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WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. AN INVITATION TO YOU: To subscribe to this blog, click here.  To subscribe to this podcast, click here. If this blog and podcast have blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________ Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today's blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/WWW_02_22_21_How_to_Receive_from_God.mp3 ______________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is February 22, 2021, and this is Episode #3 of Series 2021. This episode is titled "How to Receive from God". Most of us Christians spend our lives going after something we already have. We ask God to do something that He has already done for us ((e.g., heal, deliver, provide) or to give us something that He has already given us. We rightly believe that God CAN do anything, but we don't believe that He HAS ALREADY DONE everything. When we study the Book of Ephesians, however, we notice a critically important truth: Everything has already been accomplished in Christ and given to us. Ephesians 1: 3: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ." This verse tells us that God has blessed us with all spiritual blessings and that those blessings are found in heavenly places in Christ. These heavenly places signify the spiritual realm, So, all of the blessings that God has already given us are located in the spiritual realm. Well, where is the spiritual realm? For the born-again believer, the spiritual realm is the realm of his spirit because the Holy Spirit lives in the born-again believer's spirit. The job of the Christ-Follower is to retrieve the blessings that are in his spirit--in other words, in the supernatural, spiritual part of him--and bring these blessings out into the natural, physical realm.  But how do we do that? Here are three simple steps that will help you to bring the blessings Jesus died to give you--the blessings that are already in your spirit--out into your daily life. Notice, I said these steps are simple, not easy. BELIEVE that what God says about you is true. SPEAK what God says about you. That is, speak His Word. ACT as though what God says about you is true.  Let's unpack each one of these. 1__BELIEVE that what God says about you is true.   Here are some things God says about you in His Word:  __Luke 10: 19 NLT: "Look, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy, and you can walk among snakes and scorpions and crush them. Nothing will injure you." If you are a born-again follower of Jesus Christ, He has given you all authority over the power of Satan. Using the Name of Jesus, you can drive Satan and all of his demons out of your life.  Do you believe this? __Romans 8: 37 - "Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us." If you are a born-again follower of Jesus Christ, you are more than a conqueror in every situation. This means not only that you have the authority and power to overcome Satan, but you also can take back what he has stolen from you. __1 Peter 2: 24 - "By the stripes of Jesus, you were healed." If you are a born-again follower of Jesus Christ, He gave you healing in exchange for your sickness when He took the stripes on His back just before His crucifixion. Do you believe this? __Galatians 3: 13 NIV - "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the ...