01/25/2016
A STUDY IN THE WORD: NO ROOM FOR "IF's"
By: Rita Montgomery
We all know that there is POWER IN PRAYER! Most will agree that they know and believe that GOD hears and answers prayers. Even confessing that we know GOD hears and answers prayers, there are some that still doubt and do not believe that GOD hears or will answer THEIR OWN prayers. They always have that "IF" nagging at them..."IF it be GOD's WILL"
So many times, we allow ourselves to be cheated out of our answered prayers and our blessings simply because we do not know IF what we are praying for is GOD's will. How many times have we said..."I believe I will get my healing...IF it be GOD's will? or I believe I will get what I prayed for...IF it be GOD's will for me to have it?" The "not knowing" whether something is or is not GOD's will for us...prevents us from receiving what we ask for. We can not have steadfast, unmovable, unwavering FAITH as long as there is an "IF" causing us to waver and question what GOD's WILL for us is. Most people, when their answer does not come, they accept defeat and say..."It must not have been GOD's will." Many times...that is not the case at all.
Hosea 4:6 tells us...MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE. Not the lack of worldly knowledge, but the lack of knowledge of GOD's WORD and HIS plan for us as HIS people. We do not walk in victory in our lives because we do not know what belongs to us as children of GOD. Some know the promises in the scriptures but do not know how to lay hold on them and make them become a reality in their own lives. Our own double-mindedness defeats us...we say we know GOD can heal...and then say..."IF it be GOD's WILL"...then we will be healed. It is ALWAYS GOD's WILL TO HEAL. According to 1 Peter 2:24...JESUS bore our sins in HIS own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness --- by whose stripes you WERE HEALED. If we have been born again, having our sins washed in the blood of JESUS then we become heirs to the PROMISE of HEALING that CHRIST JESUS paid for. It will not just fall out of the sky and hit us over the head...we MUST reach up in FAITH, standing on the WORD and the PROMISE and lay claim to what belongs to us. Satan will not make it easy. We must FIGHT the good fight of FAITH and lay hold on what is ours and not let go!
The only way to know GOD's WILL is to know GOD's WORD. If it is promised or given to us in GOD's WORD, then it is GOD's WILL for us to have it...there are simply no IF's, AND's or BUT's. GOD HONORS and KEEPS HIS WORD 100% of the time!
We must line our lives up with the WORD, living clean and keeping the commandments of GOD and we can walk in victory every single day! EVERY PROMISE OF GOD BECOMES OURS!
GOD IS SOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD ALL THE TIME!
