Cherri Campbell continues teaching from her “God of Miracles” series with a focus on faith, consistency, repentance, forgiveness, and the power of words in receiving healing and breakthroughs. She explains how negative confession, doubt, and inconsistency can weaken faith while perseverance and speaking life help believers stay aligned with God’s promises.
Cherri also discusses condemnation, receiving God’s forgiveness personally, and the importance of obedience, repentance, and maintaining confidence before God when believing for healing, provision, and answered prayer.
00:00:00 Introduction to Lessons from Jesus Healing Miracles Part Two
Good morning. Praise the Lord. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Welcome to Victorious Faith. I’m Cherri Campbell. This morning I’m going to continue sharing with you the message that I began sharing with you last week that I preached in the six message series in our Victorious Faith services called The God of Miracles. And this is message three in that series called Lessons from Jesus Healing Miracles Part Two. And if you’d like to download the notes, you can go to my YouTube channel, which is under my name, Cherri Campbell, C-H-E-R-R-I Campbell, C-A-M-P-B-E-L-L. And there in the top category called radio broadcasts, you will see this series called the God of Miracles. And this is message three in that series. Each message has its own notes. And when you click on the video, then in the description box below the video, you will see the link to download the notes. Now join me in our live service for part four of this message, Lessons from Jesus Healing Miracles, part two. But you know, this is something to remember. Time tests faith. Time is one of the biggest tests of faith is what do you do in day after day, week after week and month after month, you’re still believing for the same thing. Faith can get weary. That’s where we talked about patience, which is perseverance. We’ll uphold and sustain faith and carry it through the duration of the waiting period without weakening in faith. We must persevere and keep our faith strong and active for days, but not only days, weeks, not only weeks, months, not only months, years, sometimes for some things that we’re believing for. And so the process of that faith can get weary, but not only faith get weary, we can just sometimes really get slack and lazy, especially in the area of our mouth. What we say, boy, we can get a lazy tongue and people start talking about, oh, my back is just killing me. I feel so sick. Today is a bad day. You know, I’m having a bad day. It’s a bad knee day. It’s a bad back day. You know, the weather is kind of clammy and that’s when my bones ache the most. You know, all that language, all that talk of sickness and pain, you have just stopped your healing in its tracks. It is completely stopped when you talk that way because your words void the faith that you previously exercised. Your words of doubt and sickness and pain are Void previous declarations of faith. So what if you say, I believe I’m healed. And then the next day, oh, I’m so sick. Well, you’re positive and you’re negative. Just voided each other out comes to zero as if you didn’t say either one. I believe I’m healed. The next day I am so sick. Then you voided your faith out. So speaking, remembering the power of your words and speaking sickness and speaking pain and whatever the situation is, if it’s financial or any other problem, speaking the problem. After you have once made a declaration of faith, believing for a healing or a provision or a miracle breakthrough in an area, and then you speak doubt and talk about the problem and talk about the sickness and the pain and the lack, you just voided out the faith that you released. So now you’re back at zero all over again. And how many times do people go back to zero? Again and again and again. Well, you’re not going to get very far if you keep going back to the starting line. That’s why inconsistency lies the power. The power is in being consistent, never changing, never. That’s where the psalmist wrote in the book of Psalms. Help me keep a guard on my lips. Help me keep a watch on my lips. And in the book of Proverbs, and there’s so many scriptures, we’ve talked about this and the power of words. If you haven’t heard that lesson, it’s on my YouTube channel, The Power of Words. And go listen to that. There are so many scriptures. Old Testament, New Testament about the power of our words. Even in the book of Proverbs, a man is defeated by his own mouth. His mouth consumes him. His mouth destroys him. By the fruit of his lips, a man is destroyed. And Jesus said, whatsoever you say with your mouth and believe in your heart, that’s what you will have. So if you’re saying and believing you’re sick, you’re having the sickness because you say it and believe it in your heart. There are plenty of scriptures, Old Testament and New Testament, And so that’s a big area where people fail is in being consistent in guarding the tongue. As the psalmist said, help me keep a watch on my tongue, a guard on my lips so that we are to watch that because even James wrote about blessing and cursing should not come out of the same mouth. Well, that is the same thing as saying life and death. In the book of Proverbs, it says the power of death and life, life and death is in the power of the tongue. Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Death is in the power of the tongue. Life is in the power of the tongue. What you say kills or gives life. James wrote in James three blessing and cursing should not come out of the same mouth, which is the same as life and death should not both come out of the same mouth. So healing and sickness should, should not come out of the same mouth. Healing and pain should not come out of the same mouth. Abundant provision, trusting God for it, and lack and need should not come out of the same mouth. Victory and defeat should not come out of the same mouth. James said that. It should not be both blessing and cursing flowing from the same fountain. And so that’s where we need to guard our lips, be diligent that we only speak life. And this is probably one of the biggest areas that we fail to be consistent in. And yet it is so powerful. It can be the thing, the thing that is needed to bring your miracle. And so being consistent in it. And of course, like I said, walking in love and also walking in faith, keeping your faith up there. And I know we’ve talked about building your faith. How do you do it? Go back to the word, meditate on the word, study the scripture promises for whatever your need is. Healing scriptures, provision scriptures, children’s scriptures, job scriptures, whatever your situation is. Study and meditate on those scriptures every day and listen to preachers who are preaching on the subject, preaching on healing, preaching on finances, preaching on your children getting saved and listen to those because they pump up your faith. I mean, it’s like building your muscles with barbells and putting a 500 pound barbell weight on the rod and you’re listening to these preachers. You’re building up and pumping up your faith. So you need to pump it up every day because as soon as you turn that preacher off, you’re going to be thinking about your body, your finances, your children, or whatever the problem is. And so you’ve got to have your faith ready to stay steady. And your faith is, is overpowering the problem issue in your life and staying consistent. So diligence is so important. Determination is so important. Consistency is so important. Hallelujah. And one more thing that can block your ability to receive healing is I mentioned not forgiving others consistently. can block your healing, but condemnation is actually not receiving forgiveness for yourself, for your own failures and mistakes, sins, your past. You’re holding your own sin against yourself. The devil is, and he’s beating you down with it, with a rod, with a stick. And And so by faith, you’ve got to receive your own forgiveness to receive your healing because they flow through the same stream. If you have condemnation about a sin, about past life, things you’ve done, that condemnation, that channel that you’re not receiving forgiveness from is the same channel your healing power is flowing through to you. And so by having the condemnation, it’s in the pipe and it’s a block. blocking the healing that is trying to come to you. So first John three, 21 and 22 say, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God. If our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God. So without condemnation and guilt, you can stand boldly in the presence of a mighty, awesome, holy God with no sense of guilt or fear or inferiority. You know that you can stand with your head up. He is our glory and the lifter up of our heads. Hallelujah. You can stand before God with your head up. up, not your head down in shame when you’re forgiven and you’re not doing it head up in pride because you know it’s not you. Your blood was not shed. It was the blood of Jesus that washed you and cleansed you and purified you of your sin. His blood washes you wider than snow. And so it was a gift and it was the act of mercy that of God, the mercy of God and the gift of God, the mercy and grace of God to you, that all you can do is just have your hands up and say, thank you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Father. I receive my forgiveness. And in the same time that you got your hands up receiving your forgiveness, you can say, I receive my healing. So you receive that you have confidence before God, verse 22, and we receive from him anything We ask because we obey his commands and do it pleases him. And so there again, I want to point out obedience is one of the spiritual laws. And there is a false teaching among some Christians that says it doesn’t matter if we sin and we don’t have to repent because God’s grace covers everything and everyone. That’s not true. The Bible doesn’t say that. His grace is available to all, but not all have received. And how do you receive? Peter wrote, God gives grace to the humble. Well, humbling yourself before God is hand in hand with repentance. And there are Christians, I had, this was some years ago now when I taught this, one or two Christians wrote to me and said, Christians aren’t supposed to repent after they’re saved. That’s not in the Bible. Read your Bible. In the book of Revelation, chapters 2 and 3, The seven churches, seven letters to seven churches. Let me just remind you here. Revelation chapter two, the church at Ephesus, the church at Smyrna, the church at Pergamum, the church at Thyatira, the church at Sardis, the church at Philadelphia and the church at Laodicea in five letters. Of the seven letters to five of the seven churches, Jesus said, repent. What you just heard was part four of message three in a six message series that I preached in our victorious faith services called the God of miracles. This message is called lessons from Jesus healing miracles part two, and we will continue this message again tomorrow. So join me again tomorrow and remember God loves you. You are blessed and highly favored by the Lord.
