Expect Sickness???

I'm not interested in writing blogs. I'd rather share power-packed quotes from authors who say things better than I can. But when I read the headlines in Saturday's Norwalk Reflector, I knew that I had to write about this. Did anyone else notice this headline and react to it? "EXPECT SICKNESS" It was referring to warnings from government agencies about the upcoming flu season.

The devil wants us to expect sickness. He wants us to think that he is all-powerful and that there is nothing that we can do to avoid the nasty things that he has created to mess with God's perfect creation. The devil knows that if we let down our guard by believing these lies and giving in to fear spread by ungodly people, that he will be able to attack us easily.

I received an email two winters ago from a relative. He said that by February he will have a bad cold, and by March he will have the flu. "It happens every year." Then he predicted how many times his wife will have been sick by the end of March. That's just the place where the devil wants us to be . . . the place where we literally invite him to come in and destroy our health, our lives, and our peace of mind. We actually believe that his power to create sickness is something that we cannot avoid. We won't admit it, but we sometimes believe in a "great big devil" and a "little tiny God".

If you've been reading my quotations for very long, you should know that God has given us the authority to be as Christ on the earth, to heal the sick (Mark 16:17) and to take authority to "speak to the mountain" and command sickness away from ourselves and our loved ones.

I advocate getting flu shots because few of us have perfect faith. But I am convinced that most of us could have better health if we would verbally bind Satan from attacking us and refusing disease at the first symptom . . . or even before the first symptom appears.

As we go into fall and winter, into the so-called "flu season", and as our kids are back in school and in contact with communicable diseases, refuse to believe that you/they will contract everything that comes along. "EXPECT HEALTH".