Get On the Life Raft of Deliverance!

[The Father] has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the domination of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love. -Colossians 1:13 AMP

We’ve been delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of His dear Son. The kingdom of darkness is the kingdom of Satan. When we were delivered from the kingdom of darkness, we were delivered from the rule and authority of that king and everything that is a part of his evil kingdom.

That means we’ve been delivered from spiritual death, sickness, disease, bad habits, oppression and poverty. We’ve been delivered! We don’t have to wait for God to do it, it has already been done. We just need to receive and walk in our deliverance.

If I were out in the middle of a lake drowning and my father threw me a big inner tube to hang on to, I’d grab hold of it! I wouldn’t say, “Well, I just don’t know if I can take that. You know, I’m the one who fell in the lake, and I probably deserve to be out here. I’d better just see if I can make it through.” If I said that, my father would probably get a little perturbed at me!

I can’t imagine what God must think when we do the same thing spiritually. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of His Son. Yet we sit around nursing out symptoms and say, “Well, I don’t know if God wants me healed. He may want me to learn something from this sickness.”

No, He’s thrown us a life raft! He wants us to climb out of that sickness and disease and just float on into safety and health!

CONFESSION:

I’ve been delivered from the dominion of darkness! I’m under Jesus’ authority now. I don’t have to be sick anymore. Healing and health are mine! I walk in freedom, safety, and health because I’m in God’s kingdom!

From: A Devotional for Divine Health Prescription for a Miracle, Mark Brazee, 1999