CONVICTION
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
“…If therefore your eye be single, your whole body will be full of light” (Math 6:22)
The secret to the supernatural life is a transformed mind. The alignment of your mind completely to the reality of God’s word produces constant and tremendous results. The crux of unanswered prayers, powerlessness, limitation, inter alia, is an untransformed mind.
You receive blessings from God not to the extent to which you believe but to the extent to which you are convinced. The character of faith portrayed in the bible is conviction, but what most persons do is hope. To alter realities in the spiritual realm and effect same in this realm it takes conviction.
I understand you believe God’s word but are you convinced? Conviction happens when series of encounters or one encounter or a vision or experience endorse’s a reality far beyond the realm of doubting. One thing you are convinced about is your gender, no excellency of words can make you believe otherwise.
Now you say “I believe that I shall not die but live to fulfill God’s purpose for my life” and then there is a sudden jerk in your aircraft or the vehicle or bus you are in, ironically you are the first to scream “Jesus!” with agitations like a drowning chicken, hey, scrutinize that faith!
The litmus test of conviction is Peace. So like Jesus you sleep in a waging storm, or like Jehoshaphat you just worship and praise. When you are convinced about something even when you pray you are so sure of answers that you forget to doubt, you just know it would work.
But God relates to us based on our faith. If you don’t have the faith to sleep in a waging storm or to praise under attack, get up my friend and pray, do whatever activates your faith even if it is calling the name of Jesus a million times.
However, it is God’s desire that we come into the conviction of the spoken word for our lives. To step into conviction is a work of the Holy Spirit and we must engage him. This is why Paul prayed for the Ephesians in 4:14-20 that they be rooted and grounded in love, faith and in Christ
SELAH: Step beyond the realm of believing, be convinced!
Shalom!
