AFTER THE VICTORY….

Once you receive a victory such as a healing, one thing to be aware of is the enemy will many times come back and try and put the same symptoms on you. This testimony is a continuation from my last one I posted, so you may need to go back and read it if you haven’t already, or reread it if you have.

After my healing manifested from an attack I had on my body for almost 6 months, about a month later the same symptoms reappeared. We have all probably heard the saying that your mind is a playground for the enemy. He will bombard your mind with all kinds of things and if you let those thoughts into your heart, they will take seed and produce – just not what you’re looking for! That’s why it says in Prov. 4:23 to guard your heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life.

So when these same symptoms reappeared, I was once again angry, to the point I was ‘being tempted’ to maybe go and have it checked out. But then I would immediately think, “Well, if I go have it checked out and they find something, I know it’s a lie because God’s Word says that by the stripes of Jesus I AM HEALED.” Well, this went on for maybe 3-4 weeks where I was in a battle between my flesh and my Spirit man (Gal. 5). They were definitely in a war one against the other!

One Sunday afternoon, after getting home from church, a friend and I had decided to meet up and go on a walk. As we were out walking and I was telling her what was going on once again, she stopped me in my tracks and said, “Lisa, where is your focus? You need to get your focus back on the Word of God and not on what is going on in your body.” When she said that, I knew without a doubt this was the Spirit of God speaking out of her mouth to me. There was an instant change that took place on the inside of me. And by the way, this is not something I didn’t know.

I know that what you focus on will be magnified (good or bad) and what you starve or neglect (good or bad) will die. I have taught on this, I have experienced this many times in my life. But somehow this particular thing going on with my body got my focus off what it should have been on. There was something in my body that would take place and when it did, I would get so angry but really that anger was fear. So from that point forward after she spoke that to me that day, when this particular thing would take place in my body, I just gave it NO attention – NONE – NADA. I would just start worshipping and praising God and thanking Him for HIS goodness and that’s where I would keep my focus — not on what I saw with my eyes or what was going on in my body. After a few days, do you know that I was completely healed and made whole! No problem since then — the door was closed on the enemy that day. I overcame and victory was mine.

* Something I need to add here to this testimony to complete it is that this attack did come back on my body several weeks after the incident above with my friend. I will be honest and say that there was some weariness that came on me at that point because of how long this attack had been going on and I really believed the healing had manifested. But I had about another month of believing God to see the complete manifestation of this healing take place in my body. (This journey was a total of 8 months).

So when these symptoms reappeared again, one day as I sat down on my sofa, I asked the Lord, “Do you have anything to tell me?” Right after I asked that question, I had about 5-10 seconds of thinking, “Would God tell me to go to the doctor” because I had heard people say that. Even though I had a struggle believing that He would, I continued in my thoughts saying, “Well, if He did tell me to go, and I obeyed and went, I’m totally sure they would find something wrong. And I would have to tell them, “It’s a lie because Jesus healed me 2000 years ago” and then I would have to just walk out the door.

Immediately after I had asked Him that question and had those thoughts, the Lord spoke to me and said, “Rise and be healed.” It’s like that was the final test of my faith, and from that point on, I WAS TOTALLY HEALED and have been for over 2 1/2 years now. Praise God!!