January 10, 2020 (Post #23)
(From Journal #2: March 30, 2005)
Yesterday I had my 4th and last treatment! I’m praying for a clean scan in 6 weeks.
Lord, You’ve helped me realize something good I’ve not been doing. I’m so grateful this instinctively was inside me, because You said in Luke 7:45, “…For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.” I’ve not once said that I “have” cancer. I’ve stated that I’ve been “diagnosed” with cancer and/or “battling” cancer, but I have not taken ownership of cancer! It doesn’t belong to me; You nailed it to the Cross!
The more that I meditate on this, the more I see how powerful this is in building our faith in Your Word and not our circumstance. Romans 10:17 says “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
If we speak words of ownership about sickness, then every time our ears hear those words, we build faith in the sickness, not the healing! But when I use the terms “diagnosed” or “battling,” my ears hear that this is not acceptable and my faith is strengthened in the fact that sickness must leave! I’m not allowing it to be part of my identity!
1 Peter 2:24 “…who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.”
Proverbs 18:21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”
Proverbs 12:14: “A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth…”
Proverbs 13:3 “He who guards his mouth preserves his life….”
Psalm 141:3 “Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.