THE GOOD LIFE
HEALING SCRIPTURE
John 4:10, Amplified Bible
Jesus answered her, If you had only known and had recognized God’s gift and Who this is that is saying to you, Give Me a drink, you would have asked Him [instead] and He would have given you living water.
John 10:10, Amplified Bible
…I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).
So many times we look as Jesus in terms of our spiritual condition, and that is as it should be. That is first of all, to Him, the most important matter in our lives. Unfortunately, though, what so many people have done is confine Jesus to one part of their lives. God is a three-part being (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), and He created us as three-part beings. We are a spirit. We have a soul, which is composed of our minds (our thinker), our wills (our decider) and our emotions (our feelers). We live in a body. Don’t you think that God is concerned about all three parts of our being! After all, He is the one Who created us that way.
What is really interesting to me is that when He looks at us, He looks at all three parts at once and considers all three parts as being whole. So many “Christian” forget about two of their parts. We have a soul, with which we contact this earth by what we think on, what we choose, how we feel, which (like it or not) affects our physical bodies.
Jesus came that we might be whole in all three areas of our lives. What good are we on this earth if our bodies are sick and our minds are troubled and we can’t seem to make the right decisions, and we are always messed up with our emotions leading us around by the nose and dictating to us what we do. Jesus came, took on our sicknesses and diseases and our messed up souls so that we could have and enjoy life “to the max.” What it takes to do that is developing a new mindset of God’s joy and God’s peace reigning in our lives (spirits, souls, and bodies).
How do we develop a new mindset? Philippians 4:6-8 gives us the answer. In a nutshell, these verses tell us that we are not to fret, worry, have anxiety, or take on cares, but we are to make our wants known to God, thanking Him for the answer. We are then to think only on things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of a good report. I can hear you right now: Sure, that is easy for you to do. No, it was not easy initially, and it is not always easy now, but you know what, I have made a decision that this is the way it is going to be for me. “I am carefree and think only on the Word of God.” That is my stand! God’s Word is unchangeable and makes me immovable. It starts with a decision and God helps you to do what His Word says. Make your decision. So what if you fall down many times! Get back up and go again until you are consistently walking in this good life.
HEALING CONFESSION
I have decided that I will live the good life that Jesus has made available to me. I will walk in it. I will cast off worries every time they present themselves to me. I will cast off cares of this world, like: “What am I going to do in the times we are living?” or “What if this doesn’t work?” or “What if I stay sick?” I refuse to think those thoughts. Instead, I choose to think on things that are lovely and true and pure.