Stand in the Gap

People are reading and hearing that all things are possible in DARE to Believe. And to the glory of our Lord they are putting their faith in action and are experiencing the powerful results of faith in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ.  Here is another great testimony to stir your faith.

Julie writes, “Becky, we met on April 19th in Virginia. I wanted to let you know that I have been “standing in the gap” for several relatives that don’t dare to believe. My brother-in-law has been suffering with kidney stones and the folks at the hospital sent him home with pain killers and told him to call when they had passed. He was told that they were small stones.  After speaking with him on the phone and knowing how much pain he was in, I kneeled on the floor, prayed as you have instructed, prayed in tongues, and asked for immediate relief.  We were traveling out-of-town so it took me about an hour and a half to get to him and when I picked him up he was still in pain. We stopped for lunch about a half hour later where he passed a very large kidney stone!!!!  Praise Jesus, he is all but dancing in the street even thanking Jesus when I told him I had been praying for him.  God is great!”

DARE to Believe that all things are possible in Jesus Christ, and stand in the gap for your family and friends!

Healing Confessions

The Good News teaches us that there is the power of life and death in our tongues. Essentially what this means is that the condition of our health is found in the words that we speak. In-other-words, we have control over our health and lives. Let us learn how to speak words of faith that will produce healing in our mortal bodies.

Here is a list of healing confessions to speak out loud over yourself or for someone else that you are supporting. Where it says “Name”, insert the person’s name. And I encourage you to read this list out loud several times a day, just as if you were taking medicine.

Healing Confessions

Name, YOU WILL LIVE, YOU WILL NOT DIE, YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR DESTINY IN JESUS’ NAME.

Name, BY HIS STRIPES YOU ARE HEALED (Isaiah 53:5)

Name, IT IS THE LORD WHO IS HEALING YOU (Exodus 15:26)

Name, IT IS THE LORD YOUR GOD WHO IS TAKING SICKNESS AWAY FROM THE MIDST OF YOU. (Exodus 23:25)

Name, THE LORD WILL TAKE ALL SICKNESS AWAY FROM YOU (Deuteronomy 7:15)

Name, BLESS THE LORD, WHO HEALS ALL YOUR DISEASES (Psalm 103:3)

Name, THE LORD IS SENDING HIS WORD TO YOU AND HEALING YOU (Psalm 107:20)

Name, ATTEND TO HIS WORD BECAUSE IT IS LIFE AND HEALTH TO YOUR FLESH (Prov. 4:20, 22)

Name, FEAR NOT AND DON’T BE DISMAYED, BECAUSE THE LORD YOUR GOD IS WITH YOU AND WILL STRENGTHEN & HELP YOU (Isaiah 41:10)

Name, THE LORD SAYS HE WILL RESTORE HEALTH TO YOU AND HEAL YOU OF YOUR WOUNDS (Jeremiah 30:17)

Name, JESUS CAST OUT THE SPIRIT WITH THE WORD AND HEALED ALL THAT WERE SICK.  HE HIMSELF TOOK OUR INFIRMITIES AND BORE OUR SICKNESSES (Matthew 8:16-17)

Name, JESUS WENT AROUND HEALING EVERY SICKNESS AND EVERY DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE (Matthew 9:35).  HE IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER, SO HE IS HEALING YOU TOO.

Name, JESUS HEALED THE LAME, BLIND, MAIMED, AND MANY OTHERS, AND HE IS HEALING YOU, FOR WHICH WE GLORIFY GOD, AS THE MULTITUDES DID. (Matthew 15:30-31)

Name, JESUS SAID, “HAVE FAITH IN GOD.  IF YOU SAY TO THIS MOUNTAIN, BE REMOVED AND CAST INTO THE SEA, AND DON’T DOUBT IN YOUR HEART, BUT  BELIEVE THAT THE THINGS YOU SAY WILL HAPPEN, YOU SHALL HAVE WHATEVER YOU SAY.  BELIEVE THAT YOU RECEIVE THEM, AND YOU WILL HAVE THEM.” (Mark 11:22-24)

Name, THESE SIGNS WILL FOLLOW YOU BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE.  YOU WILL LAY HANDS ON YOURSELF AND YOU WILL RECOVER. (Mark 16:17-18)

Name, JESUS GAVE YOU, AS HIS DISCIPLE, POWER OVER ALL DEVILS, TO CURE DISEASES, AND TO HEAL THE SICK.  (Luke 9:1-2)

Name, JESUS TOLD US TO HEAL THE SICK, SO IN OBEDIENCE TO HIM, AND IN HIS NAME, WE BELIEVE YOU ARE BEING HEALED, AND KNOW THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS COME NEAR YOU. (Luke 10:9)

Name, THE LORD IS GRANTING YOU BOLDNESS TO SPEAK HIS WORD.  HE IS STRETCHING FORTH HIS HAND TO HEAL YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS.  (Acts 4:29-30)

Name, JUST AS JESUS HEALED EVERY ONE OF THE SICK PEOPLE BROUGHT TO HIM, AND TO THOSE TROUBLED WITH UNCLEAN SPIRITS, SO HE IS HEALING YOU.  (Acts 5:16)

Name, GOD ANOINTED JESUS WITH THE HOLY GHOST AND WITH POWER. JESUS WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD, AND HEALING ALL THOSE OPPRESSED BY THE DEVIL, INCLUDING YOU.  (Acts 10:38)

Name, GOD WILL KEEP YOU IN PERFECT PEACE BECAUSE YOUR MIND IS FIXED ON HIM AND YOU TRUST IN HIM.  (Isaiah 26:3)

Daily Choices

Everyday is filled with choices. We choose to live or die, give up or move forward, laugh or cry, hate or love, forgive or be vengeful… Everything we do, whether big or small, involves a decision.

What is happening in your life today? What crossroad are you standing at? What mountain appears to big to cross?

The Bible gives us the best advise in decision-making. It says choose Jesus, choose to believe, choose to serve the Lord, choose life, choose joy, choose the good fight of faith, choose to love, choose to give, choose to forgive, and choose the straight and narrow path… With sound Biblical advice like this, the daily choices in life become clear, and less overwhelming.

How to Present the Good News

Have you ever heard the way in which you present Jesus to others? We are to share the Good News with nonbelievers. The Good News is not, “Hey, you lousy sinner, you are going to burn in hell!”  That is not good news. And that’s not smart witnessing either.

The Good News is filled with hope for something better. The smart way to share Jesus is to say something like, “I know things have not turned out as you wished, you’ve made some bad decisions, you have found yourself in a tough spot… but I care, and more importantly God cares. In fact, He cares so much about you that He sent His son Jesus into this world to suffer and die for you, so that you could be forgiven of your sins, and delivered from this situation…”

The second presentation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ opens up the door to the receiver. It shows compassion and understanding which will soften hardened hearts to listen and possibly receive what you have to share.

Then after the door is open continue on and tell them how to receive Jesus. Tell them the Bible says “if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” (See Romans 10:9.) Now, when I share Jesus with people, I keep it simple, I do not bombard them with Scripture references. I share maybe a 1 or 2 Scriptures at the most. Also, you can relax when you share about Jesus to others, you do not have to quote the Scriptures word for word in this situation. Give them the basic facts in a way that they can receive from you.

1.The Bible says…

2. If you believe in your heart…

3.  Jesus died on the Cross for your sins and was raised from the dead and is alive today.

4. If you believe this and will speak it from your mouth that you believe…

5. Then you will be saved.

Then ask them, “Do you believe this?” If they say yes, then offer to pray with them. Ask them to repeat a simple prayer, like the following example.

Dear Heavenly Father,

I come before You in the name of Jesus Christ. I have examined my heart, and I do acknowledge and admit that I have sinned against You and Your Word. Your Words says, in Romans 10:9-10, “If you confess with your mouth, the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart, that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

Father God, I believe in my heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. I believe that He died on the cross to save me from my sins, went to hell in my place, rose again three days later, and is alive and seated at Your right side in heaven.

Jesus, forgive me of all my sins. Thank You, for saving me from sin, hell, and myself. I ask You to come into my life to be my Lord and Savior. Thank You for loving me and accepting me just as I am.

In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.

Afterwards, look them in the eye and smile, welcome them to the family of God. Invite them to come to Church or Bible study group with you.  

This is presenting the Good News to the lost and needy in a smart, kind and caring manner.

Word From the Lord

This is a word of encouragement from the Lord to His bride. (April 5, 2013)

In the midst of all the difficulties that you face I will help you move forward with the power of My grace.

I will carry you so that you can pick up the pace and finish your race. All disgrace I will erase.

Now enter into my embrace, and fix your gaze upon My face.

Your garment is made of fine, white lace.

Is There Healing In Feathers?

Question: “Becky, do you believe in the healing power of feathers?”

Answer: No, I do not. Feathers do not heal. That is witchcraft. Divine healing ONLY comes from the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. The Bible says in the Book of Isaiah 53: 4-5 “Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy]. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.”

Now, concerning witchcraft the Bible warns us in   1Timothy 4:1, “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,” 

It also explains this further in the Book of Deuteronomy 18:9-12, “When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations, “There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, “or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. “ For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you.”

Divine healing ONLY comes from the redemptive blood of Jesus Christ, not from feathers or any other form of witchcraft.

Author Becky Dvorak

Author of DARE to Believe and Greater Than Magic

Forgiveness, Think About It

Think about it… many years ago, the body of Christ had been falsely accused, mocked and spit upon, abused, abandoned, crucified and buried in a tomb. The situation “appeared” to be without hope.

The Servant’s service was devalued, they twisted His message, the intentions of His heart were unjustly judged, they destroyed His reputation, and He was made out to be the evil one.

What did Jesus do? He stretched out His arms and cried out to the Father and said, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”

The spiritual body of Christ is under attack today. What do we do? Get down on our knees and cry out to the Father, “Forgive them for they know not what they do.” His forgiveness saves many, your forgiveness opens the door for others to receive this hope.

The power behind this Easter weekend is forgiveness, which is an outpouring of the love that Jesus Christ shed for us at Calvary. I say take some time, and think about it…

 

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© 2013 Author Becky Dvorak–Healing and Miracles International, All rights reserved.

Your Prayer Makes A Difference

Have you ever passed over a prayer request because you felt that perhaps your prayers won’t help? I want to stir your faith to believe that yes, your prayers do make a difference.

James 5:16 claims, “Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.” When true believers in Jesus Christ pray words of faith they cause situations to change. 1John 5:14-15 states, “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of Him.” Our faith-filled prayers accomplish great things for the glory of our Lord.

I shared two urgent prayer requests on social media. One was for a little girl who was rushed to the hospital with high fevers and severe seizures. The other request was from a woman who needed prayer for healing of a relationship between her and her adult daughter that needs salvation and healing, but was not able to even start to minister to her daughter because of a broken relationship. I shared the needs of these people with you, with examples of faith-filled prayers to pray. Together we prayed in faith and both came back with good reports.

The little girl was released and sent back home within an hour. The family says this is nothing short of a miraculous touch from the Lord, and credits this to everyone’s prayers. With the other situation, the mother wrote back and said that her daughter’s spirit has opened up to her once again and she can now start to reach out to her daughter’s needs, and thanks everyone for their prayers.

I want to encourage you, regardless of the situation, reach out to those who believe and ask them to pray. And for those of you that are called upon to pray, don’t lose heart, your faith-filled prayers do make a difference. They accomplish great things for the glory of our God.

 

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© 2013 Author Becky Dvorak–Healing and Miracles International, All rights reserved.

Correct Healing Confessions

Question: Would this be a correct statement?  “Even though I might have symptoms in my body they can do no permanent damage to me because I was healed at the Cross.”

Reply: Hmm… I believe as long as we say “We have symptoms…” then we will continue to have them.  And if we say “They can do no permanent damage…” then with our words we are allowing these symptoms to still do some sort of  damage.

Since we want to rid ourselves from these symptoms, it would be better to start to speak words of faith that take authority and bring them under the submission of the power of the redemptive blood of Jesus.

It would be more effective to speak the following, “I take the authority given to me by the redemptive blood of Jesus Christ, and I declare that I am free and healed from all symptoms and all diseases in Jesus’ name.” Eventually, if we will continue to speak the Word over our bodies, all these symptoms will leave.

Proverbs 18:21 tells us that, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.”

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Learn to Function as a Team

Whether at home, on the job, or in ministry it is important that we all learn to function together as a team. A successful team has a common goal to do their best and accomplish a task.

One of the first attributes to a successful team is respect. God’s Word admonishes us in Philippians 2:3, “Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;” To regard one another as more important is to place a high value on who others are.

Another key to a winning team is that everyone understands and works their role and appreciates the differences in the gifting of others. 1 Corinthians 12:17-20 explains the beauty and reasons for our differences. “If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be?  If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?  But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.  If they were all one part, where would the body be?  As it is, there are many parts, but one body.”

One other point that makes a great team is a willingness to support one another when one is weak. Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.”

Today, our family had the task of netting a harvest of fish from one of our ponds. Even though we are all different in size and strength we valued each other as important and vital components to the team. Knowing our differences, we took our places and pulled the nets. When one grew weak the others pulled the nets all the harder. And together we gathered in an abundant harvest of fish.

These are just a few important attributes that will help us to learn how to function as a team.

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