SCRIPTURE:

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. (John 10:10)

God’s divine favor working on your behalf is an awesome example of His power and love manifested in and through you. God desires that you succeed in every area of your life, and you will need His favor to do so. In fact, divine favor is an essential ingredient in the life of every believer to live the overflowing and abundant life Jesus came to give us (John 10:10). We can’t reach our God-given destiny without it.

Divine favor is an exciting, free gift from God. It’s part of your inheritance to do great and mighty exploits for God and His kingdom. Favor brings supernatural increase, promotion, restoration, honor, and many other benefits. Unfortunately, many believers have never heard of God’s favor, much less have experienced it in their lives.

Not only is favor a gift, but it is a spiritual law that works every time a believer applies it. Once you understand that you have a right to God’s favor, you will have the faith to move mountains. Prior impossibilities that seemed insurmountable will now be possible. You won’t accept lack, defeat, sickness or living below your means. Access God’s divine favor by faith, and watch your life soar to new levels of success and distinction.

PRAYER:

Dear Father, thank you for Your divine favor working on my behalf. By faith, I believe it is working in my health, my finances, my family, and every area of my life, bringing forth those things that seemed insurmountable before. In Jesus’ Name. Amen. 

This devotional is excerpted from Bill Winston’s book, Divine Favor A Gift From God. To order this dynamic book packed with supernatural revelation, click here.here

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SCRIPTURE:

When Jesus saw her, he called her over. “Woman, you’re free!” He laid hands on her and suddenly she was standing straight and tall, giving glory to God. (Luke 13:12 MSG)

Remember the story in Luke, chapter 13, about the woman, whose body was so misaligned and bowed, she “could in no wise lift up herself” (verse 11). Scripture also makes clear that her affliction was caused by a “spirit of infirmity” (verse 11). It doesn’t say she had a crippling, arthritic condition or some similar diagnosis that doctors would give today. I’m certainly not coming against the skill and expertise of doctors—God has gifted many of them to minister the healing that they do. But how many people today are similarly troubled, in both their bodies and their minds, yet we pin the cause on everything except the spiritual malice that I believe is at the root of every disease?

Jesus, on the other hand, recognizing and identifying the source of the woman’s suffering, simply laid hands on her and put His words to work: “Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity” (Luke 13:12). The power of God flowed then, and she was instantly delivered of that foul spirit, enabling her to stand up straight for the first time in nearly two decades.

What the world truly needs are heaven’s solutions, provisions, and prescriptions—they are permanent, completely restorative, and with no side effects!

PRAYER:

Dear Father, I thank You for Your Word operating in my life to manifest Your promises of deliverance, healing, provision, and protection. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

This devotional is excerpted from Bill Winston’s book, Moving Up to 4D. To order this dynamic book packed with supernatural revelation, click here.here

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SCRIPTURE:

so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. (Isaiah 55:11)

(Our) words are like employees in a sense, their original purpose was not to express careless thoughts, emotions, and opinions but to carry out orders and instructions. And it goes without saying that most of us fail to keep our words gainfully employed! 

Isaiah 55:10–11 says, “For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” 

Words have been given to us by God to increase our lives, among other things, by helping us fulfill one of the original commandments He gave humankind in the Garden: “Be fruitful and multiply.” (See Genesis 1:28.) 

PRAYER:

Dear Father, I thank You for Your Word operating in my life to manifest Your promises of deliverance, healing, provision, and protection. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

This devotional is excerpted from Bill Winston’s book, Moving Up to 4D. To order this dynamic book packed with supernatural revelation, click here.here

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SCRIPTURE:

Then (Jesus) told them: Go and preach the good news to everyone in the world. (Mark 16:15 CEV)

Christians are commissioned to not only preach the gospel but also to demonstrate it. God has dispatched His children to the 3D realm of the earth with the expectation that we will bring 4D into it—we are to carry out the supernatural and do the impossible—as a way of demonstrating to the rest of the world the power and superiority of His people, His government, and His way of doing things.

We have been called to imitate our Father in every respect, and just as God spoke the world into existence and Jesus accomplished most everything He did here on earth through the power of words, so it is every believer’s responsibility to effect change in their sphere of influence through the proper use of faith-filled words. Matthew 12:37 says, “Let me tell you something: Every one of these careless words is going to come back to haunt you. There will be a time of Reckoning. Words are powerful; take them seriously. Words can be your salvation. Words can also be your damnation” (MSG).

PRAYER:

Dear God, today, I purpose to put a watch on my words and speak only according to Your Word, By faith in Your Word, I will carry out the supernatural and do the impossible. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

This devotional is excerpted from Bill Winston’s book, Moving Up to 4D. To order this dynamic book packed with supernatural revelation, click here.here

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SCRIPTURE:

“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand.” (Mark 1:15 NKJV)

How we see ourselves has everything to do with how much God can do through us in our lifetimes. To have greater influence and effectiveness in winning the world today, the Church must begin to see herself as God sees her: equipped and empowered by Him to perform signs, wonders, and miracles in this generation, just as the disciples and apostles did in theirs.

Living at this high-performance level of faith, where we produce from our spirits everything that is needed to enforce God’s will in the earth, is what’s known as operating in the fourth dimension. 

The fourth dimension, or 4D for short, is the invisible realm of the spirit that overrides and superimposes its reality on the physical, three-dimensional world when demanded by faith. Most people understand that the 3D world in which we live is governed by the natural laws of time, space, and matter. The Church, however, is expected, and equipped, to operate from a higher dimension—that of the Kingdom of God, which resides on the inside of every born-again believer.

PRAYER:

Dear God, thank You that Your kingdom resides in me and by the power of Your Spirit, I can operate from a higher dimension that produces miracles, signs and wonders. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

This devotional is excerpted from Bill Winston’s book, Moving Up to 4D. To order this dynamic book packed with supernatural revelation, click here.here

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SCRIPTURE:

But we live by faith, not by what we see. (2 Corinthians 5:7 CEV)

The first step to operating in the fourth dimension is to understand that this physical world we see and live in is not all there is. There is another, unseen realm that is just as real and even more powerful than this one. We call it the Kingdom of God. In my role as a pastor I have given many eulogies over the years for those who have gone on to be with the Lord. We often call their funerals home-goings because if the person was born again by having accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, they are not really dead, but have simply transitioned to another realm. 

“Our bodies are like tents that we live in here on earth. But when these tents are destroyed, we know that God will give each of us a place to live. These homes will not be buildings someone has made, but they are in heaven and will last forever. God is the one who makes all this possible. He has given us his Spirit to make us certain he will do it. So always be cheerful! As long as we are in these bodies, we are away from the Lord. But we live by faith, not by what we see” (2 Corinthians 5:1, 5-7).

Heaven is the dimension from which we manifest signs, wonders, and miracles. So as a believer, this physical world is no longer your limit. Your limits are now spiritual, determined by what you believe from out of your heart or spirit man.

PRAYER:

Dear Lord, I believe that this 3D world is no longer holding me back to its inferior limitations. I now operate through the spiritual realm of 4D from the Kingdom of God. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

This devotional is excerpted from Bill Winston’s book, Moving Up to 4D. To order this dynamic book packed with supernatural revelation, click here.

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SCRIPTURE:

 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17)

There was a man in the book of Acts, chapter 14, who the Scriptures say “never had walked: the same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked (verses 8–10).

Notice the man had faith, but he was sitting on it, probably waiting on a feeling. Faith is not a feeling nor is it a product of reason or human logic. Faith is a spiritual force coming out of your spirit (inner man) and once released, it will do the impossible. 

Faith is released the moment we act on the Word.

PRAYER:

Dear God, I praise You, Father, that Your Word, when spoken and released, builds faith in me to receive healing, deliverance, protection, and provision for whatever I need. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

This devotional is excerpted from Bill Winston’s must-read book, The God Kind of Faith. To order your copy now, click here.

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SCRIPTURE:

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV)

Job said “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me…” (Job 3:25). The Word of God tells us to “fear not”…God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV). Job returned to faith and God restored to him twice as much as what he had before. He got double for his trouble.

Real faith, or the God kind of faith says “If God says it’s true, it is true.” It needs no physical evidence that would satisfy the senses…it acts on the Word of God independent of sense evidence. This faith is much like Abraham had when God told him that he and his barren wife Sarah were going to have a child. “He considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb” (Romans 4:19).

Real faith is built on the Word of God alone.

PRAYER:

Dear God, I have no fear but walk in love and power with a sound mind. I need no physical evidence that Your promise will be manifest in my life. My trust is in You. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

This devotional is excerpted from Bill Winston’s must-read book, The God Kind of Faith. To order your copy now, click here.

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SCRIPTURE:

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. (Romans 8:19)

After Jesus stopped a storm in Mark, chapter 4, the disciples feared exceedingly and said one to another, “what manner of man is this” (verse 41). It’s the manner of man the world is waiting for. Romans 8:19 says, “For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.”

Two enemies of this God kind of faith are “sense knowledge faith” and “mental assent.” Sense knowledge faith says, “When I see it with my natural eyes or when I feel it, then I will believe.” It’s the kind of faith that’s built on some natural experience rather than solely on the Word of God.

Mental assent agrees with the Bible that it came from God, and that every word is true. But when the crisis comes, it does not work. Why? Because the Word never entered into the person’s heart (See Romans 10:8). Other enemies of faith are fear, doubt, and unbelief. They are all designed to rob you of your faith and leave you vulnerable to the devil’s assaults.

PRAYER:

Dear Lord, thank you for Your Word that works in my life. It saves, heals, protects, and provides. I will guard my faith through knowing and doing Your Word. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

This devotional is excerpted from Bill Winston’s must-read book, The God Kind of Faith. To order your copy now, click here.

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SCRIPTURE:

…according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. (Romans 12:3)

The Bible tells us that every born-again believer has been given “the measure of faith” (see Romans 12:3). Notice, it didn’t say “a measure,” but “the measure,” meaning that we all are given the same amount when we are born again.

This faith is referred to as the “God kind of faith.” Jesus told His disciples in Mark’s Gospel, “Have faith in God,” or we could say it like this, “Have or receive God’s faith.” This is the same faith that God Almighty used to create the universe. One prophet of God describes God’s faith as real faith.

When we use His faith, this “real faith” to understand and to do things that were before impossible, we are now operating in the class of God, mankind’s original mode of operation.

PRAYER:

Dear God, thank you that I have received “the measure of faith”—Your faith—that empowers me to do the things that before were impossible. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

This devotional is excerpted from Bill Winston’s must-read book, The God Kind of Faith. To order your copy now, click here.

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