Paul writes, \u2018We regard no one from a worldly point of view\u2026 if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!\u2019<\/i> (2\u00a0Corinthians\u00a05:16\u201317\u00a0NKJV) Here is an important spiritual principle. When you\u2019re trying to help a believer who is battling adversity, addiction, or physical affliction, speak life to their regenerated spirit. Speak to the part of them that\u2019s capable of rising up in faith and responding to God\u2019s Word: \u2018Faith comes from hearing the message… through the word about Christ.\u2019<\/i> (Romans\u00a010:17\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n
How does faith come? By hearing what God thinks, says, and can do. Until God has been heard, the last word hasn\u2019t been spoken. God instructed Ezekiel to stand in a valley full of dead bones and say, \u2018This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.\u2019<\/i> (Ezekiel\u00a037:5\u00a0NIV) And guess what? It happened! Ezekiel said, \u2018As I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together.\u2019<\/i> (Ezekiel\u00a037:7\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n
Now let\u2019s be clear; you can\u2019t hold on to a loved one when God in His sovereign wisdom decides it\u2019s time to take them home to Heaven, which Paul describes as \u2018far better.\u2019<\/i> (Philippians\u00a01:23\u00a0KJV) But until that happens, speak God\u2019s Word to their regenerated spirit. Faith doesn\u2019t deny the reality of the circumstances, but it refuses to be intimidated, limited, or ruled by them. \u2018Only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0Corinthians\u00a02:14\u00a0NLT), so when someone is a redeemed child of God, don\u2019t speak to their human intellect\u2014speak life to their spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Paul writes, \u2018We regard no one from a worldly point of view\u2026 if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!\u2019 (2\u00a0Corinthians\u00a05:16\u201317\u00a0NKJV) Here is an important spiritual principle. When you\u2019re trying to help a believer who is battling adversity, addiction, or physical affliction, speak life to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}