[Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, As the waters cover the sea.]

We are fulfilling prophecy, we are filling this generation with the knowledge of the glory of God. Worship and the proclamation of the Word is filling our generation and the Spirit of God is moving mightily!! . In every corner of this nation, the glory of the Lord shall be evident and many shall be saved, healed, delivered and uplifted, glory to God.

[John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.]

There are people who take the word of God for granted – they joke with the Word and even try to twist the Word into their own interpretations. Our opening verse reveals some deep truths about the Word – the Word of God is God! So when we are interacting with the Word we are interacting with God. So if we take the Word of God for granted, we are taking God for granted. The problem is, everything God does He does it through the Word. Psalm 107:20 says “He sent forth his word and healed them; he rescued them from the grave.”* So to bring healing and rescue someone from the grave, God uses His Word. This means if we take the Word for granted, we can never be healed if sickness attacks our bodies. When there is danger ahead, God will warn us through the Word. So if we have been used to taking the Word of God for granted, it makes it impossible for God to help us. So take the Word seriously. Understand the Word of God is God talking. It will save your life some day, glory to God.

[John 6:38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.]

Our Lord Jesus Christ had a certain consciousness – in John 6:38 above, He boldly declared “I have come down from heaven.” He was conscious of His heavenly divine origin. The Jews thought He was crazy, they asked in John 6:42 “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that He says, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”They knew Mary the mother of Jesus, they saw her pregnant for nine months, they saw when Jesus was born, they saw Him grow up, yet now He is claiming He came from above! They could not understand Him but Jesus did not bother to explain to them.

Philippians 2:5 says “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” In the same way Christ was conscious of His divine origin, we too must be conscious of our divine origin. The accurate translations of John 3:3 like CJB and YLT versions says “unless a person is born again FROM ABOVE, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” So when we were born again, we were born from above. Therefore, we must have the same consciousness as Christ – we came down from heaven!!

Why is this consciousness important?Consciousness is awareness. The way you perceive yourself. We live according to our consciousness. We can never live different from our consciousness. That is why many have tried to be “Christ-like” and failed miserably, others have been trying to be like Christ forever. To be Christ-like, you must have the consciousness of Christ. So every day, begin to affirm like Christ “I am born from above.. I came from above… the limitations of this world have no power over my life.. I walk in the victory and dominion of Christ!!” You will be amazed your life will change!

[2 Chronicles 16:12 And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady was severe; yet in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but the physicians.]

King Asa was one of the best kings God’s people ever had. 2 Chronicles 15:2-3 records “And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God: 3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods..” He destroyed altars of idolatry in the land and commanded the people to seek the Lord.

However, our opening verse reveals when he was sick, he did not seek the Lord, but the physicians. This verse reveals when we are sick, God expects us to seek him. Unfortunately, many believers no longer desperately seek God for healing. We moved to the drug store. Because Asa did not seek the Lord for healing, 2 Chronicles 16:13 records “So Asa rested with his fathers; he died in the forty-first year of his reign.” The man died because he did not seek the Lord for healing.

God is revealing to us the reason why the church seems to be losing the battle to sickness. Many are not seeking the healing power of God. God is telling us His healing power is available, yet many like King Asa, don’t desperately seek Him.

We have to learn from King Asa and wake up. Seek the Lord for healing for Acts 4:12 reveals there is no salvation in any other – if God does not heal us, there is no healing in anywhere else. No matter where we go like King Asa, we will never make it. But if we seek the Lord, and seek Him with all our heart, even incurable conditions shall be healed For the Healing power of God is here with us, glory to God!!

[2 Timothy 4:10 for Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica—Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia.]

Throughout the Scriptures, God warns us to love not the world. “The world” refers to the systems as well as lifestyle, trends and way of life of our generation.

Our opening verse reveals the consequences of loving the world – you will forsake the Lord. It gives us an example – Demas, who was ministering with Paul but because he loved the present world, he forsook Paul and turned away from serving the Lord.

It is impossible to love the world & love God. James 4:4 tells us “..friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God!” Loving the world, makes you an automatic enemy of God. Why? Ephesians 2:2 tells us the course of this world is contrary to the ways, standards & purposes of God. It also tells us the course of this world is directed by Satan.

So following the course of this world is actually following Satan. That is why people are doing crazy things, they are under the influence of Satan. Yet they may even deny it because they never meet him.

So love not the world, don’t go the direction of the multitudes, serve the Lord though it may seem contrary to the world, but you will never regret it as opposed to loving the world and soon coming to regret.