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A Strong Spirit Will Sustain You
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Let me give you some definitions, and then we’re going to act on something here. We’re actually
going to feed and exercise our spirit actively before we finish. We’ve been feeding, but we’re
going to take it a step further and feed and exercise it.
These are three main things to consider in getting your spirit built up and strong.
Number one, you have to eat the right thing.
The ear tastes words like the mouth tastes food,
and the words you hear are either putting the right things into you or the wrong things. Words
can put faith in you, or they can take it away. Words can put fear and doubt in you, or they can
put faith. Words can minister death to you, or they can minister life. They can minister joy and
peace or depression and anxiety. What you listen to, and what you watch and read is helping you
or hurting you. Put yourself on a diet of good, solid Word of God—words of faith. Read your
Bible in faith. Feed yourself in faith, and be in a place where you get fed faith, life, and
revelation. When you need more, go where you can get more. Forget about shopping, working in
the flower bed, watching movies, and doing other activities until you get yourself built up,
because if you don’t, it can be too late. Get busy getting yourself full of the Word.
I remember a woman testifying one time. She looked like she should have died two weeks earlier
when she first came in. She was skin and bones, without enough strength to get herself around.
She stayed with us in Healing School, week after week, month after month, and she just began to
blossom like a flower in the sunshine. Her color began to come back, she began to gain weight,
and she stood up and testified. Everyone who had been around knew a miracle had happened in
this woman. You’d have to be blind not to think so. It was obvious. She stood up and said, “I
guess I just got so full of the Word that there was no more room for the cancer.”
We shouted for ten minutes. It’s true. She just pumped the Word in there, several hours a day,
just hearing and hearing. It’s not because it takes so much of the Word. It’s because too many
times people are not receiving it. A lot is coming, but they’re not receiving it because of wrong
thinking and filtering. But if you’ll just stay with it long enough, the Lord will help you. You’ll
open up, you’ll change, you’ll get it, you’ll find it, and it will be life to you and medicine to all
your flesh—eating the right thing.
Number two, you have to exercise.
How do you exercise spiritually? One of the best ways to
exercise spiritually is with your confession, your words, and what you say. How did you get born
again? You believed with your heart, and you said it with your mouth. Speaking in tongues is a
good spiritual exercise. Praising and worshipping God is a good spiritual exercise. Every time
you’re exercising faith, you’re exercising your spirit. Walking in love, walking in joy, and
walking in all of the fruit of the Spirit is exercising.
It took me a while to learn this. I thought,
If a person does that, they’ve got it made. If they feed
their spirit well and exercise it well, they will get strong.
But after several years of teaching that,
the Lord said, “You’re leaving something out.”
I said, “Help me, please.”
He said, “You can do all of that and still be weak.”