God's Creative Power for Healing by Charles Capps

Author:Charles Capps
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Body, Religion, Christian Life, General, Spirituality, Mind & Spirit, Spiritual Growth
ISBN: 9780982032008
Publisher: Harrison House
Published: 1991-11-30T22:00:00+00:00

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Understanding the Principle

Now that you have gone through the scriptural confessions, let's look at the principle that could be the key to you being a partaker of God's provisions concerning your healing.

There is probably no other subject as important to your healing and health than the principle of CALLING THINGS THAT ARE NOT1. We see in Romans 4:17-22 that Abraham became fully persuaded that God would do what He had promised. The way he became fully persuaded was by calling those things which were not manifest as though they were.

We pick up on this in verse seventeen:

(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

Romans 4:17

Here Paul is referring to Genesis the 17th chapter. You will notice that God called Abram the father of nations before he had the promised child, and He taught Abram to do the same.

God changed Abram's name to Abraham, which meant "father of nations, or multitude." This was the means He used to convince Abraham to call for what he did not yet have in reality. God had established it by promise, but Abram had to call it into reality by mixing faith with God's Word.

Every time he said, "I am Abraham," he was calling things that were not yet manifest. Abraham did not deny that he was old. He didn't go around saying, "I'm not old," because he was old. But he said, "I am Abraham," (Father of Nations). This was God's method of helping him change his image, and it caused him to be fully persuaded.

Paul also gives us insight into this principle in 1 Corinthians 1:27,28:

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are.

In other words God uses spiritual forces which are not seen to nullify natural things that are seen. This is the Bible principle of calling things that are not as though they were.

Then in 2 Corinthians 4:13, Paul says:

We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak.

Paul is quoting David when he said, I believed, and therefore have I spoken.... In Psalm 118:17, David said, I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.

When it comes to divine healing this is a vital principle. We should declare to ourselves what God's Word reveals about us, regardless of the circumstances or how we feel about it.

In Romans 10:6-8 Paul says that the righteousness which is of faith says ... the word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart.

Notice, the Word is first in your mouth and (then) in your heart.

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