Diana Sykes: Faith Not Fear

I want to talk with you today about the power of having faith as the force and focus of your life, not fear.  The Bible says faith comes to us, which is the God kind of faith that will change circumstances to line up with your desires, by hearing God's Word.  The word for hearing actually means by hearing and hearing and hearing God's Word.  The great news is faith is a gift from God that He desires us to focus on and it is based on us trusting His character and His fidelity to His promises.  On the other hand, fear is motivated by circumstances, lies and suggestions of the enemy that attempt to provoke us to believe negatively, not by the Word of God.

Hebrews 11:1 says Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

It goes on to say that faith was the key or vehicle that people in the Bible we read about based their lives on and which caused them to experience so many victories.  They looked to God and His faithfulness to help them accomplish great things.

You know there are 7,000 promises in God's Word that He has given to us that He wants us to receive as gifts from Him.  He wants you to claim them as your own as well.  As I have written in my DETOX book, the Bible is a series of "priority letters" written that you need to open and receive so that your life will be enhanced and doing so brings so much glory to God.

The Promises are spoken of as exceedingly precious. These promises are Word Seeds that when received and spoken literally get planted and cause fruitfulness to be experienced.

One of my favorite scriptures is what Jesus said He came to earth to give us.  John 10:10 says He came that we might have life (everlasting) and have it more abundantly.  I did a word search on abundant and it also means superadded, overflowing, supernatural life.  Is that what you are experiencing?  If not, receive it fresh and new again and decree that if that is what Jesus came for you to experience, you are agreeing with Him and that will continue to be your confession as it unfolds!  Your life overflowing will bless others as well.

We also know in that same scripture, Jesus said the thief, Satan, had come to steal, kill and destroy. His name, Satan, means the arch enemy of good. If God wants you to be faith filled and fruitful, Satan wants you to be fear filled and living in lack.

So, choose to believe God's desire for you to experience His destiny and goodness for your life and reject the lies and lack thoughts and conversations that would allow things to be stolen.

Just like you take time for other things that are important for you to do every day, give God's Word first place in your life, sow His word as seed and watch your life become more and more fruitful!  Remember, in the beginning God!  You are His idea.  Do not let lies become bigger than the truth!  Faith will bring the substance of things you hope for!

We are going to talk today about getting rid of toxic emotions!  I know many of you are like me and you go to the stores and see the book and magazine racks with

Headlines:  How to Detox your Glands, How to Detox your System, Body, Thyroid etc.!

Why do these book sell?   Because every day we are taking in products into our bodies with names and substances that we can't even pronounce.  We, our bodies, need a catharsis. 

I have written a book called DETOX: Spiritual Cleansing for a Fulfilling Life.  It was written to help you, as a born again believer, get rid of thoughts, lies and negative suggestions that have gotten into your emotional memory bank that are keeping you from receiving the blessings, spirit, soul and body, that your Heavenly Father wants you to experience.  It is about you understanding more fully the revealed love of God.  It is about truth!  Just like our bodies get full of toxicity and need cleansing, our minds get full of "stuff" that needs removing.  Do you have memories of wounds, hurts, failures, rejections?  Just like God planted a garden and amazing surroundings for Adam and Eve to enjoy and share with God, and they believed a lie about God through a suggestion that was made, we too can have our lives and God's great plans for us, altered by wrong suggestions acted on.  It doesn't take long, though, to reverse these situations when we understand the source of the lie and the lie itself, and remove it with the help of the Wonderful Counselor, Jesus!  God wants us to live truth, not lies, criticism, anger, etc. and remove toxic buildup from our soul.

This book was written out of my own experiences!  I grew up in a very dysfunctional family and spent my early years running just trying to find a safe place.  After becoming a Christian and studying and learning what great things God had in store for me and understanding I was here because God wanted me here, I began to release the strongholds of fear, rejection, traumas, shame etc. that had built around my spirit! You may be a doctor, CEO, a housewife raising wonderful children, but you know you need an emotional detox.

You can take the DETOX book and spend a few minutes a day and allow the Holy Spirit to take the soap and water of the Word and his revelations to you specifically and begin to get free indeed inside.

Be encouraged with this today! 

Diana Sykes: Toxic Emotions