Cultivate Your Miracle
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God wants to heal you!
God wants to give you the miracle you’ve prayed for,
believed for,
hoped for,
declared
and are expecting to see manifest in your body.
He is the God of miracles even if you’ve been standing in faith for a long time.
Oftentimes, when we see someone receive a miracle, we think it’s instantaneous.
But typically, what we see has happened after someone has cultivated their miracle, meaning they have spent time hungering for God, feeding on His Word, and stoking the fires of their faith with His promises.
They have done this by listening to faith-filled teaching and then putting what they’ve learned into practice.
They have spent time in God’s Word, reading it and studying it, to build their faith in Him and His power.
They have petitioned God in faith, praying God’s promises and declaring His Word.
They have spent time reading all the healing miracles in the Bible…and they have done all this to grow their expectancy of the miracle they want to receive.
When we make Jesus the Lord of our lives, we become the temple of the Holy Spirit.
God lives on the inside of us, and we carry the presence of God everywhere we go;
but how much we experience that presence in our daily lives is up to us.
And that directly affects our receiving everything THE BLESSING provides for us, including healing and miracles.
We determine if we walk by faith, expecting our miracle. We have the power to cultivate our miracle.
Cultivate Is an Agricultural Term
The primary way we determine if we’re ready for a miracle is by how much time we’ve spent cultivating that miracle.
To cultivate is an agricultural term.
According to Webster’s dictionary, it means “to prepare and use for the raising of crops.”
It’s also “to foster the growth of” something.
Just like a farmer cultivates his fields and rotates the use of them for maximum yields, so we’re to cultivate our faith.
We’re to allow the Holy Spirit to work the soil of our hearts by continually exposing ourselves to God’s Word, His presence, prayer, teaching, preaching and worship.
We’re to continually grow as a believer so that the seed of God’s Word can grow.
This keeps us in a place where we can receive our miracle.
Practice Receiving Daily
Practice Receiving Daily
He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Jesús les dijo: Por vuestra poca fe; porque de cierto os digo, que si tuviereis fe como un grano de mostaza, diréis a este monte: Pásate de aquí allá, y se pasará; y nada os será imposible.
We release faith by the words we speak.
therefore, we speak the Word only regarding what we need whether it’s
relationship issues,
our spouses,
our children
or finances.
Cultivating our hearts to receive a healing miracle involves the same practice.
Cultivating our hearts to receive a healing miracle involves the same practice.
If you need healing for diabetes, for example, then speak the Word to your liver, to your blood sugar, to the chemistry in your body.
You might declare Deuteronomy 28:22, which speaks of things under the curse, including liver conditions.
The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.
Jehová te herirá de tisis, de fiebre, de inflamación y de ardor, con sequía, con calamidad repentina y con añublo; y te perseguirán hasta que perezcas.
Locate Your Faith
Locate Your Faith
Because we live in a world gifted with modern medicine and all it provides for us, we are blessed with solutions—
medication,
life-saving procedures,
surgeries,
prosthetics and more.
Consequently, we live in a world where it is easier to take a pill, a shot or a treatment—
and there’s nothing wrong with that.
But when we receive treatment or take medication without consciously using our faith to believe that one day we won’t need to take the pill,
the shot or the treatment,
it locates our faith.
It shows us where our faith is and what our faith is in.
It will always be easier to take medicine than a scripture.
There’s no condemnation in taking the medicine we need, but wisdom would say take both—and at the same time.
There’s no condemnation in taking the medicine we need, but wisdom would say take both—and at the same time.
Take the medicine, but don’t stop using your faith.
And pray over your medicine: that it will do you good and no harm,
and that someday you won’t need it.
Don’t let time discourage your faith.
Don’t let what others say discourage you.
Just locate where you are in your faith and continue to grow it.
Every now and then, to maintain optimal spiritual health, we need to give ourselves a faith checkup.
Every now and then, to maintain optimal spiritual health, we need to give ourselves a faith checkup.
We need to pause and examine our hearts, consider what we’re thinking and what we’re saying, and then evaluate how we’re approaching that for which God wants us to believe.
Whatever we’re walking through, God wants us strong.
He wants us to stand in faith, declaring the end from the beginning and watching His Word work in our lives.
And yet, admittedly, we all experience life events from time to time that challenge our strength, our faith and our practice of consistently walking in that faith.
Believe in your heart.
Believe in your heart.
And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
Respondiendo Jesús, les dijo: Tened fe en Dios. Porque de cierto os digo que cualquiera que dijere a este monte: Quítate y échate en el mar, y no dudare en su corazón, sino creyere que será hecho lo que dice, lo que diga le será hecho. Por tanto, os digo que todo lo que pidiereis orando, creed que lo recibiréis, y os vendrá. Y cuando estéis orando, perdonad, si tenéis algo contra alguno, para que también vuestro Padre que está en los cielos os perdone a vosotros vuestras ofensas.
This is where Jesus put forth the absolute law of faith.
It’s His classic teaching on faith.
When He said, “and have no doubt in your heart,” He was referring to our inner man—
the part of us that Peter called the hidden man of the heart.
but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.
sino el interno, el del corazón, en el incorruptible ornato de un espíritu afable y apacible, que es de grande estima delante de Dios.
When we desire something then pray, our belief comes from our hearts.
How important it is then that we guard our hearts, because they determine the course of our lives
Keep your heart with all vigilance,
for from it flow the springs of life.
Sobre toda cosa guardada, guarda tu corazón;
Porque de él mana la vida.
Notice that Jesus said we must forgive before we pray.
“When you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against.”
Pay attention to whom the Holy Spirit brings to your mind.
Go ahead and forgive them now so the unforgiveness in your heart doesn’t interfere with the working of your faith.
You see, faith won’t work in an unbelieving heart.
Say it with your mouth.
Say it with your mouth.
Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,
Pero teniendo el mismo espíritu de fe, conforme a lo que está escrito: Creí, por lo cual hablé, nosotros también creemos, por lo cual también hablamos,
He was telling us how to exercise our faith.
First, say what it is we believe in our hearts, and then we keep saying it as long as it takes to see the physical reality of what we’re saying.
When we put words to our faith, we’re declaring, “It’s mine,” about whatever it is for which we’re believing.
It’s important that this is not after we see it.
It’s not after we feel it or after we wander around wondering about it for two or three years!
God wants us to find the answer to our prayers in the Word before we ever pray the prayer of faith—
and then He wants us to consistently believe it and declare it.
All the promises of God are yes and amen (2 Corinthians 1:20);
therefore, we can stand on His promises and have what we say.
Like the psalmist said, “I believed in God, so I spoke.”
Receive it by faith.
Receive it by faith.
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
Y todo lo que pidiereis en oración, creyendo, lo recibiréis.
We must receive what we’re believing God for and what we’re speaking into existence by faith.
Speak to things that do not exist as though they do.
Speak to things that do not exist as though they do.
as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
(como está escrito: Te he puesto por padre de muchas gentes) delante de Dios, a quien creyó, el cual da vida a los muertos, y llama las cosas que no son, como si fuesen.
God wants us to call things as they should be, not how they are.
Otherwise, things will just stay as they are.
When we declare the truth of God’s Word about our lives rather than the physical reality, it releases our faith, and our faith produces the result.
Speak to the mountain in your life. Command it to be thrown into the sea and watch what happens!
Apply corresponding action.
Apply corresponding action.
So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Así también la fe, si no tiene obras, es muerta en sí misma.
“So you see, faith by itself isn’t enough.
Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless….
Abraham was shown to be right with God by his actions when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
His faith and his actions worked together.
Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
¿No fue justificado por las obras Abraham nuestro padre, cuando ofreció a su hijo Isaac sobre el altar? ¿No ves que la fe actuó juntamente con sus obras, y que la fe se perfeccionó por las obras? Y se cumplió la Escritura que dice: Abraham creyó a Dios, y le fue contado por justicia, y fue llamado amigo de Dios. Vosotros veis, pues, que el hombre es justificado por las obras, y no solamente por la fe.
His actions made his faith complete.
And so it happened just as the Scriptures say: ‘Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.’
He was even called the friend of God.
We are shown to be right with God by what we do, not by faith alone.”
So, Faith without works is dead.
Faith without corresponding action doesn’t yield the results we’re believing for.
What is it that you want to see come to pass?
Be sure your faith and your actions are working together because actions make our faith complete.
Challenge Your Faith
When we reach a certain level of maturity as believers, it’s easy to settle.
to get healed to a certain degree, for example, and to accept what is really a partial healing. For example, we can experience an improvement in our vision, but continue to wear corrective lenses for the next decade to see clearly—or maybe for the rest of our lives—and never cultivate our faith further for our sight to be fully restored. Why not challenge ourselves to keep growing in faith, to keep believing to receive?
Why not praise God for what He’s done, and keep increasing in our spiritual capacity to receive more—all at the same time?
We do this with finances.
We do this with seeing our entire family come to Christ.
So why not do it with our health? Challenge your faith continually to not just be healed partially, but miraculously and totally!
Declare Your Healing Miracle
God wants to heal you!
He wants to give you the miracle you need.
We have to keep cultivating your faith.
We have to keep increasing our capacity to believe that we will receive.
Every now and then, to maintain optimal spiritual health, we need to give ourselves a faith checkup.
Every now and then, to maintain optimal spiritual health, we need to give ourselves a faith checkup.
We need to pause and examine our hearts,
consider what we’re thinking and what we’re saying,
and then evaluate how we’re approaching that for which God wants us to believe.
Whatever we’re walking through, God wants us strong.
He wants us to stand in faith, declaring the end from the beginning and watching His Word work in our lives.
And yet, admittedly, we all experience life events from time to time that challenge our strength,
our faith
and our practice of consistently walking in that faith.
Healing Is God’s Plan for You!
Healing Is God’s Plan for You!
For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
Pues aunque andamos en la carne, no militamos según la carne; porque las armas de nuestra milicia no son carnales, sino poderosas en Dios para la destrucción de fortalezas, derribando argumentos y toda altivez que se levanta contra el conocimiento de Dios, y llevando cautivo todo pensamiento a la obediencia a Cristo,
And God has given you all power and dominion and authority over the devil and all his evil works, which includes sickness.
Second Corinthians 10:3-5 tells us, “We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do.
We use God’s mighty weapons,
not worldly weapons,
to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.
We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God.
We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.”
We receive our healing by faith.
We freely forgive.
We cast all our cares over on the Lord.