ACT AS GOD WOULD ACT !

ACT AS GOD WOULD ACT ! The apostle Paul, in the book of Ephesians, calls on the children of God to be imitators of Christ. Ephesians chapter 5, verse 1 and 2: the King James version puts it this way: "be followers of God." The word "followers" means to "mimic" to be an "imitator." This is a command for the people of God to imitate God. I have heard people say, "those people who confess God's Word and say the promises of God over and over are just trying to act like God !" Well, how does God act ? The first chapter of Genesis tells us how God act in the beginning." In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Now the Almighty God saw the earth without form and void, and darkness upon the face of the deep. Notice the Holy Spirit was there and nothing happened until God said: he only spoke what he desired. Yes ! That's exactly what we're trying to do: act as God would act in a similar situation. Many people acting like their father the devil, and in denial about: the same people will tell you they love God; in fact some will even tell you that they are Christians. Because they attend so and so's church. What God did in (Genesis 1:3). He saw darkness over the earth, and he said, "Light !" What did he do ? He spoke the things desired. Some will say, "But that was God." That's right, that was God. But in Genesis, God also said: ". . . Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." (Genesis 1:26). Now what's your excuse ? How is man going to have dominion ? You can have it talking like the devil in the world, you can even having sounding religious ! People are saying we are supposedly preaching the gospel to get people saved when they don't even understand what the word salvation means: it means deliverance, healing, soundness, preservation. That one word salvation does not just mean getting saved to go to heaven. How was man going to have dominion ? You can understand how Adam could run the Jack rabbit out of the cabbage, but what was he going to do when the elephant begin tromping down the cabbage ? God said for him to subdue it. He was to do it the same way God did --- with the power of faith filled words. He was to subdue the earth, and he was to do it God's way. Don't you know that is a way that seems right to a man the Scriptures declare that way is the way of death. When he saw something that he didn't like, it was his responsibility not God's, his responsibility to change it. He was a change in the way God changed things --- speaking faith filled words. Jesus said: ". . . What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them and you shall have them. (Mark 11:24). In other words pray the desire; stop praying the problem don't pray the thing that you don't desire. Speak the thing desired, even when you pray. Believe that you receive !