GOING UNDERGROUND TO WEED OUT THE TRUTH

 At our previous home we had a patch of weeds that grew beside the garage which appeared to have been a flower bed at one time. 
 One day we decided to make that eye sore a beautiful garden once again.
 First step, destroy the weeds, ivy and weird little tree things that had taken root. My husband suggested a weed killer that he had just used on the driveway.
  Wanting to tackle the job myself he told me to just spray it on the weeds, the poison will work it’s way down into the roots and within a few days the weeds will die. 
   Immediately I thought this is not entirely correct.
 Actually, the weed actually dies the minute the poison touches the roots, it just takes a day or two for us to see the results above ground.
  My hubby showed me the brown plants in the cracks in our drive as further evidence that the substance he used really works. This helped build my faith in it. 
  All this brings to mind something that happened to me several years ago when a harmless freckle on my leg suddenly began to grow and change in shape and color. 
 I showed the spot on my knee to a couple of people at work that recently had skin cancers removed and they pointed to it and said, “You need to get that thing looked at NOW!”  
   Fear gripped my heart as I headed to my computer to look up all I could find about skin cancer but as I was walking to my desk I heard the Holy Spirit speak to my heart, “No, I want you to find out everything I have done for you in my Word.” 
 Now at the time I had already been renewing my mind in the area of healing and I used Jesus example when He cursed the fig tree in Mark 11:12-33 to stand on. 
       “Now the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry. And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.”
         In response Jesus said to it, ‘Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.’ And His disciples heard it.” 
        “Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter, remembering, said to Him, ‘Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away.’ So Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.” 
   So I spoke directly to that place on my leg and using the word of God I cursed the root of that cancerous looking thing. “I don’t care what you are or what your name is because Jesus name is above your name. You are not of my God and you will bear no fruit in my body! You are dead at the root.”  
     I want to point out to you where the Bible said Jesus responded to the plant. In other words the fig tree was talking to Him, conveying a message. Things are speaking to us constantly. They may not be conveying actual words but their messages are clear enough. So we need to answer them with the Word of God and speak truth over them. 
    Nothing seemed to change, in fact that thing started to grow larger over the next few days. And I want you to know that Satan came at me from all directions like a barrage of gunfire. In the middle of the night thoughts would come, “It’s not working.”  So I answered them, “dead at the root!”
  And on the news, “Doctors are seeing more cases of skin cancer than ever these days.” Through family members, “Brenda, I want to remind you that skin cancer runs in the family so watch out for it.” 
     Now notice, I never once went back to God and said, “Hey wait a minute, what’s going on here, how come it isn’t working? Why aren’t You doing Your part?”
    Nope! 
    Because I believed in my heart when I prayed that it was done. I settled it then and already saw it as a finished work, it was just a matter of time before my physical eyes saw the results on the surface. In my heart I saw the root of that thing on my leg drying up when my words penetrated the skin. 
   Two weeks later that thing fell off of my leg and left a smooth healthy patch of skin in it’s place. Praise Jesus!!!
  So the word of God, spoken in faith releases the power of God in our lives.
  But if a person is just speaking the word ending with a “I hope this works,” attitude it only means they don’t actually believe it. That is a kind of “fake it until I make it” prayer.
   I didn’t understand how it actually worked in the spiritual but I trusted God’s word and believed in my heart that God’s word would “soak” down into the root of that thing and kill it!  John 3:16 confirmed His love for us and I take that very personal and the heart knowledge of His love will replace “hope so’s.” 
  We can grow deep roots in the love of God through His word and “faith works through love.”
    “So shall my word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11
  “For the word of God is alive and active.. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12
    But when it’s all said and done …. “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.” Isaiah 40:8

 Contact Brenda Groves at: bkgroves1996@yahoo.com