A Strong Spirit Will Sustain You
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The Amplified Bible says, “The strong spirit of a man,” that’s male or female, “sustains him in
bodily pain or trouble, but a weak and broken spirit who can raise up or bear?”
What is going to get you through a physical attack? What is going to get you through weakness
and bodily pain? It is a strong spirit. What’s happening is there are so many folks who know the
Lord and love Him, but they don’t realize how weak they are already. They’re barely
maintaining, and the enemy is just waiting for them to get a little weaker. He doesn’t just want to
bother you; he wants to take you out. So, he’ll just keep waiting until he feels you don’t have a
fighting chance, and then he’ll pour it on. He’ll bring it from this side and that side. Why? His
plan is to overwhelm you and destroy you. He is a killer, isn’t he? The thief comes to do what?
He comes to steal and kill and destroy (John 10:10), but he has to wait until you’re weak,
because when you’re strong, it doesn’t do him much good.
Now, what if you and I were wise, spiritually wise? We would keep the enemy waiting
indefinitely, because while he’s waiting for us to get weak, we just get stronger and stronger. He
keeps waiting for us to get weaker, but we don’t get weaker. We get stronger and stronger, until
we live our whole life and run our whole race. We get stronger until we finish our course, leave
our body, and say, “You can bury it now; I’m finished with it.”
Millions of Christians are staying out of church. They’re not reading their Bible, they’re not
praying, and they’re not praising and worshipping God, so they’re getting weaker every day. It’s
not so noticeable because it happens gradually, but then “boom!” …and a lot of folks don’t make
it.
That’s why if you are smart, you will read your Bible every day. You will read it with gusto and
faith, and every church service, you will be there, unless the Lord tells you something else. You
won’t miss a service, and everything the Lord tells you to do to build yourself up, you will do.
Week after week, instead of getting weaker, you will get stronger and stronger, and the Lord will
be reinforcing you for the days to come and the months and years ahead. Nothing will happen
that you are not prepared for and strong to deal with. You will be ready, and you will be able, so
you will overcome and overcome! You will triumph again and again and win! You will be
healed, delivered, and have victory again and again! That’s the will of God for all of us.
Now, is it God’s will to heal all? What will get you through the worst sickness and problems? A
strong spirit will. Is it His will for you to be strong or weak? In studying this, I saw nearly 40
references where the Lord said, “Be strong.” I never saw once where he said, “Be weak.” If I am
strong, and my spirit is strong, how can it be God’s will for me to perish with diseases and
problems? If I’m strong in my spirit, I’m going to overcome them. Can you see it?
Reason
number two we are sure it’s God’s will for all of us to be healed is because of the strong
spirit.
Now, I want to go into this a little further. This stirs me up. You will need this for yourself, for
your family, for your friends, for people you meet, and for your co-workers. You might ask,
“What do you mean, ‘You will need it’?”
