I am a miracle in the making.

I takes 9 months to make a human baby. 
It takes a lifetime to make us ready for heaven.

While we are waiting for our diseases to not manifest themselves and for God to manifest our healing
It is time well spent, having done everything else we have been taught, to wait and proclaim our healing.
To a baby dying in a nursery, say out loud, "Hello healed darling.  God is watching and waiting to perform His good works over you."  (Listen to what this "baby talk" accomplished: Radio cassette dated 9/15/03 www.sidroth.org )
Remember, remember, remember, God formed the world, and you, and me by speaking.  We existed in His mind way before He spoke us into existence.  Never, never, never forget that.  It is a vital key to our wellness.

When the Israelites marched around a city to capture it, they marched 7 days banging pots and pans, as it were, not rockets and grenades.  When they shouted, the walls fell like the Berlin wall.  That final day was the manifestation of their victory, not day 1.  They did not march day #1, see nothing, and then quit all discouraged.
[Joshua 6:2-5  The  Lord said to Joshua, "See, I have (already) delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.  March around the city once with all the armed men.  Do this for 6 days.  Have 7 priests carry trumpets of ram's horns in front of the ark.  On the 7th day, march around the city 7 times, with the priests blowing the trumpets.  When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have all the people give a a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse."]
Victory is won the eve of the battle, not the day of the battle, for the battle is the Lord's and not ours.  Our part is the obedience.  We are the soldiers.  God is the commander of the army.  As a camel, let us begin and let us end each day on our knees, before our Lord, the winner of our battles.

Moses and his clan were so caught up in doing and thinking things the old way that it took them 40 years to get their act together. (See Exodus in the Old Testament)  They had God with them but not in them.  We have the opportunity to have the Holy Spirit in us.  Awesome.  Let us not be so stuck in our doctrines and denominations that it takes God 40 years to help us.

Noel Jones says that God's gifts were given to us from the foundation of the earth.  Let us not wait till we are on our death bed to receive His blessings.  His blessings are not just for "those" other people.  They are for us.  Let us sprout speedily, soaking up the sun (Son of God), the water (baptism) and the soil nutrients (Holy Spirit baptism), so that we might not only blossom in beauty before God, but also have an awesome fragrance before God.  Right now we might feel like we stink like manure before God, but God uses manure to grow awesome gardens.  Let us become nothing; become empty, so that God can fill us up with Himself and use us.  His invisible Spirit in us; doing His work.  www.noeljonesministries.org

Let us minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, walk by faith and not by feelings.  Let us not listen to the voices in our head that often get us into  trouble.  Let us listen only to the Holy Spirit speaking words of scripture to our heart.  Scripture is no good in the head.  It needs to take root in the heart.  We need to soak ourselves in holy music and scripture every single free second that we have the opportunity - on the toilet, in the bathtub, on the way to work, on the way home from work,  when we sit down for a cup of coffee, when we are getting dressed for work or for bed, always.  When we are not listening to or reading scripture, let us be speaking it aloud to God, to satin, and to ourselves.  Then there is less opportunity for wrong thoughts to sneak into our minds and mess us up.  We will recognize trouble sooner and reject it quicker.  It takes time to build up our NO muscle that can resist the enemies in our life.  It takes time to build up our spiritual muscles.  That is OK.  God is a patient father. Let us memorize the scriptures which apply to our needs.  Let us say them aloud and often.

Reprogramming the mind is essential.  Remember, we can always say. "No.  I refuse to accept you thoughts which run through my mind over and over again, like a broken record.  I refuse to think those thoughts.  I refuse to accept those as mine.  I refuse to concentrate on them.  I am 'dead' in Christ.  If I am 'dead', then nothing can rock my boat.  No past wounds.  No present troubles.  Dead people cannot feel hurts.  They cannot be angry.  They cannot allow feelings to interfere with the high goal of wellness in Jesus Christ.  They cannot allow thoughts which interfere with safety, health and peace.  "Troublesome thoughts, in the name of Jesus Christ, I bind you and crush you under the feet of Jesus.  Be gone.  Holy Spirit, come and fill that space with your peace and perfect counsel.  Thank You, Father God."

When triggers push my buttons and I weep inside uncontrollably, my attention is on the past or even on the present wounds.  Our present reality is not God's reality.  Our concentration is on the infection and pus of trouble.  God's view is what we can become and what we will become through the work of the Holy Spirit.  God, give us new eye glasses.  God, give us new eyes.  Yesterday is dead manure and today's fertilizer.  All things work together for good to those in Christ Jesus.  God, thanks for our miserable past, our miserable present, our thorns in the side.  May we add our wounds to Your wounds on the cross and be grateful for the hurts that are bringing us into a place of forgiveness, peace, victory, and wholeness.

Joyce Meyer in her 10/03 Life in the Word magazine asks, "Why is the Devil Not Fleeing When I Resist Him?"  This article is good medicine as is her audio 4 tape series #A245 Resist the Devil and He Will Flee  www.joycemeyler.org
Lillian Arleque has a talent of ignoring the negative and grasping onto the positive  www.dr.lilispeaks.com   arleque@comcast.net

In conclusion, let us not go it alone.  Even God realized that Adam needed an Eve.  Jesus needed 12 disciples.  However, let us choose a safe person, one who loves and respects God.  Until such time, let us remember that Jesus intercedes for us day and night to God our Father, Who loves us.

SCRIPTURE TO MEDITATE UPON

JEREMIAH 29:11-13   "I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.  Then you will call upon Me with all your heart.  I will be found by you," declares the Lord, " and will bring you back from captivity."

GALATIONS 3:29    If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

PHILIPPIANS 3:13-14    One thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Jesus Christ.