"God, I hate this."

How many times have you said that to God in your seasons of affliction? Okay, maybe I'm the only one. Hate means "to dislike intensely or passionately". In the midst of a conversation yesterday, this thought hit me. Every time we look to God in the midst of our affliction and say, " I hate this God." He says right back to us, " I hate it too."

Let me explain. We only hate what we are going through, most of the time because we are not taking what God has laid in front of us to overcome that hatred. To overcome with grace and strength and conquer that thing we hate so much in our lives. Whether it's relational, sickness, affliction, finances, you name it, this applies.

When I say that, I can hear God saying, " I hate it to. I dislike intensely and passionately what you are walking through. I hate it because I paid the price for you to not have to walk this way. I sent my Son to be a living example of all the promises in front you. I sent Jesus to be the living and active Word. I sent Him to redeem you and give you a way out of your situation. All you have to do is believe it and confess it and let it be alive in you."

Mark 11:22-23, " So Jesus answered and said to them, " Have faith in God. For assuredly, I SAY to you, whoever SAYS to this mountain, ' Be removed and be cast into the sea, ' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he SAYS will be done, he will have whatever he SAYS."

This scripture has been sticking out to me every morning for a week. Do you know that God has given us a way to have grace for our situation and to overcome and not hate what we are walking through? If we take Mark 11 and really believe it and speak it into existence that thing that we hate so much will no longer be there!

We have got to understand that it's not enough to just know God's Word, it's not even enough to just hide in our hearts, we have to SAY it. The enemy is the prince of the air and we have to get the Word out of us so he can hear it and we can defeat him in every area of our lives.

I am seeing and experiencing God's Word in action everyday as I have been confessing it out loud. It's been changing me my whole life to an extent, but now it's manifesting itself. I encourage you to find those scriptures in the Word that apply to you and your situation. Start saying them everyday and see what God does.

Isaiah 55:11, " So shall My Word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, BUT IT SHALL ACCOMPLISH WHAT I PLEASE, AND IT SHALL PROSPER IN THE THING FOR WHICH I SENT IT."

That's all we need to know. No matter what we see, no matter what we feel, or not matter how silly we may think we look or sound, say the Word of God. Wield it, it's meant to be a weapon. God will honor His Word because we acknowledge His name (Psalm 91).