SOUNDING OUT:
Know God’s Word; Believe God’s Word; Confess God’s
Word; Receive God’s Word. (Part 2 of 2)
We saw last week in Part I that if we want power
in our lives, we say what the Word says. Confession
of the Word yields receipt of confession. If we confess
with our mouths at the same time that we confess in
our hearts what the Word says, we will have power. Our
prayers will be answered as we apply these keys in our
lives by doing as it says in God’s Word. The law of
believing allows us to appropriate God’s power in our
lives. That requires that we get our mouths and hearts
coordinated on something that is confirmed by the Word.
Then we will have power with God.
We saw last week in Part I how Jesus Christ demonstrated
and taught the law of believing to his disciples twice
within a period of about an hour. We saw that there
were two incidents involving fig trees and that Jesus
used both to establish the law of believing for his
disciples, demonstrating it as he lived and following
up with teaching so his disciples would not miss the
import and impact of this great truth.
We can live as more than a conqueror in our day and
time as we speak to our mountains with the authority
of a son of God with all power. If you stand upon the
Word of God and you confess that Word, you become what
the Word of God says. That synchronizes our lives with
God’s Word.
Romans tells us how powerful God's children are.
Romans 8:31-37:
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for
us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his
own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall
he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing
to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth?
It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again,
who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh
intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress,
or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword?
36 As it is written, For
thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted
as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things
we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
God has already proven His love in
that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
(Romans 5:8) God is for us! Who can be against us? Who
can lay anything to our charge? Who can condemn us?
Our answer is important! What do we do when tribulation,
distress, persecution, etc arise?
The question posed in verse 31 is not: “What do
you think about these things?” or “What do
you believe about these things?” It’s not even,
“What are you going to do about these things?”
The question is, “What shall we then say to these things?”
What do we say? What do we declare? Does God’s Word
come out of our mouths or not. We should respond unequivocally,
“I am more than a conqueror through Him who loved me.”
No matter what mountain comes into our path, we proceed
to the higher ground of God’s Word by saying what God’s
Word says.
Romans 8:38,39:
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,
nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth,
nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us
from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Paul was persuaded. Are we persuaded?
God wants us to be more than conquerors. This is the
declared, confirmed Word of God. As we confess that
Word, it becomes a reality in our lives. Don’t be defeated
by satanic principalities and powers. Jesus Christ destroyed
the works of the devil (I John 3:8), and we should do
the same. When we are facing mountains, we speak to
them. Since we know God’s Word, we should confess God’s
Word, and act upon God’s Word. Let’s get our lives synchronized
with God’s Word. Say what the Word says. Know it; believe
it; confess it; receive it.
II Corinthians
4:13:
We having the same spirit of faith, according as it
is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken;
we also believe, and therefore speak;
The evidence that we believe God’s
Word is that we speak it. God’s Word ought to proceed
from our lips. Remember Psalms 107:2? “Let the redeemed
of the Lord say so.” When we know God’s Word we confess
it.
Jesus was going to walk like hind’s feet and do the
will of his Father. For the second time that morning
Jesus demonstrated to his disciples how he operated
the law of believing. He established this law with two
similar miracles. He also followed up with similar teachings
completely establishing for his disciples this tremendous
law of believing which would be so crucial for them
to operate in their walk with God.
Jesus had taught this principle before. These are not
the only times. Remember the father whose son was grievously
tormented. In Mark 9:23 he told the father, “If thou
canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”
This simple, but ever so powerful,
law of believing equips us to live as more than conquerors
today. It hasn’t changed in our administration. What
does it take to operate the power of God in your life?
Believing!
I Thessalonians
2:13:
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because,
when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us,
ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is
in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh
also in you that believe.
The power of believing or faith rests
upon the Word of God not our ability to reason or think.
When we acknowledge the divine origin of God’s Word,
it will make a difference. The words of God are so much
bigger than the words of men. They are tried in a furnace
of earth, purified seven times. (Psalms 12:6) God has
integrity. His Word works, as He says it does. Know
it; believe it; confess it; receive it.
Hebrews 4:12:
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper
than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing
asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow,
and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the
heart.
The law of believing is not a testimony
to the magnificence of man. It is a testimony to God’s
magnificence. He can and will bring His Word to pass
as we believe. If God says something is available in
His Word, it is absolutely available right now. Yes,
Matthew 21:22 says: “And all things, whatsoever ye shall
ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” What does
“all” mean? Is it with exception or without exception?
Don’t forget scripture build up. What does I John 5:14
say? “And this is the confidence that we have in him,
that, if we ask any thing according
to his will, he heareth us.” “According
to His will,” means according to His Word because His
Word is His will. We get the confession of our mouth
coordinated with what we believe in our heart and then
synchronize both according to God’s Word.
The law or principle of believing
is what allows us to live as more than conquerors in
this world. Mark 11:23,24 capsulizes that great truth.
Mark
11:23,24:
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say
unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast
into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but
shall believe that those things which he saith [according
to God’s Word] shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever
he saith.
24 Therefore I say unto
you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe
that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
We saw when we looked at the context of those great scriptures
how Jesus Christ demonstrated and taught the law of believing
to his disciples on two occasions within an hour and demonstrated
it with two similar miracles. There was a very good reason
why Jesus Christ acted as he did on these occasions. They
were not impulsive acts. They were not misguided, irresponsible
gestures. They were deliberate object lessons on the importance
of the magnificent law of believing. Know God’s Word;
believe God’s Word; confess God’s Word; receive God’s
Word.
We can live as more than a conqueror as we speak to our
mountains with the authority of a son of God with all
power. What mountain do you need to move? What scriptures
are you believing? What miracle do you expect to see in
your life? By what authority do you do the things you
do? Don’t be afraid to speak for God! You are more than
a conqueror, say so!
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