Apr 28, 2024
THREE TYPES OF FAITH — LESSON 3; SEGUN OLUMIDE
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THREE TYPES OF FAITH — LESSON 3; SEGUN OLUMIDE
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Call What You Want
The one mistake that so many Christians make is that they call things that are, the way they are. By doing this they are establishing the present condition or circumstance in their heart, mind, and also in their body.
I read an article many years ago about a lady that had a fever continually for several months. Doctors couldn’t find anything wrong physically. They questioned her thoroughly and discovered that when she got upset about anything, she would always say, “that just burns me up.” She used that phrase several times a day. They were not sure if it had anything to do with her condition or not, but they asked her not to use that phrase anymore. Within, weeks, her body temperature was normal.
How many times have you said, “Every time I eat that it makes me sick,” “My back is just killing me,” “Those kids make me so nervous” or “I’m trying to take the flu”? Your own words are giving instruction to your body and your immune system will eventually respond to your instructions.
But God’s method is to call for positive things, even though they are not yet a reality in your body. You call them until they are manifest. You have a God-given right to exercise authority over your body. In Romans 8:13, Paul tells us “...if you live after the flesh you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.” Your flesh wants to say it the way it is, but your spirit, if trained properly, wants ti say it the way God says it in His Word.
Your body will respond to the demands of the human spirit.
If you feed the spirit of man God’s Word, it will make demands on the flesh to line up with God’s Word.
When you exercise, you demand more energy from your body. The heart beats faster and more blood flow brings more oxygen to body cells, and your body responds to your demands in a natural matter. But you must make the demand on it before it will respond. Even your dog or cat will respond to the command of your voice. How much more shall your body respond to the demands made upon it by the Word of God spoken out of your mouth. The truth is, your body always responds to your words on some matter, whether for better or worse. So choose your words carefully.
Several years ago, an article appeared in the Shreveport, Louisiana, TIMES, written by a neurosurgeon. The title of the article was “Talk to Your Body to Rid Ills.” He was using a method which he called mental exercise which involves literally telling your body what to do.
He offers examples such as a diabetic who instructs his pancreas to secret insulin or a person with hypertension to say, several times a day, “my blood pressure is 120 over 80.”
He said, “It makes no difference whether the patients knows where his pancreas is or what 120 over 80 means. The body knows.”
There is more truth to Mark 11:23 than most people realize. You can have what you say in faith, but most people are saying what they have.
God created man’s body to live forever, but sin brought the curse of sickness and death. The human body has an inherent ability to heal itself, but because of improper chemical balance and improper functioning of certain organs, certain medicines and chemicals will aid the body in the healing process. But God’s Word is the original and most powerful medicine available today.
It was his word that created the human body. It is the original medicine sent for the specific purpose of healing. (Ps. 107:20.)
Medical science is finding that the principle of Mark 11:23 really works even to bring health to our physical bodies.
The words of Jesus in Luke 17:6 ring clear:
If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
The INTERLINEAR GREEK-ENGLISH NEW TESTAMENT says, “it would obey you.” Jesus is not talking about literal trees here, but problems you face in life. Whether you are calling for your blood pressure to be 120 over 80 or confessing that your pancreas secrets insulin, there is always someone who wants to accuse you of lying, because they don’t understand these principles of faith. So, it’s not necessary to make your confessions before others - make them to yourself in your own prayer time as you fellowship with the Lord.
Remember - when you are sick, call yourself well, for you are creating what you don’t have. If you put this into practice and make it a way of life, then your body will respond to your faith demands that are based on the authority of God’s Holy Word.
No, it won’t happen just because you say it, but saying it is involved in causing t to happen. Saying it is the way you plant the seed for what you need. The spoken Word of God imparts spirit life into your physical body (John 6:63), for His Word is incorruptible seed, and it produces after its kind.
I challenge you to set apart a time by yourself, daily, to fellowship with God. Make it a practice to meditate His Word by speaking it to your body. Do it two or three times a day. Then double up on your confessions in the area where you have the most problems. Pray the Word over your body. Declare it to be true until you are fully persuaded. Your body will respond to your voice; how much more will it respond to God’s Word spoken in FAITH.
Understanding the Principle
Now that you have gone through the scriptural confessions, let’s look at the principle that could be the key to you being a partaker of God’s provisions concerning your healing.
There is probably no other subject as important to your healing and health than the principle of CALLING THINGS THAT ARE NOT. We see in Romans 4:17-22 that Abraham became fully persuaded that God would do what He had promised. The way he became fully persuaded was by calling those things which were not manifest as if they were.
We pick up on this in verse seventeen:
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Romans 4:17
Here Paul is referring to Genesis the 17th chapter. You will notice that God had called Abram the father of nations before he had the promised child, and he taught Abram to do the same.
God changed Abram’s name to Abraham, which meant “father of nations, or multitude." This was the means He used to convince Abraham to call for what he did not yet have in reality. God had established it by promise, but Abram had to call it into reality by mixing faith with God’s Word.
Every time he said, “I am Abraham,” he was calling things that were not yet manifest. Abraham did not deny that he was old. He didn’t go around saying, “I’m not old,” because he was old. But he said, “I am Abraham,” (Father of Nations). This was God’s method of helping him change his image, and it cause him to be fully persuaded.
Paul also gives us insight into this principle in 1 Corinthians 1:27,28::
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to be confound wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things are.
In other words God uses spiritual forces which are not seen to nullify natural things that are seen. This is the Bible principle of calling things that are not as though they were.
Then in 2 Corinthians 4:13, Paul says:
We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore I have spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak.
Paul is quoting David when he said, I believed, and therefore I have spoken... In Psalm 118:17, David said, I shall not die, but live, adn declare the works of the Lord.
When it comes to divine healing this is a vital principle. We should declare to ourselves what God’s word reveals about is, regardless of the circumstances or how we feel about it.
In Romans 10:6-8 Paul says that the righteousness which is of faith says... the word is nigh thee, even in they mouth and in thy heart.
Notice, the Word is first in your mouth and (then) in your heart. God’s Word becomes engrafted into your heart as you speak it. There is nothing more important to your faith than declaring what God has said about you with your own voice. Giving voice to God’s Word is a method of calling for things that God has given by promise and are yet manifest.
When you do this, some would say you are denying what exists, but that’s not true at all. You establishing what God has said to be true concerning healing even though it is not yet a reality in your body. You don’t deny that sickness exists, but you deny its right to exist in your body, because you have been redeemed from the curse of the law and delivered from the authority or darkness, (Gal. 3:13; Col. 1:13)
God has also given you all things that pertain to life and godliness. These things belong to you. (2 Pet. 1:3,4.) When you are sick and confess that you are healed by the stripes of Jesus, you are calling for what God has already given you, even though it is not yet manifest.
This is God’s method of calling things that are not as though they were until they are. There are some who have misunderstood this principle, and they call things that are, as though they are not. In other words, they deny what exists. But there is no power in denying that sickness exists. The power is in calling for healing and health with God’s Word.
If you are sick, you don’t deny that you are sick; yet, on the other hand, you don’t want to always be confessing your sickness, for that will establish your present circumstance to you. Denying sickness won’t make you well. But by mixing faith with God’s Word, you are calling for the promise of God to be manifest in your body. This will cause you to be fully persuaded, and healing is the result.
There are some who would say you are lying if you confess you are healed when you are sick. No, you are simply calling for the healing that God has provided, even though it is not yet manifest in your body. What you are really doing is practicing God’s medicine.
You are not trying to convince anyone that you are not sick, but you are simply proclaiming what God said in his Word to be a fact, regardless of your present condition. The Word says, by whose (Jesus) stripes ye were healed (1 Pet. 2:24). Notice it is past tense as far as God is concerned, but not yet manifest in your body.
You are calling your body well according to Luke 17:5,6 and Mark 11:23. Your body is listening to you and will obey you if you believe and doubt not in your heart. Your words have more effect on your body than anyone else’s words.
Your body was created with the ability to heal itself, and if every part functions properly, it will. Some sickness is caused by a chemical imbalance in the body and the part of the brain that controls the speech also controls the secretion of chemicals to the body. This sheds some more light on what Jesus said in Mark 11:23, “...he shall have whatsoever he saith.”
Enforcing Life
To be spoken by mouth three times a day until faith comes, then once a day to maintain faith. If circumstances grow worse, double the dosage. There are no harmful side effects.*
Mix thoroughly with faith and authority. To be taken by word of mouth as often as needed to maintain health and life.
Body, I speak the Word of Faith to you. I demand that every organ perform a perfect work, for you are the temple of the HOLY GHOST; therefore, I charge you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the authority of His holy Word to be healed and made whole in Jesus Name. (Prov. 12:18)
Father, I resist the enemy in every form that he comes against me - I require my body to be strong and healthy, and I enforce it with Your Word. I reject the curse, and I enforce life in this body. (James 4:7)
I will not die but live and declare the works of God. (Ps. 118:17)
You have forgiven all my iniquities; You have healed all my diseases; You have redeemed my life from destruction; You have satisfied my mouth with good things to eat so that my youth is renewed as the eagles. (Ps. 103:2-5)
Lord, You have blessed my food and water and have taken sickness away from me. Therefore I will fulfill the number of my days in health. (Ex. 23:25,26)
*These are not direct quotations from the Bible but these are paraphrased confessions based on the scriptures under them.
Healthy Bones and Marrow
To be spoken by mouth three times a day until faith comes, then once a day to maintain faith. If circumstances grow worse, double the dosage. There are no harmful side effects.*
I speak to the bones and joints of my body. I call you normal in Jesus Name. My bones and joints will not respond to any disease; for the Spirit life of First Peter 2:24 permeates every bone and joint of my body with LIFE and HEALTH.
Father, I make a demand on my bones to produce perfect marrow. I make a demand on the marrow to produce pure blood that will ward of sickness and disease. My bones refuse any offense of the curse. (Prov. 16:24)
I make a demand on my joints to function perfectly. There will be no pain or swelling in my joints. My joints refuse to allow anything that will hurt or destroy their normal function. (Prov. 17:22)
*These are not direct quotations from the Bible but these are paraphrased confessions based on the scriptures under them.
Immune System
To be spoken by mouth three times a day until faith comes, then once a day to maintain faith. If circumstances grow worse, double the dosage. There are no harmful side effects.*
My immune system grows stronger day by day. I speak life into my immune system. The same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in me and quickens my immune system with the life and wisdom of God, which guards the life and health of my body.
*These are not direct quotations from the Bible but these are paraphrased confessions based on the scriptures under them.
Arteries and Cells
To be spoken by mouth three times a day until faith comes, then once a day to maintain faith. If circumstances grow worse, double the dosage. There are no harmful side effects.*
In Jesus Name, my arteries will not shrink or become clogged. Arteries, you are clean, elastic and function as God created you to function. (Luke 17:6; Mark 11:23; Isa. 55:11; James 3:2-5)
The law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death; therefore I will not allow sin, sickness or death to lord over me. (Rom. 8:2; Rom. 6:13,14)
The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in my, permeating His life through my veins, sending healing throughout my body. (Rom 8:11)
In Jesus Name I forbid my body to be deceived in any manner. Body, you will not be deceived by any disease germ or virus. Neither will you work against life or health in any way. Every cell of my body supports life and health. (Matt 12:25; 35a)
*These are not direct quotations from the Bible but these are paraphrased confessions based on the scriptures under them.
Heart and Blood
To be spoken by mouth three times a day until faith comes, then once a day to maintain faith. If circumstances grow worse, double the dosage. There are no harmful side effects.*
Thank You Father that I have a strong Heart, My heart beats with the rhythm of life. My blood flows to every cell of my body restoring life and health abundantly. (Prov. 12:14; 14:30)
My blood pressure is 120 over 80. The life of God flows in my blood and cleanses my arteries of all matter that does not pertain to life. (Mark 11:23)
My heart beat is normal. My heart beats with the rhythm of life, carrying the life of God throughout my body restoring LIFE AND HEALTH ABUNDANTLY. (John 17:23; Eph. 2:22)
I have a strong heart, Every heart beat floods my body with life and cleanses me of disease and pain. (Ex. 23:25; Mark 11:23)
I command my blood cells to destroy every disease germ and virus that tries to inhabit my body. I command every cell in my body to me normal in Jesus Name. (Rom. 5:17; Luke 17:6)
Every cell that does not promote life and health in my body is cut off from its life source. My immune system will not allow tumorous growth to live in my body in Jesus name. (Luke 17:6; Mark 11:23)
I am redeemed from the curse of the law and my heart beats with the rhythm of life. The spirit and life of God’s Word flows in me cleansing my blood of every disease and impurity. (Prov. 4:20-23)
*These are not direct quotations from the Bible but these are paraphrased confessions based on the scriptures under them.