right now!

He died for you because you are worthy to die for.

You are precious to Him. He set you free from yourself so you can be yourself.

Now is a good time to accept this wonderful gift of righteousness

And to start praising God for your freedom in Christ!

Right now you are free from sin and bondage

And you become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus!

Now, say out loud: “I am the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.” (It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t feel that way—it’s a fact.)

Say it again … and again … and again … and again, until you believe it!

“ … by whose stripes you were healed. ”

Say it: “By His stripes I was healed.”

Say it again.

You are stating a fact.

It is done. No one can undo it!

You were healed.

You are healed.

That’s the whole truth.

You cannot add to it; you cannot take away from it.

Say it again: “By His stripes I was healed.”

By His stripes I am healed.

Again, see the exchange on the cross; your sickness for His healing.

Close your eyes, see it … really, see it.

See it and say it, again, again, again and again.

See how your sickness attached itself to His hanging body on the cross. Now see how that healthy part of His body is part of your body.

You are healed

You were healed

You are set free

It’s a fact.

Declaration

I declare now that in the name of Jesus and by His death on the cross I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

I declare that no sin has power over me anymore.

I forbid any sickness or disease to live in my body.

I command every organ, every muscle, every bone, every joint, every tissue, and every blood cell to function to perfection as determined by God even before I was born.

I forbid any malfunction in my body.

No weapon formed against me shall prosper.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am healed!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on your healing. See yourself healed. See how you can do things that you couldn’t do before.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: God lives in me. I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I am holy; the Word works in and through me. I am blessed, prosperous, healthy, and successful.

“And thus He fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, He Himself took [in order to carry away] our weaknesses and infirmities and bore away our diseases” (Matt. 8:17 Amp.).

“He Himself took (in order to carry away) our weaknesses and infirmities …”

Say out loud: “My sicknesses and infirmities were carried away by Jesus on the cross.”

Say it again.

What does this mean?

It means I don’t have them anymore!

What are weaknesses?

It is something for which one has an irresistible desire.

Something like lying, stealing, adultery, pornography, food, TV, and so forth.

What are your weaknesses?

Write then down … one by one … all of them

Look at them and say out loud: “Jesus took it on the cross and carried it away.”

It’s not mine anymore. Praise the Lord!”

What are infirmities?

Frailty,

Bodily weakness,

Sicknesses and pains (all types of sicknesses and all types of pains),

Disability, especially caused by an illness or old age.

Do you have any infirmities? Name them.

You don’t have to have them anymore.

Give them back to Jesus … one by one, every weakness and every infirmity.

How does that feel?

I know, it feels great!

“And bore away our diseases. ”

This is the cherry on the top of the cake!

Say it: He bore all my diseases…

Say it again … and again … and again.

Let’s look at some diseases.

I know there are many, many, many more!

What are yours?

Write them down … all of them.

Look at them—

Ugly,

Painful,

Depressing.

Close you eyes and give them to Jesus.

They are not yours anymore.

Give them all, for once and for all.

Make a promise to yourself that you will never, never, never take them back again—

Not one weakness,

Not one infirmity,

Not one disease,

And when the symptoms come, refuse them. They’re not yours; they belong to Jesus.

Just thank God for sending Jesus to the cross right now.

Say out loud: “I am free from all weaknesses, infirmities, and diseases right now.”

Say it again: “I am free from all weaknesses, infirmities, and diseases right now.”

Jesus took them on the cross for me.

Jesus carried them away for me.

I am healed; I was healed … forever and ever.

Hallelujah!

Declaration

I declare now that Jesus carried all my weaknesses and infirmities and diseases on the cross; therefore, I don’t have to carry them

I declare now that I am the healed and not the sick.

I declare now that I am free from the curse of sickness.

I forbid any sickness or disease to live in my body.

I command every organ, every muscle, every bone, every joint, every tissue, and every blood cell to function perfectly as determined by God even before I was born.

I forbid any malfunction in my body.

No weapon formed against me shall prosper.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am healed!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on your healing. See yourself healed. See how you can do things that you couldn’t do before.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: God lives in me. I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I am holy; the Word works in and through me. I am blessed, prosperous, healthy, and successful.

“He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.

And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him,

And by His stripes we are healed” (Is. 53:3-5 NKJV).

“He is despised and rejected by men … ”

Are you … were you … despised and rejected by men?

Jesus knows how you feel … He was there too,

He still is.

There is no place too low for Him to go.

He’s been there;

He understands.

Give your pain and shame to Him.

He wants it; He died for it.

Give it to Him.

That’s why He came.

He wants to be your friend.

He will never reject you.

He will never despise you.

You are safe with Him.

Give Him your pain and rest in His acceptance and love.

Say out loud: “God loves me. Say it again … and again … one more time.

God loves me!

Now close your eyes and see how Jesus takes you in His arms and how He tenderly holds you. He just holds you, so safely, so tenderly.

“Surely He has borne our griefs …”

What are griefs?

They are sickness, diseases, and pain.

What sickness, pain, and disease are you carrying?

He bore it for you, so why then do you still have it?

Why … why … why …?

Give it to Him right now.

No use for both of you to carry it!

It’s kind of ridiculous, isn’t it?

Close your eyes and see how Jesus takes it off your body.

See how He bears it.

Don’t stop until you can actually see how Jesus is receiving your griefs …

onto His body.

Just sit quietly in His presence until the process of exchange is finished … until He has it all!

That’s good

Now, thank Him for it.

Let your praise reach unto heaven.

Tell Him how grateful you are for His death.

Without the cross, you would still have to carry these griefs.

“And carried our sorrows…”

He carried all our sorrows and our weaknesses.

What sorrows, pain, and weaknesses do you have in your life?

Our gentle Lord is asking for them.

He is saying, “Give them to Me; they are too much for you.

Let Me take them now from you; legally they are Mine.

I carried them more than 2,000 years ago.

Let Me have them.”

“I took them so that you can have healing:

Healing in your body;

Healing in your mind;

Healing in your emotions;

Healing in your soul.

I took them so that you can have life, and have life abundantly!

Close your eyes, if you need to … cry … and get it all out.

If you need to … scream and get it all out.

If you need to … talk and get it all out.

It’s time for your healing spiritually,

Emotionally,

Physically.

Lay all your pain out there where God can take it and give you life.

“But He was wounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities;”

This is so awesome!

He was despised and rejected (actually still is by many); bore our sorrows, griefs, transgressions, and iniquities.

There’s not much left over, is there?

We are so totally healed!

So totally healed!

What a powerful death that Jesus died on the cross for us!

And

It’s all real; it’s true … it’s a fact.

And to top it off …

“ … the chastisement for our peace was upon Him. ”

We have peace.

Jesus took the wrath and anger that we deserve and carried it on the cross.

What does this mean?

This means: God is not angry with you anymore—

Never again,

Not when you’re bad,

Not when you’re sinning,

Not when you’re deserving.

No, Jesus took His anger, so that you can have peace

and boldness.

To come to God in time of need:

To receive forgiveness,

To receive help,

To receive mercy.

Praise be to Jesus, forever!

And the result of all this?

And by His stripes we are healed.

Meditate on this wonderful truth: You are healed; spirit, soul, and body

Completely!

Declaration

Declare now that I am accepted and loved by God through Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour.

I declare now that Jesus carried all my griefs, sorrows, iniquities, and transgressions on the cross; therefore, I don’t have to carry them any longer.

Depression, low self-worth, and despondency do not belong to me anymore!

I declare now that I am the healed and not the sick.

Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world.

No weapon formed against me shall prosper.

I have peace with God now and forever, not because of me,

but because of what Jesus did for me on the cross.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am healed!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on your healing. See yourself healed. See how you can do things that you couldn’t do before.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: God lives in me. I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I am holy; the Word works in and through me. I am blessed, prosperous, healthy, and successful.

“For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death” (Rom. 8:2 Amp.).

“And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death” (NLT).

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death (NKJV).

This means: I am free … I am free … I am free

From the power of sin!

Sin has no power over me anymore.

Say it … again … again … again.

Say it until it becomes part of your soul.

Sin has no power over me anymore.

I am free!

Free from what exactly?

I’m free from sinning;

Free from the curse of sickness;

Free from lack and poverty;

Free from family problems;

Free from addictions;

Free from selfishness;

Put your own sins in here now:

Free from …

Free from …

Free from …

Death has no hold on you anymore because …

the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you;

‘the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free;

the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed you.

I am a new being now; I am in Jesus now.

I am free from the law of sin and death!

I am operating in a new law,

A law that gives life

And life abundantly,

A law abiding in Christ Jesus.

What does this law mean to me?

It means …

Blessing,

Healing,

Prosperity,

Peace and Joy,

Fellowship with the Father,

Coheir with Jesus,

Victory in all battles in my life,

Guidance through the Holy Spirit.

What does life mean to you?

Write it down

Now meditate on what you have now in Jesus Christ.

How much of this is reality to you?

Decide now to lay hold of all the blessings one by one

Until

You walk in them all!

Do you think it is possible?

Jesus said that’s why He came.

He will help you;

Give your life anew to Him.

Let Him help you

To walk in the freedom that belongs to you!

Declaration

The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

I declare now that I am free from the law of sin and death!

I am free!

I declare that the life in me, by Your Spirit, overcomes death and disease and

No weapon formed against me shall prosper.

The Spirit gives life to my spirit.

The Spirit gives life to my physical body.

The Spirit gives life to my life.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am healed!

I am delivered!

I am free from sin and death!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on your healing. See yourself healed. See how you can do things that you couldn’t do before.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: God lives in me. I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I am holy; the Word works in and through me. I am blessed, prosperous, healthy, and successful.

“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 loving-kindness and tender mercies,

Who satisfies your mouth with good things,

So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s” (Ps. 103:1-5 NKJV).

“Bless the LORD, O my soul;

And all that is within me bless His holy name!”

Do you feel like blessing God right now?

Do you feel like blessing Him in your sickness?

In your pain?

In your fear?

In your hopelessness?

Yet, He commands it!

Why?

He knew that when we bless Him despite our circumstances, our eyes would be on Him and not on us anymore, and then … He can work in and through us.

So, let us try.

I’ll start and you follow.

I bless You my Lord. I praise Your Holy name. You are precious to me; You are my God. There is none like You! I love You; I love You; I love You.

(How are you doing? Stay with me.)

Let’s go on.

I bless Your Holy name, You are my Jehopha-Rophe; You are my healer.

In You I trust, in You I hide, in You I believe

You are my Lord.

You are my Redeemer.

You are my healing,

And

I love You.

“Who forgives all your iniquities (sins) …”

My precious Lord, thank You for dying for my sins.

Name them; give them to Jesus.

He is waiting with arms open wide.

Give them to Him … one by one …get rid of them.

They’re just holding your healing back.

Write them all down, every one … that’s good.

Now close your eyes and

Fold up the paper you’ve written on.

Give it to Jesus. See how He takes it.

Can you see it?

Can you see it?

Praise the Lord, Now you are clean and ready for your healing.

Now, there is nothing between you and God anymore.

Now, there is nothing between you and your healing anymore.

Now we can boldly say:

“Who heals all your diseases.”

Can you see it?

Can you see why God wanted you to bless Him?

Can you see what Jesus did for you

on the cross?

He took your sins, sicknesses, and diseases away.

You don’t have them anymore!

He’s got them now and…you are free!

No more sins, no more sickness and diseases, and the result of it are:

“Who redeems your life from destruction …”

Now is a good time to shout and praise!

Glory Hallelujah!

Say it, shout it; I am free!

I am delivered!

I am healed!

My life is redeemed from destruction!

Now, calm down … close your eyes and … see it,

Really see it.

See how you can do, what you couldn’t do before.

See it; dream it until you believe it.

Stay with it; there is no hurry.

That’s it … just enjoy this time between you and God.

Do it until you feel the peace of God flowing through you.

Because you are experiencing

His loving-kindness and tender mercies

Now!

He satisfies your mouth with good things,

Now!

Your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Now you are resting in His ever-loving arms,

In the middle of the storms.

Now you are at peace

In the middle of the storms.

Now you are blessed

In the middle of the storm.

Sit and rest in this wonderful truth.

Just sit quietly before God and let Him minister to you right now.

See this wonderful truth come alive on your inside.

Why don’t you put your feelings now on paper?

Tell God how grateful you are for what He’s done.

Tell God how much you love Him.

Tell God that this will become a powerful testimony to others.

Just say a simple “Thank You, God,”

“Thank You, Jesus,”

“Thank You, Holy Spirit.”

Declaration

I declare now that I am free from my iniquities.

I declare that I am free from all my diseases.

I declare that my life is redeemed from destruction.

Therefore,

no weapon formed against me shall prosper.

I declare that I am crowned with His loving-kindness and tender mercies.

I declare that He satisfies my mouth with good things.

And

That my youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am healed!

I am delivered!

I am free from sin and death!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on your healing. See yourself healed. See how you can do things that you couldn’t do before.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: God lives in me. I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I am holy; the Word works in and through me. I am blessed, prosperous, healthy, and successful.

“And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them” (Matt. 4: 23, 24 NKJV).

Jesus went about … healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.

Jesus healed all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease!

This is so powerful!

Did you see the “all kinds” in both the cases?

What does “all kinds” mean?

It means “all kinds” with

No exceptions,

Nothing left out,

All inclusive,

All yours and mine

Whatever it may be!

This is awesome,

Powerful

Total and inclusive.

Praise the Lord, hallelujah!

Look at the rest of this passage: “All sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demonpossessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them. ”

This is serious stuff, man I mean … various diseases?

various torments?

demon-possessed?

epileptics?

paralytics?

This is serious stuff!

Don’t you agree?

And yet, Jesus healed them … easy; they only needed to believe

That He could and

That He wanted to.

Do you?

Believe that He can;

That He wants to?

It is true!

He wants to and He can heal … now.

Look at the following scriptures: (They are very, very, very important!)

Luke 18:40-41: “So Jesus stood still and commanded him to be brought to Him. And when he had come near, He asked him, saying, ‘What do you want Me to do for you?’”

Matthew 8:1-3: “When He had come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed Him. 2 And behold, a leper came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.”

Matthew 8: 13: “Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you.” And his servant was healed that same hour.”

In Luke 18 Jesus asked, “What do you want Me to do?”

He is still asking this question.

What do you want Him to do?

Tell Him now everything you want …

Everything.

Matthew 8:1-3 settles it. He is willing!

He is willing … now.

He is willing … always.

He is willing … day and night.

He is willing.

Then the power punch!

Matthew 8:13 says: “As you have believed, so let it be done for you.”

Here we see how simple it is…

Ask … believe … receive;

Ask … believe … receive.

Do it now:         step 1. Ask

Step 2. Believe

Step 3. Receive

Now praise God for your healing.

It is done. It’s yours. It’s really yours!

Declaration

I declare now that I am healed.

I declare that I am free from all my diseases.

I declare that I am free from all my sickness.

I have asked; I believed; therefore, I have received!

Therefore

I walk in divine health.

I am healed;

Jesus healed me.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am healed!

I am delivered!

I am free from sin and death!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on your healing. See yourself healed. See how you can do things that you couldn’t do before.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: God lives in me. I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I am holy; the Word works in and through me. I am blessed, prosperous, healthy, and successful.

“But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you” (Rom. 8:11 NKJV).

Read this scripture again slowly.

Can you see what it says?

It says that the Holy Spirit lives inside of you.

Now what does that mean?

It means…

That God Himself is inside of you in the person of the Holy Spirit!

God Himself … in you?

Yes … and it also means that

Where God is, no sickness can exist.

You see God and sickness cannot coexist;

They cannot.

God heals, and everywhere He goes, healing manifests.

That’s right …

Wherever God goes, healing manifests.

So why then are we sick?

Because we do not realise who’s in us!

Simple

But true.

If we really knew who is living within us, sickness will … must flee.

So let’s say it again.

God lives in me;

Jesus lives in me;

The Holy Spirit lives in me.

Say it again … and again … and again.

Now, this Holy Spirit who lives in you

Gives life to your physical body!

What kind of life?

Zoë-life

God kind of life,

A life filled with

Blessing,

Health,

Prosperity,

Peace,

Joy,

Fullness,

Abundance

Overflowing abundance.

In all areas of your life there is …

No more pain;

No more shame;

No more disappointment;

No more fear;

No more anguish;

No more … no more … no more!

Jesus came to give us life!

No more death!

Now, tell Jesus that you accept this wonderful gift of healing.

Close your eyes and see how He takes your infirmity (whatever it may be) and

see how He gives you His healing gift.

Stretch out your hands and take it with

Laughter and joy.

Remember … to thank Him.

Thank Him for …

His death on the cross,

His gift of healing,

His love for you,

His life that belongs to you now.

Thank Him and as a gift back to Him

Make a decision now that you will walk in your healing

Now

Today.

Declaration

I declare now that God lives inside of me in the person of the Holy Spirit.

I declare now that His Spirit gives life to my physical body.

I declare now that I am healed.

I declare that I am free from all my diseases.

I declare that I am free from all my sickness.

Therefore,

I walk in divine health.

I am healed.

Jesus healed me.

Healing lives inside of me.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am healed!

I am delivered!

I am the righteousness of God!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on your healing. See yourself healed. See how you can do things that you couldn’t do before.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day

Confess the following: “God lives in me. I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I am holy; the Word works in and through me. I am blessed, prosperous, healthy, and successful.”

Prayers Answered

Father, I thank You that I am healed in Jesus’ name. Thank You that Jesus died on the cross and through His death I received total and absolute healing (see 1 Pet. 2:24).

Father, I thank You in Jesus Name that Your Word does not return void, but prospers in the thing for which You sent it. I sent Your word into healing, and I declare now that I am free from the curse of sickness (see Is. 55:11; Gal 3:13).

Father, I thank You in Jesus name, that I am healed because You sent Jesus to die so that I could have life and have it abundantly (see Jn 10:10).

Father, I thank You that my prayers are powerful and effective because I am the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ (see Ja. 5:16).

Father, thank You that you are the Lord God who heals me and that You put no sicknesses on me (see Ex. 15:26; Deut. 7:15).

Father, I thank You that in the name of Jesus, no plague, pestilence or destruction can come near me, nor my dwelling (see Ps. 91:5, 6, 10).

Whatever things I ask for when I pray, I believe that I already have received them, I believe, therefore I have healing in Jesus name (see Mk. 11, 24; Matt. 21:22).

Now, this is the confidence that I have in Him, that if I ask anything according to His will, He hears me. And I know because He hears me, whatever I ask I receive of Him. I know that healing is His will for me, I asked for it and now I have it, in Jesus name (see 1 Jn 5:14, 15).

Prosperity

Jesus said in John 10:10 that Jesus came to give us life and give it abundantly. Total prosperity or life abundantly is more than just having lots of money. True prosperity affects five areas of your life. It involves prosperity of the spirit, prosperity of the soul (mind, will and emotions), prosperity of the body (divine health), prosperity of your finances, and social prosperity (favour with people) in your life.

We read in Galatians 3:13 that Jesus died on the cross to remove the curse that was on us when Adam sinned and lost the blessing he received from God. Because of him the curse came into the world. God immediately looked for someone He could use to get the blessing back to mankind and He found Noah. Noah obeyed God when God told Him to build an ark so that God could save him and his family from a worldwide flood that God was planning to bring in order to punish the wicked generation of that time on the earth.

Noah and his family survived the flood, and the first thing Noah did when they got out of the ark was to build an altar to offer burnt offerings to God. God accepted his offering and blessed Noah and his sons with the same blessing that Adam lost. So the blessing was back on earth. The difference between Adam’s blessing and Noah’s blessing is that with Adam the whole earth was blessed too. Now, although the blessing is back on earth in the hands of Noah, the curse is still present on the earth and will be until Jesus comes back.

The blessing, or that which was now evident only on those who seek and served God, found its way to Abraham, who became the father of our faith because he believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. God made a promise to him that through his seed all the nations on this earth will be blessed. All that God required was for the person to follow Him and obey Him.

After Abraham, the blessing was evident on many more men and women who chose to obey God and chose to walk in His ways.

When Jesus was born, God’s idea was to get the blessing back to all mankind, not only a chosen few who decided to obey Him. When Jesus died on the cross to get the blessing back in all its fullness, forever, for the first time it was there for the Jews and the Gentiles. The Gentiles are those born outside of the Jewish nation of Israel. The blessing was now available to all mankind alive! The only prerequisite to be qualified was to be justified by walking by faith. Those of faith were called “sons” of God and blessed with Abraham who believed.

Read all of Galatians 3. Look especially at these verses:

“Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?—just as Abraham ‘believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.’ Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, ‘In you all the nations shall be blessed.’ So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.’ But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for ‘the just shall live by faith.’ Yet the law is not of faith, but ‘the man who does them shall live by them.’ Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith” (vv. 5-14).

“For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” (vv. 26-29).

Heirs of what promise? The blessing! In Genesis 12, we read that this blessing made Abraham very rich, healthy and he walked in favour with both enemy and friend.

In Deuteronomy 28:1-14, we read how this blessing expands into the lives of those who are obedient to God. These blessings are the manifestation of total prosperity, and they belong to us now, today. There is a condition to activate this blessing in your life and that is to believe God and to be totally obedient to God.

This is so exciting and I would like you to stop reading and grab your Bible and read Deuteronomy 28:1-14 slowly. This is so powerful and it is ours!

The rest of chapter 28 is the curse that Christ has redeemed us from and that will operate in your life if you do not listen to God. Now, read verses 15-68 and just praise God for what Jesus had done on the cross for you. He took this curse and gave you the blessing abundantly in return.

Financial prosperity has conditions attached to it.

There are four areas where God directs us to give our money so that He can bless us with more money. Before I get to those four areas, I want to ask the question: Why does God want you to prosper financially? Is it just so that you can have a good time enjoying all the things you always wanted? God does want you to have a good life; yes, but He wants you to be blessed so that you will bless others in return.

In Proverbs 11:24-26 we read that the generous man will be blessed. In Luke 6:38 we read that the giver will receive. It is so different from the world that teaches us to keep what we get! We need to live abundant lives to attract the world to our God so that they can be saved from eternal hell.

The four areas of giving are our tithe, giving to the poor, investing in the Gospel, and giving as praise to God.

The tithe operates differently than the others, as tithing is a part of your income that belongs to God and this money goes directly to Him. It is His money that He requires from you. It is holy money and does not belong to you. Giving God the tithe shows Him that you honour Him as God in your life. You need to bring this money to Him, present it to Him, spend time with Him and listen to what He wants you to do with it. Tithing gets God involved in your finances and now you can expect increase to come your way.

The other three areas are what we call “giving” or “sowing.” To receive, you have to give first. We need to go to God and ask Him how much we should give and to whom and where. It is so important to pray over your finances and sow your seed where God directs. Where He directs, your money is already blessed.

In Mark 4 we read the parable of the sower sowing seed. The sower is you and me and the seed is our finances. According to Mark 4 only one quarter of the money sown produced a crop. This money was sown where God directed; therefore, it was blessed. It is vital to stay tuned into the voice of the Holy Spirit and to be obedient where He directs.

Meditation

The next seven meditations will be on prosperity. As you meditate on them, start seeing yourself walking in the promise you meditate. Start seeing yourself as God’s beloved child, with God as your Father Who because He loves, will look after you. So get settled in your heart that lack is not a part of your life ever again. You are a blessed child of God!

Stay with each confession until you believe it. Then move on to the next one. Make sure that each promise comes alive in you before you move on. A definite sign that you made a promise your own, is that excitement, peace, and joy will start to bubble up on the inside of you.

As we meditate on the prosperity scriptures, we will build the plan or picture that it paints in our hearts, and once it comes alive in our hearts, we will receive what we see. This is an exciting adventure that will forever change your life and will cause you to walk in victory, now, here on this earth.

After, the seven confessions is a section on “prayers answered.” After you have meditated on the confessions, always finish your confession with confirmation, praise, and thanksgiving.

Praise God all through the day for who you are now after Jesus restored you to your rightful place alongside Him in heavenly places. Praise God because you are blessed and made whole because of what Jesus did for you on Calvary when He died so that you can live an abundant life now on this earth.

God bless you as you become who He died for you to be.

“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Matt. 6:33 NKJV).

Listen to the Amplified version:

“But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.”

It seems like this: When God is first in your life; your life will be blessed abundantly!

We are told here to first seek the Kingdom of God to be blessed.

What is the Kingdom of God, you may ask!

According to this scripture, the Kingdom of God is

His way of doing things!

How does God do things?

Well,

We know that God is love;

Therefore, we need to walk by love.

We know that God is a giver;

Therefore, we have to be givers.

We know that God is a forgiver;

Therefore, we need to forgive

Everybody, every day, seventy times seven!

We know that God is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,

goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control

(see Gal. 5:22-23).

So we need to be Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,

gentleness, faithfulness and self-control.

By this time you might say: Ouch!

It’s okay … I know how you feel…

But remember…

GOD IS FORGIVING!

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

Now, get on your face before God and repent. Then get up and ask the Holy Spirit to help you walk the way God walks.

That’s good!

Feeling better? Yes, I know!

This brings us to a very important attitude:

GRATITUDE

Thank God for His love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control toward you.

Thank Him for loving and accepting you just as you are.

Thank Him for being your provider in Jesus.

Thank Him for all the blessings He showers on you daily.

Thank Him for the wonderful inheritance you have in Jesus.

Thank Him because He is your Father and you are His beloved child.

Thank Him that all you need now and in the future is provided for in and through Jesus.

Just praise and thank Him because He is wonderful.

Praise and thank Him because He is enough.

With Him, in Him, and through Him you have life and life abundantly.

When He becomes the centre of your life

Your life becomes fulfilled;

Your needs are met;

Your relationships succeed;

Your health is good;

Your future is confirmed.

With Him as the centre of your life all these things taken together will be given you besides

What things?

The things you need.

The things you want.

The things to give.

The things to help others and to show others …

That God really cares.

It is so important to show people that God cares;

That God loves them;

That God is involved in their lives;

That God fills the emptiness;

That God is life … and life abundantly.

Declaration

I declare now that God lives inside of me in the person of the Holy Spirit.

I declare now that I make a decision to walk as God walks.

I declare now that I walk in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control.

I declare that when I fall I will repent and get up.

I declare that I am blessed with God’s blessing;

Therefore, I walk in divine prosperity.

Prosperity of spirit, soul (mind, will, and emotions), body (divine health), finances, and the social (favour with people) areas of my life.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus.

I am blessed.

I am prosperous.

I am the righteousness of God.

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on your prosperity. See yourself prosperous in all five areas. Take each one and see it.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: God lives in me. I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I am holy; the Word works in and through me. I am blessed, prosperous, healthy, and successful.

“This Book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe and do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success” (Josh. 1:8 Amp.).

This is so powerful. Before we meditate on this powerful scripture, look at the Message Translation of Joshua 1:8

“And don’t for a minute let this Book of The Revelation be out of mind. Ponder and meditate on it day and night, making sure you practice everything written in it. Then you’ll get where you’re going; then you’ll succeed.”

This is the recipe for success. Can you see it?

Here God promises us prosperity and success.

Isn’t that what we all want?

Prosperity and Success?

Are you prosperous right now?

Do you have success?

If not, why not?

Are you serving God … tithing … giving … yet

lacking?

Are you faithfully going to church … praying … serving … yet

still lacking?

Why? It should not be so.

Let us look at this scripture again.

Here God says that the condition for prosperity and success is meditation on His Word

The Amplified version says to meditate day and night;

The Message version says not to let this Book for a minute out of your mind; instead ponder and meditate on it day and night.

This sounds like we need to be in our Bibles more than we are

…for breakthrough,

…during breakthrough,

and

…after breakthrough.

No where does it say to stop.

It sounds like a lifestyle to me.

Why do we need to meditate on the Word day and night?

One reason is because life is a struggle and God has all the answers to our problems.

He has the answer for our lack;

for our sickness and disease,

for our failing marriage,

for our wayward children,

for our relationships,

for our careers,

for our problems, whatever they may be.

God has the answers and these answers are in the Bible.

For the Bible is His Word for our lives today.

It is guidance,

Direction,

Breakthrough,

Love,

Peace,

Fulfilment,

Joy,

Blessing,

Wisdom,

Favour,

The answer

For you … and for me.

Why does God want us to meditate on His Word day and night?

Let us look at the Scripture again.

To observe, do, and practise everything written in it.

This is a mouthful!

You see God knows the answer to every problem.

So when you meditate on His Word, He can

Talk to you;

Show you what to do;

Tell you what not to do;

Warn you when you’re in danger;

Help you when you fall

And

Heal you when you’re hurt.

Bring your problem to Him today; find the answer in His Word,

and start to meditate!

This way you will prosper and have good success!

Declaration

I declare now that I make a decision to meditate on the Word of God day and night.

I declare now that I make a decision to observe, do, and practise everything

I read in His Word and hear from His mouth.

I declare that because I do, I am prospering.

I declare that because I do, I have good success.

I declare that because I do, I have wisdom.

I declare that I am blessed with God’s blessing;

Therefore,

I walk in divine prosperity—

Prosperity of spirit, soul (mind, will, and emotions), body (divine health), finances, and the social (favour with people) areas of my life.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am blessed.

I am prosperous.

I am successful.

I am the righteousness of God.

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on your prosperity. See yourself prosperous in all five areas. Take each one by one and

See it. See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: God lives in me. I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I am holy; the Word works in and through me. I am blessed, prosperous, healthy, and successful.

“Bring all the tithes (the whole tenth of your income) into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and prove Me now by it, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it” (Mal. 3:10 Amp.).

“Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test!” (NLT).

After making God first in our lives, we start to meditate on and ponder the scriptures to do all according to what we read and understand.

To prosper God’s ways, there are certain conditions to obey.

One such condition is …

tithing.

When we tithe according to Malachi 3:10, God will bless us.

What is tithing?

Tithing is the first whole tenth of your income.

You may say, “Wow that’s too much!”

When you earn little, it is easy to do,

but when you start to earn more, it does get more difficult

especially …

if it is a new concept to you.

But look at it this way: God promised that when you tithe

He will open the windows of heaven for you

And pour out such a blessing that you will not have

Room enough to receive it.

(Now it is time to say Wow!)

Now you may ask: How is this possible?

I don’t know, all I know is that God said it

And if God said it, it must be true.

And He said to put Him to the test!

If that is good enough for Him, then it is good enough for me.

Now, I want to ask you: “Can the return on tithing be more than just money?”

I believe so.

I believe that when you tithe, God blesses you in all five areas of prosperity.

Let us look at them again.

Spirit, soul, body, finances, and your social life

God promises to open the windows of heaven so that you have not

room

Enough to receive it in …

Spirit,

Soul,

Body,

Finances, and

Social life.

Tithing is about honouring God.

Tithing is about living for God.

Tithing is about praising God.

Tithing is about trusting God.

Tithing is about loving God.

Tithing gets God involved in your life …spirit,

Soul,

Body,

Finances, and

Social life.

If you need to prosper in any of these areas, start to trust God.

Get God involved in your life.

Give to Him so that He

Can give to you.

It is time to trust God.

It is time to believe God.

It is time to overcome whatever is keeping us down.

It is time …

It is time …

It is time.

God is waiting with outstretched arms.

Run to Him.

You are important to Him.

Start to meditate and ponder and do all to walk in victory now on this earth.

That is why Jesus died for you!

Declaration

I declare now that I make a decision to observe, do, and practise everything

I read in His Word and hear from His mouth.

I declare now that I make a decision to give a whole tenth of my income.

I declare now that I am a tither.

I declare that because I do, I am prospering.

I declare that because I do, I have good success.

I declare that because I do, I have wisdom.

I declare that I am blessed with God’s blessing.

Therefore,

I walk in divine prosperity—

Prosperity of spirit, soul (mind, will, and emotions), body (divine health), finances, and the social (favour with people) areas of my life.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am blessed.

I am prosperous.

I am successful.

I am the righteousness of God.

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on your prosperity. See yourself prosperous in all five areas. Take each one and see it.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: God lives in me. I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I am holy; the Word works in and through me. I am blessed, prosperous, healthy and successful.

“Honour the Lord with your wealth

and with the best part of everything you produce.

Then he will fill your barns with grain,

and your vats will overflow with good wine” (Pro. 3:9 NLT).

Now, this is interesting!

Malachi 3:10 taught us to tithe of our income …with a promise

That the windows of heaven will open upon us;

With a blessing that is bigger than what we

Can handle.

Proverbs 3:9 asks us to honour the Lord with …

Our wealth and …

The best part of EVERYTHING

We produce!

This sounds scary—don’t you think?

He wants the best part of EVERYTHING!

Why?

Again there’s a promise when we do these things.

Then He will fill your barns with grain,

and your vats will overflow with good wine.

Now, you can say, “I don’t have any barns; neither have I vats!”

That’s true, but this is symbolic of prosperity in your whole life.

All the areas—spirit,

Soul,

Body,

Finances and

Social.

To give you all, God wants a little bit of all.

It is so simple

Yet so profound!

To give you all, God wants a little bit of all.

Which part does God want?

The best part!

Why the best?

He wants to be the best in your life.

He wants you to give Him your trust,

Your money,

Your life,

Your heart.

He wants … YOU!

When He has you, He can look after you.

He can provide for you.

He can protect you.

He can heal you.

He can care for you,

He can love you.

That is why—when you give Him your best,

He gives you His best.

When you give Him your best,

He knows … He is your best.

He knows that you honour Him;

That you obey Him;

That you trust Him.

He knows … that you love Him.

And all He wants from you is …

Your love,

Your life,

Your dedication,

Your obedience,

Your all.

Then

He can give you

His all.

If you truly want to be blessed, prosperous, happy, healthy, victorious, and overcoming,

Then honour God with all your best

In all the areas of your life.

And see

How your vats overflow and

How your barns are filled with plenty.

God, Himself has said it.

Think about that!

Declaration

I declare now that I make a decision to honour the Lord with my wealth

and with the best part of everything I produce.

I declare now that I make a decision to honour God with my finances, time, work, and life.

I declare now that I am a giver of my best.

I declare that because I do, I am prospering.

I declare that because I do, I have good success.

I declare that because I do, I have wisdom.

I declare that I am blessed with God’s blessing.

Therefore,

I walk in divine prosperity—

Prosperity of spirit, soul (mind, will and emotions), body (divine health), finances, and the social (favour with people) areas of my life.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am blessed.

I am prosperous.

I am successful.

I am the righteousness of God.

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on your prosperity. See yourself prosperous in all five areas. Take each one and see it.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: God lives in me. I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I am holy; the Word works in and through me. I am blessed, prosperous, healthy, and successful.

“And my God will liberally supply [fill to the full] your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:19 Amp.).

“You can be sure that God will take care of everything you need, his generosity exceeding even yours in the glory that pours from Jesus. Our God and Father abounds in glory that just pours out into eternity. Yes” (The Message).

“And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus” (NLT).

Now, we are getting to offerings!

You may ask me now, “What are offerings?”

Offerings are what you give over and above your tithe.

Your tithe belongs to God so that He can bless you back—

spirit, soul, body, finances, and social life.

With your offering you bless the people that God wants you to bless.

They can be someone in ministry—as a partner or someone in need as God directs in your heart.

They can be a stranger,

a friend,

a colleague, or

a family member.

In Philippians 4:19 the Philippians Church took care of Paul in his work for God.

That is why he is saying, “My God”—this is partnership.

When you give help financially or any other way as God directed,

You become His partner in your giving straight away.

This is awesome!

Now when you partner with God directly or indirectly,

This promise belongs to you.

God will take care of you as you take care of others—those directed by Him.

As their partner, as their provider, as their helper, as their supporter, as their giver, as you provide, He will provide.

Think about this statement:

As you provide … He will provide.

How did the Philippians Church provide for Paul?

Read Philippians 4:15-19.

They gave and supported Paul as his partner in ministry.

Faithfully and constantly they gave.

Therefore, they became qualified to receive from His God …

According to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus (Amp.)

His generosity exceeding even yours in the glory that pours from Jesus (The Message)

God will supply all of your needs from His glorious riches (NLT).

What does this mean?

What is the glory of God?

Is it good or is it bad?

Do I really want it?

Do I really need it?

Let us look at the definition of this glory of God in Christ Jesus from where He will supply our need.

The Glory of God in Christ Jesus = heavy-laden with power;

Heavy-laden with wealth;

Heavy-laden with abilities;

Enormous assets;

Goodness of God;

Splendour of God;

Wow! Wow! Wow!

Does this sound good or what?

And this is how God will provide for you when you provide for others at His direction.

But be careful here. As you provide. He provides.

If you give little, you get little.

If you give much, you get much.

It’s all about obedience. Whatever He tells you to give, give.

That is where your blessing lies:

In obedience and

In trust.

Declaration

I declare now that I am a giver, a provider, a sower, and therefore a receiver

from God according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

I declare now that I make a decision to honour God with my giving.

I declare now that I am a giver of my best.

I declare that because I do, I am prospering.

I declare that because I do, I have good success.

I declare that because I do, I have abundance.

I declare that I am blessed with God’s blessing.

Therefore,

I walk in divine prosperity—

Prosperity of spirit, soul (mind, will, and emotions), body (divine health), finances, and the social (favour with people) areas of my life.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am blessed.

I am prosperous.

I am successful.

I am the righteousness of God.

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on your prosperity. See yourself prosperous in all five areas. Take each one and see it.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: God lives in me. I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I am holy; the Word works in and through me. I am blessed, prosperous, healthy, and successful.

“Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you” (Lk. 6:38 NIV).

“Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full— pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back” (NLT).

“Giving, not getting is the way. Generosity begets generosity” (The Message).

Another scripture on giving—

again with a promise that by giving

you make the way to receive.

This is so different from the world, isn’t it?

The world says, “Keep everything you have, hoard it up, look after yourself!”

God says, “Give, hand out, and look after others!”

The world says, “Look after yourself—no-one else will.”

God says, “Look after others and I will look after you.”

The world system: selfishness

God’s system: selflessness

I like what The Message Bible says: generosity begets generosity.

Generosity begets generosity.

Think about that for a while.

Generosity begets generosity.

What does this mean?

Does it mean to give away a lot of money?

Does it mean to always stand in when there is need?

Does it mean to sacrifice your time when asked?

What is generosity?

The dictionary says it is characterised by abundance.

This sounds a lot like the glory of God in Christ Jesus!

His glory sounds generous, doesn’t it?

Much more generous than we can ever be, or own.

Much more generous that we could ever dream or think.

So you see,

When you give generously, God gives generously

Generosity begets generosity.

When you give sparingly, God gives sparingly (2 Cor. 9:6).

Ouch! This hurts!

For the measure you use, it will be measured to you (NIV).

The amount you give will determine the amount you get back (NLT).

That’s how it is: The world says keep and you will get interest—

1%, 2%, 3% maybe 5%.

God says give and you will get 30, 60 or 100 fold (see Matt. 13:23).

Now that’s what I call a bargain!

The way to get it is by being generous.

By living a lifestyle of generosity

In all areas of our lives.

Generous in giving;

Generous in sharing;

Generous in caring;

Generous in friendships;

Generous in hospitality;

Generous in listening

Generous in helping out at work;

Generous in being there in need;

Generosity has no borders or limitations.

Generosity overcomes all borders and limitations.

If you want generosity … then give generously.

If you want a good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, poured into your lap, then give a good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over into another’s lap (see Lk. 6:38 NIV).

As you give … you receive.

Declaration

I declare now that I am a giver good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, I pour into another’s lap.

I declare now that I make a decision to be generous in my lifestyle.

I declare now that I am a generous giver; therefore, I am a generous receiver.

I declare that because I do, I am prospering.

I declare that because I do, I have good success.

I declare that because I do, I have abundance.

I declare that I am blessed with God’s blessing.

Therefore,

I walk in divine prosperity—

Prosperity of spirit, soul (mind, will and emotions), body (divine health), finances, and the social (favour with people) areas of my life.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am blessed;

I am prosperous;

I am successful;

I am the righteousness of God.

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on your prosperity. See yourself prosperous in all five areas. Take each one and see it.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: God lives in me. I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I am holy; the Word works in and through me. I am blessed, prosperous, healthy, and successful.

This meditation will be a little bit different.

I want you to look at these three passages of scripture

They are all the same …

Just different translations.

They are called:

Blessings for obeying the Lord

Read through them … slowly … prayerfully … thoughtfully

Out loud … listen to them … really LISTEN to them.

They are awesome, life-changing … PROFOUND.

There is nothing more that I can add

Except …

They are for you

Now

Today

If

You obey.

Deuteronomy 28:1-14 (The Message) says, “If you listen obediently to the Voice of God, your God, and heartily obey all his commandments that I command you today, God, your God, will place you on high, high above all the nations of the world. All these blessings will come down on you and spread out beyond you because you have responded to the Voice of God, your God:

God’s blessing inside the city,

God’s blessing in the country;

God’s blessing on your children,

the crops of your land,

the young of your livestock,

the calves of your herds,

the lambs of your flocks.

God’s blessing on your basket and bread bowl;

God’s blessing in your coming in,

God’s blessing in your going out.

God will defeat your enemies who attack you. They’ll come at you on one road and run away on seven roads. God will order a blessing on your barns and workplaces; he’ll bless you in the land that God, your God, is giving you. God will form you as a people holy to Him, just as He promised you, if you keep the commandments of God, your God, and live the way He has shown you. All the peoples on Earth will see you living under the Name of God and hold you in respectful awe. God will lavish you with good things: children from your womb, offspring from your animals, and crops from your land, the land that God promised your ancestors that he would give you. God will throw open the doors of his sky vaults and pour rain on your land on schedule and bless the work you take in hand. You will lend to many nations but you yourself won’t have to take out a loan. God will make you the head, not the tail; you’ll always be the top dog, never the bottom dog, as you obediently listen to and diligently keep the commands of God, your God, that I am commanding you today. Don’t swerve an inch to the right or left from the words that I command you today by going off following and worshiping other gods.”

The New Living Translation say it this way: “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all His commands that I am giving you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the world. You will experience all these blessings if you obey the Lord your God: Your towns and your fields will be blessed. Your children and your crops will be blessed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be blessed. Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be blessed. Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be blessed. The Lord will conquer your enemies when they attack you. They will attack you from one direction, but they will scatter from you in seven! The Lord will guarantee a blessing on everything you do and will fill your storehouses with grain. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you. If you obey the commands of the Lord your God and walk in his ways, the Lord will establish you as his holy people as he swore he would do. Then all the nations of the world will see that you are a people claimed by the Lord, and they will stand in awe of you. The Lord will give you prosperity in the land He swore to your ancestors to give you, blessing you with many children, numerous livestock, and abundant crops. The Lord will send rain at the proper time from His rich treasury in the heavens and will bless all the work you do. You will lend to many nations, but you will never need to borrow from them. If you listen to these commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today, and if you carefully obey them, the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always be on top and never at the bottom. You must not turn away from any of the commands I am giving you today, nor follow after other gods and worship them.”

New International Reader’s Version: “Make sure you obey the Lord your God completely. Be careful to follow all of His commands. I’m giving them to you today. If you do those things, the Lord will honor you more than all of the other nations on earth. If you obey the Lord your God, here are the blessings that will come to you and remain with you. You will be blessed in the cities. You will be blessed out in the country. Your children will be blessed. Your crops will be blessed. The young animals among your livestock will be blessed. That includes your calves and lambs. Your baskets and bread pans will be blessed. You will be blessed no matter where you go. Enemies will rise up against you. But the Lord will help you win the battle over them. They will come at you from one direction. But they’ll run away from you in seven directions. The Lord your God will bless your barns with plenty of grain and other food. He will bless everything you do. He’ll bless you in the land He’s giving you. The Lord your God will make you His holy people. He will set you apart for himself. He took an oath and promised to do that. He promised to do it if you would keep His commands and live exactly as He wants you to live. All of the nations on earth will see that you belong to the Lord. And they will be afraid of you. The Lord will give you more than you need. You will have many children. Your livestock will have many little ones. Your crops will do very well. All of that will happen in the land He promised with an oath to your fathers to give you. The Lord will open up the heavens. That’s where He stores his riches. He will send rain on your land at just the right time. He’ll bless everything you do. You will lend money to many nations. But you won’t have to borrow from any of them. The Lord your God will make you leaders, not followers. Pay attention to his commands that I’m giving you today. Be careful to follow them. Then you will always be on top. You will never be on the bottom. Don’t turn away from any of the commands I’m giving you today. Don’t turn to the right or the left. Don’t follow other gods. Don’t worship them.”

Declaration

I declare now that I am obeying God completely in all He says and asks.

I declare now that I am careful to follow all His commands daily.

I declare now that I am blessed beyond measure because I hear and obey.

I declare that because I do, I am prospering.

I declare that because I do, I have good success.

I declare that because I do, I have abundance.

I declare that I am blessed with God’s blessing.

Therefore,

I walk in divine prosperity—

Prosperity of spirit, soul (mind, will and emotions), body (divine health), finances, and the social (favour with people) areas of my life.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus.

I am blessed.

I am prosperous.

I am successful.

I am the righteousness of God.

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on your prosperity. See yourself prosperous in all five areas. Take each one and see it.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following: God lives in me. I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I am holy; the Word works in and through me. I am blessed, prosperous, healthy, and successful.

Prayers Answered

Father I thank You that I am prosperous in Jesus’ name. Thank You that because I am seeking God first, all these things are added to me (see Matt. 6:33).

Father, I thank You in Jesus’ name that Your Word does not return void but prospers in the thing for which You sent it through me. Because I am a tither and a giver, I sent Your Word into prosperity, and I declare now that I am free from the curse of lack and need in Jesus’ name. (see Is. 55:11; Gal. 3:13)

Father, I thank You that I am prosperous because You sent Jesus to die so that I could have life and have it abundantly. (see John 10:10).

Father, I thank You that my prayers are powerful and effective because I am the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ (see Jm. 5:16).

Father, thank You that because I give, it is given unto me good measure, pressed down shaken together and running over in Jesus’ name (see Lk. 6:38).

Father, I thank You that You are mindful of us, and that You bless us daily, both great and small, in Jesus’ name (see Ps. 115:12-13).

Whatever things I ask for when I pray, I believe that I already have received them. I believe, therefore, I have healing in Jesus’ name (see Mk. 11, 24; Matt. 21:22).

Now, this is the confidence that I have in Him, that if I ask anything according to His will, He hears me. And I know because He hears me, whatever I ask I receive of Him. I know that prosperity is His will for me. I asked for it and now I have it in Jesus’ name (see 1 Jn. 5:14-15).

Anxiety and Worry

Did you know that to worry is a sin? The Bible tells us not to worry, but to give God all our concerns, cares, and troubles because He will care for us (see 1 Pet. 5:7). Now, you may say that it is impossible not to worry! It cannot be done! Well, I’ll have to disagree. When God tells you not to, that means that you can!

Now, let me tell you that this takes some practice. It is not easy at all! The first time I tried it, I failed miserably. I felt irresponsible and anxious because I reasoned that if I didn’t worry, who would. As if my worrying could change anything! You see, I had to learn to trust God with my fears, issues, money, children, and my life. I had to learn that when He says that He will look after me and everything concerning me, He can actually do it!

I started out meditating on His faithfulness toward me, on His love for me, and on trusting Him. I rehearsed all the miracles He had done in my life and meditated on the fact that He never failed me. I needed to trust Him so desperately that I kept His Word before me ALL the time. Feeding on His Word, waiting on His Word in prayer, and doing what He told me to became a serious matter to me. While I did all this, I would at the same time just give my concerns to Him on a daily basis.

Every time I would catch myself starting to worry, I would stop right there and say out loud: “No, this is not my concern, I gave it to God” Immediately I would start to praise and worship God until my trust in God and peace returned to my heart. This I would repeat up to twenty, thirty times a day! But slowly I started to do it less and less and less until I did not worry anymore, and every night I had, and continue to have, a peaceful sleep.

You see, I figured this thing out. If God, who is Almighty and all-powerful, cannot help me, who did I think could get me out of whatever the need is? I can honestly say that I do not worry. I do not fear, and I do not have anxiety over anything. I believe God when He says He will take care of me, and that’s enough for me.

The aim of the following meditations is to bring you to a place of trust in God. It is important to know that God is a good God. He is always good. He is incredibly good all the time. And because He is so good, He only has good things for you. He is your Father, and He genuinely cares about you. You are the apple of His eye, and He rejoices over you in singing.

Trust Him with your life—this is the best investment you could ever make. Give Him your life and everyone and everything in your life. He will make it all good for you.

Meditation

The next seven meditations will focus on how to overcome anxiety and worry. As you meditate on them start seeing yourself walking in the promise on which you meditate. Start seeing yourself as God’s beloved child, with God as your Father who, because He loves you, will look after you. So get settled in your heart that peace and joy belong to you. You are a blessed child of God!

Stay with each confession until you believe it. Then move on to the next one. Make sure that each promise comes alive in you before you move on. A definite sign that you made a promise your own is that excitement, peace, and joy will start to bubble up on the inside of you.

As we meditate on these scriptures, we will build the plan or picture that it paints in our hearts, and once it comes alive in our hearts, we will receive what we see.

This is an exciting adventure that will forever change your life and will cause you to walk in victory, now, here on this earth.

After the seven confessions is a section on “prayers answered.” After you have meditated on the confessions, always finish your confession with confirmation, praise, and thanksgiving. Praise God all through the day for taking care of you now. Praise God that your family, marriage, finances, health or whatever the need may be, are in His care, and therefore, you are excited to see how He will work it out in your life. Praise God because of what Jesus did for you on Calvary when He died so that you can live an abundant life now on this earth.

God bless you as you become who He died for you to be.

“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not be in want” (Ps. 23:1 NIV).

“THE LORD is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me], I shall not lack” (Amp.).

I want you to look at the first part of Psalm 1:1:

The LORD is my Shepherd.

This is a wow statement!

The LORD is my Shepherd.

Let us dissect this statement word by word.

The LORD is my shepherd

The …

What does this mean?

The LORD … that there is only one LORD;

that this one and only LORD is my Shepherd;

that no other LORD is my shepherd;

that this one LORD should be my only Shepherd;

that I should have no other shepherds;

because

The LORD is my Shepherd!

The LORD is my Shepherd

The LORD …

What does this mean?

It means Jehovah …

The self-existing One that reveals Himself,

The unchanging One,

I AM WHO I AM

It is the personal name of God!

The self-existing One who reveals Himself as …

Provider; Healer; Our Banner; Sanctifier; Peace; Judge; Shepherd;

Our Righteousness; Ever Present; Lord of Hosts; Mighty One;

Most High; Holy One; Deliverer; Shield; Redeemer;

Saviour; Strength; Rock; Counsellor; King; The

First and the Last; Beginning and End!

He is all in all.

What do you need Him to be for you?

Your…provider?

Healer?

Peace?

Deliverer?

He is THE LORD and the only LORD there is for all circumstances!

The LORD is … my Shepherd

What does this mean?

The LORD is means He is right now my Shepherd.

It is present tense.

It is now.

It’s non-negotiable.

It’s non-debatable.

He is your Shepherd now … if you want Him to be.

It’s up to you, not Him.

He is … your Shepherd … now

Do you want Him to be?

The LORD is my … Shepherd

Hallelujah…He is my Shepherd!

Mine…mine…mine…mine…mine.

He is my Shepherd.

Say it again … and again … and again … and again

Until it bubbles up on the inside of you.

Proclaim it boldly.

The LORD is my Shepherd!

The LORD is my Shepherd

What does this mean?

What is a shepherd?

What does a shepherd do?

The Amplified Bible says: to feed, guide, and shield me.

This means:     He provides all my daily needs.

He guides my every step every day.

He protects me against all danger.

It’s His job … if you’ll let Him; if you’ll ask Him; if you’ll allow Him.

Declaration

I declare now that The LORD is my Shepherd.

I declare that He feeds, guides, and protects me.

I forbid any lack, confusion, and danger to come near me.

I decree and proclaim the LORD as my Provider; Healer; Banner; Sanctifier; Peace; Judge; Shepherd; Righteousness; Ever Present; Lord of Hosts; Mighty One; Most High; Holy One; Deliverer; Shield; Redeemer; Saviour; Strength; Rock; Counsellor; Restorer; King; The First and the Last; Beginning and End.

I serve no other gods than the one and only LORD.

I declare that Jesus is Lord over me and my life

Now and forever.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am healed!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on this scripture. See Jesus now as the LORD of whatever needs you may have. See Him as provider, restorer, healer, peace, and so forth.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Do this every day!

Confess the following:         The LORD is my Shepherd

The LORD is my Shepherd

The LORD is my Shepherd

The LORD is my Shepherd

The LORD is my Shepherd

The LORD is my Shepherd

He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!] (Heb. 13:5 Amp.).

This scripture can so easily become a cliché.

We quote it so often without believing it!

Read it again.

Good.

Read it again and again

Until

You really grasp what it says!

Let’s take it apart … little by little … piece by piece.

He [God] Himself has said …

God Himself has said it, no one else.

God, the self-existing One;

The One who never changes;

The Creator of heaven and earth;

Who upholds everything every day forever;

God, the great I AM has said:

I will not in any way fail you.

In any way …

What does this mean?

It means any way.

What are you believing for? Wayward children,

An unbelieving spouse,

Lost family and friends,

Healing,

Finances,

Peace and joy,

Work?

God cannot fail you in any area.

All you need to do is to ask, believe, and receive.

… nor give you up!

God goes on to say He will never give you up.

He hasn’t forgotten you. Isn’t that good news?

He hasn’t given up on your life,

future, ministry, prosperity, blessing, and loved ones.

Wherever you feel deserted—don’t. God hasn’t given up on you.

He hasn’t forgotten you.

… nor leave you without support.

This is big!

Whenever you need any help

Of any kind,

God has promised to provide support.

Praise the Lord!

Hallelujah!

Then God promised three times

[I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not

On top of His promise (see Heb 13:5).

God who cannot lie

Makes us three promises

On top of His promise.

Why?

Not for His sake; but for our sake.

For us to trust and believe Him

When He tells us to trust and believe Him

When He says:

[I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not

in any degree leave you helpless

nor forsake nor let [you] down

(relax My hold on you)!

[Assuredly not!]

In any degree leave you helpless nor to forsake you.

It is so easy to feel helpless

Especially when you see: your children suffer,

your spouse struggling,

your bills pile up,

your finances out of control,

costs of living rise,

losing your job, and

sickness taking its toll.

Turn to God, get Him involved.

He is standing by, to help, to support,

to be who you want Him to be—

Healer, provider, peace, restorer, lifter of your head, warrior.

He has promised not to leave you helpless.

Take Him on, on that!

… nor let [you] down

or

(relax My hold on you)!

This is the piece that brings total peace …

Don’t you agree?

God will never let me down nor relax His hold on me

Never… Ever… ever

From now till eternity, never!

He will not let me down in anything I entrust to Him;

In anything I cast upon Him (see 1 Pet. 5:7).

In anything I believe Him for;

In anything I share with Him;

In anything I dream with Him;

In anything He asks of me;

He will help me with

Because

He will never relax His hold on me

Even

When it feels like it;

When it seems like it;

When nothing around me is happening;

When I am all alone

Or

When I am with

Many people who are used mightily by God

and I’m not.

I still

Have my calling,

Have my ministry,

Have my part to play.

All I need is to wait on God

And believe that I am still part of His plan.

I need to wait on Him,

Listen to Him,

Obey Him,

And work with Him

For He is saying: [ Assuredly not!]

Declaration

I rejoice in my Lord and my God.

I declare that He is faithful; supportive; trustworthy; involved

And ever present in a time of need.

I declare that I am fulfilled in Him.

I decree and proclaim the LORD as my Provider; Healer; Banner; Sanctifier; Peace; Judge; Shepherd; Righteousness; Ever Present; Lord of Hosts; Mighty One; Most High; Holy One; Deliverer; Shield; Redeemer; Saviour; Strength; Rock; Counsellor; Restorer; King; The First and the Last; Beginning and End.

I am the Lord’s and He is mine.

I declare that Jesus is Lord over me and my life

Now and forever.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am blessed!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on this scripture. See Jesus now as the LORD of whatever needs you may have. See Him as provider, restorer, healer, peace, and so forth.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Make it personal; put your name into it.

Do this every day!

Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully” (1 Peter 5:7 Amp.).

Let Him have all your worries and cares, for He is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you (TLB).

Every time I think it cannot get better, it does!

This scripture tells us to cast the whole of our cares

All our anxieties,

All our worries,

All our concerns

ONCE AND FOR ALL

On Him!

Because

He cares for us affectionately and cares about us watchfully.

Now, this sounds to me

Like that song of long ago that says,

“Don’t worry; be happy.”

What does casting mean?

The Living Bible says: Let Him (God) have it all.

Let Him have it all. So the only way for Him to have it all

Is for you to give Him

All your anxieties … ALL;

All your worries … ALL;

All your concerns … ALL;

All your cares … ALL

ALL of it.

Give it … cast it … get rid of it … dump it … walk away from it—ALL.

Why? Isn’t it irresponsible? Isn’t it cruel?

After all, if I don’t care, who will?

God will, God wants to and God can.

Trust Him.

Trust Him with ALL your anxieties.

Trust Him with ALL your worries.

Trust Him with ALL your concerns.

Trust Him with ALL your cares

For

He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully (Amp.).

He is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you (TLB).

This is a good place to praise Him!

He cares about you affectionately.

This means “tenderly, lovingly, passionately, and emotionally.”

He cares about you watchfully.

This means “to guard over you, be alert, vigilant, to keep you.”

He is always thinking about you.

He is watching everything that concerns you.

This is good stuff.

This is real stuff.

This is powerful stuff.

God Almighty is telling you, His beloved,

To trust Him with your life

Because He wants to be involved in your life

To make it better,

To make it bigger,

To make it blessed.

Well, think about it this way.

You haven’t done a great job of it yourself, have you?

That is why you are anxious, worried, and concerned

About your life and those around you.

This is the chance of a lifetime.

This is an offer of a lifetime.

Grab it with both hands.

Write down all your cares, concerns, anxieties, worries, and trouble

… now

And

Hand them over to Him

For

He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.

Declaration

I rejoice in my Lord and my God.

I declare that He is faithful; supportive; trustworthy; involved And ever present in a time of need.

I declare that I cast and hand over to Him

Once and for all

ALL my cares, concerns, worries, anxieties, and problems.

I decree and proclaim that the LORD cares for me affectionately and watchfully.

I decree and proclaim that the LORD is always thinking about me and watching everything that concerns me.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am blessed!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on this scripture. See how you cast, give, hand over all your care, concerns, worries, anxieties and problems to God. See how He takes them, one by one, and that they are not yours anymore.

See it, really see it.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it see how it changes your life.

Now praise Him especially when the thought of it all comes back. Just say out loud, “It is not mine anymore; it is God’s and He is solving it all for me, hallelujah.”

Confess the following: “I cast the whole of my care [all my anxieties, all my worries, all my concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for me affectionately and cares about me watchfully.”

Amen!

“He Who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can withstand]. I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust! For [then] He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. [Then] He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings shall you trust and find refuge; His truth and His faithfulness are a shield and a buckler. You shall not be afraid of the terror of the night, nor of the arrow (the evil plots and slanders of the wicked) that flies by day, Nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor of the destruction and sudden death that surprise and lay waste at noonday. A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not come near you. Only a spectator shall you be [yourself inaccessible in the secret place of the Most High] as you witness the reward of the wicked. Because you have made the Lord your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place, There shall no evil befall you, nor any plague or calamity come near your tent. For He will give His angels [especial] charge over you to accompany and defend and preserve you in all your ways [of obedience and service]. They shall bear you up on their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone. You shall tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the serpent shall you trample underfoot. Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he knows and understands My name [has a personal knowledge of My mercy, love, and kindness--trusts and relies on Me, knowing I will never forsake him, no, never]. He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honour him. With long life will I satisfy him and show him My salvation” (Ps. 91 Amp.).

What a powerful Psalm!

Read it through two or three times before you move on.

Read it slowly, thoughtfully and prayerfully.

Read it out loud and get it into your spirit.

I want to share a few extra thoughts with you

About Psalm 91.

It is a Psalm in which God guarantees your safety against

Sickness

Enemies

Terror(ism)

Wicked plans

Sudden death

Evil

Calamity

Plagues

Destruction of your life through

Loved ones

Things

Finances.

This is pretty awesome!

But be warned: This protection comes at a price!

Let us look at verse 1 again.

“He Who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can withstand].”

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High …

Where is this secret place?

How do we get in the secret place?

It sounds as if the secret place is under the shadow of the Almighty.

Where is a shadow?

It is close to whomever the sun shines on.

And what does a shadow do?

It follows those on which the sun shines everywhere

they go!

So for me to stay under your shadow, I must stay close to you!

So close that I will touch you.

It is the same with God.

If you want to stay under His shadow; you will have to stick

So close that you can touch Him;

that you don’t lose Him;

that you can hear Him speak;

that you can hear Him breathe;

that you feel His heartbeat!

This is when He can help you out of all your problems!

This is when you will have confidence in Him

as your healer, deliverer, provider, restorer, and help in times of need.

When you walk this close to Him, you will get to know Him

And you will fall in love with Him.

And when you do, He promises

“Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he knows and understands My name [has a personal knowledge of My mercy, love, and kindness--trusts and relies on Me, knowing I will never forsake him, no, never].”

What an awesome promise!

Now without delay

Get under His shadow and see that God is good.

Enter into His rest.

He is taking care of you and all your concerns.

Declaration

I rejoice in my Lord and my God.

I declare that will dwell in the secret place of the Most High; Therefore, I remain fixed and stable under His Shadow.

I declare that God delivers me from all evil, sickness, and fear.

I decree and proclaim that the LORD cares for me affectionately and watchfully.

I decree and proclaim that He delivers me and is setting me on high.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am blessed!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on this scripture. See how you live under God’s shadow. Listen to Him; talk to Him; stay close to Him.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Now praise Him continually and tell Him often that you trust Him with your life. Tell Him that you love and trust Him all through the day. Stop to hear Him tell you how much He loves you; then tell Him again … all day long.

Confess the following: I trust God, I lean on Him for guidance, I rely on Him for my deliverance, and I rejoice over Him as my LORD.

Amen!

“Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name;

you are mine. When you go through deep waters, I will be with you.

When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown.

When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up;

the flames will not consume you.

For I am the Lord, your God,

the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour” (Is. 43:1-3 NLT).

What a glorious reassurance!

No matter what, God is for me;

He is my ever present help in a time of need.

He says, “I have ransomed you; you are Mine and I will never let you go!”

He knows your name.

He knows your address.

He knows your situation.

He knows all about you.

He knows

And

He cares.

He says, “When you go through deep waters

of pain,

of disappointment,

of disillusionment,

of despair, and

of fear

He is with you.”

He says, “When you go through rivers of difficulty,

of finances,

of sickness,

of rebellious children,

of a bad marriage,

of joblessness,

You will not drown.”

He says, “When you walk through the fire of oppression,

of depression,

of weariness,

of distress,

of loneliness,

of torment,

You will not be burned up;

Neither will

The flames consume you.”

Why?

Because

“For I am the Lord, your God,

the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour.”

He is your Saviour!

The Holy Almighty God is your Saviour!

Now what is a Saviour?

Good question.

A saviour is one who rescues someone or something

From dire circumstances.

Well, I think this scripture qualifies the need of a saviour, don’t you?

I should think that deep waters,

Rivers of difficulty, and

Fire of oppression

Qualify

As dire circumstances.

Therefore, someone in any of those positions

NEEDS a saviour super fast!

Praise be to God

Who willingly offered

Himself for this position.

God, who cannot fail;

God, who is love;

God, who cares about you

affectionately and watchfully;

God, who is full of mercy

and compassion;

God, who is a strong tower

in time of need;

God, who hides you in His presence;

God, who created you

to love you

and have fellowship with you.

God died for you

so that you can live.

This God is with you

ALL the time

To help and guide you

To rescue you

And to bless you.

Declaration

I rejoice in my Lord and my God.

I declare that no deep waters, nor any rivers of difficulty, nor any fires of oppression, will harm me, because God is with me and fights for me.

I declare that God delivers me from all evil, sickness, and fear.

I decree and proclaim that the LORD cares for me affectionately and watchfully.

I decree and proclaim that He delivers me and is setting me on high above all circumstances, needs and destruction.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am blessed!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on this scripture. See how your God is with you all the time. That you are never alone; it doesn’t matter in what situation you are right now, or whatever situation you are facing right now. God is with you in it all the time to rescue you, to save you, to give you wisdom and understanding. Draw close to God to hear His advice and direction.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Now praise Him continually and tell Him often that you trust Him with your life. Tell Him that you love and trust Him all through the day. Stop to hear Him and tell you how much He loves you; then tell Him again all day long.

Confess the following, “I trust God; I lean on Him for guidance; I rely on Him for my deliverance; I rejoice over Him as my LORD. He

is with me always.”

Cultivate His presence in you and with you all day long.

Amen!

A Psalm of David

“THE LORD is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me], I shall not lack.

He makes me lie down in [fresh, tender] green pastures; He leads me beside the still and restful waters.

He refreshes and restores my life (my self); He leads me in the paths of righteousness [uprightness and right standing with Him--not for my earning it, but] for His name’s sake.

Yes, though I walk through the [deep, sunless] valley of the shadow of death, I will fear or dread no evil, for You are with me; Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my [brimming] cup runs over.

Surely or only goodness, mercy, and unfailing love shall follow me all the days of my life, and through the length of my days the house of the Lord [and His presence] shall be my dwelling place” (Ps. 23 Amp.)

Just reading this Psalm brings peace to your soul!

Read it again slowly and

Feel the peace.

What a powerful scripture!

Your God cares so much about you,

How can you ever waver, doubt, or fear

His willingness and His ability

To bring you from darkness into the light?

This Psalm is so full of His care and affection for you

and me …

That

You

Can only

Sit down

Before Him

And

Repent of …

Taking your eyes off Him;

Of doubting Him because you

Don’t trust Him;

Because you don’t KNOW Him,

And therefore doubt Him

In times of need and trouble.

To KNOW Him

Makes Him bigger than any circumstance

You are facing right now.

To KNOW Him

Is to trust Him when you don’t understand.

To KNOW Him

Is to follow Him no matter what,

Whether He comes through for you or not.

To KNOW Him

Is to rely on Him,

Lean on Him,

And

To be confident in Him

Even when nothing makes sense.

Do you really KNOW Him, meaning

That you have a

Personal knowledge of

His mercy, love and

Kindness—and therefore

Trust Him?

To trust God with your life, you need to have confidence in Him.

How do you get confidence in God?

By spending TIME with Him—

Time to fellowship …

Fellowship which develops a relationship …

Relationship which results in intimacy …

Intimacy which brings trust …

Trust which develops boldness …

Boldness which gives authority,

And authority which results in breakthrough!

BUT

It all begins with TIME spent with Him.

Use your time wisely.

Choose today

What is most important to you.

Time spent with Him (and your circumstances being changed) or time spent with your circumstances as they are.

Declaration

I rejoice in my Lord and my God.

I declare that from today I will spend more time with God So that I can hear how He wants to feed, guide, and shield me For and from my life.

I declare that God is my Shepherd and I am His sheep.

I decree and proclaim that the LORD cares for me affectionately and watchfully.

I decree and proclaim that He delivers me and is setting me on high above all circumstances, needs, and destruction.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am blessed!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on this scripture. See how your God is with you all the time. That you are never alone, it doesn’t matter in what situation you are right now, or whatever situation you are facing right now. God is with you in it all the time to rescue you, to save you, to give you wisdom and understanding. Draw close to God to hear His advice and direction.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Now praise Him continually and tell Him often that you trust Him with your life. Tell Him that you love and trust Him all through the day. Stop to hear Him tell you how much He loves you; then tell Him again all day long.

Confess the following: “I trust God, I lean on Him for guidance. I rely on Him for my deliverance; I rejoice over Him as my LORD. He is with me always.”

Cultivate His presence in you and with you all day long.

Amen!

Let all that I am praise the Lord;

with my whole heart, I will praise His holy name.

Let all that I am praise the Lord;

may I never forget the good things He does for me.

He forgives all my sins

and heals all my diseases.

He redeems me from death

and crowns me with love and tender mercies.

He fills my life with good things.

My youth is renewed like the eagle’s! (Ps. 103:1-5 NLT).

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 loving-kindness and tender mercies,

Who satisfies your mouth with good things,

So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s (NKJV).

It is time to praise God!

What a GOOD God we serve!

God is GOOD,

Incredibly GOOD

ALL the time!

Settle it forever in your mind

That God is GOOD!

All He ever does is for your GOOD!

Say it out loud: “God is GOOD and all He does is for my GOOD!”

Say it again … and again … and again … and again!

God is a GOOD, GOOD, GOOD, GOOD God

And

ALL He ever does for me is for my GOOD!

Hallelujah, praise the Lord, God Almighty

Who was, who is, and who is to come forevermore!

Let us bless Him with our praises.

Let us bless Him with thanksgiving.

Let us bless Him with the words of our mouths.

Let us declare that God is GOOD

And in His GOODNESS,

He

Forgives all our sins;

Heals all our diseases;

Redeems us from death and destruction;

Satisfies our mouths with GOOD things,

And

Renews our youth like that of an eagle.

We are BLESSED!

Shout it out: “I AM BLESSED by God,

of God,

for God.”

He is my faithful Shepherd.

He is my faithful Redeemer.

He is my faithful Friend.

He is my faithful Saviour.

He is my faithful Father.

He is my faithful God.

With Him I am an overcomer;

With Him I am victorious;

With Him I am never alone;

With Him I am not afraid;

With Him I am more than a conqueror

Whatever the circumstances,

Whatever the accusation,

Whatever the need,

Whatever the problem.

With my God I can do all things.

I can overcome all things.

I can face all things.

For with Him I am safe.

Praise my God forever.

He is worthy of all praise.

He is worthy.

He is LORD.

He is my I AM.

Declaration

I rejoice in my Lord and my God.

Today I will sing His praises.

Today I will exalt Him.

He is worthy of my praise.

I declare that my God is GOOD.

I declare that ALL God does for me is for my GOOD.

I decree and proclaim that He delivers me and is setting me on high above all circumstances, needs, and destruction.

I am who the Bible says I am.

I can do what the Bible says I can do.

I have what the Bible says I have.

In the wonderful name of Jesus

I am blessed!

Exercise

Take ten minutes now to meditate on this scripture. Praise Him in all your circumstances. He knows the way out. Trust Him with bold confidence. He is your good friend. He is your good Father. He is your good helper.

Confess the scripture again and now when you say it, see how it changes your life.

Now praise Him continually and tell Him often that you trust Him with your life. Tell Him that you love and trust Him all through the day. Stop to hear Him tell you how much He loves you; then tell Him again all day long.

Confess the following: “I trust God; I rejoice over Him as my LORD. He is with me always. He is my Hiding Place and He loves me.

Cultivate His presence in you and with you all day long.

Amen!

Prayers Answered

Father I thank You that I am blessed and that all my needs are met in Jesus’ name. Thank You that because I am seeking God first all these things are added to me (see Matt. 6:33).

Lord, I thank You that God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of love, power, and a sound mind (see 2 Tim. 1:7).

Father, I thank You that You are my shepherd to feed, guide, and protect me. Therefore, I have no lack (see Ps. 23).

Father, I thank You that my prayers are powerful and effective because I am the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ (see Ja. 5:16).

Father, thank You that because I trust in You and delight myself in You with all my heart. You give me the desires of my heart (see Ps. 37:4).

Father, I thank You that You are mindful of us, and that You bless us daily, both great and small, in Jesus’ name (see Ps. 115:12-13).

Whatever things I ask for when I pray, I believe that I already have received them. I believe; therefore, I have healing in Jesus’ name (see Mk 11, 24; Matt. 21:22).

Now, this is the confidence that I have in Him, that if I ask anything according to His will, He hears me. And I know because He hears me, whatever I ask I receive of Him. I know that prosperity is His will for me, I asked for it and now I have it, in Jesus’ name (see 1 Jn. 5:14-15).

About the Author

Vicki Heymann was born in South Africa and now lives in Australia with her husband, Marius, and her two children, Jacobus and Ingrid.

Vicki has completed a Bible course through the Correspondence School of Jerry Savelle Ministries and graduated with a ministerial diploma. She preached regularly at Newcastle Christian Centre under the leadership of Pastors Marty and Margot McCrindle. She co-ordinated and held faith courses and was a prayer leader while attending.

Vicki is a firm believer in the Word of God and believes the only way to live is the faith-way. She loves God with all her heart and has made a decision to live a life of obedience and please Him in all she says and does. The Bible is the truth and she has made a decision to be everything it says she is; to have everything it says she can have, and to do everything it says she can do—all to the glory of God!

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Endorsement

Part A—Theory

1. Meditation

2. The Image of God

What God Is Like

God Is Love

God Is Good

God Is Faithful

3. Instruction

Part B—Meditations

Identity and Self-Worth Meditations

Healing Meditations

Prosperity Meditations

Against Anxiety and Worry Meditations

About the Author