Knowing Him Daily

15.February.2026
What Was Happening Beneath the Surface

I am sharing this not to provide a formula, but to extend you an invitation. I challenge you to consider whose voice you are allowing to define your identity, your health, and your hope.

I want to be clear about something, this may sound simple when you hear it from the outside, but it was not easy in the natural.

If I had operated from my flesh, or allowed the enemy to intimidate me through my natural family history, I could have easily partnered with fear. My maternal grandmother battled breast cancer, and the opportunity to let a spirit of fear take over was very real.

This was not a walk in the park for me, in myself. But I was not alone.

There was a time in my life when fear, anger, bitterness, self doubt, and anxiety were familiar companions. I had allowed them a voice in my life. But through Jesus, I have learned that I no longer have embrace an identity with my natural lineage, but with my spiritual lineage. I belong to Him.

The Word does not instruct me to look to my family health history to determine my future. The Word says I am healed and made whole. The Bible says by His stripes I was healed (Isaiah 53:5, 1 Peter 2:24). My pastor says something like If I was healed, then I am healed. It’s a choice, whose report are you going to believe?! The Bible also says that He fulfills the number of my days (Exodus 23:26).

Every day, often multiple times a day, I had to actively stand against thoughts and voices (demonic) that attempted to exalt themselves against the knowledge of God (2 Corinthians 10:5). I say attempted very intentionally here. These attacks came through thoughts, symptoms, and suggestions meant to pull my attention away from God’s Truth.

I did not ignore my body in denial, but I refused to let it define who I am and Whose I am.

Jesus says, “My sheep hear My voice… and the voice of a stranger they will not follow.” John 10:27, 5. I have learned and will continue to learn what the enemy’s voice sounds like. More importantly, I know the voice of my Heavenly Daddy, and I chose to listen to Him.

Many times a day, I had to decide and declare out loud whose voice would sustain me.

I spoke the Word out loud.

“God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.”
2 Timothy 1:7

I reminded myself that I am the head and not the tail. Deuteronomy 28:13

That I will live and not die, and declare the works of the Lord. Psalm 118:17

That God sustains me and fulfills my years. Exodus 23:26

I would thank the Father for the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16). I thanked Him that Jesus bore stripes for my healing and shed His blood so that I could walk in wholeness, spirit, soul, and body.

This was not striving, this was stewardship.

Obedience is only complicated when we resist it. God’s Word is simple. When I allowed Him to live through me, it became light and easy, like a child leaning fully into her Heavenly Daddy.

And I want to say this with compassion and hope, since the Holy Spirit lives in me, He can, and very well may already, live in you too. Whatever you are facing is not too big for our Heavenly Daddy.

If you’ve never surrendered to Jesus or have strayed, it’s not too late. He’s waiting to restore and renew you. I invite you to come or return to Him today and say this out loud:

Dear Heavenly Father ~ 

Thank You for sending Jesus to die on the Cross just for me. I admit that I have sinned, and I repent. I ask You to forgive me. I believe that He died and rose again. Right now, I make Him the Lord of my life. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit. My sins are washed away, my past is forgiven, and my future is bright. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus’ Name Amen.