You have legal rights. Do you know how to enforce them?
Gary Keesee • October 20, 2020
There’s never been a more important time than right now.
SO many things have happened this year. And things only seem to be ramping up.
The world has been in turmoil… our nation is screaming for justice to be served… an election is coming...
I don’t like to give the enemy any attention, but there’s something I have to talk about right now.
We HAVE TO WAKE UP and see EXACTLY what he is doing.
The enemy has come at us in 2020 more than ever. The Bible says in John 10:10 that he comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. And he’s come from every side with his attempts this year.
He’s tried to take lives. He’s attempted to shut down churches. He’s worked to divide our nation, our communities, our churches, and our homes.
He will never stop trying to destroy.
BUT there’s a second piece to that Scripture we should be focusing on—
You’ve probably heard me talk about how I used to be sick and on antidepressants.
What you might not know is that, when I received my healing, God told me not to pay attention to my emotions or feelings… because it was a LEGAL matter.
A LEGAL matter.
Now, I always talk about being a “spiritual scientist,” because I want to know everything I can about God and His Kingdom. So, of course, when God said my healing was a legal matter, I had to find out exactly what that meant.
Stick with me on this.
The only way we will ever truly see justice in this world, in this nation, or our lives is by exercising our legal rights as believers.
Because as believers, justice has already been served on OUR behalf.
That’s a bold statement, I know. This is where I’m going to need you to really stick with me because we’re going ALL IN.
It’s like this: imagine that you’re sitting in the defendant’s chair in a court of law. Since the Bible tells us that Satan is the accuser of the brethren, picture him sitting on the other side of the courtroom as the plaintiff.
Do you have the image in your mind?
Now, imagine Satan telling the judge over and over again that you belong to him.
Only he’s wrong. Because, as a child of God, you have someone who stepped in on your behalf and paid the price for you to walk away, FREE AND CLEAR, from Satan and ALL of his taunting and tactics.
That someone was Jesus.
Jesus was already judged by The Law and pronounced innocent. He didn’t sin. In fact, in Acts 8:32 we read that Jesus was deprived of justice.
Jesus—the only one who wasn’t guilty—was deprived of justice and crucified as guilty… FOR US.
Jesus was the only man on the face of the earth that could give God His legality back in the earth realm after Adam gave it away to Satan. See, God had crowned Adam with glory and honor, and Adam ruled in the earth realm under delegated authority. But when he sinned, he gave his crown of authority away to Satan.
But God sent Jesus to restore His delegated authority, and because of His death, we were saved.
Friend, Jesus IS the answer to every injustice the enemy tries to throw at you.
1 John 5:14-15 says, “And this is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of Him.”
Because as far as God is concerned, whatever you're dealing with is a legal matter that was ALREADY settled 2,000 years ago in a spiritual court of law.
So, when I received my healing, it didn’t matter how I felt or what I saw. I had to simply agree with what Heaven said and declare it.
I was healed.
And that wasn’t all.
Once Drenda and I understood that we have legal, enforceable rights as believers—our rights to justice and how to enforce it—we started experiencing victories in every area of our lives.
We finally understood that it didn’t matter how long we prayed or when we felt like we had received; we received God’s promises based on spiritual law.
The same goes for you.
Your victories in your marriage, your family, your finances, your business, your faith, your health—in EVERY area of your life—will be determined by your understanding of justice and how to enforce it.
So many people have just been surviving life in 2020. That doesn’t have to be your story.
You don’t have to put up with division, dysfunction, chaos, stress, or fear.
You just need to know how to enact justice and enforce your legal rights as a believer.
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Join us in the fight FOR UNITY. Get a copy of Drenda’s brand-new book, Nasty Gets Us Nowhere with your The Cry for Justice six-part CD series. Don’t miss what is being called one of the most thought-provoking books of the year.
SO many things have happened this year. And things only seem to be ramping up.
The world has been in turmoil… our nation is screaming for justice to be served… an election is coming...
We need truth.
We need answers.
We need healing.
I don’t like to give the enemy any attention, but there’s something I have to talk about right now.
We HAVE TO WAKE UP and see EXACTLY what he is doing.
The enemy has come at us in 2020 more than ever. The Bible says in John 10:10 that he comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. And he’s come from every side with his attempts this year.
He’s tried to take lives. He’s attempted to shut down churches. He’s worked to divide our nation, our communities, our churches, and our homes.
He will never stop trying to destroy.
BUT there’s a second piece to that Scripture we should be focusing on—
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
– John 10:10
Do you see that?
Jesus came so that we may have life and have it to the full—no matter what the enemy tries to throw at us.
You’ve probably heard me talk about how I used to be sick and on antidepressants.
What you might not know is that, when I received my healing, God told me not to pay attention to my emotions or feelings… because it was a LEGAL matter.
A LEGAL matter.
Now, I always talk about being a “spiritual scientist,” because I want to know everything I can about God and His Kingdom. So, of course, when God said my healing was a legal matter, I had to find out exactly what that meant.
What I discovered was life-changing—
God operates by justice, and justice had ALREADY been served on my behalf.
Stick with me on this.
Because I know people have been talking and you've probably been hearing a lot about justice in our nation for months, and it’s a painful topic for many people.
But here’s the thing, friend—
The only way we will ever truly see justice in this world, in this nation, or our lives is by exercising our legal rights as believers.
Because as believers, justice has already been served on OUR behalf.
That’s a bold statement, I know. This is where I’m going to need you to really stick with me because we’re going ALL IN.
It’s like this: imagine that you’re sitting in the defendant’s chair in a court of law. Since the Bible tells us that Satan is the accuser of the brethren, picture him sitting on the other side of the courtroom as the plaintiff.
Do you have the image in your mind?
Now, imagine Satan telling the judge over and over again that you belong to him.
Only he’s wrong. Because, as a child of God, you have someone who stepped in on your behalf and paid the price for you to walk away, FREE AND CLEAR, from Satan and ALL of his taunting and tactics.
That someone was Jesus.
Jesus was already judged by The Law and pronounced innocent. He didn’t sin. In fact, in Acts 8:32 we read that Jesus was deprived of justice.
Jesus—the only one who wasn’t guilty—was deprived of justice and crucified as guilty… FOR US.
Jesus was the only man on the face of the earth that could give God His legality back in the earth realm after Adam gave it away to Satan. See, God had crowned Adam with glory and honor, and Adam ruled in the earth realm under delegated authority. But when he sinned, he gave his crown of authority away to Satan.
But God sent Jesus to restore His delegated authority, and because of His death, we were saved.
Friend, Jesus IS the answer to every injustice the enemy tries to throw at you.
1 John 5:14-15 says, “And this is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of Him.”
See the phrase “hears us”? It isn’t referring to God hearing your voice. It’s referring to a legal hearing. So, when you ask something of God, He immediately takes the case and begins to enforce His justice.
Because as far as God is concerned, whatever you're dealing with is a legal matter that was ALREADY settled 2,000 years ago in a spiritual court of law.
So, when I received my healing, it didn’t matter how I felt or what I saw. I had to simply agree with what Heaven said and declare it.
I was healed.
And that wasn’t all.
Once Drenda and I understood that we have legal, enforceable rights as believers—our rights to justice and how to enforce it—we started experiencing victories in every area of our lives.
We finally understood that it didn’t matter how long we prayed or when we felt like we had received; we received God’s promises based on spiritual law.
The same goes for you.
Your victories in your marriage, your family, your finances, your business, your faith, your health—in EVERY area of your life—will be determined by your understanding of justice and how to enforce it.
So many people have just been surviving life in 2020. That doesn’t have to be your story.
You don’t have to put up with division, dysfunction, chaos, stress, or fear.
You just need to know how to enact justice and enforce your legal rights as a believer.
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God is the God of Justice and His Kingdom is one of laws that do NOT change. You don't have to put up with things like dysfunction, chaos, or fear.
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Friend, NOW IS THE TIME for us to rise up and tell the world about our God of Justice, to see His healing in our world, our nation, and our lives!
Join us in the fight FOR UNITY. Get a copy of Drenda’s brand-new book, Nasty Gets Us Nowhere with your The Cry for Justice six-part CD series. Don’t miss what is being called one of the most thought-provoking books of the year.
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