Substance of Things by Charles Capps

Author:Charles Capps
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Faith, Christian Life, General, Religion, Inspirational, Christianity, Pentecostal & Charismatic
ISBN: 9780892745999
Publisher: Harrison House
Published: 1990-01-27T22:00:00+00:00

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Calling Those Things Which Be Not as Though They Were

If your pastor gets up in front of you, holds up a piece of paper and says, "This is our new church," you're not going to accuse him of lying are you? But that piece of paper isn't the church—it's a blueprint, an image.

Romans 4:17 tells us that God calleth those things which be not as though they were. The pastor calls the blueprint a church when it isn't a church. It's only an image on paper. But he says, "Here's our new church."

What did that church start with? It started with words: Someone said, "We ought to build a new church. How big will we build it?" Then some figures were put down on paper. Words. In the beginning was the Word (John 1:1)—Jesus.

Your Miracle Begins With Words

Your miracle always begins with God's Word. It starts with God's words being imprinted in your heart.

Don't lend your voice to the enemy, because he will put an image inside you with your own words that will destroy what God has given you. If you'll say what God says about you, you'll end up with a blueprint, and if you follow that blueprint, the rest will come together.

Allow me to use another example.

The image on your TV screen is made up of a series of lines made up of a series of dots. There are about 2,000 of the lines across that TV screen, and they're all made up of dots. There are about 750,000 dots that make up that image on the TV. Those dots are the sum total of the substance of the picture on that screen.

The camera is used to transfer the image. The TV set receives different colors and shades which rearrange the image on the screen. It's the same number of dots, but they make up a different image. On a TV screen, the substance of the image is in the dots.

Faith is the substance of things.

God's Word is preprogrammed to produce what is promised. The substance of things is faith. The dots (faith) are preprogrammed into God's Word. If you don't rearrange the dots, the image will always come out the same as the Word. To perfect that image, you must speak, proclaim —say—what God said in His Word. Eventually that image will be formed inside you.

That's what it means to speak the word of faith. You speak God's Word and faith comes as a result of your speaking, because the Word is filled with faith.

If you're hurting and sick, confess, "By His stripes I was healed!" Don't change the dots. That's the way God said it.

First Peter 2:24 says:

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

Notice it doesn't say you were going to be healed, it says you were healed.

If you say, "I believe God's going to do it sometime," He won't. You're rearranging the dots.

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