ANTS:

ANTS is an acronym for All Negative Thoughts and Suggestions.  ANTS and the human spirit cannot cohabitate just as the insects ants and human bodies cannot cohabitate.  In the natural, ants can torment and destroy the human body. ANTS (All Negative thoughts and suggestions) can destroy our spirits and eventually our bodies. 

Do we have ANT problems? 

ANTS are products of what we are meditating on.  What we meditate on will manifest.  Negative thoughts and suggestions fill the atmosphere until they manifest.  As a man thinks so is he.  The more you give into negative thoughts, the more that will come.  If you don’t deal with ants they will fly and make another nest.  If you don’t take care of the little ant beds, they will keep spreading and get bigger and bigger.  The same is true of ANTS.  If they are not cast down, they continue to spread and multiply.  You will not obey the Word nor succeed if you have ANTS in your mind.  The devil influences and controls us through negative thoughts, suggestions and ideas. 

Don’t create more ANT Beds.

For you to keep building ANT beds between the space of your ears is torture (self inflicted rejection).  You are suffering because of your own ANT beds.  No one else is suffering. Only You.  We cause others to suffer when we voice our ANTS to them.  Now your ANT beds are inflicting others.  You are infecting them and breeding more ANT beds.  An idle mind is a work place for the devil.  One who has enough time to constantly think on everything negative and everything somebody has done to them is continually building ANT beds.

Some people get in their minds that nobody loves them and eventually people do turn away. They can’t stand to be around them because of their negativity.  Remember, don’t use “but” behind the Word of God.  It only creates more ANT beds.  ‘But’ cancels everything the Word says.

Get out the ANT Poison.

ANTS have to be counteracted with the Word of God.  Negative thoughts and suggestions are contrary to the Kingdom of God.  We have to replace ANTS with the Word of God.  We have to renew our minds.  If we don’t we will think on everything contrary to the Word of God.  We must attend to God’s Word by constantly keeping it before us.  ANTS will not build up if we cast down vain imaginations and meditate on the Word.  Align your words with what you believe; only speak the result you want to see.  We get what we confess.  If you have faith in the ANTS in your life- they are going to manifest.  We should speak the Word only and believe what have whatever we say.  (Mark 11:24)  Faith in your heart that is released through your mouth will bring results.  We will be held accountable for every idle (nonproductive) word we speak.  What we say matters.  Life and death are in the power of the tongue.  Either get the Word or die.  Without the Word, the devil is going to take you out.  Choose the Word which is life and life more abundantly.

The Word sets us free.

Yokes are broken by the Anointed Word of God being preached.  The Apostle Paul did three things that released the power of God to heal the cripple at Lystra.

 Acts 14:7, “And there they preached the gospel.”

First, Paul preached the gospel-the truth about Christ Jesus.  He preached salvation (soso):  wholeness physically, spiritually and financially; totally under the blessings of Abraham.

Acts 14:8-9, “And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked: Vs9 The same heard Paul speak: who steadfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed.”

Second, Paul perceived the man had faith to be healed.  Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.  If you can hear, your yolk will be broken.  The reason we don’t receive what God has is because we are not ‘hearing’ what is ours.  The cripple had faith to be healed.  Healing is not always a physical need but sometimes mental: negative thoughts and suggestions you can’t get rid of.

 Acts 14:10, “Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.”

Third, the man had to exercise his faith.  He had to choose to take action and stand up.  We also have to take action against the ANTS in our lives.  We take action by speaking the Word and casting down vain imaginations.  Some people don’t really want to get rid of the ANT beds because if they do they don’t have anymore excuses for being crippled.  The Gospel is designed to break bondage off of you.  It is designed to put you in the positional truth you were created for.  You are the Righteousness of God in Him.  The key is in Him, not in yourselves.  If you are constantly in yourselves and not in Him, you don’t consider Him to be the yolk breaker.

Notes by Sha Wright, Partner since June 2004

Message by Dr. Robert Brogdon 12/08/09

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