"My body is supposed to decline now - this is just what happens at my age."
How it sounds in your head: Every doctor's appointment confirms it. My friends are all dealing with the same things. The magazines at the salon all say aging means decline. My own mother fell apart at this age. Why would I be different?
"So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust."
-- Joel 2:25Source: Medical system normalizing decay as inevitable, combined with worldly agreement that aging equals deterioration.
Every peer is managing multiple conditions, and medical professionals frame decline as 'age-appropriate.' The mirror and the pill organizer seem to confirm this daily reality.
At 85 years old, after wandering 40 years in wilderness, Caleb declared 'I am as strong this day as on the day Moses sent me - my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going out and coming in.' He immediately took the mountain with giants on it.
I REFUSE the lie that my body must decline because of my age. IT IS WRITTEN that God restores the years the locust has eaten - not manages, RESTORES. I am under the BARAK blessing of Abraham where God commanded blessing on my body, my coming in and going out. IT IS WRITTEN that Caleb at 85 was as strong as at 40. Moses at 120 had undimmed eyes and unabated vigor. My covenant through Christ's blood is BETTER than theirs. I receive supernatural strength, restored systems, renewed youth like the eagle's. Decay bows to Jesus' name in my body RIGHT NOW.
Father is running toward you with the same resurrection power that raised Christ from the dead, ready to quicken your mortal body RIGHT NOW (Romans 8:11). He sees you strong, vibrant, full of life - and He's already prepared the fattened calf celebration for your health testimony.