Denial Is Not Faith
Denial is not faith. These words rang in my ears this morning as I was praying for someone who needs a miracle.
When we face a life-threatening situation or a difficult marriage or what seems like a lack of finances in our lives or whatever the negative circumstance, not talking about it won’t make it go away. Neither will talking about it make it better. So, what are you saying, Kialeen? Neither embracing nor ignoring a negative circumstance on this earth will change it. Many people, when they learn that God wants their lives to be abundantly blessed, think that all they have to do is say, God, it is yours and I don’t have to be concerned about it any more. Yes, there is a releasing of worry and trying to fix things. We are to release situations to God, but we have something that we are to do also. We must learn how to believe and receive, how to have faith in the midst of what seems to be impossible situations which appear to be out of our control.
We are told in the scripture that faith comes; faith works by love; without faith it is impossible to please God and they that come to Him must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
So, just what is faith? We are told that faith is the evidence of things unseen, the substance of things hoped for. So faith is tangible in the spirit realm; it can be seen in the spirit realm because it is evidence and has substance. God sees faith when it is in us. And He by His Holy Spirit of life and anointing comes in response to faith to bring into our lives what we are believing Him for. And we receive.
Think about the person here on this earth that you have the most confidence in, that you know would do anything for you that they could. How did that confidence come? How did you develop that confidence? You got to know them, didn’t you? You spent time with them and listened to what they were saying, their words. It is the same way with God. As we spend time with Him and get to know Him, through what He says (His Word, The Bible), we develop confidence in what He will do for us. As we seek Him and sometimes just be in His presence, we know what He has already done for us and what He will do for us as we ask. Faith, confidence in someone, takes time to develop. We are not just overnight wonders. As we get to know someone’s nature, we know what they will do, don’t we. Why? Because we KNOW them. That is true with God. We must get to know Him, Then we can say. My God is a good God. He heals me. He sets me free. He prospers me. And they are no longer words that we hope that if we say them often enough, they will come true for us. When we speak these statements in faith, we KNOW that they are TRUE NOW for us, even if we don’t see anything in the natural to indicate it. And faith requires nothing in the natural to confirm it. For example, when we truly believe we are healed by the stripes of Jesus, disease can still be raging in our bodies, but we know that we are healed. Saying the scriptures doesn’t make it so. It is so; we say the scriptures; it becomes reality for us personally. Do you understand what we are saying here this morning?
When someone asks us if we are sick, telling them that we are not sick is not faith. Rather, faith knows that we are healed and says with confidence: I am healed because Jesus took my sicknesses and diseases for me, even when we may have a body racked with pain and raging symptoms.
So, you see, denying something exists or hoping that it will go away if we speak the scriptures often enough, won’t produce faith, Faith is produced as we do speak the scriptures, as we do spend time with the Lord, as we get to know Him and His nature. When we get to know Him as well as we do that best friend on earth, then we will have confidence, faith in Him and what He says. We will believe that what He says has come to pass for US PERSONALLY. Then we don’t have to fear and wonder if it really will work for us. If you are still wondering if it will work, that is not faith. But keep pressing into Him; keep pressing into what His Word says; keep pressing into understanding Him and knowing Him better than you know anyone else. And it will happen. You will just know that you know that you can trust Him with your life in every situation you encounter. He will give you scriptures to stand on and you will know that you know that it is yours.
When we face a life-threatening situation or a difficult marriage or what seems like a lack of finances in our lives or whatever the negative circumstance, not talking about it won’t make it go away. Neither will talking about it make it better. So, what are you saying, Kialeen? Neither embracing nor ignoring a negative circumstance on this earth will change it. Many people, when they learn that God wants their lives to be abundantly blessed, think that all they have to do is say, God, it is yours and I don’t have to be concerned about it any more. Yes, there is a releasing of worry and trying to fix things. We are to release situations to God, but we have something that we are to do also. We must learn how to believe and receive, how to have faith in the midst of what seems to be impossible situations which appear to be out of our control.
We are told in the scripture that faith comes; faith works by love; without faith it is impossible to please God and they that come to Him must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
So, just what is faith? We are told that faith is the evidence of things unseen, the substance of things hoped for. So faith is tangible in the spirit realm; it can be seen in the spirit realm because it is evidence and has substance. God sees faith when it is in us. And He by His Holy Spirit of life and anointing comes in response to faith to bring into our lives what we are believing Him for. And we receive.
Think about the person here on this earth that you have the most confidence in, that you know would do anything for you that they could. How did that confidence come? How did you develop that confidence? You got to know them, didn’t you? You spent time with them and listened to what they were saying, their words. It is the same way with God. As we spend time with Him and get to know Him, through what He says (His Word, The Bible), we develop confidence in what He will do for us. As we seek Him and sometimes just be in His presence, we know what He has already done for us and what He will do for us as we ask. Faith, confidence in someone, takes time to develop. We are not just overnight wonders. As we get to know someone’s nature, we know what they will do, don’t we. Why? Because we KNOW them. That is true with God. We must get to know Him, Then we can say. My God is a good God. He heals me. He sets me free. He prospers me. And they are no longer words that we hope that if we say them often enough, they will come true for us. When we speak these statements in faith, we KNOW that they are TRUE NOW for us, even if we don’t see anything in the natural to indicate it. And faith requires nothing in the natural to confirm it. For example, when we truly believe we are healed by the stripes of Jesus, disease can still be raging in our bodies, but we know that we are healed. Saying the scriptures doesn’t make it so. It is so; we say the scriptures; it becomes reality for us personally. Do you understand what we are saying here this morning?
When someone asks us if we are sick, telling them that we are not sick is not faith. Rather, faith knows that we are healed and says with confidence: I am healed because Jesus took my sicknesses and diseases for me, even when we may have a body racked with pain and raging symptoms.
So, you see, denying something exists or hoping that it will go away if we speak the scriptures often enough, won’t produce faith, Faith is produced as we do speak the scriptures, as we do spend time with the Lord, as we get to know Him and His nature. When we get to know Him as well as we do that best friend on earth, then we will have confidence, faith in Him and what He says. We will believe that what He says has come to pass for US PERSONALLY. Then we don’t have to fear and wonder if it really will work for us. If you are still wondering if it will work, that is not faith. But keep pressing into Him; keep pressing into what His Word says; keep pressing into understanding Him and knowing Him better than you know anyone else. And it will happen. You will just know that you know that you can trust Him with your life in every situation you encounter. He will give you scriptures to stand on and you will know that you know that it is yours.
posted by Rev. Kialeen Potterton @ 8:09 AM
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