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Did you know that as a believer
you’ve been redeemed from the curse of grief and sorrow by the blood of
Jesus Christ? You don’t have to put up with them any more than you have
to put up with sin or sickness or disease.
God started teaching
me about this personally several months before my mother went home to be
with Him in August 1988. Every time He’d show me something about it,
I’d put it into practice. (You ought to do that with anything God is
teaching you. Start practicing it now, and you can walk in it when the
time comes!)
So, eight and a half months before my mother left, I
began standing against grief and sorrow. I made a decision to “sorrow
not.” Immediately the devil began to attack my emotions.
But I’d
say, “No. I won’t receive that. I take authority over these feelings in
Jesus’ Name. I’ve given my body as a sacrifice well-pleasing unto the
Lord, and I won’t partake of anything but His joy.” Then I’d start
speaking the Word and praising out loud.
I went through three rugged days of resisting until those sorry spirits were gone.
What
I’m telling you is this: You’re going to have to stand against grief
and sorrow. It doesn’t belong to you. It’s not from your heavenly
Father. You may have to walk the floor all night long. But instead of
worrying and crying, walk the floor and quote the Word until that heavy
spirit leaves and the joy of the Lord comes.
Remember who you are.
You’re the one who shall obtain gladness and joy. You’re the one sorrow
and grief shall flee away from. You are the redeemed!
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