Is This True?
If a preacher has the reputation of acting on
James 5:14 or
Mark 16:18 he is disqualified for most of the denominational pulpits.
The Church is no longer in the grip of God, but under the sway of scholastic intolerance.
Our slogan should be -- "Back to the Living, Miracle Working Christ."
People want Him, so they crowd the building where He is allowed to act.
Jesus attracted the multitude by miracles.
Jesus will attract them today.
"He is the same yesterday, today and forever" (Hebrews.13:8).
How Faith Talks
Isaiah 55:8,9, "For My Thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My Ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My Ways higher than your ways, and My Thoughts than your thoughts."
Faith talks in the language of God. Doubt talks in the language of man.
When I dare to say that I am what He says I am, then I am what He says I am.
The Word says that, "I am complete in Him."
Well, God is the Author of the Word.
He is the Author of my Redemption, so if He says I am complete in Him, then I must be complete in Him.
It is barely possible that I do not understand His standards of perfection. But I rest in what He says.
What He says is what He sees in us by Grace, and what He sees in us is what we really are.
It is not what we believe, or what the church has taught us, but when He says, "We are the fullness of Him that filleth all things," we are.
When He says that "He has blessed us with every Spiritual blessing in the heavenlies," then we are blessed. Whether we have enjoyed it or not, that is not the issue.
He has blessed us.
When He declares that, "we are seated together with Him in the heavenlies," we are.
Now, you go about your work, today, and every idle moment that you have, repeat some of these great Facts over and over again.
After a while they will become a part of you as the multiplication table is a part of you.
Just so will the Divine-consciousness of Jesus-consciousness become a part of you.
You cannot think God's Thoughts after Him without God following His Thoughts into your life; and changing your thoughts into Reality.
You think weakness and you are weak. You think strength and you are strong.
You think about God indwelling you, and God will rise up and fill your body, His temple, with His Glory.
Just as He over-shadowed Solomon's Temple with the Cloud of His Glory, so will He over-shadow you.
Just as He filled the Temple with His Glory so that the priests could not stay to minister, because of the wonder of His Presence, so will He fill you today, so that the world thoughts will be unable to minister in you because of the ineffable Glory of His Presence.
Let Faith speak through your lips today. Don't talk doubts any more. Just talk faith!