This is something all of us, as born-again believers, need to remember. We are not “natural” people and we’re not from this world. We’re spiritual people and we’re from eternity. We’re citizens of heaven, ambassadors of God on a mission to bring His BLESSING everywhere we go—and there’s only one way for us to do it: We must live and operate by faith in God’s WORD.
People who don’t have a revelation of The WORD are going to think our lifestyle is peculiar. But that’s OK. In fact, that’s how it should be. As believers, we’re not supposed to be thinking, talking and acting like the world does about healing...or the economy...or anything else.
We’re not supposed to be worrying and fussing like unbelievers about all the bad news that’s being broadcast on the radio, TV and the Internet. We shouldn’t be saying things like, “Have you heard the latest reports? Times are really getting tough!”
No. Our conversations ought to sound entirely different. We ought to be saying things like, “The conditions in this world don’t worry me at all. I’m connected to God, and He’s doing just fine.” We ought to be like Isaac who, right in the middle of a nationwide drought, kept living by faith in His covenant of BLESSING and ended up digging so many water-producing wells that he turned out to be a BLESSING not only to his own family, but to the entire nation.
Instead of letting our joy go up and down with the stock market, you and I ought to be as unchangeable as the righteous man described in the Bible who delights in The WORD of God. Psalm 112:6-8 says this about him: “Surely he shall not be moved for ever.... He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies.”
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