Spiritually – We Have To Eat The Right Things – Exercise – And Watch Out For Drains.

These are three main things to consider in getting your spirit built up and strong. Number one, you have to eat the right thing.

The ear tastes words like the mouth tastes food, and the words you hear are either putting the right things into you or the wrong things. Words can put faith in you, or they can take it away. Words can put fear and doubt in you, or they can put faith. Words can minister death to you, or they can minister life. They can minister joy and peace or depression and anxiety. What you listen to, and what you watch and read is helping you or hurting you. Put yourself on a diet of good, solid Word of God—words of faith. Read your Bible in faith. Feed yourself in faith, and be in a place where you get fed faith, life, and revelation. When you need more, go where you can get more. Forget about shopping, working in the flower bed, watching movies, and doing other activities until you get yourself built up, because if you don’t, it can be too late. Get busy getting yourself full of the Word.
I remember a woman testifying one time. She looked like she should have died two weeks earlier when she first came in. She was skin and bones, without enough strength to get herself around. She stayed with us in Healing School, week after week, month after month, and she just began to blossom like a flower in the sunshine. Her color began to come back, she began to gain weight, and she stood up and testified.

Everyone who had been around knew a miracle had happened in this woman. You’d have to be blind not to think so. It was obvious. She stood up and said, “I guess I just got so full of the Word that there was no more room for the cancer.”
We shouted for ten minutes. It’s true. She just pumped the Word in there, several hours a day, just hearing and hearing. It’s not because it takes so much of the Word. It’s because too many times people are not receiving it. A lot is coming, but they’re not receiving it because of wrong thinking and filtering. But if you’ll just stay with it long enough, the Lord will help you. You’ll open up, you’ll change, you’ll get it, you’ll find it, and it will be life to you and medicine to all your flesh—eating the right thing.

Number two, you have to exercise. How do you exercise spiritually? One of the best ways to exercise spiritually is with your confession, your words, and what you say. How did you get born again? You believed with your heart, and you said it with your mouth. Speaking in tongues is a good spiritual exercise. Praising and worshipping God is a good spiritual exercise. Every time you’re exercising faith, you’re exercising your spirit. Walking in love, walking in joy, and walking in all of the fruit of the Spirit is exercising.
It took me a while to learn this. I thought, If a person does that, they’ve got it made. If they feed their spirit well and exercise it well, they will get strong. But after several years of teaching that, the Lord said, “You’re leaving something out.”
I said, “Help me, please.”

He said, “You can do all of that and still be weak.”

I asked, “What? No.”
He said, “Yes. You can feed yourself and exercise yourself and still be weak.” I asked, “How Lord? What?”

“Drains.” He said, “What if you have a lot of water coming into a tub, but there is just as much going out of the tub, down the drain? It’s not going to fill up, right? Before you can fill it up, you have to stop the drain.”

There are things that will drain your spirit. You can get built up good in a service. You can build yourself up reading your Bible and praying in the Spirit. But there are some things you can do that will just empty you, as if you didn’t even get built up.
Number three, you have to watch out for drains. Let me mention a few of them to you. Fear will drain you. Worry will drain you. You can sit in the chair and worry about something, and it’s like pulling the plug on your spiritual energy; it will just drain you. Another drain is too many involvements, too many activities, doing all kinds of things the Lord never told you to do. You’re running here and there, doing this, and staying on the phone all day about nothing. You’re doing everything that everyone asks you to do. You’re getting involved in every project and every program. It will wear you out, and it won’t be the Lord’s fault. He didn’t tell you to do it. You didn’t ask Him whether you should do it or not; you just did it. It will drain you and wear you out.

One of the biggest drains is strife. You can read all of Isaiah, Matthew, and Philippians, and pray in tongues for four hours, and get so built up that you feel like you’re floating. But then when you get into an argument with someone, fuss, and get intense and heated in strife for 15 minutes, you feel like you’re so weak you can barely stand up. Strife will absolutely drain you.

The devil knows this. What if he can keep you in strife all of the time, and you’re not feeding your spirit, either? It won’t take long until you are critically weak and easy prey for anything that comes down the road. That’s why it is not the love suggestion, it’s the love commandment. You do not have to fight and fuss with people. It takes two to be in strife, and you can be a nonparticipating party.

We’re going to act on this, and something is going to happen while we are acting on this. Your spirit is going to get supercharged. It’s going to get quickened. Just watch and see. Your spirit is going to get life and quickening, because it’s in the Word. Joel 3:10 says, “Let the weak say, I am strong.” Let the weak do what? Think about being strong? No, “Let the weak say, I am strong.”

What if you are really, really lost? Believe in your heart that God has raised Jesus from the dead, and say with your mouth, “Jesus is my Lord.” (Romans 10:9) What if you are really, really, weak? Say, “I am strong.”
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When you’re saying that, you’re not just saying your words, you’re saying His words. Is there life in these words? What if you said it in faith? Could strength be manifested in you?
One of the most exciting things I’ve participated in is the healing ministry. I’ve seen people who were completely bedfast. They could barely whisper, and you had to put your ear right over their mouth to even hear what they were saying. But after 30 minutes of doing what you and I are about to do, they were standing beside their bed, talking so loudly that you could hear them two doors down. I’m not talking about hearsay. I was there. I saw it. They were in the last stages of cancer, and then after that, they got better, gained weight, and got back into the ministry. Glory to God!

What we did then is what we’re going to do now, the same thing. So, don’t quit reading now…
Let the weak do what? “Let them say, ‘I am strong.’” Why would you say it? The strong spirit of a man will sustain him in bodily pain or trouble. Why would you say it? While you’re saying it, you’re hearing it. It’s feeding your spirit, and it’s nourishing you. While you’re saying it, you believe it. You’re exercising and feeding your spirit. What’s that supposed to do to you? It will strengthen you. It’s not theory; it will strengthen you. Psalm 18:32 says, “It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.” Friend, I’m going to lead you in this, and you’re going to say it, but not just to hear the sound bounce off of your ears. You’re using your spirit. You’re using your faith. God is doing this for a specific effect.

Say this out loud: “It is God Who girds me with strength. He girds me with strength.” The English Version says, “He is the God Who makes me strong, Who makes my pathway safe.” The Living Bible says, “He fills me with strength and protects me wherever I go.”

Say this out loud: “He fills me with strength. He fills me with strength.” Close your eyes and say it out loud:
He fills me with strength.

He fills me with strength.
He fills me with strength.
He fills me with strength.
He fills me with strength.
He fills me with strength.
He is the God Who makes me strong. He is the God Who makes me strong.

BROTHER KEITH MOORE GODS WILL TO HEAL MANUAL