Romans 8:13 AMP – For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever.

We have to become strong spiritually first by feeding on the Word of God daily in order to take control of our flesh. Galatians 5 lists some of the works of the flesh and they are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting and “the like” (or things that are similar to these). This is a long list and only controllable by those who are walking in the spirit and after the Spirit of God.

The way that we gain control over our flesh and it’s desires is to learn an important word, “NO”! When we say NO to our flesh at the moment of temptation then we are able to say YES to our spirit! Our spirit wants to do right and wants to serve the Lord. We have to make the conscious decision to allow our spirit to rule over our flesh. Live in the supernatural rather than the natural. Take the high road and do the right thing by saying YES to the spirit. You CAN do it!

“For with God nothing is ever impossible and no word from God shall be without power or impossible of fulfillment.” Luke 1:37 AMP

The key is WITH GOD! Don’t ever do anything without God because that is when we run into the wall of impossibility. Walking with God and doing only what He tells us to do will permit us to do things that are impossible with man. Jesus did these type of things during His ministry on the earth and we can do them because He said that the things that He did we should and would do.

He wants us to walk in the realm of the supernatural. He has empowered us with His Spirit to walk in His power to do His will! We can declare as Mary did – let it be with me Lord, according to Your Word!

Get up from your seemingly impossible situation and begin to do what God has told you to do and He will turn the impossibilities into possibilities! He will make a way where it doesn’t seem like there is one. He is on your side and if He is for you, who can stop you?

Jesus answered them, “I can guarantee this truth: If you have faith and do not doubt, you will be able to do what I did to the fig tree. You could also say to this mountain, ‘Be uprooted and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen. – Matt. 21:21 GW

God created the universe with words and He created man with the power to speak the same words that He spoke to create all that was created. We are created beings created with the ability to create…with our words…as our Creator did. What a deep revelation!

Jesus fully expects us to speak to a mountain (an obstacle) in our way and with faith, trust and confidence SAY – “move out of my way and jump in the sea!”. We were made in His image to do what He did! He did not give us the power so that we could put it up on the shelf and display it when friends and family come over to visit. He wants us to use it. Put it into practice and do something about those challenges that come against us. Pray and say. Believe (don’t doubt) and speak the Word. He guaranteed that it works.

And Peter answered Him and said, “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.” So He said, “Come.” And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. – Matthew 14:28-29 NKJV

Peter saw Jesus walking on the water and wanted to walk with Him. Somehow he knew that he was created to do the supernatural as Jesus did the supernatural. The desire was there. But he didn’t just stop at the desire he wanted to get in on the ACTION! He could have sat in the boat with the rest of the disciples and been awed at the supernatural power of Jesus to walk on the water and take control over the natural elements.

Before he acted he asked (in a round about way) if he could come and walk on the water with Jesus. He made sure that he was acting on Jesus’ will or His Word. (Many times good meaning Christians begin to act prematurely) Make sure that your actions are in line with the will and the Word of God. Faith begins where the will of God is known. Don’t get out of the boat based on someone else getting out of the boat.

Once you are sure that the Lord has told you to do something, DO IT! Jesus walked on the water. Peter walked on the water. We can do all that the Lord has told us to do. Will you do it?

Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When JESUS SAW THEIR FAITH, He said to the paralytic, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.”  – Matthew 9:2 NKJV

Faith sees what cannot be seen with the human eye in order to bring it into the realm of the seen! We walk by faith and not by sight.

Faith is a whole lot more than just positive confession of God’s Word although it involves a positive confession of God’s Word. When we believe something it affects our actions!

Hebrews 11 is full of people of faith that did mighty exploits by faith. They believed something but because they believed something it caused them to do something. We have a lot of “faith talkers” around but far few “faith doers”. It is time that we transfer what we believe into action. Pray in faith and then get up and do something about it.

I am sure glad that the friends of the paralytic were as filled with faith as their bedridden friend. They must have believed that Jesus was healing and that Jesus would heal their friend to go to the lengths they did to get him into the place where Jesus was ministering that day. They showed their faith by their works for sure! Determine to show your faith, do what you can do and God will do what He has promised you that He would do. Why wait?!

When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel! – Matthew 8:10 NKJV

The centurion in Matthew 8 that recognized the authority of Jesus and the power of His word was greatly rewarded and greatly acknowledged by the Lord. In our attempt to gain great faith and operate in great faith we must realize that it only comes by submission.

Submission has become a word that millions of Christians avoid. They want great faith but do not want to submit to anyone or anything. They want the blessings of God without limits and still want to live their lives without limits. It doesn’t (and never has) work like that. In order to have the power of the words of Jesus working in our lives we must first submit ourselves to God and do what He wants us to do.

We should even go further and submit our spirit, soul and bodies to the Lord to glorify Him in our whole being. He gave all of Himself to us and is only right and just to ask us to give all of ourselves to Him. (Romans 12:1-2) Renewing our minds with His Word, controlling our mouth to speak His word only, putting our bodies under by fasting and continuing steadfastly in prayer are ways to totally submit to His lordship…and experience His power. Great submission, great faith and great power!

If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? – 1 John 4:20

When we honor, respect and reverence God we are loving Him. If we think that we love God and do not love people we are deceived and need to have the blinders removed.

We must learn how to honor and respect people to fully love God. Another way to say this is that you cannot disrespect and dishonor people and pretend to love God. You may say “You don’t know how much they hurt me…” or “I was abused by my father and I have these issues…it is hard for me to trust…”. There is no excuse for disobeying the Word of God and dishonoring and disrespecting people. The truth is that no one is worthy enough to deserve our respect and honor. We give respect and honor in faith out of respect and honor for God! And when we honor and respect God, He honors and respects us. (1 Sam. 3:20) The more that we honor and respect God the more that He honors and respects us. The greatest way that He honors us is with His presence. More honor, more of His manifest presence in our lives, families and churches. God desires to display His glory but it will only be displayed where He is honored. (Acts 2)

So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble. – Matthew 6:34 AMP

There is a campaign that has been unleashed on the earth through the media. It is a worry and fear campaign designed to steal, kill and destroy. The enemy has been using the media to spread fear and worry for years. They have declared, “Bad news sales!”. So they turn up the volume (so to speak) on the bad news.

It is time that the Body of Christ realize that we are commanded to “seek first the Kingdom of God” in order to be constantly full of faith. The answer to worry and fear is always FAITH IN GOD! Our lives are in Him. He is our source of peace, joy, hope, comfort, strength and all that we need. We need to spend less time listening to the world and more time listening to the WORD. The reason that so many Christians are filled with worry and fear (just like those without God) is that their time and attention  have been on all that is going on in the world. Let’s take a check up on what we are thinking…and bring our minds back over to Romans 12:1 – renewing it with the Word! Renewed minds are guarded with the peace that passes all understanding.

For we walk by faith, not by sight. – 2 Corinthians 5:7

We are not limited to our 5 physical senses when we decide to walk by faith. When we trust God with all of our heart and lean not on our understanding faith kicks in and we begin to see things from His perspective… with supernatural sight. We have the ability to see with the eye of faith in order to do the impossible through the power of God.

God designed us to walk in a higher realm where He walks. The walk of faith requires not looking at things the way that they appear outwardly. If we walk and live our lives by the way that things look in the natural realm (judging things after the facts) then we are limited to what we can see. But if we ask God to reveal to us the way that He sees things then He will begin to open our eyes, fill our hearts with faith and we will begin to have a whole new perspective on life. We can do all that God has called us to do when we begin to see things the way that God sees them. He wants to empower us with supernatural sight on a daily basis.

“…without faith it is impossible to please him” – Hebrews 11:6 KJV

Faith is such a misunderstood subject. Most people in the Body of Christ underestimate the importance of faith.  But living a life of faith is the only way that we can truly please God.

“The just shall live by faith.” – Romans 1:17

“Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.” – Hebrews 10:38

The reason that only faith pleases God is because God is a faith God. He calls those things that be not as though they already were. He spoke “light be” before light was. Jesus explained to us how to speak and pray in faith in Mark 11:23-24. We please God when we act like He acts and speak what He speaks. It is a lot more than just positive confession, it is positive believing and positive BEING! Be positive and you will think positive and speak positive.

When Jesus said “With God all things are possible” He wasn’t just trying to give us a one liner that we could make into a bumper sticker. He expected us to do all things through God and that any thing that God directs us to do is possible walking in and by faith.

It is possible to please God at all times as we live by faith. Please God. Live by faith.