I was at church a few weeks ago when a friend of mine and I were discussing me selling an enclosed trailer I own. I mentioned that once I sell that trailer I won’t need to keep the Dodge Ram 2500 that I currently drive, and I can look at getting a newer/different vehicle. You see, the reason I initially bought this particular truck was *so* it could tow that trailer a number of years back before I moved to Austin. I then mentioned to my friend that it’s just as well that I sell the trailer and won’t need that specific truck soon because my truck is 30 years old and I don’t know how long it will last. On the drive home from church I was thinking about that conversation because I realized this was a perfect example of limitation thinking in my life, how I have been conditioned for decay, and need mental re-conditioning for life.
That’s kind of a vague series of statements, so what do I mean by all of that? A few weeks ago on social media I reposted an old article I wrote called “There Is No Such Thing As Normal Wear And Tear” which talks about how the children of Israel went through 40 years in the desert where their belongings didn’t decay or break down, and how under a better covenant we should be experiencing at least that if not significantly better. We have been conditioned by the patterns of this world and constantly socialized to believe in the power of death that we often don’t notice where we have given ourselves over to death-based thinking and the ways we have come into agreement with decay.
Re-conditioning for life begins with noticing our thought patterns—because many of our thoughts and beliefs are habitual, and if we don’t notice when we engage those habitual thoughts we won’t notice how and when to shift them in a different direction. I write about this in my book The Gospel of Life and Immortality, but we have been so indoctrinated by what I call the Worldwide Death Cult that we often have death-based thinking and language that we use regularly without realizing it. Some examples include “until death do us part” in our wedding vows, thinks like a “bucket list” which only makes sense if someone is planning to die, statements like “I’m dead” in common vernacular when we are saying that something is extremely funny. And these are just a few of the many. Food that is “to die for” is another one. Is the food really that good?
When we are able to recognize these phrases and habitual statements and the beliefs that underlie them, we can then shift our language. I don’t have a single “hill I will die on” when I believe something emphatically because I won’t be dying. Likewise, when I recognize that I have entered into agreement with death-based thinking and with the lie of limitation, it is important that I come out of agreement with that lie. For me, often I will verbalize that shift as a way of helping change my thought pattern.
To demonstrate this, let’s use my truck as an example. I might say “I break agreement with the lie that says my truck will break down and decay because it is old, and I come out of agreement with all decay-based thinking and with the lies of limitation and lack. I choose instead to believe the truth that as a son of the Most High God I have authority to release creation from decay. I command all rust, breakdown, and decay to reverse itself now in Jesus’ name. I release the power of regeneration over this truck right now in the name of Jesus and I command repair to all of its processes and parts right now!”
It’s not necessary to say certain specific words. This is just an example of how I pray in hopes that it is helpful to the reader to give you ideas of how you might choose to pray in a similar situation. One person might pray a much shorter prayer and command “Get fixed now in Jesus’ name!” and leave it at that. Someone else might pray even longer and specify which parts of the vehicle need what form of repair, etc. There isn’t a single right way to pray. There are a few wrong ones, however, and asking God “if it be your will” is definitely top of that list when praying for things He has already given us power and authority to fix. If you truly aren’t sure what God wants in a particular circumstance than praying for His kingdom to come and His will to be done in that circumstance as it is in heaven is never wrong. But in any situation where we are dealing with life and regeneration over death and decay, the only answer is life and that is, has been, and will always be His will. In any situation where we aren’t sure that’s God’s will, there is only a single remedy—to become convinced. The Father has already firmly expressed His will in this area in the person of Jesus, and that will never change. The great news about that is that it lets us know that we can always decree life in any situation, whether dealing with my truck body, with a human body, or with anything else.
We have been conditioned by the patterns of this world for decay, breakdown, and destruction, but it is time for us to undergo conditioning for abundant life! As we change our patterns of thinking, some things will come to us effortlessly. We will experience greater levels of health, energy, creativity, and more simply as a result of believing God’s truth about us and about all creation. We will experience greater prosperity, greater health in our relationships, and much more. Creation literally responds to our belief patterns, and as we shift ours to align with heaven, earth and all creation will shift itself to match. In music this is called entrainment, where with two slightly discordant musical notes, one note begins to match the other one until they are resonating in synchrony with one another. We are meant to become Life to creation so that it entrains to the divine pattern we release to it. There is a divine synchrony that is waiting to appear in our physiology that is unlocked by our belief patterns, and as we shift our beliefs into patterns of abundance and life we will not only unlock our own health and life but we will unlock the world around us into the freedom it has been longing for.
If you want to learn more about God’s plans for abundant life for you and your loved ones and help shift your beliefs accordingly, I encourage you to pick up a copy of my books The Gospel of Life and Immortality and Faith to Raise the Dead, as well as my friend Tommy Miller’s books Deathless and Transfigured. You may also want to check out Fiorella Giordano’s courses. All of them are good, but specifically the one called Becoming Goshen is very relevant to this topic.
