Today we are going to start to take a look at fact vs. truth. A few weeks ago the Lord had me take a look at the difference between the two. He gave me the definition for each …
A fact is man’s definition of truth, it is what you can see with the natural eyes. True truth is what you see with your spirit, it is God’s Word (Psalm 119:160 & John 17:17).
Day in and day out we are surrounded with “facts” and often times we see those “facts” instead of looking at the truth. For the next few days I’m going to present different facts vs. truths to you all because I really think it’s time for all of us to begin to let go of man’s facts and hold on to the TRUTH. Here is today’s example…
Fact=Someone you know and love might be incarcerated
Truth =Psalm 68:6 (NLT) “…he sets the prisoners free and gives them joy…”
The fact might be that someone you know is incarcerated, but the truth is that God sets them free and gives them joy. This might mean He will literally set them free and release them from prison, or it might mean that they will get free in their spirit and their soul, that even though they might be locked behind the walls they can experience joy in their heart and be free in their mind while they serve their time. I’ve seen examples of both of these happen in my own family a relative was up to be sentenced and instead they let him go free. Also I’ve ministered in the prisons and seen kids one month be so down and depressed, then they receive Jesus, and the next time I see them it’s like they are so alive, they’ve been filled with hope and purpose, and they are not down anymore even though their physical bodies are still locked up. It’s an amazing thing to see God’s Truth at work.
So how do we get this thing to work for us. How do we stop believing the “facts” and start believing the TRUTH? There are three ways…Prayer…Meditation…Confession. Begin with prayer. You want to pray God’s Word back to Him because in Jeremiah 1:12 it says that He works to perform His Word. After you’ve prayed you don’t need to keep praying the same prayer over and over and over again, He heard you the first time (1 John 5:14). And when you pray believe that you receive the answer to the prayer when you pray it (Mark 11:24) and it will be done for you.
The next step is meditation; this is something you want to keep doing over and over again until you see the manifestation. By meditating you begin to paint a picture in your mind and you begin to renew your mind (Romans 12:2) and that TRUTH starts to become bigger then any fact that you might be seeing with your natural eyes.
The next thing you want to do is confess. This is also something that you will continue to do until you see the manifestation of that which you have prayed for. There is so much power in what we say. We know in Genesis 1 God spoke and everything came into being, and in Genesis 1:26 God created us in His image and likeness so we have the same power with our words. In Mark 11:23 it says… “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.” It is not only important to confess because there is power in confession and you are making things happen but it’s also important to confess because it builds your faith for the thing you are believing for. Romans 10:17 says “So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” So by speaking the Word out loud over and over again we are building our faith up and we are able to be fully assured of what we have prayed for, meditated on, and what we have confessed for is coming to pass.
Glory to God isn’t that awesome that we do not have to believe what we hear or see in the natural, but we can find the truth for any situation. I pray this blessed you and we will continue to explore more fact vs. truth. God bless!
Tracy Houston
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