If you’re not willing to do that, you’re going to have problems, my brother or sister. You’re going to have a hard time receiving your healing or deliverance or whatever else you need. So, always be willing and quick to forgive.
You don’t have to feel good about it to do it. You can just obey. You can stop whining about how wronged you’ve been, brace yourself like a soldier before your Commander and say, “Sir, I forgive so-and-so! They are forgiven. Permission to receive my healing, Sir. Thank You very much. I’m healed, glory to God!”
Eat Things on the Good List
Just as forgiving is key to living a long, strong life, so is everything else God’s WORD tells us to do. His Book is the best health and longevity manual ever written.
In Leviticus, for example, it provides us with lists of foods that identify which ones are good to eat and which aren’t. Those lists are designed to support a 120-year lifespan. Under Old Covenant law, eating only according to those lists was one of the ways the Israelites maintained right-standing before God.
Under the New Covenant, of course, we’re not bound by religious food laws. We’re made righteous by the blood of Jesus. But that doesn’t negate God’s dietary guidelines. They’re still His wisdom!
Many believers, though, ignore this wisdom. They eat whatever their flesh wants and think it’s OK because 1 Timothy 4:4 says, “Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving.” They don’t realize that according to the previous verse that statement refers only to the meats “which God hath created to be received,” or eaten (verse 3).
God didn’t create all meats to be eaten! Leviticus makes it clear: He didn’t create snakes for us to eat. He didn’t create alligators and bats and shrimp and catfish for us to eat.
“Oh, Brother Copeland, don’t take away my catfish!”
I’m not taking anything away from you. I’m not preaching the law. I’m preaching faith. I’m just sharing with you that as for me, I’ve decided to use my faith to eat the food on God’s good list and to steer clear of the bad list. Why? Because I’m believing to live and serve God for 120 years—and I’m going to do it without cancer or heart trouble or any other kind of disease.
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