The power of taking our needs before God first.

This is one thing that I have discovered over the past several years.  God is definately honored when we decide that we are going to go to him first with EVERYTHING!  As humans living in North America we have a tendency to be self relient most of the time.  In Canada we don't even have to pay for health care.  Would we think twice about relying on God for our day to day health if health care was not free or even available? 

When I first started to really put these truths into practice it was about 2-3 years ago.  I had a run of infections and seemed to always be at the doctor & on antibiotics.  I was always tired and my lungs (which were very damaged from having breathed through a treacheotomy for 16 years) were very sore and always congested. 

One day I was reading in Proverbs Chapter 4:20-22  "My son, attend to my words ; incline your ear to my sayings.  Let them not depart from your eyes;  keep them in the midst of your heart.  For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh."  God impressed upon my heart that His word would heal my body.  It didn't matter where I was reading in the Bible I just needed to remain in His word daily and make it priority in my life.

I began listening to sermons on healing and reading the Bible about 2 hours a day. God brought me through a time of forgivness & repentance.  My body began to heal and my energy returned.  God showed me how to resist sickness in my life.  Arthritis, endometriosis, fibrosis in my lungs, low blood pressure, constant low grade fevers, hormonal imbalance and infections all slowly but surely melted away.  Then it happened... I was on the phone with my friend Tereasa and in the middle of a sentence I spoke 2 audible words! (I have not spoken out loud audibly since I was 1 year old) 

This makes it sound like I have it all figured out... well it is one thing to live under God's perfect will for a year but it is another thing to remain there.  It is so easy to get distracted by life.  Homeschooling, mothering, housework & being a wife all seem to get in the way and provide distractions.  I know that those 2 words were just a deposit and I will speak aloud permanently some day soon but I need to keep my eyes focused on my source of power and purpose to do so for the rest of my life.

I am so thankful for my friends who remind me when I get off track...

One day I didn't go to church because I had a huge headache... my friend Julie asked Brent where I was and she did not even bat an eye before coming over and praying with me... reminding me that God did give us authority over every sickness & disease and I did not need to accept the headache... I went to church pain free within a short while:-) 

Recently there were a few times when I just did not feel like I had the strength to keep up the battle and rebuke sickness... my friend D J has prayed for me twice recently when I just lived with something (forgeting to rebuke it right away).  She is an awesome prayer warrior and believer in God's will and His power to heal.  Both times she prayed the sickness and pain immediately left. 

I wish I would just get it right once and for all and not let anything sit in my body that causes pain or sickness.  I know from experience that God is my healer and my strength.  He has given believers all authority over every sickness and every disease so I don't have to live with so much as a sniffle anymore!  It was done at Calvary... "by his stripes we were healed!"

It is my goal to get to the place where everything... no matter how big or small in my life will be lifted up before the throne of God FIRST and then living in peace knowing that He has already taken care of it.