SUBDUE FEELINGS! ACTIVATE FIRE WITH FAITH! (DAILY DIET E-BOOK SERIES 02 DAY 31)

 Basing Our Faith on the Word, Not on Our Feelings 

Every believer has the Holy Spirit dwelling within him, and if he has received the infilling of the Holy Spirit he has also received the enduement of power from on High. These truths are a reality, whether we feel like they are or not. The Bible says, "For we walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Cor. 5:7). We must believe what the Word of God says, regardless of what our feelings tell us.

 I learned the lesson of faith on the bed of sickness more than fifty-five years ago. I acted on God's Word even though I didn't feel anything. My paralysis disappeared in ten minutes' time when I leaned on the Greater One on the inside and acted on God's Word in simple faith. My heart symptoms disappeared, and I was raised up from incurable, terminal heart disease, perfectly healed. Since then I have never paid a bit of attention to my physical feelings, because they haven't got a thing in the world to do with the Christian walk. 

"For we walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Cor. 5:7)! Feelings are the voice of the flesh. If you are walking by feelings, you are being dominated by the flesh. But the Bible tells us to crucify the flesh. If the flesh is crucified, the voice of the flesh is also to be crucified. You can't walk by feelings and be a successful Christian, for if you are walking by feelings, then your flesh, not your spirit, is dominating you. And you can't walk by reason and be a successful Christian either, because reason is the voice of your mind. 

But you can walk by faith and be a successful Christian, because faith is of the Spirit. Walking by faith is letting your spirit man dominate you. Walking by faith is listening to the Voice of the Greater One on the inside of you and walking in line with the Word of God. 

How do we walk by faith and not by sight? 

We walk by faith by putting faith in what God has said in His Word. It never pays to walk by sight. It never pays to walk by feelings when God has spoken to us by His Word. We must listen to what God has to say in His Word and act on that. It always pays to walk by faith — to simply take God at His Word — because He is faithful who promised (Heb. 10:23). 

As we learn to lean on the Greater One who dwells within us, and as we are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the power of God is made available to us and the supernatural manifestations of the Holy Spirit can operate through us as the Spirit wills. 

We need to learn how to put the Greater One who indwells us and who has infilled us to work for us. When we do, we will have no need to walk by sight, to look at circumstances, or to be ruled by our feelings. We can rise above our physical limitations and natural circumstances and enter into the realm of the supernatural through the power of the Holy Spirit!

FFT: Feelings are the voice of the flesh that hinders the manifestations of the Spirit fire.

ACTION POINT: Learn to Lean on the greater one who dwells with you.

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