May 15, 2009

• The Believer’s Authority by Pastor Don

  We are learning about the Believer’s Authority.

  The fabric between space and time is fluid, not rigid like we believe. In the reality of this, God is. 

  Genesis 1-4 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was^d]’>) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;

  God did not think the earth into existence, God SPOKE.  He told Abram that He was going to make Abram the father of many nations.  Notice that God made Abram this BEFORE it existed.  For this to happen, God had to have a concept of time and of earth in time that we are not aware of.

  GOD GOVERNS TIME BUT IS NOT SUBJECT TO TIME.

  Faith can dominate and interrupt time.  God operates in faith. God is cognizant of change. He did it before and now brings it to our attention. God is in Heaven, cognizant of our chronos time, but faith is not bound by time.

  Notice:  ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD.

  The Holy Spirit says that God calls sometingh that does not exist in time as if it exists.  In time and out of time – but it is not tick tock time, it is chronos time.  We have to discern that our words have reactions in the flesh.  We need to accept the power of words, and not try to negate the power of words and the creative spirit.  It is like electricity which can do helpful things or kill you depending on how it is used.  Electricity in and of itself is a power, but how it is used will determine the outcome.

  Faith is not bound by time. But it can take time before what we are believing in faith manifests in tick tock time. We call those things that be not as though they were.  We are told to speak to the mountain, refuse to be bound by symptoms.  Speaking faith to be cured. FAITH IS NOW.  Not going to be.  YOU ARE. 

  Abram was the father of many nations.  God changed his name to Abraham (which means father of many nations) forcing him to speak into existence the reality that he was the father of many nations. Everytime he introduced himself he was saying, by saying his name, “I am the father of many nations.”

  We are not bound by what we see in the outer realm in our senses. Our circumstances are not the truth.  In faith the time line of earth does not exist, we get out of that limitation.

  Mark 11:22-24  So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

  Notice that it says “SAYS”  Saying is everything.  Why no doubt in your heart?  Your head and thoughts are all about chronos (tick tock) time.  If we operate from our head we are bound by what we see.  We need to speak to the situation, to speak faith, not what we see with our senses. When we spend our time whining about our situation we are speaking our situation and it makes it harder for us to free ourselves from it, for we are speaking the negative.

  When it says do not doubt in your heart, it is talking about the inner man. The inner man is not bound by our circumstances.  A mom can talk to her child after they have flunked math and instead of berating them for being stupid, she can say, “You will do great things.”  It can inspire the child to do better, and then the parent can help.  Speak life into that situation, not condemining the child to thinking they are stupid.

  Then it says BELIEVE what HE SAYS. The Bible tells us that the power of death and life is in the tongue.  Notice the order – death and life.  Most people switch those two words around.  Most of us give the power of death more power than life.  But Jesus conquered death, hell and the grave.  With our tongues we can speak life into situations, or we can choose to speak our situation and death.  If we let our lips speak our circumstances and the flesh, it does not help our situation.  Far better to speak the truth of God.

  What we call life, is really death.  Death is first than life.  We tend to live in sin and carnality until we become born again, and then we have true life.

  So often in our circumstances we give up too soon. Pastor Don gave the example of a wife married to a husband, and she starts speaking about the negative things that she sees him doing, that is speaking death over the relationship.  She thinks that the husband is not sanctified, but her speaking is only hurting the relationship, not helping.

  When we become born again we see the light and recognize the darkness.  But when we begin to emphasize where a person is in darkness we are finalizing their reality with our mouths.  When we call things the way they are (circumstances) instead of speaking words of faith, it will not help to change the situation.  We need to speak that they are growing toward the light, calling those things that be not as though they are.

  We have to be careful what we sow with our mouths.  Our words can create our worst nightmares.

  Pastor Don said that if someone calls you stupid, you need to do something to cancel that statement.  You have to use your ability to negate what they are saying.  To tell yourself that you are not receiving what they are saying.

  Pastor Don also told us that the best way to change somebody is by changing yourself.  When you speak, let your words be seasoned with faith. 

  Pastor Don had a positive dad and a mom that often spoke negative words over him.  He told us he had to fight for survival.

  Power of positive speaking:  If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t talk.

  If the devil is working against you to destroy you, you have to say, “I’m not receiving. I’m believing and speaking something different.” 

  Those who have a victory are not those who have no struggles, but those who persist and keep going forward. 

  I am going to stop here for today, and will finish this Bible study tomorrow.  Our Bible studies run anywhere from 1 1/2 hours to 2 1/2 hours, and I figured you might like the study broken up into two parts.

  Have a blessed Friday.

  Heather

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