by Gregory Dickow on August 10, 2011
I want to encourage you not to let fear to enter your heart during these tumultuous times. I believe that is exactly what the devil wants to happen – for God’s people to be fearful of the future, fearful about their finances, fearful that your dreams and plans are ruined and can never come to pass.
We are facing unprecedented times, but we serve a mighty and BIG God. Despite what may be going on in this world, God is able to get you through it! Isaiah 26:3 says, ”You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You; because he trusts in You.” Now, I may not know what you’re exactly facing right now, but I DO KNOW that you can face it with peace. In fact, you can face it with PERFECT peace – whole, happy, and healthy! You can walk in complete and undisturbed peace!
God wants you to walk in perfect peace! And you do that by fixing your mind on His love, His promises, His faithfulness, the blood sacrifice of Jesus and the fullness of God that supplies all you could ever want or need. He wants you in perfect peace, AND IT IS GUARANTEED when your mind IS STAYED on Him!
Remember when the storm was raging on the Sea of Galilee and Jesus was asleep in the boat. He was at peace because He had said “We’re going over to the other side.” That was His Word and He believed it. But the disciples were freaking out! They were fearful. They thought they were going to die. They woke Jesus up and said “Don’t you care that we’re about to perish?” Well, in reality Jesus didn’t care, because He was resting in the promise of God. He knew He couldn’t go under because He was going over! And since the disciples were with Him, they needed to realize they were going over too! So if you’re with Jesus, it doesn’t matter what storms you’re facing. Jesus didn’t care about the storm, and neither should you!
To help you set your mind on God and His Word, I want to sow a teaching that I taught recently called “Undisturbed Peace”. Click here to download a FREE mp3 file of it today, and listen to it over and over, and allow it to bring comfort, strength, and peace to you.
Also, click here to download a FREE confession guide, Victory Over Fear, that you can use to declare God’s Word over your life everyday.
No matter what is happening in this world, you can walk in complete and undisturbed peace! Just keep your mind stayed on Him!
Gregory Dickow
by Gregory Dickow on October 1, 2009
These are some of the many questions I hear on Ask the Pastor from people whose daily struggles in life seem to be a continual problem… without a solution in sight:
I never seem to have enough!… It seems like I’m just living from paycheck to paycheck!… I know God loves me, but why do bad things keep happening to me?… Why don’t things seem to be getting any better? I can’t seem to shake off this sickness!
Have you ever known someone who always seems to have something bad happening to them? If it’s not money problems, then it’s family problems; if it’s not family problems, then it is an accident or tragedy or sickness. Maybe you have felt like that at times – that just when it seems like you’re getting some momentum, just when it seems like something good is about to happen, you’re hit with an unexpected bill or sickness or job loss or family problem that seems to complicate everything.
Why is that? The answer is: It’s a curse! Genesis 3 says that ever since Adam’s sin, the earth and mankind have been under a curse. The curse in its simplest definition is summed up in Murphy’s Law: Whatever can go wrong will go wrong.
Can we ever be truly free from it? YES, you can absolutely be free! In fact, you already are! Listen to what God says in Galatians 3:13: “And Christ has redeemed us from THE CURSE of the law having become a curse for us, for cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree; SO THAT BLESSING CAN COME…”
I want to show you how to reverse this curse so that this pattern of failure, or lack for what you need, never happens again! You can get to the point where EVERYTHING THAT CAN GO RIGHT, DOES GO RIGHT!
According to Deuteronomy, Chapter 28, the curse brings the following things to mankind: (Pinch yourself and say, “That seems like me!”)
- Poverty – v. 29, 38 (Poverty simply means not having enough)
- Emotional problems – v. 28, 65
- Family problems, including marriage problems and problems with our children – v. 30-34, 41
- Sickness, disease, cancer – v. 22, 27, 35
- Terrorism – v. 49-50 (yes, it’s in this scripture!)
- Failure and Defeat – v. 20, 25
- Fear – v. 65-67
The good news is that if any of these things are operating in your life, they don’t have a right to operate any more! When Jesus went to the cross, He nailed these curses to it! He bought you back from the bondage of the curse. He paid in full for every punishment, problem, and curse that should have fallen on you and me.
Imagine being jailed for a crime or accident you unintentionally committed. Regardless of your innocence, the jury finds you guilty. You would be frustrated, bitter, and confused. That is what the curse is like – you don’t intend for bad things to happen, but they do.
Here is an answer to your problems. Here’s how you can reverse this and stop these things from happening in your life:
- Be convinced you are redeemed. Take a look in the mirror and tell yourself what Job proclaimed: “I know that my redeemer lives” (Job 19:35). We are also reminded in Galatians 3:13 that Christ redeemed you. Ephesians 1:7 tells us that we have redemption through the shed blood of our Savior.
- Declare who you are in Christ. Psalm 107:2: “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so!” Say it when you feel like it; and say it when you don’t feel like it. Use your words to direct the outcome of your life. Proverbs 18:21 reminds us that life, blessing, and prosperity are in the power of your tongue.
- Stop expecting bad things to happen to you. Sometimes we “brace ourselves” for bad news and bad things so they don’t jolt us too much. Stop conditioning yourself to expect negative things to happen. Your spirit has enough energy and chemistry in it to bring those things upon you. That’s what Job meant when he said, “What I have feared has come upon me” (Job 3:25).
So claim your freedom from poverty, emotional problems, family problems, sickness, failure and fear today!
Learn more in my CD teaching series, “Redeemed From The Curse,” by visiting the Changinglives Bookstore at:
http://www.cylbookstore.com/topics/familyrel/detail/Product_Catalog_07.htm
Gregory Dickow
