When It
         Gets
       Worse!
 

There are times that it appears the outlook is worse than it was before we prayed or believed or stood in faith.  That’s really tough.  When you’ve done the spiritual walk and instead of improving, things go south.  So God wants you to understand that He knows there are times that happens, but there is always something you can do.  Find out what powerful steps you can take to see events turn for the better when things seem to be getting worse!
I.    Change the Direction.
II.   Have Peace in the Storm.
III.  Don’t Feel You Are Flunked. 
IV.  Don’t Let the Symptoms
         Scare You. 
V.   Brave It Out. 

       What
     Are the
  Symptoms?

     A symptom is something that can indicate what’s going on.  It can be an indicator of what’s happening.  We normally think about having a symptom of a disease or sickness.  You start feeling a cold coming on or you have a symptom in your body you never have had.

     Then there are symptoms of how we see someone acting toward us, and we’re not sure what it’s going to mean for us.  Our boss, our spouse, our friend.  We see symptoms in our finances.  There may be indications our job isn’t going well or the company isn’t doing well.  Symptoms are all around us.  And many times we associate them with something getting worse.  If there is a symptom, things are going to get worse.  Here’s a word for you to have as a believer.

     Don’t let symptoms scare you.  When you see an indication of some bad news ahead, don’t allow it to scare you.  Unnerve you.  In spite of what the symptom means, God is there with you, and He can take you past the symptom and into His will.

     We give so much power to symptoms.  As if big warning signs are going off and they can determine our future.  GOD determines our future if we allow Him.  So don’t give power to the symptom.  It cannot stop God’s will for you.

     When it gets worse, God’s power gets greater.  Oh hear that.  When the symptom gets worse, God’s power gets greater.  God is speaking that word into your spirit.  So put your faith in His power.

     Don’t be unnerved by the symptoms if they get worse.  Stand before them in your faith, then you can see a great work of God done.

     This is what a King in the Bible forgot.  Sometimes we have to be reminded of how the miracles of God work.  We can experience a miracle and then a bad symptom comes up of something else going wrong, and it can shake us out of remembering the miracles of God.

     In II Chronicles 16, King Asa of Judah is under siege by the King of Israel.  He is building fortifications at Ramah which is near the border between Israel and Judah.  This would keep Asa from going in or going out.  The King was seeing the symptoms of war!  And this was scaring him.

     Now, this wasn’t the first time he had faced the symptoms of war.  God had provided deliverance for his people time and time again.  But because things were getting worse, he allowed this to push miracle-thinking out of him.  That’s what I call it.  Miracle-thinking.  That means your mind knows how to meditate and think on the miracles of God, which causes your believing to get stronger.

     Then the believing feeds your thinking and your thinking keeps feeding your believing.  Your brain feeds your heart and your heart feeds your brain.  You get into miracle-thinking, and that’s when nothing can stop you from believing.  You’re going to get your miracle.

     But the reverse happens also.  There’s fear-thinking.  We see the symptom and think on the fear factors of what can happen.  That feeds fear to our heart, then our heart feeds our mind, and the cycle starts of fear-thinking.  Does that produce miracles?  Sure not!  It produces nothing but disappointment and fear actions.

     This is what King Asa did.  He had fear actions because he allowed the symptoms of war to unnerve him.  He forgot that God Almighty was watching over them and could give them victory.  So in his “brilliance” here’s what he does.  He pulls together all the gold and silver he can and hires the Syrians (his enemies) to attack Israel so they’ll leave.  It works.  Until the prophet of God shows up and shows how because he relied on the King of Syria and not God, the Syrians would bring war against him in the future.

     Then the prophet went on to remind him of how he should have been into miracle-thinking.  Remember that in the past the Ethiopians and the Libyans came against him in forces that were superior to Judah.  They had more chariots, more troops.  But what happened?  King Asa had gone to God for help at that time, and they had a great victory.  But this time he allowed the symptoms to scare him.  They forced him out of his faith.

     Don’t allow the symptoms to steal your faith in miracles from God.  They cannot prevent you from receiving great victory and blessing.  Symptoms are just symptoms, and God can change those.  Believe for your victory!

Spiritual Powerline to say out loud:
“GOD IS GIVING ME A MIRACLE!”

Here is a powerful prayer to say out loud:                          

Lord, no matter how bad symptoms appear, I will not get into fear-thinking.  I know You have done miracles for me in the past and You are doing them right now.  Even as I speak to You, You are setting up miracles in my life to overcome the symptoms.  So I praise You for a great victory.  In the name of Jesus.  Amen.