Posted on 09/18/2010 10:15:11 PM PDT by Frank Broom
There is a principle in the Bible established by God that if you get a hold of you will be a lot better off. In Genesis chapter 1 we see the phrase "God said and it was so" over and over. What is the principle? What God said is so whether you see it or not. Just as sure as God said and made this physical world, God said and made the spiritual (invisible) world. There is an invisible world. Notice in (Colossians 1:16) God made all things visible and invisible. An invisible God created all things (Colossians 1:15).
In 2Corinthians 4:18 Paul says "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. So, there are things that are not seen that does not mean they are not real just unseen. And the only way you can walk in the invisible things of God is by faith. That's why the Bible says in 2Corinthians 5:7 "For we walk by faith and not by sight". You see faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1). Notice how God framed the worlds with his words and God's word is his faith (Romans 3:3,4). Things which are seen were not made of things which do appear (Hebrews 11:3). What were things made of? They were made of God's faith by his words.
Faith released out of your mouth produces in the physical realm what God already has in the spiritual. But the key to walking by faith is believing the word over what you see. Believing what God has done in the spirit realm over what you see in the physical realm. Let me give you an example- In Luke 17:12-14 10 lepers asked Jesus to have mercy on them and he said "Go show yourselves unto the priest." Well the practice in that day was to show yourself to the priest after you've been healed (Matthew 8:3,4). But here we see Jesus telling them to show themselves to the priest while they were still lepors. So what was Jesus doing he was calling them healed. Now you have Jesus calling them healed but all they see is sickness. And that's where we are, I'm sure all of us can find a scripture in the Bible that says one thing but we see something different.
Well, in the natural they had no reason to go show themselves. But, in the spiritual they had a reason to show themselves, Jesus spoke and his word can't fail. Remember what the centurion said "Speak the word only and my servant shall be healed" (Matthew 8:8). So, in the mind of Jesus he saw them as being healed once he spoke but they had to see themselves as Jesus saw them as healed even though they saw sickness. And it says that as they went they were cleansed. They believed the unseen over what they could see. And notice the unseen words of Jesus changed what they did see. Now what would have happened if they stood there and waited to see something first. They would not have received what Jesus already had for them in the spirit realm. Now once you believe the word over what you see to bring the word into physical manifestation the next thing to do is to speak. In 2Corinthian 4:13 it says when you believe you speak. And when you believe and speak you receive (Mark 11:23). In Luke 6:45 Jesus said when you speak what's in your heart you bring that very thing forth into the physical realm. You see the substance of things is faith and faith released out of your mouth produces in the physical realm.
I believe that God said it is so, but He says it to each of us individually, and most often, differently.
Here we go again...this is just wrong!
Why is it wrong.
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