We HAVE

Depending upon which translation used there are approximately 103 scriptures in the New Testament that uses the word saved (original word sw/vzw and translated sozo). The definition for sw/vzw (word for saved in Strong‘s Concordance) is as follows:

-to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction
one (from injury or peril)
-to save a suffering one (from perishing), i.e. one suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health
-to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue
-to save in the technical biblical sense negatively
-to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment
-to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance

So when we say we are saved through Jesus Christ then we are saying, ‘because of Jesus Christ we have safety from danger, destruction, injury or peril. We have healing and restoration to health. We are delivered from the penalty of sin. We are freed from everything that hinders our receiving of the Messiah’s salvation‘. Note, this is not a future salvation it is a now salvation. It’s what we HAVE when we are saved.

Currently, I’m reading the book “On Spirit-Filled Living” by Smith Wigglesworth. He shared a woman’s testimony here….

“A young woman with a large goiter on her thyroid gland came forward for prayer. The next meeting she got up and testified that she had been wonderfully healed. She said, ‘I will be so happy to go and tell Mother about my healing.’ She went to her home and testified how wonderfully she had been healed. The next year when we were having the convention, she came again. From a human perspective, it looked as though the goiter was just as big as ever, but that young woman was believing God. Soon she was on her feet giving her testimony, saying, “I was here last year, and the Lord wonderfully healed me. I want to tell you that this has been the best year of my life.’ She seemed to be greatly blessed in that meeting. She believed God. The third year, she was at the meeting with the goiter looking bigger and when it came time for testimonies she was on her feet testifying ‘Two years ago, the Lord gloriously healed me of a goiter. Oh, I had a most wonderful healing. It is grand to be healed by the power of God.’ That day someone questioned her and said, ‘People will think there is something the matter with you. Why don’t you look in the mirror? You will see your goiter is bigger than ever.’ The young woman went to the Lord about it and said, ‘Lord, You so wonderfully healed me two years ago. Won’t You show all the people that You healed me?’ She went to sleep peacefully that night still believing God. When she came down the next day, there was not a trace or a mark of that goiter.”

She was not only a hearer of the Word but a doer of the Word. Someone told her to look in the mirror but what they didn’t realize is that she was looking into a mirror. She wasn’t seeing her own face though she was seeing Jesus, the Word and what He had done for her. Some would say she lied for three years, well, I would call that perseverance on her part and for that perseverance she was blessed. “22 But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror; 24 for he looks at himself, goes away, and right away forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts—this person will be blessed in what he does.” James 1:22-25


The reality is that long ago at Calvary Jesus purchased with His own blood our salvation from danger, destruction, injury or peril, healing and restoration to health, deliverance from the penalty of sin and free from everything that hinders receiving this salvation.

This just resonates in me this morning! We HAVE salvation. Rejoice! And, again, I say Rejoice! A wonderful way for “the saved” to pray is to thank Him and ask Him to “show all the people” His salvation working in us so we manifest His glory as a praise of His goodness and faithfulness. There comes a point that it is redundant to keep asking Him for something we already HAVE. The whole reason the parable of the Sower (Mark 4:3-20) is so important for us to understand is because we need to discern that persecution, cares of life, lusts of other things, deceitfulness of riches, sickness and disease come knocking at the door for the sole purpose of taking what you already HAVE (John 3:16) and replace what you HAVE with the devil’s manifestation instead. Take time today to purpose to be that ‘good ground’. Hold fast to your faith and let the incorruptible seed within you manifest His salvation to all for His glory. “23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. “ 1 Peter 1:23

Luke 4:17-21 - 1 Peter 2:24 - 1 Peter 2:9-10 - Matthew 13, Luke 8