When Ken and I were first born again, we lived on the edge of disaster all the time. I’m not saying we weren’t seeing God work in our lives. If He had not helped us, we would have never made it! In fact, we needed His help just to make it through the week.

But as we matured in faith and began walking in the Word of God daily, an important change took place. We found that we needed fewer and fewer crisis miracles. Our needs started being met. Our family’s health began improving. Within 11 months, we were out of debt.

To tell you the truth, as precious and important as those miracles were in our times of need, it was nice for a change not to have to believe God for a miracle just to pay the power bill. It was nice not to need to pray in tongues, believing we had enough to pay the bill in the grocery line.

What made the difference? What was the secret?
There was no secret. We simply discovered how to live in the blessings of God. And we’ve been living in them ever since. We began to apply the principles of the kingdom of heaven and they worked!

Living a Heavenly Lifestyle

When I look back on how Ken and I lived more than 40 years ago, it’s easy to see that it was a low level of living.

Even though we were believers, we had no idea what the future held for us. We didn’t know what jobs to take or where to live. We didn’t know how to pay our bills, own a car or house, or live debt-free. We didn’t even know how to rebuke sickness and disease off our lives.

What we did know was how to live broke and sick. It was a lowlife.

Living in the natural is always insufficient and disappointing. You can’t have a full, meaningful life without walking with God by His Word.

But that’s not what God wanted for us back then, and it’s certainly not what He wants for any of His people today! God wants His people to live well in every area of life. He wants us to live well in our spirits, our souls and our bodies. He wants us to live every day in the fullness of His blessings.

Just imagine what it would be like to never have to be healed again. Of course, it’s nice to get healed when you’ve been sick or physically injured. But imagine what it would be like to live healthy and whole all the time. No colds, no flu, no allergies. No heart disease, no mental illness…no cancer.

Well, according to the Word of God, that’s exactly the way our lives should be. In fact, heaven is a pattern of that kind of good life God has for us.

What’s more, I’m certain that people in heaven never have to run to the throne of God and say, “Lord, I have this terrible sinus infection that just will not go away…. Please heal me!”

No, people in heaven live in the continual, supernatural power of a benevolent Father. They are constantly in the fullness of God’s presence. They are constantly in the fullness of His blessings. So they have no need for miracles—and neither should we!

Now, I realize you might be thinking, That’s a nice thought, Gloria, but that’s heaven—I’m down here. I still need miracles!

I understand, but 1 Thessalonians 5:23 says, “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

In this verse, the word wholly means “whole, complete, undamaged and intact.” In other words, God wants us to live our lives separated unto Him, and He wants us well in every way. He wants us whole, complete, undamaged and intact in our spirits, our minds, our bodies, our finances and so on.

We find this same principle in 3 John 2, which says, “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”

The point is, while we as believers may need a miracle of God in our lives from time to time, we should endeavor to reach the point where we become so developed in our faith walk that we live each day in all the blessings of heaven, in all the blessings that have been provided for us in our covenant with God through Jesus Christ.

Declare

Father, I thank You that I am called to live the good life — every single day. I walk in Your Word, I walk in Your wisdom, and I walk in Your health. My spirit is strong, my soul is prosperous, and my body is kept whole and intact. I refuse the low life and I receive the God-life. I am blessed, supplied, strengthened, and surrounded by Your goodness — today and always, in Jesus’ Name!

AMEN.

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