LOVE AND THE WASHING MACHINE

Since my son was born with a birth defect I have been seeking God for his healing. I have sought His way of doing and made changes in my life according to how God has taught me. God has made it clear to me that living His way is how I would receive from Him.

I have to say the hardest changes have been to love without condition. To love those who are mean and persecute you is a love I have had to grow into and of course I couldn’t do it without God. But that is God’s plan for us and how to receive from Him, to be like Him and to love even those who are hard to love, not to push them away but love them anyway - as He does.

My sons healing has been a process according to those changes I have made - lining my life up with the Word, submitting to His way of doing and being right, including speaking his healing into existence. The things I said happened just like He said they would if I submitted to Him. 

Most of his healing has been done, but the few things that remain God wants my son to learn to receive by His way of doing. When we know God’s way of doing and we do it no one can take from us what we have acquired through faith in Him. We know how we received, it’s not hit and miss, but we have gained understanding of God’s way of doing, which is the very purpose in my son now taking over with his faith to finish receiving the remainder of his healing. That is his call right now to learn to receive, to learn and then to share what he has learned - what he has conquered through Him!

All that to say recently I see that God is bringing me up higher to a deeper revelation of living in His Kingdom, and of speaking what I want to come to pass. His Word to me has been “I am self sufficient in Christ sufficiency.”

Philippians 4:13 I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency].

My wash machine is a front load ‘computer like’ machine and it started giving me the code that is wasn’t draining. Of course I didn’t want to spend money on having someone tell me what was wrong with the machine when I knew God could tell me. In seeking God I heard Him tell me a few things I was doing wrong like; using too much soap, using the same quick wash cycle, and a few other things, so I received that and started making changes, but didn’t see results. 

Then I started calling it to work. I sat by the machine on my knees and called it to work in Jesus name. I told it, that it had to do what I said, and that anything was possible for him who believes, and when I did, it worked, and when I didn’t call it, it didn’t work. 
One day I was all fired up to call it and it worked, then the next I felt discourage and ready to cave in, and then it didn’t work. I went back and forth a few days like that. One of the days I was discouraged and leaning to the world’s way of doing we changed the water pump in the washer. After spending a good few hours taking apart the washer and putting it back together it seemed even worse than before.

Discouraged, I was contemplating calling a repair man, but I didn’t because I kept hearing God encourage me. So I started calling it again and it started working again. Not always in that momelnt but it would start working shortly after I would call it to work.

In those moments I knelt by my machine I heard God tell me we had more power in His name than we realize and that whatever I could believe, it would be done for me. What I said, if I was submitted to Him, would come to pass. He then reminded me of my love walk in an area I was letting love slip, and an instruction He gave me I let slip, both having to do with love and obedience, both a stipulation to His power operating in my life. 


Mark 11: 23 Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place; it will be done for him. 24 For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it]. 25 And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him and let it drop (leave it, let it go), in order that your Father Who is in heaven may also forgive you your [own] failings and shortcomings and let them drop.

My washer works, my love walk has increased (because I see that is where the power of God usually leaks out), and what I said happened. What I said about the washer came to pass! I have a brand new washer although my washer was purchased seven years ago, it is new in Him, because I said so and He said I could say so!

*If I say I believe, but I wont love there is no power in my Words.