Hi Folks!
We're continuing on in our Faith Walk teaching.
The faith life is often referred to as The Great Confession. To a large degree we are a product of our words. Many people disagree with this kind of statement but it doesn't change the truth of God's Word. Our Lord Jesus himself said in Mark 11:23 that we can have what we say if we believe and doubt not in our heart.
What we believe in our heart depends largely on the words we have been saying. Many a Christian have run off with half an understanding of this truth (me included) and thought "Goodie! I am going to confess this several times and then I'll have what I'm saying, just like the Bible promises." Many have become dissatisfied and confused as they were soon to find out (me included) that it just doesn't work that way. Jesus didn't say "whatever thing we say... will come to pass" but "whatever things... plural. It's lifestyle the Lord is always endeavouring to deal with in our lives. It's heart attitudes. It's what we have been saying on a continual basis that is causing things to come to pass in our lives.
We have discovered that words are powerful. All words are filled with creative power. The devil's words are filled with fear and death, and God's words are filled with faith and life. God's words create good in our life while the devil's words create evil. As human beings we have been given the authority to choose the words we speak. Our destiny to a very large extent can be controlled through the power and authority of our tongue. We are made in God's image and likeness. He operates this way and so do we even though for the most part we have failed to recognize it. What we are continually saying about ourselves will form an image in our heart. We become what we "see" of ourselves, as the scriptures declare as a man thinks in his heart so is he Proverbs 23:7a. From the abundance of the heart our mouth will speak, the Master said; and so the cycle goes on and on.
Jesus told brother Charles Capps, "I have told My people they can have what they say, but My people are saying what they have". There is a faith I would like to talk a little about and it's the kind of faith that Abraham learned to operate in. He is called the father of our faith and it's through this kind of faith we will inherit the promises. This is the faith our Lord Jesus taught us - the God kind of faith.
Take a look at Romans 4:16-20. Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all (as it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations) in the presence of Him whom he believed - God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, "So shall your descendants be." And not being weak in faith he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith giving glory to God.
You will notice here that this kind of faith speaks the desired end result only. What we truly desire to come to pass in our life (hope) is what we need to be speaking. Abraham got a hold of this after God called him the father of many nations. Abraham came into agreement with God by calling himself the father of many nations also. Abraham started to see himself as a father before he ever was. He called things that were not yet manifest in his life as though they were. He called himself a father of multitudes before he had the first one! You have to remember that Abraham and Sarah were very old and neither had been able to have children their whole life. It took faith to receive the promised child. They started calling what they wanted with their mouth, the image was formed in their heart, and creative power came flowing back out their mouths.
You and I need to practice this faith principle and made it a "lifestyle" also... calling things that are not as though they were. We can call the things we desire that aren't yet manifested as though they already were - until they are. Start calling things in your life as you desire them to be, not what you don't desire. "If you walk outside the house and want the dog - don't call the cat!" This sounds funny but we have all done this. We need to keep checking up on ourselves to see that we are speaking what we desire and not the negative circumstances. Get yourself in agreement with the Word by calling yourself as God has already promised.
God's Word promises us as believers health and healing, so call yourself healed - not sick.
God has promised us prosperity, so call yourself prosperous. Call your every need met according to His riches in Glory by Christ Jesus.
God has promised us so much in His Word and we can call ourselves possessing and becoming all that He has already said.
Call yourself anointed, called, chosen and faithful. Call yourself the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath, victorious and not defeated. Call yourself brave and courageous, strong and good looking. Call yourself the apple of God's eye, loved and cherished, protected and surrounded by God's love and peace. Call yourself a child of the King, sensitive to His voice and led by His Spirit, growing up into Him in all things, filled with the knowledge of His will and wise. Call yourself God's temple and filled with His Holy Spirit, strong in the Lord and in the power of His might, able to do all things through Christ who strengthens me!I believe you and I will have the victory in every area of our lives - to His eternal glory. Amen.
God bless you richly
David Pearce
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THE FAITH WALK 8
Having What You Say
Have faith in God. For assuredly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain,
'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart,
but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever
he says.