EXCEEDINGLY GROWING FAITH !

EXCEEDINGLY GROWING FAITH : in the conclusion, OF The God Kind of Faith; (2 Corinthians 4:13) "We haveing the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, and believed, and therefore have spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak." We have the same spirit of faith. What belonged to the church at Corinth belongs to the church today. On no occasion did Paul or any of the apostles ever write to encourage the people to believe; never did they tell them to have faith. Our having to encourage believers to believe or have faith is a result of the word of God's having lost its reality to us. We are believers ! When our children all away, we don't have to write to them and say, "Be sure to keep breathing." They will continue to breathe as long as they are alive. Neither do we have to encourage believers to believe, because that is what they are--- believers. How many of us realize that our words dominate us ? "Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth. . ."(Proverbs 6:2) Another version says, "Thou art taken captive with the words of thy mouth." One writer puts it this way, "you said you could not, and the moment you said it you were defeated. You said you did not have faith, and doubt rose up like a giant and bound you. You are imprisoned with your own words. How many of you know that the enemy of all mankind will accommodate you on what you say. You talk failure, and failure holds you in bondage." God created the universe with words. Words filled with faith are the most powerful things in all the world. They are what I like to call containers of power ! Defeat and failure do not belong to the child of God. God never made a failure. God made us new creatures in Christ Jesus. We are not born of the will of the flesh or the will of man, but the will of God. We are created in Christ Jesus. Failures are man-made. They are made by wrong believing and wrong thinking. (1 John 4:4) says, ". . . Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world." Learn to trust the greater of one who is in you. He is mightier than anything in the world. The key to overcoming sickness and problems is the God kind of faith--- believing with the heart and confessing with the mouth. Our lips can make us victorious or keep us captive. We can fill our words with faith or we can fill our words with fear, doubt, unbelief. We can feel our words would love that will melt the coldest heart, or we can fill our words with hate and poison. We can fill our words with love that will help the discouraged and brokenhearted, and with faith that will stir heaven. We can make our words breathe the very atmosphere of heaven. Our faith will never rise above the words of our lips. Why, because you believe what you are saying ! Before you believe anyone else. Jesus told the woman with the issue of blood that her faith had made her whole. Thoughts may come in may persist in staying. But if we refuse to put those thoughts into words and actions, they die unborn. Cultivate the habit of thinking big things. Learn to use your words that will really act upon your own spirit. Faith confessions create realities. There are two things to notice about the God kind of faith. First, a man believes in his or her heart. Second, he or she believes with his or her words. It is not enough to believe anything in your heart alone. To get God to work for you, you also have two believe with your words. Take note of this, if faith in God only comes by hearing and by hearing the word of God then when you put the process in reverse fear comes down comes unbelief comes. The unalterable law of faith is as Jesus said, "Whosoever shall say. . . And shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he said shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he said" (Mark 11:23).