Speak a So Be It

This message is a word of instruction for the days ahead. The word is from 2 Corinthians 1:20. “For no matter how many promises God made, they are “Yes” in Christ.” Let’s stop there. They are “yes” in Christ because Jesus Christ has secured them all for us. That’s why they are all “Yes.” Whether its salvation, healing, deliverance, restoration or reconciliation, no matter what the situation is they are all “Yes” because Jesus did it all. That’s why when he hung on the cross and said, “It is finished,” it was.

So we now understand that it’s all done, no matter what we need. We may need a spouse or we may want children or a new job. All of God’s promises are “Yes” in Christ and if we are in Christ, born again of the Spirit of God, forgiven and washed in the blood of Jesus, these promises are for us!

So why aren’t the promises of God overflowing in our lives? Let’s read on. “And so through him [Jesus] the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.” “Amen” means “So be it!” “So be” a spouse, “so be” a new job, “so be” freedom, “so be” prosperity. We need to be saying, “So be it!” Whatever God’s promises are, you need to be saying, “So be it!” You may have a list of promises before you that you want God to fulfill in your life. You need to do your part and say “Amen” or “Yes” to what God has already promised us!

When I was a little child growing up my grandmother used to say, “If you expect this or that to happen you better change your tune.” That is what the Holy Spirit is saying to us too. We need to sing a new song, a song of “So be it!” We need to sing, “So be it” to the Lord. Let it be so in my life. You are what you said! What You did is sure! Your promises are sure! Jesus Christ has guaranteed them and done everything to secure them for us.

God reminded me in Ephesians 6 that the promise of God or the Word of God is the sword of the Spirit. I have to be honest with you I do not relate to swords of fencing since we do not live in medieval times. I do relate to a machete. Picture when they are trying to clear a field or a path through the jungle they take out a nice sharp knife. You’ve seen that in Indian Jones or in documentaries. That’s the sword of the Spirit for us: using the Word of God to clear away the brush.

God has been speaking about a new day and a new time. He spoke to us from Isaiah 40. “Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed.” In the King James it reads, “her warfare is accomplished.” God has also spoken to us from the Song of Songs that the winter is passed. Flowers now appear on the earth, the season of singing has come. Even though in the natural we are facing winter, God is speaking a new song to us, a new word to us, a new season to us. The season of singing has come. Growth and newness of life has come!

So, how do we get from where we are to the promises and season that God has for us when we know what is happening in our life? The devil is opposing us. He’s rallying his forces to oppose the new thing that God is doing. Perhaps you’ve had more trouble in your life in the last few weeks than you’ve ever had before. And probably there is more upheaval because two things are happening: the devil is opposing you and also, you have been declaring with us that the hard service has been completed. It is the appointed time for the promises to be made manifest. We have action from heaven and action from hell but we have the sword of the Spirit that is going to clear the path for us. It is a new path in a new place in a new time. It is a way we have not walked before because we have not yet fully walked into the promises that we desire but we can step into them by using the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God.

It also says in Ephesians 5:19 and 20, “speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Always giving thanks for the bad things? No! Always giving thanks for the promises! He promised to make all grace abound to us and we can say that to the Lord. Sing a new song of thanksgiving. We can always give thanks because Jesus has done it all, the promises of God have been secured through Him. When we get activity from heaven and hell and we can’t handle it we need to know that the promises of God are going to get you out of trouble.

The promises of God are worth fighting for. God’s Word says that the kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent or the forceful take it by force. We are well equipped to do this with the Word of God. In the morning start giving thanks to the Lord for what He has already done that day. Speak a “So be it!”

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