Don't Be Double-Minded

Let him ask (God) in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. ---James 1:6-8


Many people would never identify themselves as believing on both sides of the fence, but if you were to examine yourself, you may be surprised! There are many influences in our lives and most of them don’t even think to include God and His perspective on our lives. As children of God and residing in His kingdom, we are to think differently. We are to be so aware of what God has said in His Word as well as what was demonstrated as His will through the life of Jesus Christ, that whatever happens in our lives, we remain steadfast in our hearts and minds that God is quite able to walk with us through our circumstance AND end up blessing us more in the end.

Let’s focus on sickness and disease attacking our body or the body of our loved one. Whenever sickness attacks our bodies, everything in us wants to be free of it. It’s uncomfortable. It is “dis-ease,” and we automatically want to be rid of it as quickly as we can.

God has designed our bodies to fight off infection, to show symptoms of something going on in your body like headaches or fever. Our body doesn’t want to be sick any more than you do! God even set up defensive capabilities to protect your organs and blood against the attacks from the outside world. It is amazing how our body heals after injury or sickness.

But here is where we miss it. First of all, we let the sickness sweep over us and we accept it as “part of life.” However God set up our first defense system through our body rebelling against disease. Second, He has sent His Word establishing that it is NOT His will that you be sick which is documented all the way back to Moses and the Israelites in the wilderness. Thirdly, God sent Jesus Christ to come to this earth to bring back the Kingdom of God that was lost in the Garden of Eden. By doing this, Jesus taught that in God’s Kingdom, there is no sickness or disease. And He commenced in demonstrating this through miraculous signs and wonders. Finally, Jesus willingly went to the cross to take ALL of your sins and ALL of your sickness so that you don’t have to carry them any more.

So, how do we get double-minded? We end up allowing the secular world (mostly through the media) to dominate our thinking. We listen to doctors who have had patients that had no clue how to tap into God’s Word therefore making a long history of that particular disease prognosis seem daunting. We listen to our family, friends and co-workers tell about someone they know went through the same thing and all the difficulties they endured and still ended up dead. If we dwell on the world's opinion, but then we want to believe God’s Word, we are double-minded.

Well, I want to tell you of a wonderful lady I know who knows how to tap into God’s Word. She is not double-minded in the least. This woman has had cancer three times. Each time, she does what the doctor wants her to do, but she doesn’t listen to the negative from her doctor, family or the history of that disease or it’s treatment! She believes what God says. So as she is taking her chemotherapy, all the while declaring that the medicine will do what it is supposed to do with no ill effects. She speaks over her body saying the cancer will die and she will not!! She is confident that she will not have the side-effects that so many people endure. So after she has her chemo, she feels good enough to go shopping, go to a Bible study or any other activity. . . right after her treatment. How can she do this? She is declaring the Word. She is not allowing anyone or anything make her think any differently and is a walking testimony of how God’s Word works.

You, too can walk in confidence that the Word works. Don't be double-minded about it. Refuse sickness when it comes. When symptoms attack your body, attack those symptoms with the Word of God! You are God’s child, and you don’t have to keep one thing that doesn’t come from Him!

Confession: I am single-minded and stable in all my ways. I know God’s will for me is healing and good health. Sickness has no place in me, and I refuse to let it stay!