Do you want to be made whole?

This is the question I’m hearing the Lord ask us, “Do you want to be made whole?” See, wholeness is different from being healed, because when we are whole we lack nothing. The main thing that’s keeping us from receiving our wholeness in God is our lack of faith in Him. Notice I didn’t say, “Faith in stuff coming to pass,” but rather, we should have faith and trust God to be God. There’s a distinct difference.

Before going any further, please know that wholeness is what God desires for you. There’s no question about that. You don’t have to pray for God to make you whole; the only thing you need to do is ask God to align you so you can get in position to receive His wholeness for your life.

There are many contributing factors that keep us from believing God to make us whole. For one, our comfort with where we are hinders us. For some of us, our conditions are not undesirable enough to change, so we think that staying sick, staying depressed and other things are normal. And as long as we view it that way we can’t see that it’s not God’s will for our lives. Secondly, we think that accessing wholeness is a magical thing, and it’s not. In other words we expect people to lay hands on us without us making the decision to change. It’s not the oil or their hands that will change us; those things only work when there’s agreement and a willingness to be led by the Holy Spirit. Thirdly, some of us struggle with convincing ourselves that we will not get out of where we are. We allow the spirit of pride to single us out as to say that our situation is worse than any other, and God is not able. Another hindrance is a lack of obedience. For some situations God will take the appetite away instantly, but in other situations we must be willing to follow the instructions of the Lord.

James 4:7 says for us to submit to God, resist (or violently oppose) the devil, and he will flee from us. The reason why the devil is not fleeing is because we have not violently opposed his lies, and neither have we submitted to God. It’s easy to hear the devil because we constantly feed, make allowances for, and justify what the devil tells us. And on the other hand, we make excuses for what God says about us.

It’s a sobering question and a bitter pill to swallow, but the Lord says that this deliverance is on us; it lies in our decision. We’re not waiting on God; He’s waiting on us to obey and submit to Him so He can lead us out of where we are. Selah.