Choose God's Higher Thoughts

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. ---Isaiah 55:8,9

Because they don’t understand the way God thinks or who He is, people say, “I believe God wants to use sickness to teach me.” Or, they say, “Sickness is just part of life!” But is that what is in God’s heart?

All of us have probably held theories and beliefs at one time or another that have messed up our thinking. Perhaps Satan’s biggest lie is that sickness and disease are from God, or just part of life. When we fall for that lie, we stop resisting the devil’s attacks on our bodies and open the door for him to walk right in and strap sickness on us. Then we wonder why we can’t get rid of the sickness.

The first thing we think and do is to find a medicine to cover the symptoms and where we might receive temporary relief or recover. We then become reliant on doctors and medicine and forget that God can and will heal you of any pain or sickness you may have. We may also ask for people to lay hands on us and pray and, there too, find temporary relief. But then in either case, symptoms might come right back. We won’t find permanent relief until we make sure that the door giving the enemy access is closed and locked. How do we lock the door? By getting a strong revelation in our hearts that healing is God’s will.

You see, we open the door to sickness through wrong thinking. Wrong thinking produces wrong believing, and wrong believing produces wrong speaking. When all those factors are put together, we experience only bad results.

When faced with symptoms of sickness, we should immediately say, “The Bible is God talking to me. What does God think? What does the Bible say?”

God’s thoughts are higher than our thoughts. That means we mustn’t keep our thoughts or destiny in the basement of our minds. He has much grander and higher thoughts – not unreachable thoughts. The enemy of our soul wants us to stay below our abilities and dreams. God has a destiny He wants you to reach and if you are sick, Satan is happy and God is disappointed! Thank God, He wrote down His thoughts and ways in sixty-six books and gave them to us! And in those books, He tells us that healing is His will!

Confession: I don’t allow the devil’s doubt and unbelief to keep me from receiving my healing. I choose God’s higher thoughts and ways for me that will produce healing in my body!