The God Kind of Faith Principle and Law!

GOD'S FAITH PRINCIPLE: It was obvious that Abraham was too old to father a child, and his wife was 90 she had passed the childbearing years. But God called things that were not as though they were. Then in order to get Abram to do the same, God changed his name. God said, "Your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham" (which means "Father of Nations" or Father of a Multitude"). God was not playing, make-believe. This was His way of getting Abram to operate in the principle of faith. God used His own principle the law of faith. He knew that if He could get Abram to say what He said, it would produce faith. For faith in God comes by hearing and by hearing the Word of God. (Romans 10:17) and fear comes by hearing the world or the devil the same way. But Abram couldn't read Romans 10:17 to find this truth. God knew there was enough faith in the name to cause it to come to pass. So, God changed Abram's name to Abraham. Every time he walked up to someone and said, "My name is Abraham," he was saying, "I am the father of many nations" or "Thus saith the Lord: I am the father of many nations." If you will sincerely look at all of Jesus's ministry you will find the same principle of calling those things as though they were not as though they were. Can you imagine, with all the people who worked for Abraham, how many times Abraham's name was called each day? They would say, "Oh, Abraham, what do you want to do with this fence? Abraham what do you want to do with the sheep? Abraham, what do you want to do with the cattle? Abraham... Abraham... Abraham..." But he didn't hear Abraham at all, He heard, "Father of Nations... Father of Nations... Father of Nations. I like to use my imagination. I imagine that he was probably using a cane, getting around slowly; but he is saying, "I am the father of nations. I am the father of nations." Others wanted to laugh, but they didn't dare because all the people in the country worked for him. They kept hearing him saying, "I'm the father of nations... Father of nations..." Finally, he threw away his cane and said, "Praise God, I believe I am! Those words registered within his inner man are his heart and he started walking better and standing straighter because he believed God. "And therefore, it was imputed to him for righteousness." (Romans 4:22). EXAMPLE of GOD'S METHOD: There are many others who believed God in a similar manner. God told Joshua: "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shall have good success." (Joshua 1:8). We see God changing Abram's name so he would say what God said. God is giving these as examples of operating this principle of faith. What you speak is what you believe. Then what you believe is what you speak over and over again. That's why it is important that you be careful of what you speak. You will notice that Abraham and God called things that were not as though they were Jesus did the same thing. It did not say they were calling things that were as though they were not. Be sure you understand this, for that is a great difference between these two statements. Abraham did not go around saying, "I'm not old. I'm not old." If he had said that, he would have been lying. Some have never understood the difference between a lie and a confession. A confession of faith is based upon the Word of God. It may seem to the world that it is a lie; but if God said it, how could you lie by saying what God said? Oh, that's right the natural man cannot understand or receive the things of God, because they are contrary to what he or she believes and they cannot submit to the law of God: "for they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit for to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither, indeed, can be. So, then, they that are in the flesh cannot please God." (Romans 8:5 through 8).But you are not in the flesh But in Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Ladies you included, notes And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Notice the subject is still about the Holy Spirit (vs 9 through 13) vs 11 But If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised Christ from the dead shall also give life to your moral bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you. I know that this is talking about the baptism of the Holy Spirit in which every born-again believer is supposed to ask for the infilling of the Holy Ghost. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if you live after the flesh you shall die; but if you, through the Spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.