ZACHARIAS FALIED TO ACT LIKE GOD !

ZACHARIAS FALIED TO ACT LIKE GOD ! God also spoke to Zacharias, but the reaction was not the same... "The angel said to him, fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear the a son, and thou shall call his name John... And Zacharias said unto the angel, whereby shall I know this ? If I am an old man and my wife well stricken in year. 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 shall 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 for you. God sent an angel; and the Scriptures gives us the angel's name Gabriel who stands in the presence of God: Zacharias, and the angel tells him that his prayer were answered, and his wife was going to have a child. Zacharias said, "how do I know you're telling me the truth ? Seeing that I am an old man and my wife is well stricken in years. You'll have to give me a sign." Doesn't this sounds like many believers today ! The angel replied, "I'll give you a sign right. You won't be able to speak until the day it comes to pass." Why is the words of our mouth are so important ? It is because Death and life are in the power of our tongues ! (Proverbs 18:21) also Notice (Proverbs 18:20). "A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled." Notice how God dealt with these two individuals, Abraham and Zacharias. Here was a man who was walking in doubt concerning what God said to him. So God seemed to say, if we don't get his mouth shut, this will never happen. How can two walk together except they be in agreement ! So the angel stopped Zacharias from talking for nine months. I want you to think about this, because this is serious business: many times you are praying and asking God to do something but he cannot because your mouth is not in agreement with what He said in His Word. God renamed Abram to Abraham, so he would have to say what God said about him. God spoke directly to Abraham. God sent Gabriel who stands in the presence of God to speak to Zacharias. We have the written Word of God ! And many of you think that the things that God has promised, is supposed to just drop into your life like ripe peaches off a tree. That's not the way this works. Your religious idea has stopped Jesus from moving in your life. 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 emphysema or COPD, and continue to smoke and continue to confess that they don't have emphysema or COPD. If they could get rid of it by denying it. They might still die, 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 manifest.