Independent of Circumstances

2/18/2025

“Not that I speak from [any personal] need, for I have learned to be content [and self-sufficient through Christ, satisfied to the point where I am not disturbed or uneasy] regardless of my circumstances.” (Philippians 4:11)

The word of God makes you independent of circumstances. Why? It doesn’t  matter what the world throws at you, the God-eye view of your situation is that you come out victorious. However, you’ve got to get this God-eye view through prayer and meditation and I am not talking about a thirty-minute or one-hour prayer, no. It’s the type of prayer that focuses and incubates on a matter, one at a time. How? The Bible says, “But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life” (Jude 20-21)

What does this mean? It means that if you are going to see as God sees a situation, and act independent of the matter, you are going to pray in tongues until you get a note of victory. What is a note of victory? A note of victory is an indication or sign from the Holy Spirit within you about the accurate and complete estimation of that situation. 

Note that attaining the ‘note of victory’ about any matter may take time and copious amounts of speaking in tongues but you must be undeterred. In James 5:17-18, the Bible gives us an ample pointer. It says,  “Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.” We tend to get the idea that Elijah prayed a simple prayer but it wasn’t so. The Bible says, “...Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees, and said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” So he went up and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” And seven times he said, “Go again.” Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, “There is a cloud, as small as a man’s hand, rising out of the sea!” So he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you” (1 Kings 18:42-44). 

Now, while Elijah’s note of victory was an outward sign, ours would be an inward notification because we have the Holy Spirit inside of us. This is why 1 Corinthians 2:12-13 says, “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.”

Until you are defining the circumstance  accurately by the Holy Spirit, say nothing, just keep speaking in other tongues about it. 

This is how you master situations and become independent of them.

Have a great day!

Faith-Filled Confession

I am a master of situations and circumstances. As long as I can get a note of victory, nothing moves me. I take advantage of the Holy Spirit in me to put me over every situation. Hallelujah!!!!

Prayer Direction

1. Intercede for our brethren that are facing various trials in all our churches, that they remain unshakeable, unshaken, always abounding in the work of the Lord. Declare that they will continue to shine as light in the midst of the darkness in the world. (1 Cor 15:58, Philippians 2:13-14; Heb 6:10)

2. Pray for those who have been inconsistent in their faith; that they be no longer children tossed to and fro and that Christ may be formed in their hearts as they are strengthened in those things that are most surely believed among us. (Lk 1:3, Eph 4:14)