ICS Daily Devotions
Having Divine Health
3 John 2 (NKJV) Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
I remember that I was suffering from pneumonia about a week before we launched the second service at ICS. This was the only occasion that I was hospitalized in Shanghai. I was praying for myself in the hospital and remembered that I spoke to the pneumonia in my body to be gone in Jesus’ name. I spoke healing and restoration to my body. I spoke to my lungs to be clear from all infection of the pneumonia. I spoke to my body that every joint, every cell, every organ, every tissue would function according to how God had created them to function in Jesus’ name! I remember that I was perspiring profusely that night after speaking to the pneumonia. The fever left me the next day. Although all signs of the pneumonia had cleared, the doctor advised me to stay in hospital as a cautionary note as I was eager to leave to prepare for the second service.
Psalm 91:2-3 (NKJV) I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.” Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence.
During the current pandemic, being protected from the virus is the right of a child of God. As a Pastor, I am required to visit members in different hospitals during the pandemic whether or not I am in Singapore or in Shanghai. I will continue to minister to people in the city during the pandemic. I cannot allow fear to immobilize me. Therefore, I speak to the COVID-19 virus that it will die the moment it comes into contact with me because of the power of God and the promise of protection from the pestilence. I speak to it to leave and forbid it to come into my home or office in Jesus’ name! I do it before and after I have gone out for ministry.
1 John 5:14 (NKJV) Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
Every one of us needs to have the desire to walk in the perfect will of God for our lives so that we will be on a firm footing when we are caught between a rock and a hard place. There will be times when we need to speak to the “mountain” when obstacles or challenges come our way while walking out the perfect will of God for our lives. We need to have faith that the words spoken through our vested authority in Christ will come to fruition.
Mark 11:23 (NKJV) For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
Sermon Series: Speak to Your Mountain
