Changing the total way you think about God and yourself and replacing teeny tiny thoughts with giant big ones, replacing human thoughts with divine ones, your worldly carnal ideas with Word based, Spirit-filled ideas takes time. It takes a bit of energy and effort too. It will not happen overnight. You can change a spirit instantly, but to change a body and a soul takes time and effort.
You have to go against decades of negativity, and a lot of people around you are negative too. Even other Christians are negative to the greatness of God in your life!
Now, Abraham had a miracle baby and changed the world. he was “fully persuaded” that God would do what He said (that’s in Romans 4.21). If you want to see your miracles, your destiny, your life transformed, you have to learn to persuade yourself until you, like Abraham, are fully persuaded.
Now, Abraham, like you and me, had circumstances that contradicted God’s Word, and I bet he had some detractors too, but he praised God before He saw the promise, because He was persuaded God’s Word was true above His circumstances and above the words of others. That is the place we need to reach!
It took Abraham 25 years to reach that place, you should not take that long – you have an entire Bible. You have a righteous Spirit, you have the fivefold ministry, you have the local church. You have the baptism in the Holy Spirit and can pray in tongues. You need to fill your heart with God’s Word and persuade yourself that this is the truth by putting it in your heart and mind over and over.
Talk about the Word, and if your close friends don’t talk Word, find some better friends. Put Scriptures on your walls, get a bracelet with Scripture on it, get Scripture in your mind. Surround yourself with the Word of God – do it until your heart is so full of the Word it is persuaded.
The last thing Satan wants is you knowing God is big. So he will send people your way to discourage you, tell you to stop being fanatic, just big wet blankets, some of them will even be saved – you have to stop them having access to your heart and keep in the Word. You have some unbelief you need to get rid off – start feeding your heart and realize that the Word says God is big and He is on your side.
If you are facing a problem, you find every Scripture on that problem and meditate on them, pray them, discuss them, go and buy some sermons on those topics. DO WHAT IT TAKES TO PERSUADE YOURSELF, because persuaded people receive from God!
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