WFW - By His Stripes

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5


For about a year and a half now I have been having some terrible issues with my right ear. It first started off with my ear being stopped up right after I woke up in the mornings. It would stay like this for over two hours everyday. It was so frustrating and annoying, I had a lot of trouble hearing, everything seemed really dim. Trying to listen to the news or so before I left for work was a waste of time. Everything seemed so far away. The kids had to repeat themselves to me over and over, uggghhhh!!! Eventually my ear would kinda 'pop' and all would be fine. This went on for a long time but after it did the 'popping' I almost forgot how it was until the following morning again.

I realized that if I lay on my right side while sleeping that it would cause my ear to be stopped up so I started sleeping on my back. This helped a lot but since I loved sleeping on my right side I would eventually find myself in that position in the morning and there goes the problem all over again.

Now during these first months I really don't remember praying about it. I think I felt each day that it would probably just go away or I could control it if I learnt to sleep on my back. Big mistake. Pray about everything.

Then early this year the same ear started ringing and I mean ringing terribly. I would hear bells all day long. Sometimes I looked around to see if anyone else was hearing bells but it was just me. I did some research on the internet and saw something called 'tinnitus' that sounded like it could be what I was experiencing. I hadn't told anyone other than my family about this, but they didn't seem too concerned, and this thing was making me crazy. I thought of going to the doctor a couple times but never made the appointment, but I increased my times of prayer about it. I started speaking the word over it several times a day. I started to really believe God for complete and total healing from this thing.

While all this was going on, I took a class in bible school on healing and it really stirred my faith up to believe God for what I needed. The teacher made a comment about God using the doctors along with our faith in His word and that encouraged me to really go see if I could get a diagnosis. I saw the doctor and she said the first thing she would do was to clean my ear out. So I got the drops she prescribed and used them for a whole week before I saw her. In the meantime I am speaking the word and I am praying the prayer of faith fervently over my ear. Seems like it was getting worse. Now it's all day and all night. No relief whatsoever. Well I went back to the doctor and she pumped about 3 huge tubes of water in my ear. I felt like I was on a roller coaster. The room spun around and around and my ear felt horrible. She said, go home and hopefully in a day or so the pressure I felt would ease up and if there was any wax in there it would come out.

For two weeks or maybe more, my ear hurt so much. It felt congested or compressed, I don't know, but it was bad. The pain was something that I had not experienced before. Now it kept 'popping' all day but no relief. I could hear bells plus other sounds. My ear was worse than when I first went to the doctor, so I decided this was definitely one for the word. I asked my husband to pray for it and we got some oil and anointed it and we prayed. I got someone at church to pray for it and I kept praying daily for healing. I quoted the scriptures of healing over and over and over and over again.


I woke up one morning and my ear was normal. I said praise the Lord. Another morning and another morning and another morning and another morning and my ear was still normal. I said thank You Jesus. This has been about two months now and I believe my ear is completely healed. BY HIS WORD. I sleep on either side of my body and no problems. No popping and praise the Lord, no ringing.

This has been a long post, but I wrote all this to encourage anyone today who is sick and in need of healing. Christ bore our diseases in His body. Our healing was secured a long time ago and sickness has no right to stay in our bodies. The answer is in the word. Stay in God's word and believe that what He says He means. God's word is not a toy, It is spirit and it is life.

Just because healing doesn't happen right away doesn't mean we are supposed to live with sickness in our bodies. Health and wholeness is the right of every child of God.

BY HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED!!

 Rise and be healed, in Jesus name.


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blessings,
Vickie

WFW-The Fuel Of Praise

My mouth will speak in praise of the Lord. Let every creature praise His Holy Name for ever and ever. Psalm 145:21


One cold November night 2009, while waiting at a bus stop my husband decided to spend his time praising God. During this time of praise and worship he stopped and asked God, ''What fuels praise?" and the answer that came back to his spirit from God was, "Testimonies fuel praise, while praise is the foundation of worship."

When you look at it praise and worship may seem to be the same thing, but actually praise is all about what God has done for us. Our testimonies of His provision, His faithfulness and His goodness causes us to praise Him over and over. As we spend our time telling about all that He has done we can't help but worship Him. Worship is all about Him. Worship is talking about His character, His integrity, its all about who He is.

Some stop at praising.

Some stop at just talking about the doors He has opened, which is good.
Some stop at just talking about the healing they have received, which is good.
Some stop at just talking about Him shielding them from accidents, which is good.

But today I want to encourage us all to go to another level, to go even deeper.
Let's worship Him for worship is all about Him.

If He never healed us again still lets worship Him for He is Jehovah Rapha.
If He never provided food or shelter again for us, still let's worship Him for He is Jehovah Jireh.

Wouldn't it be awesome to get to that place where we worship Him as much or even more when everything is dark and dismal around us?
What a way to confuse the enemy of our souls when we can lift our hands in trying times and say, "Lord, You are altogether lovely, There is none as equal to You Lord, I worship you Almighty God."

Even though we love receiving from His hand, He wants us to come to that place in the inner court where we worship Him just because HE IS. Not because of anything that He has done for us but just because He is God. When we seek His face and only His face we can be assured that His hand will be open to us. He loves us and if He so graciously gave us His only Son, there is no way that He wouldn't freely give us all that we need.

Thank you Jesus for an open invitation to come to know You for who are. We thank You for revealing Yourself to those who would diligently seek after You. Give us hearts of gratitude that would lead us to a place of consecrated worship. We bless you Lord, we honor you Jesus, we magnify and glorify You, we welcome Your presence O Holy Spirit. With every breath we breathe may we enthrone You. In Jesus name.


Have an awesome Word-filled-Wednesday

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Blessings
Vickie

WFW - A mighty oak

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The oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called mighty oaks, a planting of the Lord for the display of His splendor. Isaiah 61:3




Today, I am making a choice. I am making a conscious choice to become a mighty oak for the display of God's glory. Today I am casting all my cares aside and leaving my past behind. I am setting my heart and mind totally on Jesus. I choose this Wednesday to become a tree of praise for His honor, His glory and His splendor, because this is His will concerning me.

If you want to walk in the will of God, choose to praise Him, choose today to give Him thanks, in spite of  your circumstances.


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Have a blessed Word filled Wednesday.
Vickie