“Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place” (2 Cor. 2:14).
A few years ago, my father decided he didn’t want to get “soft,” so he started lifting weights. As Dad worked out every morning with those weights, he became stronger and stronger. He’d say, “I don’t like lifting these weights, but I’m going to conquer them. If it takes the rest of my life, I’m going to conquer them!”
It’s the same way with tests and trials. You can either let them plant themselves in your life and put pressure on you, or you can use your faith muscles to push those trials out of your life. You can decide, “Bless God, I’m going after those tests and trials, and I’m going to conquer them!”
I remember when it used to take me two weeks to get rid of a cold. But I didn’t just sit back and say, “Well, I’m going to learn from this cold.” (I don’t know what you could learn from a cold anyway – except that you don’t want another one!)
I kept using my faith muscles to push off those cold symptoms. After a while, the symptoms only lasted one week instead of two. Then they lasted three days instead of a week. Soon the cold symptoms just started falling off before they could hook on to my body!
The more you push off the enemy’s attacks – the symptoms, the tests, the trials, the temptations – the stronger your faith muscles will get and the quicker the problems will leave. So don’t forget – sickness doesn’t come to make you strong; it comes to defeat you. Just keep using your faith muscles to push those symptoms out of your body. Soon your faith will be so strong that the sickness won’t even bother trying to return!
I look at God’s Word to find truth, and I believe that truth
is manifested in my life. The fact may be that symptoms
are affecting my body, but the truth is that I am healed.
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers
For over 40 years, Pastors Mark and Janet Brazee have traveled throughout the world sharing the Word of God and the Spirit of God. Together they've shared the powerful truths of faith and healing in more than 50 nations.
Today Mark and Janet pastor World Outreach Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they base their ongoing outreach to the world. The Brazees still travel as the Lord leads, and they are raising up a congregation who share their passion to reach Tulsa and the world.