It would be hell on earth to go back to being bound by whatever torment the devil decided to bring our way. It would be miserable not to know any better than to just open the door whenever Satan comes knocking, so he can come in and steal, kill and destroy.
Ken and I have been there and done that, and we wouldn’t go back for anything. As Galatians 3:23, "New English Translation," says, “Before faith came we were held...prisoners….” We weren’t literally behind bars, but we were prisoners of things like lack and debt. We were prisoners of whatever sickness happened to be going around or whatever negative circumstances happened to erupt in our lives.
We even lived that way after we were born again and baptized in the Holy Spirit. Because we didn’t know much about God’s Word, we had no clue He had provided healing, prosperity and BLESSING for us in Jesus. We had no idea there was a higher way for us to live. So, for about five years things in our lives stayed the same.
We kept thinking and talking and acting like the world and getting the same results the world gets. We remained captive to our circumstances and kept living like prisoners, even though spiritually God had set us free.
Then one happy day we began to hear this wonderful message we call the Word of Faith. We found out what the Bible says about the victory that belongs to us as believers. We learned to operate according to the simple principles of faith and, as a result, things began to change.
Our bank account, for instance. Within 11 months it went from being deep in the red to in the black. That was a miracle! We’d lived on borrowed money our entire married lives. We owed so much it didn’t look, in the natural, like we could ever get out of debt. But once we began to believe God in that area, and do things His way, the impossible happened. All those bank notes got paid off and we began to prosper.
At the same time, we also began to walk in health. Instead of being prisoners to sickness, we learned to resist it by faith. When symptoms came knocking, we prayed, believed God’s Word about the matter, and got healed.
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