God’s Word is not a rulebook to limit humanity’s pleasure. He created your Bible as a power-filled guidebook and operations manual on how to live and experience life at a new level—a life of love and peace, free of guilt, fear, lack, sickness and all the other distresses of mankind!

There is nothing that controls your personal life more than what you believe. Your feelings are the fruit of your thoughts. If you are feeling stuck in life, or are having negative feelings and emotions in an area, ask yourself what you have been believing about those things. Why? Because if our thoughts aren’t agreeing with what God says about it, we are believing a lie. God’s Word brings life!

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!

People wonder why God isn’t moving, and He’s wondering why people aren’t moving. Jesus’ part is done and His job complete. God has given us the power to do what He does. It is a power over sickness and over devils. It’s no longer a matter of what He is going to do, but rather, what are WE going to do?

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!

We don’t come into the throne room telling God about who we used to be in Adam and crying for things He’s already given to us. No! Speaking the Word of God from our lips about who He has made us to be and how He sees us, what He has done for us, accomplished and given to us is the TRUE and SINCERE praise and worship that the Father desires from us! “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship” (Romans 12:1).

When the Israelites brought an offering to the priest to atone for their sins, the priest didn’t inspect the people to see if they were worthy, he inspected the offering they presented. If you have received the gift of salvation through the blood of Jesus, God isn’t inspecting you to see if you’re worthy of His forgiveness and blessing—He looks at the perfect offering—His Son!

The reason some fail to receive what God has already given to them is because they’re believing what they see, hear and feel, instead of believing what God has told them in His Word. The sense realm is where the devil operates. God’s Word is spirit and TRUTH! “So, we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal” (2 Cor. 4:18 HCSB).

In the Old Testament God told Moses that His name was “I AM.” God never changes, and in the New Covenant I AM now lives in us, reminding us: “I AM what you need me to be, I AM your comfort, I AM forgiving, I AM mindful of you, I AM your healer, I AM loving, I AM a deliverer, I AM a giver, I AM a friend!”

We are like the town criers, announcing the truth to people that they are forgiven, healed and free—it’s already been given to them by grace and they don’t have to earn it! It’s God’s justice delivered to His children in Christ!