{"id":16310,"date":"2018-08-05T12:22:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T16:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/?p=16310"},"modified":"2021-10-13T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T17:30:06","slug":"when-pressure-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/when-pressure-comes\/","title":{"rendered":"When Pressure Comes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When pressure comes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Life is a beautiful thing.\u00a0 God made us to enjoy all that He promised us in His Word.\u00a0 Heaven and earth are at our disposal to satisfy our needs, wants, and desires.\u00a0 God provided all things for us to enjoy simply because He is good and takes delight and seeing His children enjoy His abundant provision.<\/p>\n

However, pressures often come to take away our joy and persuade us to not trust in what God has promised us in His Word.\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it, we have an enemy.\u00a0 His name is Satan and he is a liar!\u00a0 His unique goal and only power is that of deceptive persuasion.\u00a0 He wants to get us to distrust what God has promised.\u00a0 If he succeeds, which he often does, we will end up depressed and discouraged.<\/p>\n

There are two major pressures that can cause us to cave-in and in essence call God a liar.\u00a0 These pressures involve finances and health.\u00a0 God has clearly promised us two things in His Word that are undeniable truths: Abundance and health.\u00a0 God promised Abraham and his seed many blessings, which include riches and wealth.\u00a0 If you are a born-again believer of Jesus, you are a seed of Abraham and an heir of all God\u2019s possessions.\u00a0 This is the truth (Galatians 3:14,16, 27-29)!\u00a0 Satan will often come to tempt us to deny our position in Christ by trying to disrupt the flow of wealth into our lives and convince us that God is not faithful or that His promises don\u2019t apply to \u201cme.\u201d\u00a0 If we fall for this lie, we will end up in defeat and under the authority of darkness.\u00a0 In this state, we live like everyone else and are doomed to a life of lack.\u00a0 I know this to be true because I lived it!<\/p>\n

Sickness is another pressure, like finances, it\u2019s personal!\u00a0 When sickness visits, fear often accompanies it.\u00a0 We get an ache or pain and our mind begins to worry.\u00a0 Is it cancer?\u00a0 We think, \u201cIs it some other terminal illness?\u201d\u00a0 We say to ourselves, \u201cI don\u2019t want to be sick and I surely don\u2019t want to die before my time!\u201d\u00a0 We may even go to the doctor and get bad news.\u00a0 What do we do?\u00a0 The pressure comes, and we often fall for the lie.\u00a0 We believe the doctors report and become overcome with fear and worry.\u00a0 \u00a0The doctor\u2019s report may be a fact, but what is the truth?\u00a0 The truth is that God provided for our healing through Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Jesus paid for our healing when He was scourged.\u00a0 His wounds paid for our pain, disease, and illnesses (Isaiah 53:4-5, Matthew 8:14-17).\u00a0 Satan, through convincing symptoms, will get us to deny God\u2019s Word and side with the sickness.\u00a0 We begin in confess, \u201cI have cancer!\u201d and fear takes over and we convince ourselves it\u2019s over and end up in defeat.<\/p>\n

In both of the cases above we have a choice.\u00a0 The pressure of lack and sickness may come, but we do not have to cave under that pressure.\u00a0 We can rise up and declare, \u201cGod is faithful, and His Word is the report that I will believe!\u201d\u00a0 When we persist in God\u2019s Word and honor Him with our trust, He intervenes, and we prevail.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t take the time to condition their mind and heart with God\u2019s Word and when tragedy strikes it\u2019s often too late to do anything about it because they have not prepared themselves for the battle they are facing.\u00a0 They have not learned to trust God as their provider and healer and cannot seem to overcome their circumstances.\u00a0 Again, I lived in this realm for decades!\u00a0 I was a born-again believer and for years and did not properly condition my heart to live the blessed life promised in God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 I let circumstances dictate my life instead of God\u2019s promises.\u00a0 I did not trust God!\u00a0 I trusted my ability, bank account, and doctor\u2019s reports.\u00a0 How sad is that!\u00a0 The good news is that I did not continue in that way.\u00a0 Since around the year 2008 I began earnestly seeking God to discover and experience <\/em>His promises.\u00a0 I can tell you His Word is TRUE, and He is faithful.\u00a0 Satan no longer has an easy way with me for I know what God says and I stick with His Word and not the devil\u2019s lie.<\/p>\n

Remember, Satan\u2019s primary weapon is the lie.\u00a0 By his lie He deceives us to distrust God and bow to his deception.\u00a0 The devil says, \u201cDid God really promise that?\u201d\u00a0 Maybe that promise doesn\u2019t apply to you.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYou are too sinful for God to bless you\u201d and other outright lies.\u00a0 I beg you to become and student of God\u2019s Word and condition your heart and mind with the truth.\u00a0 Then you too will begin to truly live the good life abundantly promised in the Bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sad thing is that few Christians believe God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 They say they do, but in reality, they don\u2019t.\u00a0 Their lives are evidence of what they truly believe.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[494,1,204,201],"tags":[293,733,729,347,449,728,732,731,730,348,387,231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}