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In this enlightening episode, explore the intersections of faith and practicality with Charles Capps. Understand the role of faith as a seed, and discover how the act of speaking to your challenges can bring about change. Charles shares compelling stories of his journey, using faith to navigate and overcome real-life obstacles while providing insights into how you can do the same.
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We are glad you could join us today for the Concepts of Faith broadcast. This program is dedicated to teach you how to put the Word of God to work so that it will make a positive difference in the everyday circumstances of your life. And now, here's Charles Capps.
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Now, I spoke to the house. It didn't sell overnight, but it did sell. In fact, I went out there one day and I said, now Lord, I've done what you said to do. And I'm sitting there thinking, and my carnal mind got a hold of it. It said, now what are you going to do? I said, I know what I'll do. So I went out there, and I drove down the street, and I rolled the window down. It was cold that day, and I just stuck my head out. And I said, ha, ha, ha, ha. Went down and laughed at the other and went home. Learn to laugh at your problems. Now the reason I did that, the Spirit of God spoke this in one of our meetings. He said, learn to release your faith in laughter. Tears of self-pity and sorrow never release faith. They only release oppression and fear. So learn to release your faith in laughter. So I just simply did what I heard the Spirit of God say. I laughed at the house. Now the house sold. Not only did the houses sell. But I sold the whole project to one man. Not only that, I sold all the land behind the project that was not developed. And the notes were paid. Now somebody said, you're the luckiest guy that ever lived. Oh no, I don't even believe in luck. I believe in doing the sayings of Jesus. Now it may seem foolish to you. But if you'll do what Jesus said to do, you can have what Jesus said you'd have. Now, it's very simple to take God's Word and apply it to the natural things of life. But the church, so many times, has separated the two. Now, we had a piece of property right next door to our office building there. And we thought we might want to expand the office sometime. So it was put up for sale. So we decided to buy it. And I went out and walked around the property. Talk to the property. Now see, we're doing the sayings of Jesus. Jesus said, Whosoever shall say to the mountain, to the problem. See, he's not talking about literal rock mountains. He's talking about problem areas in your life. He's not talking about literal trees when he said the sycamine trees. He's talking about obstacles that are keeping you from what you know God wants. Speak to it. If you had faith as a seed, you would say to the sycamine tree. Now the reason many people don't speak to it, they don't have faith as a seed. You know how a seed works? A seed calls things that are not. Did you know that? When a farmer plants corn, he can take a bushel of corn, And he can go out and plant that bushel of corn. He doesn't want a bushel of corn. He wants 200 bushels of corn. So what is his seed doing? Calling things that are not. They're not there, but it's calling them because he planted them. Now Jesus said this, Luke 17, verse 5 and 6. He said, if you had faith as a seed, you would say. The way you plant the seed is to say it. So if you don't say to the sycamine tree, if you don't say to your problem... be plucked up and be removed and tell it where to go. It's because you don't believe or have faith as a seed. You may have faith alright. You may have faith that God's going to do it sometime. But it may never happen. The time may never come. Because you've never established anything for sure. Just sometime. If I came to this town, you know, and called up pastor here and said, well, now, you know, I'm in town and we need to get together. He said, well, all right, where? Oh, just anywhere. Well, when? Oh, just anytime. And just hung up the phone. How long do you think it'd take us to get together? You're never going to get together. So, you see, doing the things of Jesus is a practical thing. You do it because Jesus said to do it. You study, you meditate the Word, and you apply these things in the natural things of life. Now somebody said, I tried it and it didn't work. It won't work if you try it. It only works when you do it. Now let me show you the difference in a trier and a doer. A trier tries it for a little while, and when it didn't work, he quits in a week or two. He quits. That stuff doesn't work. But a doer just says, thank God Jesus said it worked, and he just keeps doing it until he gets the results. Now when I started doing these things, actually it never occurred to me that it might not work. Because I was firmly convinced and fully persuaded that what Jesus said was true. Now if it never did happen, then I missed it somewhere. But I saw it happen. I talked to this piece of property next door. Then I made an offer on it. I walked around that property. I said, listen to me, I'm talking to you. I'm calling you into the ministry. You come to me in Jesus' name. Then I made the offer on the property. They turned it down. So I just went on. Thank God I've done what the Word said to do. Now, a few months later, they got a big sign sitting up out there on the property. It said, Future Home of the Production Credit Association. And my head gave me trouble over that. And I said to my wife, I said, You reckon I better go talk to them about that. And I was sitting there thinking about it, and it just kept bugging me. And one morning, I'm walking down the hall, and my carnal mind said, He says, now what you going to do? And I just got tired of it. Finally, I just hollered out loud. I said, I know what I'll do. Nothing. Jesus said it would obey me. So I just went on. Put it out of my mind. Wouldn't even touch it in my thought life. Now, a few days, weeks later. I was down at the fishing camp there where we do some fishing. I was down there having a dominion seminar over the fish of the lake. And I called home and my wife said, the real estate lady wants you to call her right away. So I called her and she said, are you still interested in that piece of property out there? Yeah, I sure am. Well, you still give what you offered for it. I said, yes, I guess I would. Well, she said, you know, it's funny. She said, they've decided they're not going to build there. They're going to build over on this other street. I said, I don't doubt it. See, Jesus said, you're going to fail if you don't do my sayings. Now, don't go blaming God if you didn't do his sayings and things didn't work out. Now, it may not always work out that day, that week, that year even. But if you continue to do the sayings of Jesus, you're going to get the results Jesus said you could have. This is why I say it won't work for triers. You've got to be doers of the word. Now you see, when he said speak to things, I used this in the area of farming. See, I farmed for nearly 30 years. And I'd even read the Bible to my crops. I'd spray them with Malachi 3.11. Somebody said, that must be a new poison. No, but it's a good fertilizer. Now, I did use fertilizer. I had an individual come to me one time and said, two guys came over to Mississippi and they said, we came to this meeting just to ask you. We're farmers. We want to ask you, do you use fertilizer on your farm? Being a faith man. Well, because you're a faith man doesn't make you throw away all good business practices. See, some people get things all squirreled up. And they think if you were a faith man, well, you wouldn't even brush your teeth, you know. Or you wouldn't put fertilizer. I said, yeah, I put fertilizer on my farm. Do you put gas in your car? But you see, if you don't know the answer to a question, no question is stupid if you don't know the answer. So I'm not really putting them down, but I'm just saying that certainly I use fertilizer. But I talk to the farm. I talk to my crops. I spoke to wheat one time. We had some wheat we had planted, and it just looked like it didn't enough come up to leave. In fact, I'd already told the guys, you plow it up. When I'm leaving, going on a meeting, I said, it gets dry enough, plow it up. And... It had rained after I left and they didn't get to plow it up. So when we got back home, it was looking a little better. It had turned warm and it was greening up. My wife kept saying, let's just confess the word over it. I said, well, you've got to have something to confess over first. But finally, she talked me into it. So we go out there and we confess the word of God over it and talk to that wheat. We walked around out there and talked to it and said, listen to me, I'm talking to you. Jesus said, you would obey me. Now see, wheat will stool out, and from one seed it'll put out another shoot, and it may have 15 or 20 shoots from one seed. And so I started talking to it and telling it what to do. So we went ahead and fertilized it and did the things necessary for it, and we cut 50 bushel of wheat to the acre off of that wheat I was going to plow up. And it was just simply by doing what Jesus said to do. Now, you know, to just sit down and tell you exactly how that wheat could understand what I said, I don't know. I just know what Jesus said. And he said, if you come to me and hear my sayings and do them. Now, let me tell you some other things Jesus said to do. Jesus said, if your enemy is thirsty, give him drink. Well, maybe it was Paul that said that, but Jesus said, pray for your enemies. Do good to them that curse you. Now, that's doing the sayings of Jesus. You've got to do the thing that He said to do. Now, let me show you why you're to be good to your enemy and to pray for your enemy. Do good for them. And Paul says, if he's hungry, give him something to eat. If he's thirsty, give him drink. Now, in doing that, you're calling him your friend. Isn't that right? Isn't that right? You're calling things that are not. You're calling him your friend when you feed him. Anybody knows you don't feed your enemy. So you do it to your enemy to call him your friend. Everything produces after its kind. Start calling things that are not. Call it the way you want it. Call it the way the Word says it. Don't call it the way it is. When you do that, you only establish what is. But when you begin to call things that are not as though they were, then you're simply doing the sayings of Jesus. I appreciate so much you joining us for the Concepts of Faith broadcast today. I trust you've been blessed and been with us all this week as we minister the Word of God. This is the last day for CD offer number 7403. It's four CDs for $29 plus $5 postage and handling. a total of $34. It's entitled, Doing the Sayings of Jesus. When we talk about doing the sayings of Jesus, we're talking about doing the things that he taught. And of course, Mark 11, 23, here's the principle of faith and how it works. Whosoever shall say, believe, doubt not in his heart, believe what he is saying will come to pass. He shall have whatsoever he saith. Well, what have you been saying about your business or your house you have for sale or your property you've put up for sale? Are you saying nobody will ever buy it? I had a fellow tell me one time, he said, you know, we bought a piece of property. It was in a low area. We were going to let people dump field dirt in there, and we was going to eventually sell it and make money on it. But he said we got to needing to sell it and said we hadn't got much dirt in it and said we started saying nobody will ever buy this mud hole. We'll be paying for it the rest of our lives. And he said nobody was interested in it. Then he heard me teaching on this subject, and they decided to just do what Jesus said, to say to the sycamine tree or to the problem area or to the mountain, you will not hinder me anymore. You will be sold in Jesus' name. We call you sold. So they went out there on Monday morning. On Sunday night, I taught in his church. They went out there on Monday morning, and they talked to the property people. Now, on Wednesday, they called and said, someone bought that piece of property today. Now, it had been up for sale for two years. No one had bought it. But when they began to do what Jesus said to do, and to speak to inanimate objects, and say what the Word said to say, say what you want done with it, then it happened. Now, these are things that will happen to you if you'll just simply do what Jesus said to do. That's offer number 7403, Doing the Sayings of Jesus, for a total of $34. We have a toll-free order line, 1-877-396-9400. Until Monday, this is Charles Capps reminding you, the enemy is defeated, God is exalted, and Jesus is coming soon.
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To order the product offered today, call 1-877-396-9400 or write Charles Capps, P.O. Box 69, England, Arkansas 72046. A complete list of CDs, books, and DVDs are available online at charlescapps.com. Through the website, you can listen to this radio program again and subscribe to our podcast. This broadcast is sponsored by Charles Capps Ministries and our listeners in this area.
Join Charles Capps on an enlightening journey of faith in action as he shares dynamic principles that empower believers to command their reality through positive declarations. This episode focuses on the synergy between belief and spoken words, offering myriad testimonies that highlight the tangible results of faith in action. Through real-life examples, Charles demonstrates how disciplined speech and faith-led proclamations have helped individuals overcome financial hurdles, sell real estate smoothly, and achieve goals that once seemed unattainable. He stresses not only on the importance of believing the words you profess but also on fine-tuning your language to reflect unwavering faith. By integrating biblical teachings with contemporary experiences, Charles provides a powerful resource for incorporating faith into the practical areas of everyday life. Discover the essential steps to achieve harmony between your faith and your finances, relationships, and personal development in this thought-provoking discussion.
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We are glad you could join us today for the Concepts of Faith broadcast. This program is dedicated to teach you how to put the Word of God to work so that it will make a positive difference in the everyday circumstances of your life. And now, here's Charles Capps.
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Remembered what Jesus said about the sycamine tree? Whosoever shall say to it, said it would obey you. So I just went in there and got all my mortgages out. Had three or four of them. Laid them on the table. Called my daughter Annette. She was in the bedroom. I said, come out here. I want you to be a witness to what I'm going to do. My wife was gone somewhere. So I got her out there. And she's standing there. And I said, I'm going to do what Jesus said to do. Because he said I'm going to fail if I don't. So I backed off about six feet. And I started talking to these notes. I said, listen to me, I'm talking to you. Jesus said you would obey me. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I command you, I say to you, be paid in full, dematerialize, depart, be gone, in Jesus' name, and you will obey me. I turned around and walked off. And my daughter's standing there blinking her eyes. She had seen me do a few strange things, but nothing this strange before. See, I come to the point that I'm going to do what Jesus says to do. Now somebody said, didn't you feel a little silly doing that? No, no, no. I felt a whole lot silly. But what does that have to do with it? Jesus said I was going to fail if I didn't. So I just did what he said to do. When you do what Jesus says to do, expect to get the results that Jesus said you would have. Now, he said, when the stream beats vehemently against this fellow that does my sayings, it could not shake him. Now, boy, I tell you, I've been in some places financially where there was no hope financially for me. Natural hope I'm talking about. See, like Abraham was. When there was no hope, I made a decision to believe in supernatural hope. Now that's what you have to do. Some of you may be that way financially. See, God's gospel is a practical thing. But when you tend to spiritualize everything that Jesus said, you miss the fundamental things that will work for you in your everyday life. If you're just going to tell me a bunch of Bible stories about David killing Goliath and Joshua defeating the giants, and don't teach me the principles that he used, then you haven't done anything for me. And I was raised in a full gospel church for years where that's what they taught. They taught you what they did, but never did apply any of these things to the natural circumstances of life that we face. The gospel is a practical gospel. So I learned something from that. I spoke to the notes. Now I had two houses sitting out there on this property that I'd built. I had built three and sold one of them. And I had already prayed about them. Lord, send me a buyer for these houses. And I'm driving around out there one day and I said, now Lord, why haven't these houses sold? He spoke right into my spirit and said, because you didn't do what I said to do. Well, I said, Lord, I've already prayed. He said, why don't you do what you've been teaching people to do? I said, you mean speak to them? See, I began to teach that at this time. I saw it and I did it and then I began to teach it. I said, all right. So I drove by the houses and got out and stood in the yard and talked to them. I said, listen to me, I'm talking to you. And I looked down the street this way and I looked that way. To make sure that there wasn't anybody there. And I said, somebody's impressed with you. Oh, they really like the color of your brick. I went inside and I talked to it. I said, I'm calling you sold in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And Jesus said, you would obey me. Be sold in Jesus' name. I went down and talked to the other one. Now somebody said, how in the world is that going to change anything? I don't know other than what Jesus said. At the time I didn't understand it all. I understand it better now. I'm just doing what Jesus said to do. He said I'm going to fail if I don't. Now I talked about this in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I was teaching and there was a lady in the congregation. She came to me after the service. And she said, oh Brother Capps, I can't wait to get home. Because she said, I've got a house that I've been trying to sell for eight months, haven't had one single offer on it. Ooh, she said, I'm going home and talk to my house. Well, she did talk to her house. In fact, she told me, she said, I'm going to send you the tithes off the profit that I make on the house when I sell it. Now, I was home two weeks and I got a check in the mail to the ministry. She sold her house in two weeks that she'd been eight months trying to sell because she did what Jesus said to do. She talked to him. You may not understand all that. You don't have to understand it all, but you do have to believe it. If Jesus said it, you're required to believe it. Now, if you'll believe it and act on it. Now, let me stop and say this, because sometimes it's the things we live unsaid that discourages people. It won't just happen overnight that you'll believe everything you say will come to pass. That's why it's necessary to control your vocabulary. Begin to speak only what you desire to come to pass. Don't talk foolishness day in and day out and expect to be able to talk to a house and get it to obey you. You say, whoo, isn't that a big dog when it's a little bit of chihuahua? Boy, isn't it hot today when it's 20 below outside. See, what you do, you weaken the inner man. You train the inner man not to release any faith in what you're saying. And therefore, you don't release faith when you begin to speak. See, when it comes time to speak the word of faith, there is no power there. That's why Jesus and Paul said, let your yea be yea and your nay nay. Anything more than that cometh of evil. That's a serious thing when you read what Jesus said in the 12th chapter of Matthew. He said, by thy words thou shalt be justified, by thy words thou shalt be condemned. Man will give account of every idle word that he speaks, non-working word. Any word you speak that doesn't work for you, you'll give account for it in the day of judgment. Now that doesn't mean that you'll go to hell because you didn't speak working words for you. it means you'll lose reward. Because there'll be many things you'll never attain in this life unless you learn how to speak the word of faith and release faith in every word you speak. Now, when you get highly developed in that, now, it takes weeks and months and sometimes even years to get highly developed in speaking the word of faith. You have to determine that you're going to speak what you believe and believe what you speak in everything. Now, if you're going to tell a joke and if you're going to be facetious about something, say, this man said this happened or this is a joke. Don't tell it on yourself as being true, even jokes. Are you listening? Because you see, it weakens the inner man. You get to the point that you don't release faith in the words you say. Now, the more highly developed you get in believing what you say will come to pass, the quicker the manifestation will come. That's why I'm people that are highly developed in the negative thing and speaking unbelief and talking all the doubt and fear and all the negative things. Laughed, I thought I'd die. I guess I'll be in a wheelchair before I'm 40 years old. My arthritis is getting worse every day. See, you're developing yourself highly in that fear or that negative form of faith. He shall have whatsoever he saith. If he believe, if he doubt not in his heart, if he believe what he says will come to pass. Now, it didn't happen just because he said it once. Because you know what? The devil's smart enough to know that if you was to say, whoo, tickle me to death, and you fell over dead. After about three people did that, somebody would say, maybe it was what he said that had something to do with it. But you see, it doesn't work that fast because you've got to believe what you say and it'll come to pass. But there's things that people speak about their finances that they don't really mean when they first say it, but they keep saying it long enough, you go to believe in it, and when you go to believe in it, you deceive your heart. If any man seemeth to be religious, bridleth not his tongue, he deceiveth his own heart. You deceive your heart into believing that you want to go bankrupt. You watch and see. Nobody can make a living out of this business. It's going down the tube. We're going bankrupt. Sure as a world. That's what you call hard-heartedness or poor-mouthing. You know what it means to poor mouth? When you first start saying it, you didn't really believe it. You say it long enough, you go to believing it. Now when it gets in your heart, you've deceived your heart, your heart will lead you, your spirit will lead you to the things that will cause you to fail. Absolutely will. The Bible bears that out. Because the kingdom of God is if a man casts the seed into the ground. The seed is the word of God. Or the words that he speaks. It could either be the word of God or the words of the devil. Now, I spoke to the house. It didn't sell overnight. But it did sell. In fact, I went out there one day and I said, Now, Lord, I've done what you said to do. And I'm sitting there thinking, and my carnal mind got a hold of it. It said, Now, what are you going to do? I said, I know what I'll do. So I went out there and I drove down the street and I rolled the window down. It was cold that day and I just stuck my head out. And I said, Ha, ha, ha, ha. Went down and laughed at the other and went home. Learn to laugh at your problems. Now the reason I did that, the Spirit of God spoke this in one of our meetings. He said, learn to release your faith in laughter. Tears of self-pity and sorrow never release faith. They only release oppression and fear. So learn to release your faith in laughter. So I just simply did what I heard the Spirit of God say. I laughed at the house. Now the house sold. Not only did the houses sell. But I sold the whole project to one man. Not only that, I sold all the land behind the project that was not developed. And the notes were paid. Now somebody said, you're the luckiest guy that ever lived. Oh no, I don't even believe in luck. I believe in doing the sayings of Jesus. Now it may seem foolish to you. But if you'll do what Jesus said to do, you can have what Jesus said you'd have. I'm glad you could join us for the Concepts of Faith broadcast today. Now before we leave the broadcast, let me remind you that all of this week's CD offer number 7403 is our offer. It's entitled, Doing the Sayings of Jesus. That's four CDs for $29 plus $5 postage and handling, a total of $34. I get so excited when I start talking about this series because we have so many testimonies of how that people have put these principles to work in their life, to sell property, to sell their house. And I'm talking about people that had their house up for sale for two years, not one offer. The lady said to me, I'm so glad I came to the seminar tonight. This was back in 1980. And she said, I've had my house up for sale for two years, not one offer. I'm going home and talk to it. See, we talk about doing the sayings of Jesus. What did Jesus say to do? Whosoever shall say to the mountain, to the problem, be removed, be cast in the sea, shall not doubt his heart, but believe what he's saying, or come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith. So she said, I'm going home and talk to my house. And she did. In less than a week, it sold. Now, these are things you can apply in your everyday life. So many people think, well, now, you know, these things just work in spiritual things. These are things that will work in everyday life. I had a fellow that sent me a large offering for about three months in a row. I finally called him and said, I want to tell you how much I appreciate you sending this large donation to the ministry. He said, oh, I wanted to talk to you. He said, what happened? I had a piece of property. And I got to listening to your tapes on doing the sayings of Jesus. And I went out and talked to that piece of property and called it sold and began to confess the word of God over it. And it sold. And it sold for the price that he wanted. And he said, that's the reason I'm sending you this offering. Now, there's other people that every time I'd tell one of these stories, I'd get two or three more. This will be a blessing to you. It's offer number 7403. That's four CDs for a total of $34, doing the sayings of Jesus. We have a toll-free order line, 1-877-396-9400. Until tomorrow, this is Charles Capps reminding you that the enemy is defeated, God is exalted, and Jesus reigns.
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Join us on this episode as Charles Capps delves into the importance of establishing a strong foundation in life based on the teachings of Jesus. You'll learn how applying the Word of God can influence your day-to-day circumstances, turning challenges into opportunities for growth and resilience. Drawing on biblical stories, Charles explores the need for a practical approach to faith, encouraging listeners to actively engage with Jesus' teachings and use them as a cornerstone for their lives. The discussion also covers personal testimonies and lessons on overcoming financial struggles with supernatural hope, as Charles shares his own journey of faith in building a successful ministry. He stresses the importance of not only hearing the Word but living it, providing insights on common misconceptions and demonstrating the power of faith through real-life applications. Whether you're facing storms or calm seas, this episode will equip you with the principles needed to stand strong and victorious.
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We are glad you could join us today for the Concepts of Faith broadcast. This program is dedicated to teach you how to put the Word of God to work so that it will make a positive difference in the everyday circumstances of your life. And now, here's Charles Capps.
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Now what we realize is that when we do what Jesus said to do, we'll get the results that Jesus said we'd have. But now how many of you know that you don't just hear this and operate in it perfectly overnight? You have to develop yourself in it. Now he said when the stream beats vehemently against this fellow that does my sayings, it could not shake him. Now boy, I tell you, I've been in some places financially where there was no hope. financially for me, natural hope I'm talking about. See, I was like Abraham was. When there was no hope, I made a decision to believe in supernatural hope. Now that's what you have to do. Some of you may be that way financially. The gospel is a practical thing. But when you tend to spiritualize everything that Jesus said, you miss the fundamental things that will work for you in your everyday life. All right, now let's take a look back over here again at Luke's Gospel, the sixth chapter. Jesus said, He cometh to me, heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will show you who is like. But if he doesn't, then immediately his house fell. Let's read verse 49. But he that heareth and doeth not is like a man without foundation, without a foundation. The foundation, remember now, is doing what Jesus said to do. The rock that he talked about in the previous verses is the Word of God, or Jesus, or the Word of God. So the man based his doings on what Jesus said. He did the sayings, but he based it on the Word of God. So without foundation... He built a house on the earth against which the stream beat vehemently, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great. Now you have people that'll say, well, now you know, God always sends you through the wilderness. The wilderness experience will make you stronger. Now I hear people say that from time to time, but you better check up on the wilderness experience. The children of Israel spent 40 years there. It was not God's will for them to spend 40 years in the wilderness. He wanted to lead them through that wilderness to the promised land. See, the wilderness was between them and the promised land. It was not His will that they spend 48 years there. Somebody said, oh, it'll make your faith stronger. Check and see if it'd make their faith stronger. No, it didn't. It killed them. Killed all the doubters. And if you stay in the wilderness long enough, it'll kill you. Now, ask yourself this about this verse 49. If it was God testing and trying this fellow's faith when the flood and the stream beat vehemently against it, if it was God that was doing that, then it seemed like God was a partner to his failure. Now stop and look at it. Think about this for a minute. Ask yourself, who caused the flood and the stream to beat vehemently against it? And then ask yourself this question. What caused one house to fall or one life to fail and the other not to fail? Your first thought is it was the stream, it was the flood. No, it came against both of them. What caused one to fail was that he didn't do what Jesus said to do. Now they could have both been saved and filled with the Holy Ghost and gone to church every Sunday. Because I tell you, I was in that situation one time. Went to church every Sunday, did everything I knew to do, but I was sick in body, head over heels in debt. I was supernaturally in debt. You couldn't get that way naturally. Man, I got so poor I couldn't pay attention. Because there were some things I didn't know to do. But now let's look at this for a minute. If it were true that this is God trying this fellow. then it should read this way, if it was true that the problems of life, the wilderness experience, the negative things that come against you in life make you stronger, then this verse 49 should read this way, "...He that heareth and doeth not is like a man that without foundation built his house upon the earth, which the stream did beat vehemently, and it tore the porch off, knocked the blocks out from under it, and the window lights fell out, washed part of the house away." But then when the flood rose up and continued to beat upon it, the house began to come back together. And when it settled down, it settled on a firm foundation and was stronger. Sounds good, don't it? But that was not what Jesus said. And that's just about how foolish it is to say that the things the devil brings against you is to really make you more like Jesus. No, the devil brings these things to destroy you. Satan brought this stream and flood against this house. You remember the storm that Jesus was in the boat. He said, let us go to the other side. And they start over to the other side and things are going great. Jesus went to sleep in the back of the boat. And the waves, then the wind, the storm wind came on the lake. Who started that storm? It had to be the devil because it's trying to destroy Jesus. Not only that, but they came back and told Jesus, woke him up and said, you know what the devil said? Now, you don't read that in your Bible, but that's actually what they did. They told Jesus what the devil said. See, Jesus said, we're going to the other side. They let his word slip. They come back and woke Jesus up and said, you know, we're going to all drown. You know what Jesus did? He got up. I can just see him walk up to the bow of that boat, put his foot on the front of it. He looked out there and he said, Peace! Be still. Now wait a minute. There's not any peace out there. There's a storm out there. What's he doing? He's calling things that are not. He's doing his own sayings. He's showing you how it works. He spoke to the wind. And he stopped the cause of the waves before he stopped the waves. Now, if you're not careful, you'll get it backwards and start talking to the waves. If he'd have talked to the waves and got them stopped and hadn't got the wind stopped, you'd have had another storm in just a few minutes. Isn't that right? See, sometimes we do that. We treat the symptoms instead of the problem. You get mad at the person instead of the spirit that's driving the individuals. You've got to go to the spirit that's driving the individual that's causing the problems in your life. Don't get mad at the individual. They may not even know why they're doing what they're doing. They're causing the problems for you. And that'll help you. But Jesus destroyed the storm, didn't he? Didn't he destroy the storm? Now, the Bible says that Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. Now, if the storm there was to try their faith and it was sin of God, then Jesus ended up destroying the works of his Father. Can you see that? It couldn't be that God sent the storm. And you hear this all the time. Well, you know, God sent a tornado to our town the other night. No, it might have been your God, but it wasn't my God. That's a perversion of nature. It is the work of the devil. Now what we realize is that when we do what Jesus said to do, we'll get the results that Jesus said we'd have. But now how many of you know that you don't just hear this and operate in it perfectly overnight? You have to develop yourself in it. Now here's the way that the Lord began to deal with me about this. I read Luke the 6th chapter from verse 46 down through the end of the chapter there. Now at the time I read that several years ago, I had started a housing project north of England there, England, Arkansas that is. And I had spent a lot of money putting in sewer, water lines, and getting it ready to build on and we'd start building some houses. Now, that's about the time the ministry, the teaching ministry, began to flourish, and the Lord began to open doors, and I got to where I had so many invitations. I didn't have time to do all this other stuff. So I'm sitting there one day thinking, I sure wish I could get these notes paid off. I borrowed the money at the bank, you know, to put in these facilities. And I read this, and I was reading one morning, meditating on this, and I saw this. It was illuminated in my spirit. If you don't do my sayings, you're going to fail. So I said, well, Jesus was a prophet. He prophesied I'm going to fail if I don't do what he said. And I said, now, what did Jesus say? See, if you'll ask yourself questions, you'll learn some things because yourself knows more than you do. That's the truth. See, ask yourself. Yourself is the real you, the spirit man on the inside. Then it came right up out of my spirit. Jesus said, whosoever shall say to the mountains, Well, immediately I connected the mountain with the notes, the mortgage at the bank. That's what I wanted to get rid of. It's what was before me, keeping me from being able to do the things I wanted to do in the teaching ministry and being free to travel and do what I wanted to do. So I read that and then I remembered what Jesus said about the sycamine tree. Whosoever shall say to it, said it would obey you. So I just went in there and got all my mortgages out. Had three or four of them, laid them on the tables. I called my daughter Annette. She was in the bedroom. I said, come out here. I want you to be a witness to what I'm going to do. My wife was gone somewhere, so I got her out there. She's standing there and I said, I'm going to do what Jesus said to do. Because he said I'm going to fail if I don't. So I backed off about six feet and I started talking to these notes. I said, listen to me, I'm talking to you. Jesus said you would obey me. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I command you, I say to you, be paid in full, dematerialize, depart, be gone, in Jesus' name, and you will obey me. I turned around and walked off. And my daughter's standing there blinking her eyes. She had seen me do a few strange things, but nothing this strange before. See, I come to the point that I'm going to do what Jesus says to do. Now somebody said, didn't you feel a little silly doing that? No, no, no. I felt a whole lot silly. But what does that have to do with it? Jesus said I was going to fail if I didn't. So I just did what he said to do. Thank you so much for joining us for the Concepts of Faith broadcast today as we've been talking about doing the sayings of Jesus. Now, all of this week we have a CD offer number 7403. It's entitled, Doing the Sayings of Jesus. It's four CDs for $29 plus $5 postage and handling, a total of $34. In this series, we deal extensively of how to put the principles of God in operation in your everyday life. In the parable that Jesus talked about in the sixth chapter of Luke, he says, Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will show you who he is like. Now, he's talking about three things here. First, you come to Jesus, you hear what he said, and you do them. Now, he said, if you do that, you're like a man that built his house. He digged deep, and he laid the foundation on the rock. When the stream beat vehemently against it, it could not shake it. Now, he didn't say it didn't shake it. He said it couldn't shake it. It's impossible to, because he laid the foundation on the rock. Now, what is the foundation here? The foundation is doing the sayings of Jesus, and the Word of God, or Christ Jesus, is the rock. So he laid the the foundation on the rock. In other words, everything that the man did was based on the authority of the Word of God. But then he tells about a man that came to him and heard his sayings and didn't do them. And when the stream beat the Himalaya upon him, immediately his house fell, and the ruin of that house was great. Now, you know he's not talking about a housing project here. He's talking about individual lives. And he's telling you there's three simple things that you do, that if you do them, you'll not fail in life. Come to Jesus, hear his saying, then start doing what Jesus said. Now, this series will actually carry you into an area where you can see how to operate in the principles of God. That is offer number 7403 for a total of $34.00. We have a toll-free order line, 1-877-396-9400. Until tomorrow, this is Charles Capps reminding you that the enemy is defeated, God is exalted, and Jesus is coming soon.
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Join Charles Capps as he unravels the profound impact of words in shaping faith and its manifestations in life. This episode covers the power of confession, the dangers of negative speech, and the principle that aligns our actions with divine truth. Drawing from the book of James and other scriptures, Capps underscores the necessity of being doers of the Word, ensuring that belief is matched by action for a fortified spiritual journey.
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We're glad you could join us today for the Concepts of Faith broadcast. This program is dedicated to teach you how to put the Word of God to work so that it will make a positive difference in the everyday circumstances of your life. And now, here's Charles Capps.
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Now we're going to talk about doing the sayings of Jesus. I want us to go to Luke, the sixth chapter. And let's read... Again, some foundation scriptures here. Luke chapter 6, verse 46. Jesus is speaking. And he says, Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Whosoever cometh to me, heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like. He is like a man which built a house, digged deep, laid the foundation on a rock. And when the flood arose and stream beat vehemently upon that house and could not shake it, for it was founded on a rock. But he that heareth and doeth not is like a man that without foundation built his house upon the earth against which the stream did beat vehemently. Immediately it fell and the ruin of that house was great. Now, what you see here is the Lord Jesus Christ's illustration of an individual, two individuals. Now, you know he's not talking about a housing project. You know how Jesus talked? He used the natural things of earth that you could understand to reveal spiritual truths and understanding of how the kingdom of God worked. He said the man dig deep and he laid the foundation. Now, one of the fellows was building his house or his life without digging deep. He's probably one of the guys that was saying, oh, come on, I've already got the roof on my house and you're still digging the foundation. But the guy is still digging. He wants to know why he's doing these things. See, it makes a difference when you know why you do something. Now, you don't always have to know why, but it makes a difference when you do know why. That you're doing certain things. See, the problem is with a lot of people concerning the message of faith and confessing the Word of God is that they want to build a third story on a vacant lot. Just think about it a minute. You've got to start at the bottom. You can't build a third story. Until you get the first story and the second story built. He digged deep and he laid the foundation. Now, the foundation is doing the sayings of Jesus. Notice, both of these individuals came to Jesus, heard his sayings. Both of them did the same thing. Now, we could even call this, you know, you could call it about anything you wanted to, I suppose. We could call it how to succeed when others failed. Because you remember the Bible says Jesus was a prophet. He prophesies here, if you don't do my sayings, if you don't come to me, hear my sayings and do them, you're going to fail in life. Now that's important that we understand that he is telling you this so you won't fail in life. So that your house won't be swept down the stream in the floods of life. How many of you know that the streams of life and the troubles and the problems of life are going to come? There's no doubt about that. I mean, you live in a world where you have problems and troubles. Now, just because you got turned on to faith or born again doesn't mean your trouble just dissolved and disappeared. See, sometimes people get the idea that if you get saved, everything will be fine. Or if you get turned on to faith. But if you read in the 11th chapter of Hebrews, it talked about Cain and Abel. See, Abel, through faith, offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. Well, his faith got him killed. He did it by faith, didn't he? So it brought some problems on. If you don't know how to handle the situations that come to you in life, then you're going to fail. Just because you know a few things about the Word, see, we need to know the whole Word of God. And we need to know how to use the things that we learn about faith concerning the practical things of life. Now, the Word of God tells us in Hebrews, I believe it's the fourth chapter, verse 12, said, The Word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, to the dividing us under the soul and spirit, joints to the marrow, as a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. God's Word is quick, alive, it is more powerful than any two-edged sword. Now the two-edged sword that he's referring to is the tongue. It is more powerful than anyone's tongue. It is more powerful than all the negative things that people speak against you. But if we don't understand the fact that people, especially Christian people, are the most dangerous people in the world with their tongue. You know why? Because if they believe what they're saying, if they develop themselves to believe what they're saying will come to pass, and they go to speaking negative things, well, you just watch. That old boy's going to lose everything he invests in that. I just know, I know he's going to lose. You watch and see. Now, if he gets 50 people to agreeing with him, brother, you are in trouble. Unless you know how to use God's Word to put down the negative things of life. The Word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword. Now, I know because I got in a situation like that one time. And I didn't know it until after that I'd lost everything I put in the deal. Then my friends told me, well, I told so-and-so, you watch and see, he'll lose every dime he puts in that. But see, I didn't know to use the word of God to combat that and stop that. God's word is more powerful than what they spoke. Now see, they didn't realize what they were doing. They didn't know they were putting a curse on me. Now that's the way witchcraft works. We need to realize something that we are being used at times of the devil by speaking negative things against people. Have you ever heard somebody say, well, yeah, they'll get saved and never revival. But you watch, they'll go right back into sin. Now you become a partner of them going back into sin. You're putting a curse on them. Wasn't that what the Bible said about Jesus when he spoke negative things to the fig tree? Said he put a curse on, he cursed it. We need to realize that there is blessing and there is cursing. You see, that's what happened to Adam in the garden when he ate. He and Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of blessing and calamity. He already had the knowledge of blessing. He learned how to produce calamity by the words of his mouth. But the thing that Satan failed to tell him is that the day you eat of the fruit, it'll poison your tongue and then you won't be able to control the tongue. It'll be set on fire of hell. Now certainly God didn't set it on fire of hell. See, James says it's set on fire of hell. Well, you can't tame the tongue with the natural means, but thank God the Holy Ghost can. The Word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword. So if you speak God's Word concerning the situations, the circumstances of life, then God's Word will overrule that. Your words will draw the spirit life from the word of God and cause the manifestation of the thing you're speaking. Somebody says, you watch and see, he's going to fail. But if I'm confessing, thank God, whatever I do will prosper. No weapon formed against me will prosper. I'm like a tree planted by the rivers of water. I'm delivered from the evils of this present world. Thank God I'm confessing the word of God. Whatever I do will prosper. Now, that's God's Word. I have given, it's given unto me. Now, I can take God's Word, see, by being a doer of the Word of God, not just a hearer. I can put to naught the things that are spoken against me. Now, you notice here, in this situation, he digged deep, he laid the foundation. The foundation is doing the sayings of Jesus. Now, turn with me to James, the second chapter. James, the brother of Jesus... gained great insight into these things because he spent so much time with Jesus. He learned some things. If we would zero in, actually it's the first chapter of James, James chapter 1. Let's begin with verse 21. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, superfluity of naughtiness, receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. The engrafted word, word that becomes a part of you. Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. In other words, if you're hearers only, you're deceiving your own self. You've got to be doers of the word. Now, wasn't that what Jesus was saying there when he said, Come to me, hear my sayings, and do them? Be a doer of the words of Jesus. Do you remember in John, I believe it's the second chapter, where Jesus was at the marriage of Cain of Galilee, They needed wine. They were out of wine. And the mother of Jesus said, whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. Now, if you want a miracle, that's the way to get it. Whatever Jesus saith unto you, do it. The problem is sometimes we just make up our own rules as we go. Well, now, here's the way I believe it. I had an individual say that to me one time. Well now, Brother Capps, here's the way I believe it. I said, yes, but here's what the Word says. Well, I know that's what the Word says, but here's the way I believe it. Well now, if your believing don't line up with the Word of God, guess who's going to have to change? God changeth not. So if you're incompatible with God or His Word, you're going to have to do the changing. He's not going to change. He changeth not. Can you see that? Now here in James, the first chapter, he said, Be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers only, because if you're hearers only, you'll deceive your own self. Down to verse 24. For he beholdeth himself, goeth his way, straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was, but whosoever looketh into the perfect law of liberty, continueth therein, he being not a forgetful here, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deeds. If any man among you seemeth to be religious and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is in vain. Thank you so much for joining us for the Concepts of Faith broadcast today as we've been talking about doing the sayings of Jesus. Now, all of this week we have a CD offer number 7403. That's CD offer number 7403. It's entitled, Doing the Sayings of Jesus. It's four CDs for $29 plus $5 postage and handling, a total of $34. In this series, we deal extensively of how to put the principles of God in operation in your life, in your everyday life. In the parable that Jesus talked about in the sixth chapter of Luke, He says, Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will show you who he is like. Now, he's talking about three things here. First, you come to Jesus, you hear what he said, and you do them. Now, he said, If you do that, you're like a man that built his house. He digged deep, and he laid the foundation on the rock. When the stream beat vehemently against it, it could not shake it. Now, he didn't say it didn't shake it. He said it couldn't shake it. It's impossible to, because he laid the foundation on the rock. Now, what is the foundation here? The foundation is doing the sayings of Jesus, and the Word of God, or Christ Jesus, is the rock. So he laid the foundation on the rock. In other words, everything that the man did was based on the authority of the Word of God. But then he tells about a man that came to him and heard his sayings and didn't do them. And when the stream beat vehemently upon him, immediately his house fell, and the ruin of that house was great. Now, you know he's not talking about a housing project here. He's talking about individual lives. And he's telling you there's three simple things that you do, that if you do them, you'll not fail in life. Come to Jesus, hear His saying, then start doing what Jesus said. Now, this series will actually carry you into an area where you can see how to operate in the principles of God. That is offer number 7403 for a total of $34. We have a toll-free order line, 1-877-396-9400. 1-877-396-9400. Until tomorrow, this is Charles Capps reminding you that the enemy is defeated, God is exalted, and Jesus is coming soon.
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To order the product offered today, call 1-877-396-9400 or write Charles Capps, P.O. Box 69, England, Arkansas 72046. A complete list of CDs, books, and DVDs are available online at charlescapps.com. Through the website, you can listen to this radio program again and subscribe to our podcast. This broadcast is sponsored by Charles Capps Ministries and our listeners in this area.
