ACTING ON SCRIPTURE !

ACTING ON SCRIPTURE ! "Why Do You Call Me, Lord, Lord, and do not [practice] what I tell you ? For everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words [in order to heed their teachings] and does them, I will show you what he is like: He is like a man building a house [his or her life], who does and went down the and laid a foundation upon the rock [word]; and when a flood arose, the torrent broke against that house and could not shake or move it, because it had been securely built are founded on a rock." (Luke 6:46 through 48). Calling things that are not is a Bible method. It is a divine Bible principle. Remember now, we are not calling things that are as though they are not, for that would be denying what exists. Denying what exists is not God's method. God's method is to call for the things God has promised in His Word, although they are not manifest yet. There are some who will say, "I don't believe in calling things that are not." But if you follow that individual around, you will find they are doing it almost every day. Calling things that are not is acting on (Mark 11:23). "Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea. . . Shall have whatsoever he saith. If you are saying to the mountain in your life, "Be thou removed," you are doing it on the positive side. You will probably be criticized. But the same people who criticize you are talking to the same mountains in their lives and saying, "whooo, mountain, you are getting bigger every day. I'll never get over you. You are always there to hinder me." They will criticize you even though they are using the same principle, only in reverse. There are some who say, "You are denying what exists if you call things that are not." No, we are not denying the things that exist. We are doing something about what exist by calling something in its place. You may not have noticed in the Scriptures that God taught Abraham His method of calling things that are not. And Abraham did not deny what existed, but rather gave affirmation to what God said about him. Abraham did not say, "I am not old, I am not old." He didn't deny that he was old. Neither did he did not that his wife was past childbearing and old. He was 75 years old when God told him that he That would make of him a great nation. (Genesis 12:24). Then God appeared to Abram again in (Genesis 17:1 through 12) and change the his name to Abraham which meant "Father of Nations" or "Father of A Multitude." Through this name change God forced Abraham to tell everyone he was the father of nations. Yet it was 25 years later when he became the father of nations in the natural. He had God's promise for 25 years, and he was getting older all the time. He was too old to father a child when God told him he was the father of many nations. He did not deny that he was old, but rather gave the positive affirmation in agreement with God. When he said, "I am Abraham," he was saying, "I am the father of nations." After he begin to say what God had said, it was less than a year until the promised child was born. Faith cometh by hearing.