FAITH ARE FEELINGS ! I

FAITH ARE FEELINGS ! I remember some years ago I heard someone say grudgingly, "Well, I'll pray for the office of the president, but I can't pray for the man." Hogwash ! If you can't pray for the man, you can't pray for the office either. You can't pray effectively for anything because your're in unforgiveness. And faith doesn't work in an unforgiving heart. You might think everything the president is doing is wrong, but go ahead and pray for him anyway-- and do it with a smile on your face. Don't let his politics get you all riled up and give you stomach ulcer. Forgive him, ask God to open the eyes of his understanding and send anointed laborers across his path to share the gospel with him. Not all men have faith, that is faith in God. Then let it go and rejoice in Jesus. While we're on the subject, don't argue and get offended at anyone else over politics either. If someone says something you don't like, just give them a soft answer. ("A soft answer turneth away wrath." (Proverbs 15:1). Then walk away. Get out of there and stay happy. Stay on the God side of everything. Always see the best and believe the best of everyone. But Brother Lewis, I am passionate about this country. It hurts me when I see the harm some of these politicians have done to it." I know, I'm passionate not too, and I am totally opposed to some of the things I see happening to it and its people. But I also know this: as believers, "we walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5:7). And we can love and forgive no matter what. God's love has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5). He's put His on love on the inside of us. This type of love which is agape has nothing to do with your feelings. We just need to believe it and walking it. If we'll do that, our prayers for this nation and the people will be effective. We'll be able to release our faith and receive what we ask for when we pray. How exactly do we release our faith ? With your words mixed with God's Word !. As we've already seen, Jesus said, "whosoever shall say. . . And shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith." (2 Corinthians 4:13), puts it this way: "We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak." When you pray for healing, immediately start calling yourself healed. Say it by faith, even if you still feel symptoms of sickness in your body. Say, as one of my father's in the faith, Kenneth E Hagan, used to say, "I feel good, I feel fine. Now, body, get in line." Then put your faith into action. Take command over your feelings and behave like you truly have believe you've received, because "faith without works is dead" (James 2:20). In other words, do what the woman with the issue of blood did in (Mark 5). Talk about someone who got what she believe for ! Sees both an inspiration and a great example to follow because she did everything Jesus taught in (Mark 11:22-25). I don't know if she'd heard about that particular teaching. The Bible doesn't say. She might have, though, because she lived in Capernaum, where Jesus Himself lived.