A Good Report

A Good Report 

In 2013 for a period about five months, I would listen to the same message every single night. I just felt I needed to keep hearing that message, so it was my lullaby every single night for months. The message was called “Believing the Report of the Lord” and it was by Keith Moore. It started with this scripture from Isaiah 53 and verse 1.

“Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

A report is a powerful thing. When we were young and in primary school, we knew that at the end of every term, we would be given a report card. This report card showed all parents how well or how badly their children had performed in the course of the term. The report card covered the progress of every child throughout the given term and in my family, bad report cards got us punished. You went home with that report trembling and scared, worried what my parents (especially my father) would do. 

As I got older, the power of the report card did not diminish; rather it got stronger and by this time I understood that I could worker harder if I wanted a good report card. Sometimes it worked and I would have a good report card but for certain subjects, it never did. My grades did not seem to improve much no matter how hard I tried. Report cards are not the only kind of report we get however. We can also get reports on buildings, from contractors and there are progress reports that monitor our work in the office. Lawyers also have reports that are prepared for cases they are working in and then there is the doctor’s reports. Everywhere you look, there are reports on progress in every sphere  

The word of God is also a report like we read from Isaiah 53 but unlike other reports, it can completely change your life for better forever. There is just one little problem. You have to believe this report for the power it carries to be experienced. You see, there are things we claim we believe and then there are things we really do believe from the depths of our heart; and sometimes we only discover what we really believe when things are not working well. Sometimes, the things we claim we believe are just impressions or ideas we have gotten over time because we have heard or seen certain things over and over. However, when we are faced with a problem, we may discover we do not believe the things we thought we did. It was all just head knowledge. 

That's what I discovered in 2020 when I was diagnosed with Lupus. I believed in Jesus, I had given my life to him for over 4 decades at the time and I knew he was THE healer, in fact I had been healed by him in the past. I loved him with all my heart and lived for him but at a point in my healing journey, I came up against a wall that would not budge. I suddenly realised that in spite of how I believed Jesus was the healer, I could not believe that I could be healed and stayed healed and get this - ‘I NEVER knew that I believed this way until I faced that wall’. 

I only discovered I had a problem when I realised that the thought of getting healed and never getting sick rubbed me the wrong way. I just could not receive the idea that it was possible never to be sick again!!! You see, as I spent time in the Bible and read healing scriptures to myself daily, a thought began to form that, “As this rate, not only will you get healed but you will never be sick again for the rest of your life”. The thought would come as I was reading a particular healing scripture over myself and every single time, I would struggle to accept the thought. At first I thought nothing of this, but because I was read healing scriptures to myself 3 times every single day, the thought occurred to me 3 times a day as I read this particular scripture.

After about 3 or 4 days, I realized there was a problem. I would never be healed until I could accept and receive that thought and after 2 weeks of struggling with the thought, I was finally able to receive the thought. Finally, I embraced the thought without any struggle and with it I received my healing. Nothing happened in the physical though but now I just knew it was only a matter of time. I KNEW my healing was a done deal and a few months later I realized I was healed. I cannot tell you the exact day thie miracle happened but one day, I looked and the symptoms had disappeared and with them all pain went too. 

Why did I tell you this story? I told you this story because the report of the Lord, the word of God, played a crucial role in my receiving my healing. You see, unless you believe God's report, his arm or his power cannot be revealed in your life. Believing the report of the Lord (what his word says), is directly connected with what you experience. You might say you believe with your mouth but nothing will change in the physical until that word you claim to believe takes root in your heart. 

God's word is not like the words of man. It is dependable, unchangeable, constant and rock solid but it only becomes that for you when you dedicate time to it and this only happens through MEDITATION. It happens through spending time saying that word to yourself constantly and thinking about what it says. It happens as you begin to act like you believe what it says. That word comes alive as you continue to say it and begin to act like what the word says is actually true. It happens as you begin to behave like what you are saying is the true. It happens when there is a shift on your inside as the word moves from your head (Head Knowledge), and settles solidly in your heart (Heart Knowledge). 

It happens when you know without any evidence in the physical that you have what you were believing for is a done deal. 

So, every Monday we will delve into how to do this so that what we claim we believe and know begins to deliver for us. 

Have a wonderful week.