Mike Parsons
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1. Keep Trusting, Not Striving
When things do not change or improve, continue to put your trust in God. Keep seeking Him for guidance about what to do—do not try to fix it yourself. If you have gone to the courts of heaven and received a verdict, then applying that verdict is key. The key is to live according to the verdict, rather than the facts you are trying to change.
A big part of the problem is that, when we want change, we tend to focus on the situation. That just increases our focus on the problem, which makes us feel worse about it. Instead, we need to shift our attention to the solution—and the solution is always God. Keep your eyes fixed on Him. He is the author and finisher of our faith. Look to the hills—where does your help come from? That is the right place, so keep looking there. Do not allow the situation you are facing to change where you are looking.
2. Living in the Good of the Verdict
Jesus called Peter to step out of the boat. While Peter kept his eyes on Jesus, he walked on the water. But when he looked at the wind and waves, he began to sink. The key is to stay focused on the right position—in Him.
When you have done a court case and received a verdict, live in the good of that verdict. As Jesus said in Mark 11: “Pray, believe that you have received, and you will receive.” That means living in the reality that you went to the right place, received the right verdict, and now you are choosing to live in it—even while the verdict is still being outworked.
That verdict brings you to a place of contentment and trust in God’s provision. Do not let symptoms or circumstances affect how you feel. Instead, focus on the verdict. Apply it. Live according to it—even if the situation has not changed. That enables you to live in joy and peace in the midst of the storm, rather than just waiting for the storm to disappear. And eventually, the storm will pass, if you stay focused on the One who calms storms—Jesus. Focus on the verdict, not on the problem.
3. The Source of Healing and Wholeness
This principle applies especially to healing. Healing is a classic case where we often focus on symptoms. If you are constantly trying to fix the symptom, then you are constantly looking at the symptom, which can leave you feeling worse. Instead, look to the Healer. Look to the provision of God in Jesus—for your health and wholeness. Go to the healer, and the healing will come.
Back in the 1990s, I experienced this personally. I believed in healing, but although I had been healed many times, I was not healed of one condition—Meniere’s disease, which gave me repeated vertigo attacks. It was quite debilitating, and I needed medication, which came with unpleasant side effects. I tried everything: I had people pray for me, I prayed for myself, I did everything I knew to do. I still was not healed—at least not in terms of symptoms. But I had been healed; I just had not received the removal of the symptoms.
I used to think, “Well, healing is in God’s kingdom—maybe if God wills, His healing will be outworked in this situation.” But I came to see that healing is my inheritance. I went back to every Bible verse I could find on healing, wholeness and health, and I came to this conclusion: Jesus died not only to restore my lost identity, but also to remove the outworking of that lost identity—including sickness. God is my healer, and health is the inheritance He intends me to live in.
4. Receiving and Responding to Life
I put my trust in that truth and rejoiced in it—even while still on medication—until God told me to stop. When He did, I threw the tablets away, never had another attack, and have lived in health ever since. My trust is in Him who brings me health and wholeness—He is the source of life, and that life is in me.
Jesus said, “Whoever drinks of this water will never thirst again. That water will become in you a fountain of living water, eternal life.” So we drink from the source within, not from something external. We focus on that source of life already in us, bringing change to our entire being.
When it comes to changing our DNA, there may be things inherited from our parents or altered genetically. But again, the life is in me. One way I symbolically focus on partaking of that life is through communion. In the Engaging God programme and other places, I have spoken about declarations I made while taking communion—declarations about the transformation of my DNA and the removal of anything within the fabric of my being that was not aligned with God’s perfect desire for me: to live in health and ultimately to walk in immortality.
So I took communion daily, receiving life, drawing on the life already in me. The symbols—eating His flesh and drinking His blood—point to receiving His life, so that I will not have to die. Sickness is part of death, so as I participate in life, sickness ends, and I live in health and wholeness.
Over time, I began to live in a state of communion, where every breath I take is life. That was a process I have shared elsewhere. But I encourage you: rest and relax in His goodness, His grace, His mercy, and His unconditional love for you.
Do not strive—just trust. Come to a place of rest where you trust in His goodness. Do only what He shows you to do. If He does not show you anything, then just keep trusting in His provision to change the situation. Apply the verdict every day. Live in the good of the verdict—that you are free from whatever situation it is.
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