Faith and Confession --Calling thing that are not as though they were !

FAITH AND CONFESSION--CALLING THINGS THAT ARE NOT AS THOUGH THEY WERE: ZACHARIAS FAILED TO ACT : God also spoke to Zacharias, but the reaction was not the same. "The angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thou prayer is heard; and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shall call his name John... And Zacharias said unto the angel, whereby shall I know this ? For I am an old man and my wife well stricken in years. And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to show thee these glad tidings. And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, [because thou believest not my words], which shall be fulfilled in their season." (Luke 1:13-18-20). Allow me to paraphrase this. God sent an angel to Zacharias to tell him that his prayer were answered, and his wife was going to have a child. Zacharias said, "how do I know you telling the truth ? You'll have to give me a sign we are too old to have a child." The angel replied, " I'll give you a sign all right. You won't be able to speak until the day it comes to pass." Notice how God dealt with these two individuals, Abraham and Zacharias. Here was a man who was walking in doubt and unbelief concerning what God said to him. So God seemed to say, "if we don't get his mouth shut, this will never happen." So the angel stopped Zacharias from talking for nine months. But God renamed Abram to Abraham, so he would have to say what God said about him. Remember that God chose this method of calling things that are not as though they were. But there are some who misunderstand and deny what exists. For instance, someone might say, "I'm going to deny that I have COPD," and continue to smoke and confess that they don't have COPD. If they could get rid of it by denying it, they might still die with cancer. So that's not the answer. God's method is to call the thing that is not as though it were. That does not mean to deny what exists. You don't call things that are as though they are not. God's method is to call things that are not manifested as though they were manifested. CONFESSION IS NOT A LIE: if you were going to apply God's principles concerning sickness, you would say, Thank God, the Bible says that I am healed by the stripes of Jesus. I am redeemed from the curse of the law. The curse of the law was and is poverty, sickness and spiritual death. (1 Peter 2:24) says that we was healed by the stripes of Jesus, and I am confessing these things and saying them in the name of Jesus. It is causing faith to come, and I am calling my body well. Body, are you listening to me ? I am telling you that you are well in the name of Jesus. Then someone may say, "I know that you are just lying, because you are hurting." You may be hurting, but you are calling for the thing that is not manifested. "How can you say your body is well when you are sick ?" That's all the more reason that you should say it. You are calling for the thing that you don't have. You are calling it into manifestation. There would be no need to call for something that was already manifested. I am not trying to convince you that you are not sick, or that you are not hurting. If you were, you would be lying. There is a difference between lying and confession, or calling things that are not. If I try to convince you that I already have something that I don't literally have, then it's a lie. But if you hear me saying, Thank God, my body is well, I am healed, I am delivered, I am free from sickness and disease, and I am calling my body well, you just heard me calling things that are not. I did not lie to you. I wasn't talking to you. I didn't say it for your benefit; I said it for my benefit. I would rather that you had not heard me, because you are likely to misunderstand me. I am calling for the thing that are not manifested until they are manifested.