Changing Your Perspective of How to Receive from God
Let us begin with a hard truth. We need to expose a wrong mindset. It is profound to discover that God has already freely given us all things. What more can He do? He has redeemed us from the curse so that we can inherit a blessing. That blessing is that we can live a God kind of life. We can live healthy, wealthy, and strong. Yes, we can live a victorious Christian life. How can we receive from God that which He has already given? And what can we receive that He has not already given?
Friends, we have His blessing, His power, His authority, His Presence, His armor, and weaponry. We have His Word, Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit and an inheritance beyond description. May you discover a new perspective on how to receive from God as you read this blog post.
How Do We Receive From God – A Promise or a Provision?
Here, let us define some words. There is a vast difference in what God has provided and His promises. You see, He has promised to come back and gather us together and we will ever be with Him. We will receive this reward from God in the future. We are also waiting to receive a glorified body at His second coming. His promises cannot be changed. A promise carries the idea that it is to come but it is not available yet. Google defines it as a declaration or assurance that one will do a particular thing or that a particular event will happen.
If we view God as a ‘someday promise maker’, we are always putting what is available today into the future. Now, God is not the one holding back or waiting. This is our mindset, and it can be changed.
Receiving What God Has Provided
Next, let us look at receiving from God based on His provisions. Brothers and Sisters, when Jesus said, “it is finished,” He meant it. At that moment, sin was defeated along with the curses of sickness, poverty, and addiction. We can see an illustration of this all the way back in the beginning when He created Adam. Everything Adam would ever need was created before Adam became alive. Nothing was forgotten. God is a genius who has provided and supplied us with everything we will need to live a blessed, God kind of life.
The problem may be that we do not believe that we already have it.
We keep waiting on God as if we do not have what His Word says we have. We look in our soul, we examine our body and then we gaze into His Word and tell Him why it has not worked. To say we are waiting to receive from God implies God has done nothing yet. We keep wishing and hoping that God is getting ready to bless us or to heal or prosper us.
Receiving From God by Faith
Faith is based on what God has done. We receive salvation from God because of His work over 2000 years ago. Anything we desire to receive from God will come the same way, faith in the provision.
To illustrate this, picture a table that is already prepared and furnished by God. You do not have to receive from God, you simply go and partake.
Picture an armory in which every weapon is supplied, and all the armor needed is already yours. Picture yourself as armed and dangerous to anything that is evil. Imagine yourself as a victorious overcoming Christian who is prepared to face any obstacle.
Picture God who is so good and all knowing that He has provided you with every good thing and has withheld nothing from you. Otherwise, you are picturing a God who has left you lacking, and it is your job to get Him to give it.
It may be hard to receive from God when we are thinking that He can do it but has done nothing yet. Friend, it is all yours! It is all provided! You have received but you must know it and believe it. At the cross and by your new birth experience, you have received all that heaven has to offer. All its resources, all its life and health where no sickness exists. You are in His kingdom, God’s kingdom. You are His child, God’s child. You have obtained an inheritance from GOD!!!! And, you have received it already!
He who has set everything into motion, created all that is to flawlessly function, hung the sun, the moon, and the stars. Designer of the Milkyway and the galaxies, the engineer of the magnificent wonder of the human body. The one who knows the depth of the ocean and provided fish with a perfect atmosphere of life to thrive and flourish in. This one is not the one to question. This one has already provided you with what you desire.
How to Receive from God Scriptures
Below are some Scriptures that will help you understand how to receive from God all that He has provided already.
2 Peter 1:3 – “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue.”
Romans 8:32 – “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?”
1 Corinthians 2:12 – “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.”
Ephesians 1:3 – “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.”
Do you better understand how to receive from God what He has given you? Comment below!
I know it’s true, thank you