GETTING HEALED

Overcoming the World: If we want to receive healing and learn to live in His fullness we will have to learn to recognize and overcome the world. What we’re talking about here is not the planet we live on, but actually a world system. We can say the world system encompasses everything outside of us that is a part of the natural realm that we don’t (yet) have control over. Because the present world system is a result of the separation of mankind from God, yielding to and living according to the world system will in one way or another result in sin and death, for believers and non-believers alike. If we don’t recognize and overcome its power over us, we can spend an unnecessary amount of time and attention attempting to overcome something that we already have authority over. Our goal is to overcome not by changing the world system (which God will do in His way, according to His time and plan), but by responding to it through dependence on God to the point where, though we plan and prepare for living in this world, we don’t live according to its demands. As the saying goes, the boat in the sea is fine, but when the sea is in the boat—watch out!