Yesterday while watching Creflo dollar, he preached about poverty, how being poor is not just financial lack, but it's having a part of your life incomplete. If you're ill, then you're poor in health. If you have broken relationships, then you're poor in relationships, if there are things we lack materially, then we're poor in wealth. In hebrew the word shalom means peace which means prospering in all things, lacking nothing, being complete in all areas, nothing damaged or missing, fullfilling and peaceful and harmonious relationships, being rich in all areas of one's life.
Jesus is called the prince of peace (Isaiah 9:6-7) and he also said in John 14:27 " I am leaving you with a gift-peace of mind and heart"
Peace in our hearts is joy, so Jesus left us with a gift, something given freely without works, he gave us peace freely.
Isaiah 53:5
"He was beaten so we could be whole, he was whipped so we could be healed"
Over 2000 years ago when Jesus was beaten, we received wholeness. This has already been done, all thats left is for us to receive it.
It's part of the covenant that comes with believing in Jesus.
Now that we know this we can release our faith and take it.
This is through confessing this word of God to the areas which we lack in.
Like Creflo dollar said, if you know that something is yours, if someone takes something of yours, you agrressively pursue it back.
Shalom-wholeness is ours, it's what God wants for our lives, to be complete in all areas of our lives. Lets activelly pursue this to through continously confessing the word until we see it in our lives.
