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“Well, I can’t do anything about my situation. . .it’s just my lot in life.”
When I heard that statement. . .I wanted to shout out.
“Are you kidding me?”
Do you realize how spiritually ignorant and harmful such a statement is?
“Are you listening to yourself?"
Do you understand the words you’re sowing into your future? They will either bring a mega harvest of blessing or a crop failure?
I have heard some of the greatest preachers to ever draw a breath preach 1 Peter 2:24 with insight, passion and unparalleled anointing.
“He personally bore our sins in His [own] body on the tree [as on an altar and offered Himself on it], that we might die (cease to exist) to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed.” 1 Peter 2: 24 AMP
Most teachers focus on “. . . by whose stripes ye were healed” but as I re-read the scripture, the part “. . . should live unto righteousness” ignited in my spirit.
I look up the word righteousness in the Strong’s Concordance and found that it’s the Greek word dikaiosynē (G1343) which means:
A failure to act. . .is an action that is sure to fail.
We make a decision to fail. . .when we allow fear to prevent us from stepping out of our comfort zone or from taking a step of faith.
Faith destroys fear. . .crushes doubt. . .conquers the unknown. . .inspires others. . .and makes us victorious in all our hands find to do.
If we want to do more than we’ve done. . .be more than we’ve been. . .then we need to take a risk when it lines up with His Word.
God’s Word tells us what to do. . .if we take a risk and fail to succeed.
Proverbs 24:16 in the New Living Translation says:
Never let your circumstances define your destiny. Rather create the circumstances that will assure your destiny.
Never allow anyone other than God to determine your worth and value.
Harold Herring