A FAITH-FILLED, PROPHETIC WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT!
DECEMBER 6, 2022
BY CRYSTAL G.H. LOWERY
Have you ever been thinking about something and suddenly remembered part you had “forgotten” or not thought about in a while? This part of the memory came back into focus in your mind and you exclaimed, “Oh, I remember that!” It is exciting to remember something that was a wonderful memory and have it to keep going forward, not lost in the web of experiences and memories our mind holds.
Even though I’m referring to past memories that you suddenly remember, I believe this is a KEY component that we need to know about how faith works. We truly need to renew our minds to the TRUTH of what I am about to share.
So often, people ask me how they can increase their faith or somehow fix something they feel is broken about their faith. In order to increase faith or fix broken parts of faith, we must first have a revelation of TRUTH and RENEW our minds to that TRUTH. When we do this, when we make our minds new daily by meditating on TRUTH, we will begin to automatically see faith roots grow deeper, wider, become stronger, and ultimately pull in the promise from the future.
Because we are humans and we live in this world where time exists, we tend to gravitate toward the thought process that there is a past, a present, and a future. We subject ourselves to time and the limitations and constraints that time holds. As such, when we think of memories, we are thinking in terms of a timeline or continuum that is linear. Memories are always from the past. We are always living in the second of the present. We are always moving toward the future and the things that have not yet happened.
It is factually true that on earth humans do live with time as an element of life. However, there is a spiritual component that we can access as believers in Christ that goes beyond time. We know that God is the Creator of everything, which includes time. Because He is the Creator of time, He is above time. That means He is not subject to time or its limitations or constraints.
If we could, just for a moment, look at Creation through His eyes, we would see a much different view that does not see on a continuum, but sees all at once. God sees the past, the present, and the future at the same time. Time is subject to God instead of God being subject to time.
We have the ability to transcend time as well because we are co-seated with Jesus at the right hand of God. Because Jesus was victorious over everything, we now have the victory as well, and that includes victory over time. Time, I believe, causes faith to fail in so many instances. This happens because we have not renewed our mind to the TRUTH that we have victory over time.
When we see and are believing for something in the future and so desperately want to pull it into the present by faith, but fail to see that happen, we often become disappointed, and even frustrated, questioning faith. Clearly, this is not where we need to be and does not help our faith in any way.
When we rise above time and renew our minds to the victory we have, we need to know that FAITH REMEMBERS. Let me share with you a faith nugget from the life of Joseph as recalled in Hebrews 11:22 TPT. It says, “Faith inspired Joseph and opened his eyes to see into the future, for as he was dying he prophesied about the exodus of Israel out of Egypt, and gave instructions that his bones were to be taken from Egypt with them.”
We often try to use faith according to natural mechanics, or try to fit faith in to a linear timeline. This is how our brains are wired, living as humans on earth with a past, present, and a future. But, as I’ve shared, as believers in Christ, we must know that we have victory and don’t have chains that bind us with timelines. This applies to our faith as well.
With the unrenewed mind, we typically think that we have a promise in the future that we know God has for us and we must use faith to reel it in to the present. While, this has merit, just thinking in this way will be an uphill battle. With the RENEWED mind, we will instead activate faith knowing that we are above time. Joseph was still in Egypt and near the end of his life. His people, the Israelites, would continue to live and become slaves to the Egyptians for 400 years, suffering and being beaten and mistreated under the Pharoahs to come. However, Joseph prophesied (he spoke about the future) about the exodus of Israel out of Egypt (400 years before it happened) and also gave instructions for his bones to be taken back to the Promised Land when that happened.
The amazing thing that I want to point out here is that when it says Joseph “prophesied about the exodus…” it really means that he “remembered the exodus.” How amazing is this revelation concerning faith! Joseph was looking to the future, not just hoping for this exodus one day for his people and speaking about it, but he REMEMBERED the exodus. This means he already SAW it happen in the past. It wasn’t in his future, it was in his past. FAITH DOESN’T KEEP THE PROMISE IN THE FUTURE…IT REMEMBERS IT IN THE PAST! THIS IS THE POWER OF THE RENEWED MIND! How could Joseph remember the exodus? How could he remember his bones being taken from Egypt to the Promised Land? BY FAITH, HE SAW THAT IT ALREADY HAPPENED!
Joseph wasn’t trying to PULL it into the present. He REMEMBERED it from the past! That is powerful faith that comes from knowing the TRUTH and RENEWING the mind to that TRUTH.
Joseph had opened his eyes of faith to what already was. He transcended the linear timeline of the natural to REMEMBER what already was.
As you travel the road of faith, taking step by step, launching out into the promises of God for your life, take hold of this powerful TRUTH that we have the victory over time. We can transcend time and step into the supernatural with eyes of faith just like Joseph. Instead of toiling and beating the pavement of the faith road, renew your mind. When you’re taking step by step, placing your feet in unknown territory, you can remember suddenly and exclaim, “Oh, I remember that!” See the promises and the dreams God has given you through victorious eyes of faith, not as a future event you are trying to see come to pass, but REMEMBERING that it has already been done, because victorious FAITH REMEMBERS! Based On Faith.
Crystal G.H. Lowery, Esq is a Christian Estate Planning Attorney and is the owner and founding attorney of Law Office Of Crystal G.H. Lowery, LLC. Based on Faith is an organization whose vision is to become an international resource that increases biblical knowledge of faith within the Body of Christ through comprehensive teaching, discussion of law, and the prophetic.
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