THERE IS A PHRASE IN CHRISTIAN’S LIVES THAT IS DEATH TO A WALK IN THE SPIRIT
There’s a phrase that millions of Christians speak almost every day, without realizing that every time they say it, they are writing a spiritual death sentence over their lives.
It sounds harmless. It even sounds honest. But to heaven, it’s unbelief. To the enemy, it’s an open door. And to your faith, it’s poison.
The phrase is this. “I’M TRYING”!
At first, it doesn’t sound dangerous at all.
I’m trying to believe.
I’m trying to forgive.
I’m trying to trust God.
I’m trying to change.
It feels humble. It feels human, because it is.
But here’s the scandalous truth. That phrase denies the finished work of Christ and locks you into a cycle of defeat.
Because I’m trying is the language of self-effort, not Holy Spirit Empowerment.
It places the focus back on what you can do, instead of on what He has already done.
The great mistake of the church has been to try to do what only the Word (Jesus) and the Spirit can do.
And that’s exactly what I’m trying does. It keeps you struggling with human strength instead of resting in Divine ability.
The devil doesn’t need you to reject God outright. He just needs you to live as though grace (the empowering Presence of the Lord) isn’t enough.
Every time you say, I’m trying, you confess dependence on the flesh.
And scripture says plainly, the flesh profits nothing- John 6:63.
What is the flesh?
When Christians here the word “the “flesh” they think of the deceitful lusts of self-gratification, or the works of the flesh listed in Galatians 5:19-21. But the flesh is that union of soul and body that acts independently of God.
Great athletes who win golden medals in the Olympics, do it in the flesh.
Great doctors’, business owner’s, presidents, lawyer’s, every occupation imaginable do it in the flesh. Unless of course they are Spirit filled.
Do you get it?
It is your human abilities that you were born with. And most people are basically good people. Yes, they are the fallen offspring of Adam and Even. But we are talking on a human level. Jesus said that there is none who are good-(Matthew 19:17). He was talking on the divine level.
God’s thoughts are higher than man’s thoughts.
God’s ways are higher than man’s ways.
God’s attributes are higher than human attributes.
Did you get that? Am I making an impact!
Or am I just wasting my time writing posts on Facebook?
THE LANGUAGE OF THE NEW CREATION
The language of the New Creation is not, I’m trying. It’s, I believe.
It’s not, I’m hoping one day. It’s, I have received.
That’s the vocabulary of faith. That’s how heaven speaks.
But always remember faith comes by hearing God. When a scripture comes alive to you the written word of God the Bible. Or when God speaks to you personally, when you begin to learn to hear his voice. Faith is a fruit of your spirit in union with God’s Spirit.
Faith has to do with your spirit.
Believing has to do with your mind, the setting of your will, the words you speak, your imagination “ you see yourself in possession of what is legally yours in Christ” and it is acting on the word God has spoken to you, it is not passively waiting around for it to happen, it acting like it has already happened in the natural world we live in.
Believing never says, I’m trying to get healed.
Faith says, by his stripes I was healed- 1 Peter 2.24.
Believing never says, I’m trying to overcome.
Faith says, “Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ”- 2 Corinthians 2: 14.
Faith doesn’t struggle for victory. It speaks from victory.
But as long as your confession is I’m trying, your focus is still on effort instead of identity.
The reason this phrase is deadly is because it sounds right but subtly undermines truth.
It acknowledges the problem but denies the power. It keeps the believer in constant pursuit of what God has already provided.
When you say, I’m trying, you are saying, I don’t yet have. And if you don’t believe you already have, believing can’t operate.
YOU EITHER BELIEVE OR YOU DON’T
Mark 11: 24 says, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Notice the order. Believe you receive when you pray, not after you see.
The believer who keeps trying is waiting for evidence before believing.
But faith believes before it sees, because it trusts the Word above the world.
Faith is the affirmation of the Word. It is the confession of what God has declared to be true, when you say, I’m trying, you’re affirming your weakness.
When you say, I believe you’re affirming His strength.
The power of confession lies not in sincerity, but in alignment.
If your words align with defeat, you’ll experience defeat.
If they align with victory, you’ll experience victory.
That’s why Proverbs 18:21 declares, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Every sentence you speak either builds faith or breeds failure.
I’m trying may seem innocent, but it’s loaded with death.
It’s death to your peace because it keeps you striving instead of resting.
It’s death to your joy because it keeps you chasing what you already possess.
It’s death to your prayer life because it keeps you focused on performance instead of promise.
It’s death to your authority because it keeps you identifying with the struggler instead of the Son.
You cannot walk in resurrection power while confessing crucified weakness.
The finished work of Jesus on the cross was not meant to leave you trying. It was meant to make you triumph.
When you say, I’m trying, you’re actually confessing unbelief in disguise. You may not mean to, but you’re declaring, I don’t yet believe the word has worked.
It’s no different from saying, I know God’s word is true, but that but is unbelief’s birthplace.
UNBELIEF GIVES THE ENEMY PERMISSION
And unbelief is what gives the enemy permission to remain.
Remember what Jesus said in Matthew 9:29, according to your faith, be it unto you.
That means the outcome of your life always mirrors the content of your confession.
What you confess is what you possess!
If you keep confessing struggle, you will live in struggle.
If you keep confessing effort, you will live in exhaustion.
But if you confess truth, you will live in rest.
God designed the Christian life not as a treadmill of trying, but as a table of trusting.
Psalm 23:5 says, you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies
Notice, it’s a table, not a battlefield.
The table represents rest, supply, completion.
The victory has already been served. The believer’s role is to sit and receive.
Yet most believers keep standing beside the table saying, “I’m trying to eat”. You are already seated with Christ in the heavenly places in Him. SO, EAT THE WORD!
FAITH IS NOT AN ACTIVITY
Faith is a spiritual substance that is imparted to our spirit when we hear God, or the Holy Spirit enlightens a scripture and it is like Wow, I never saw that before.
YHVH imparts His Spirit when He speaks, and it imparts faith to our spirit.
Many Christians are trying to believe the Word, when faith has not been imparted to their spirit.
That’s the tragedy of the modern church. We confuse activity for faith.
We think if we do more, pray more, fast more, God will finally move.
But faith doesn’t get God to move.
Faith rests in what He has already done.
Hebrews 4:3 says, for we who have believed do enter that rest.
If you are still striving, you have not yet received the faith of God-It his faith imparted to your spirit, it is not your faith but His, and once you receive it you are totally at rest. The greatest evidence of faith is rest.
When you truly believe the word, the trying stops. Peace takes over.
Faith never says, I’m going to get it.
Faith says, it’s mine now.
That one shift in confession separates religion from revelation.
Religion says, I’m trying to become righteous.
Revelation says, I am the righteousness of God in Christ- 2 Corinthians 5:21.
Religion says, I’m trying to be strong.
Revelation says, The Lord is the strength of my life- Psalm 27: 1.
Religion says, I’m trying to get closer to God.
Revelation says, He that is joining his or her spirit to the Lord is one spirit- 1 Corinthians 6:17.
The phrase I’m trying comes from the old identity, the Adam nature that depends on effort.
The new creation speaks differently.
It says, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me-Philippians 4:13.
It doesn’t try to believe. It believes.
It doesn’t try to win. It walks in victory.
It doesn’t try to be healed. It declares it is finished.
When Jesus said those words on the cross, he didn’t mean, I’ve started something you need to finish.
He meant everything you’ll ever need has already been done.
APPROPIATION IS SIMPLY AGREEING WITH WHAT GOD HAS SAID
Many Christians say, I know it’s finished (our dying with Christ on the cross), but I’m still trying to make it real.
That’s unbelief dressed in doctrine.
The truth doesn’t become real because you work at it.
It becomes real because you agree with it- Romans 10:10 says, With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Confession doesn’t make the word true. It activates what’s already true.
Your words are not tools to convince God. They’re evidence that you believe Him.
So, when you say, “I’m trying, what are you really saying?” You’re saying, the word hasn’t worked yet.
You’re saying, I don’t yet have what God says I have. You’re saying, the cross was not enough for my situation. That’s why it’s a death sentence.
It keeps you bound to the process of effort instead of the position of grace.
The devil loves it because he can’t touch the finished work, but he can keep you from walking in it.
All he needs is for you to keep saying, I’m trying. But when you shift your confession from trying to truth, the entire atmosphere of your life changes.
You move from begging to believing, from striving to resting, from hoping to knowing.
You stop fighting for victory and start fighting from victory. And that’s when power flows freely.
Because God doesn’t anoint effort, He anoints agreement.
When your words shift from, I’m trying “to it is finished”, heaven begins to back your confession with power.
Because faith isn’t begging God to do. It’s declaring what He’s already done.
You stop trying to overcome addiction and you begin to say, Sin shall not have dominion over me (Romans 6:14).
You stop trying to find… peace and declare thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee- Isaiah 26: 3.
That is not denial. That is dominion.
You’re not pretending the storm isn’t real. You’re reminding it that it’s already defeated.
The phrase I’m trying keeps the believer in a posture of defeat. It admits the problem but denies the power.
It bows to circumstances instead of standing on covenant.
But the believer who understands who they are in Christ refuses to confess limitation.
They speak as heirs, not beggars. They speak as sons, not servants.
The secret of believing is acting on the word as though it were true, because it is true.
And once you act like it’s true, everything around you begins to respond.
When you say, I’m trying. Your focus is on the natural realm. What you see, what you feel, what you can control.
But the life of faith doesn’t operate by sight.
2 Corinthians 5: 7 says, for we walk by faith, not by physical sight.
Faith deals with unseen realities. It looks into the invisible realm and sees the word is real and calls it into visible manifestation.
It doesn’t ask, when will God move?
It declares, God has already moved.
It doesn’t say, I hope this will happen. It says, I know it’s already done.
The truth is, I’m trying is unbelief clothed in humility. It sounds harmless, even spiritual, but it subtly keeps the believer on the wrong side of the cross.
It makes you sound devoted while quietly denying your identity.
The finished work of Christ isn’t activated by effort. It’s enforced by faith.
You can’t earn what’s already been freely given.
The prodigal son didn’t try to earn back his place. He accepted it.
The father didn’t say, try harder.
He said, bring forth the best robe.
The robe of righteousness isn’t awarded to those who try. It’s given to those who believe.
Faith laughs at impossibilities because it sees victory before it appears.
That’s why faith people sound different. They speak before they physically see. They declare before they physically feel.
They act as if the word is already reality. Because in the Spirit, it is.
Heaven isn’t waiting on God to move. It’s waiting for you to agree.
You must understand that your confession is not merely communication. It is creation.
Words don’t just describe reality. They form it.
That’s why Genesis begins with, and God said.
Every time he spoke, creation responded.
And your spirit is made in his image and functions the same way.
When you say, I’m trying, you create a world of frustration.
But when you say, I believe, you create an atmosphere where miracles can manifest.
Faith always speaks in finished terms. Jesus never said, I’m trying to heal you. He said, “Be healed”.
He never said, “I’m trying to cast out this devil”. He said, go.
That’s the authority of heaven’s language.
It commands, it establishes, it believes.
When you speak like God speaks, you’ll begin to see what God sees.
And here’s what’s so vital. Every time you say, I’m trying, you reinforce the idea that you are still separate from what you’re seeking.
You’re saying, it’s out there and I’m here and maybe one day I’ll reach it.
But faith collapses that distance. It says, it’s mine now.
Romans 8:32 declares, He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
Delivered- paradidōmi– past tense. The root is two words 1-with 2-to give.
When God delivered Jesus up to be crucified, we were in him, this is the finished work of Christ on the cross. We died with him, buried with him, raised from the dead with him, seated not on the right hand of God with him, but seated with him in the heavenly places in Christ.
This speaks of our delegated Authority over the fallen angels in heavenly places which are currently ruling this world, all the demon’s spirits on the earth when God destroyed the first creation of the heavens and earth- Gen 1:1.
Their bodies were destroyed and they are disembodied spirits on the earth not in hades’ (hell). They get into people’s souls, controlling and blinding their minds, get into their bodies, creating diseases.
Every terminal disease is an evil spirit in the body. You need the Authority to cast out the spirit, and you need the healing power of God flowing through you to heal their bodies and that comes at a price.
This miracle power costs you everything. You must be totally surrendered to Jesus as Lord of your life and be his disciple on the earth willing to sacrifice everything you are, do, own.
You are totally dedicated and sanctified (consecrated). You are willing to die for Jesus, sell your house for Jesus.
You will obey anything he tells you to do. This has absolutely nothing to do with going to heaven when you die, it is about co-ruling the kingdom of
God as Kings and priests as the bride of Christ.
This is the pathway of responsibility. Until you learn how to walk on the pathway of intimacy and relationship where you can hear his voice- see his face.
So just be faithful in your daily life, develop a life of worship, prayer and waiting on the lord (focused listening). Go to your local church and be faithful.
Do not be foolish and quite your job, do not go into public ministry, working for Jesus, you first must grow up spiritually so you can work with him.
Growth in the spirit is not the same as it is in our physical body, your spirit can grow up quickly depending on what kind of ministry you study under. You are going to grow to the same level as the kind of church you attend.
Unless you study under other ministries and attain to whatever level they are on. But most of them charge money to study under them, so you are going to have to give them money to get their teachings or materials.
Romans 8:32 declares, He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
Freely give- charizomai– indicative, future tense. The root of the word is charis– grace.
All things- all, any, every, the whole, on a daily basis.
Because of the finished work of Jesus on the cross. Not only are we perfect, righteous, holy in God’s sight.
But he will give us grace (the empowering presence of the Lord) daily.
Where the Holy Spirit takes the provision of Jesus and imparts it to us.
We have access to everything Jesus possesses, his divine nature, and also his ability, so that we can do all things, even the seemingly impossible things, when we learn how to walk in the Spirit, on a daily basis.
And it has not even entered our hearts what he will do in the ages to come, unless we learn how to enter the kingdom realm of Spirit through ascension.
He gives us all things that we need by grace to do his perfect will on a daily basis as we learn how to walk with God.
You don’t strive for what’s been freely given. You receive it.
The word becomes real only when you act upon it.
Acting upon it means talking like it’s true.
Refuse to give I’m trying a single place in your vocabulary.
When your body says you’re still sick, don’t say, I’m trying to get healed.
Say, by his stripes, I am healed.
When your emotions say you’re still bound, don’t say, I’m trying to feel free.
Say, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty- 2 Corinthians 3: 17.
When your mind says, you can’t change, say, I am a new creature in Christ. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new- 2 Corinthians 5: 17.
TRAIN YOUR MOUTH TO AGREE WITH TRUTH
You cannot hold two confessions at once. One will always cancel the other.
You cannot say, I’m trying, and it’s finished in the same breath.
One comes from defeat, the other flows from dominion. Choose the latter.
Train your mouth to agree with truth, even when your physical senses scream otherwise.
Because your physical senses report facts, but faith enforces truth.
And truth always overrides fact.
Never talk failure, never talk defeat, never talk lack.
You are the righteousness of God. Talk like YHVH talks.
It’s not about ignoring reality. It’s about declaring a higher one.
Your words are not reactions. They’re instruments.
Every sentence you speak builds a throne for either faith or fear to rule upon.
The devil doesn’t need you to curse God. He just needs you to speak against what God has said.
Every I’m trying becomes an agreement that the finished work of the cross of Jesus Christ wasn’t enough.
That’s why this phrase is a death sentence. It kills faith slowly.
It keeps you bound in endless struggle, always almost there but never arriving.
It keeps you praying from desperation instead of declaration.
It keeps you chasing what you should be carrying. The devil loves it because it keeps believers busy but powerless, sincere but defeated, devoted but doubtful.
And as long as you keep saying, I’m trying, he doesn’t have to attack. You’re already neutralized.
But when you stop trying and start trusting, everything changes.
When you say, it is finished, the Spirit bears witness with your words. Heaven moves in harmony with your faith.
Peace replaces pressure.
Joy replaces striving.
Power replaces exhaustion.
You begin to operate from the inside out, no longer waiting for something external to validate what’s already internal.
ALIGN YOUR CONFESSION WITH YOUR POSTION IN CHRIST
The secret is simple.
Align your confession with your position, not your condition.
Your condition might say, I’m weak, but your position says, let the weak say, I am strong- Joel 3:10.
Your condition might say, I’m still bound, but your position says, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free- Romans 8: 2.
Your condition might say, I’m trying to believe, but your position says, the faith of the Son of God lives in me- Galatians 2: 20.
Stop confessing from the ground.
Start confessing from the throne. And once you do, you’ll notice something remarkable.
Peace, where there used to be panic’
Strength, where there used to be striving.
Confidence, where there used to be confusion.
Because the language of faith doesn’t just change your circumstances, it changes you.
Now, here’s what most believers don’t realize. You can stop saying, I’m trying, and still live powerlessly if your relationship with the Word remains the same.
Because the word isn’t meant to be read like a book. It’s meant to be absorbed like oxygen.
The enemy doesn’t fear how many verses you can quote. He fears how deeply the word has become one with your consciousness.
That’s where faith’s power flows, from union with truth, not from casual contact with it.
So, ask yourself, has the word become life to me or is it still information?
Do I read it for comfort, or do I read it for revelation?
Because the moment it stops being text and starts being truth, you’ll speak differently, live differently, and the devil will lose the one advantage he’s held for so long.
There’s something vital every believer must understand about why the enemy doesn’t tremble just because you own a Bible. And how to turn that knowledge into the power that silences him forever.