What is the world looking for? The world wants some hope. The world wants some dignity. They say, ”Recognize me! Believe in me! I am important! I am valuable to somebody!” Well, I have good news for the world—God loves and values you and believes you are important—so important that He has an amazing plan for your life!

Sense knowledge is not absolute truth, our senses are simply interpreters of what is happening in the natural. The Word of God has already issued judgment on the curse and everything that comes from it—sickness, lack, oppression, depression and the negativity that tries to steal our joy in life.  Our commitment must be to believe what God says instead of what our senses are telling us. Stop accepting those deliveries from the devil!

Matthew 7:11 says, “If you then being evil know how to give goods unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good gifts to them that ask Him?” Not only is God NOT using sickness, disease and lack as a tool to make us learn something, He clearly tells us that He has a great desire to answer our prayers and to meet our needs!

The world is hungry to see a living Jesus who will confirm His Word with signs following, proving He is the same today as He was 2,000 years ago. The world sees enough of the devil, it’s time for God’s people to manifest! “For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the manifestation of the sons of God” (Romans 8:19).

If we would get God’s perspective on people then we could win the world. Without God’s perspective we look at people through eyes of judgement. We like to hold the books and keep records of who is a sinner and who is a saint. But how much did God pay for those sinners? The price of His Son Jesus! How much did He pay for the saints? The same! God places no difference in worth between the mafia boss and the evangelist. They are both called by God, one just doesn’t realize it. When we truly understand this, we will be motivated to tell them!

The religious leaders in Jesus’ day had turned the Sabbath into a tyrant and a burden on God’s people, with harsh rules and requirements that were nearly impossible to successfully follow. Jesus repeatedly healed on the Sabbath to show the Father’s true heart (the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath, Mark 2:27) —a time where we rest in the perfection of God’s work and receive it as a gift. Healing, deliverance, abundance and every GOOD thing. The Sabbath was manifest through a person, showing us that it is more than just a day of the week!

The Bible is a mirror, not a book of rules. When you look in a mirror you say, “This is who I am.” When you look at a book of rules you say, “This is who I’m supposed to be.” As you speak out the truth of God’s work in you and His promises to you from His Word, you’re rehearsing what is in the mirror and are being transformed. Your thinking is being changed from the old nature habits of thinking to a life that reflects the truth of who God has created you to be!

When you have an encounter with Jesus Christ and surrender your life to receive Him as your Savior and Lord, it isn’t just an emotional experience. The seed of God is planted in you in the same miraculous way that the seed of God was planted in Mary to produce the Lord Jesus. You have a miracle in you, and now all His purpose and power is able to grow and develop in you!

“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect [complete, mature] in love” (1 John 4:18, brackets mine). When we’re fully walking in Christ and understanding the amazing depth of God’s love for us, the fears are gone. All of His peace and joy and love and kindness and goodness are constantly flowing out of us and into our lives. The world doesn’t know this kind of real love, but it’s the life the Father meant us to live, and the Gospel we’re supposed to be preaching!

Righteousness, growing up into Christ and being transformed into His image, is something that is given to us in Christ and already ours! Side by side along with this are the blessings—all of God’s goodness—and Him at work within us, causing us to both want to do and do the things that please Him! (Philippians 2:13)