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I
tried it once and nothing happened
This
is like throwing a teacup of water on a raging fire.
It’s the right stuff, but …
I
tried it, but the person died!
That
faith wasn’t big enough for the problem.
Do not refuse a doctor’s advice, or to take
medicine. Be
aware how much your present level of faith can handle.
Tackling something too big will damage your
faith, and cost someone’s life!
Doubt
and unbelief stops faith
A person present who has these
will prevent the faith of another from working.
It stopped Jesus in Mark 6:5-6, and made Peter
sink in Matt.14:30-31.
Also, doubt will cancel out faith: If a word of
prophecy was given to you, but you doubted it, then it
will not happen for you.
Similarly, if a person speaks something
negative to you, and you don’t want it to happen,
just refuse it. That
will stop it.
Too
much mixture
If you are believing and
speaking God’s Word for something, but then you
sometimes speak doubt or worry, you will cancel out
your faith.
No
Bible
The world has learned that there
is some power in positive confessions.
But this is the way God planned for you to
receive all He wants for you to have in this life.
God’s Words have creative power even when you speak
them. So, you see, it’s much different than just
positive confessions.
Faith
isn’t a formula
It is possible to treat this
speaking the Word like a formula.
If there is no faith in the heart, keep
speaking and hearing it, and it will produce the
faith, and then something will happen.
Need personal holiness
A testimony: Our family was learning to live by faith, and it was working.
We were seeing results.
Then for three months, it didn’t work.
The dad had allowed a sin.
He objected, “But God, it’s so little.”
God’s answer was, “The further along you
get, the less you can get by with.”
Not walking in love, or
knowing how much God loves you
Gal.5:6,
Faith works by love
I
John 4:18, Mature love casts out fear.
Must be seeking God
This is a common error -- to be
seeking the healing, or seeking prosperity rather than
seeking God first, Matt.6:33. When you are
seeking Him with all your heart, He will take good
care of you!
Wishing isn’t faith
Lots of people are just hoping
and wishing, but that isn’t faith.
Faith is KNOWING, (Heb.11:1)
and faith will get your victory.
Nick-Names
Name it and claim it, or blab it
and grab it are names that have been attached to the
Word of Faith position. These make it sound like
it’s a way to get anything you want.
That is covetousness and idolatry.
Faith in the heart, and speaking with the mouth
is the way to get God’s will to happen in life.
Isn’t that a lie?
Have
you heard someone say “I’m healed” when it’s
obvious they aren’t? That person shouldn’t be
saying it around people who aren’t going to
understand. Keep your faith confessions between
yourself and God. A lie is an attempt to deceive.
Speaking faith is God’s way of getting things done.
Calling
black white
There are fiery young preachers
without much wisdom or sensitivity telling sick people
that they are healed when they are not. It’s denying
the problem. Many people have been turned off about
this message because of this very thing!
Faith isn’t denying the problem, but denying
it’s right to be here.
Like a bag of snakes that’s delivered to your
door. You
refuse them and demand that they be taken away! You
don’t accept them just because it may have your name
on it. Again, don’t be speaking your faith around
those who don’t know what you are doing.
Jesus already did it all!
What needs to be taught is that
Jesus already bore the curse (sickness, poverty and
death) on the cross, and health, wealth and long life
belongs to us, and faith gets it. We are not the
sick, begging a reluctant God to heal us.
We are the healed demanding that Satan keep his
sicknesses off of us!
Or, consider this:
God is not going to heal anyone; He’s
already done it, and our faith gets it.
Not our tears, not our need, but faith!
Living by faith is living
connected to the supernatural power of God where the
promises in the Bible work for you. This is how the Word works!
Sickness made him a better
person
Yes, it may have, but that is
not God’s way. II Tim.3:16-17 says that the Word of
God is for reproof, correction, and training in
righteousness that we may be mature.
Col.1:28 says to teach until
every man is mature!
John 15:3, Jesus says that (His
disciples) are clean because of the word that He has
spoken to them. (“Clean”
is exactly the same Greek word as “pruned” in the
previous verse!)
Eph.4:11-12, the offices that
God ordained for the Church were for the maturing of
the people until we are mature like Christ!
Godly, but no faith for
safety
Precious, anointed people still
get martyred or die of aids or cancer or some other
disease that shortens their lives.
They don’t know how to use their faith for
health or protection, or how to guard their mouths.
They may believe they are doing a good thing by
giving their lives for God, but God would rather have
you alive.
Find long life verses to hold to, and live to
120.
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For scriptures to study this
message, see the brochure titled Faith Facts. To
read some explanations,
get If
it’s God’s will, then why doesn’t it always
happen?
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