In this episode, we delve deep into the essence of faith as described in the scriptures. Charles Capps takes us on a journey to understanding how faith can profoundly change our lives. By aligning our words with God’s promises, we learn to harness a powerful tool for positive change, dispelling fear, and affirming our faith. Through his personal anecdotes, Charles demonstrates how aligning our words with the Word of God can bring light and direction on our path. Learn the principles of decreeing with faith and see how powerful confessions can transform your circumstances. Charles Capps discusses practical steps
00:00:05 Introduction and Purpose of the Broadcast
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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Faith is the substance of things that God has already given us. God’s already given us some things. 2 Peter chapter 1 tells you about it. God has given unto us all things that pertain to life and godliness. He’s already done it. He’s not going to one of these days. God’s already done it. They already belong to us. If God has given them, they belong to us, don’t they? So faith is a substance of the things that God’s already given to us. Faith is the substance of things desired. Now, that being true, if faith is a substance of the thing that you desire, then there’s an opposite to that or reciprocal to that truth, and that is that fear, being an opposite of faith, fear is the substance of things not desired, the same as faith is the substance of the thing desired. So if hearing the Word of God brings faith, hearing the Word of the devil brings fear. Fear is faith in the devil. Faith in reverse. See, when you fear the thing the devil says, that’s faith in the devil. Can you see that? So what we need to do is understand that God’s power, His creative power, is in His Word to work for us. It’ll work for you if you’re diligent to apply the spiritual law that’s there. God’s Word is spiritual law. There’s some laws involved here. And when you’ll abide by them and do what the Word says, you’ll get the results that the Word said you could have. But now if we don’t do what the Word says, then we can’t expect to get the results the Word said we could have. The Apostle Paul said it this way. In the 10th chapter of Romans there, verse 6, he said, “…the righteousness which is of faith says…” speaks. See, righteousness speaks. And it says, Say not, Who shall ascend into heaven? That is, to bring Christ down from above. Who shall descend into the deep? That is, to bring Christ up from the dead. But what saith it? The righteousness which is of faith says, The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth. Where? In your mouth, and then in your heart. See, people talk about getting the Word down in your heart. You’ve got to get it down in your heart. And they point here to the physical heart. I’m not talking about the physical heart. I’m talking about the Spirit. How do you get the Word in your heart? You put it in your mouth first. That’s the way you get God’s Word in your heart. Proverbs says, write these things upon the table of your heart. How are you going to do that? David figured it out when he said, my tongue is as the pen of a ready writer. That’s how you do it. You write it on your heart with the words of your mouth. You take God’s Word and you speak it. Now, turn to the 22nd chapter of Job, the statement that was made here that’s powerful. And if you’ll learn to do this, it’ll happen in your life like the Word of God says, because David said the interest of the Word bring light. Job 22, verse 28. In fact, let’s read verse 27 with him. Thou shalt make a prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows. Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee. Now let’s stop right there and let’s examine this for a minute. Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto you. Somebody says, why do you have to just keep confessing the Word of God? You’re decreeing what God said. Now see, we’ve decreed long enough what the devil said. Did you know what worry is? Worry is usually establishing the words of the devil, something the devil’s told you. It’s really a form of calling things that were not as though they were, only it’s on the negative side, not on the positive side. And that’s what worry is. But here, this fellow says, what’s his name, Eliphaz? He makes this statement. Now, of all the things he said, I think this is probably the most accurate thing he’s said. Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee, and light shall shine upon thy way. When you decree what God says, you establish it unto you. Not just by saying it once. You begin to decree what God said about you. What He said in His Word. For instance, He said, Give, and it shall be given unto you. Somebody said, Yeah, but I gave, and it wasn’t given unto me. Nothing ever given unto me. Isn’t that amazing? You said it wasn’t and it wasn’t. You decreed a thing, but you decreed it against God’s Word. You decreed in agreement with the devil. Now see, you’re going to have to decree and say what God said when it looked like all hell broke loose and nothing worked. I remember years ago when I was using the confession of God’s Word to program my spirit. I was in bad financial situation. I didn’t know whether I’d be able to borrow enough money to farm another year or not. And I was proclaiming, thank God I’ve given and it’s given unto me. Good measure pressed down, shaken together, running over me and given to my bosom. I have abundance, no lack of so bountifully. I reap bountifully and my God’s made all grace abound toward me. And I just got to feeling like I was lying. And I stopped one day and I just said, Lord, you know I feel like I’m lying about this. The Spirit of God come upon me and the Lord said this to me. He said, son, how could you lie saying what I said? Now that’s like saying sick them to a bulldog. I started confessing what God said. And regardless of what was or what looked like or what seemed to be, I continued to say what God said in His Word. And I want you to know over a period of weeks and months, it changed my attitude, it changed my thinking. I got to thinking like God thinks. Because I got to talking like God talks. I acted like the Bible was true. And I began to see the manifestation. Now, it didn’t come overnight. And this is the thing I want to stress to you. This is not something to just say it today and it happens in the morning. This is a way of life. This is a way of life. You live it day in and day out. You learn to speak only the things that you believe will come to pass. Now let me show you how fickle and how wishy-washy and swayable our language and stuff is. If Jesus Christ were to walk in here this morning, and you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt it was him. I mean, you could see the nail holes in his hands. And he said, now I’m going to walk down these aisles, I’m going to lay my hands on you, every one of you. And it will come to pass after I lay my hands on you, every word that you speak will happen exactly like you said it. Would it change your vocabulary? In some churches, you’d be two weeks buried in the dead. Half of them would jump up and say, whoo, it tickles me to death. But you see, we must learn to release faith in our words and believe what we say will come to pass. Now, if we’re going to release faith in every word, see, it’s not just what we said to the mountain that counts. It’s what we said in all the other things of life that day. The things that we said to our neighbor, the things that we said about this and that. We’ve got to believe those things which he saith shall come to pass. Now, that’s where the power is in releasing faith in the Word. You see, it’s not just the words. See, it won’t happen just because you say it. But saying it is involved in making it happen. Now, to decree a thing, you decree it. And the Word says here, that light shall shine upon thy path. Now, when you decree… Let me show you how it works. I know how it’s worked in my life. Now, I don’t tell examples to get you to follow my example. I tell you examples of how it’s worked so that you can more readily relate to how it would work in a given situation. I began to proclaim that my God has met my need according to his riches in glory. I have abundance, no lack. And I’m thinking, dear God, I don’t know where it’s coming from. But light began to shine upon my path. And I tell you, when nobody could rent land, that’s back when I was farming, it seemed like every good farm that came loose, I ended up renting. It just came to me, mysteriously almost, you know. I knew what was happening. But as a lot of people said, I tell you that Charles Capp is the luckiest guy that ever lived. I had 1,800 acres of land that run two miles from England south and a mile and a half east, right down the highway, and the best location in the whole country for a farm and the best land in the country. And nobody could figure out how I’m getting it. Light shined upon my path when I decreed a thing. See, God revealed the wisdom of how to cause the manifestation of what the promise said. Now, that’s not a mystery, is it? That God could reveal to you how to cause the promise to come to pass in your life that you’re speaking and quoting and saying. It’s not that you’re making God do anything. You’re just activating the promise of God. And you decree a thing. You decree it when it looks like all hell’s broke loose and nothing will work. And you’re wanting to say, dear God, we’re going bankrupt, sure as the world. You just want to say it’s bad? Don’t dare say it. There’s been a lot of people went bankrupt for that very reason. There’s been a lot of people bankrupt all but just, you know, saying it. And dear God, they just kept holding on to the Word of God. Brother Don Bosher is sitting back here. Just a few years ago was in a situation where all he liked being bankrupt was just admitting it. But because he acted and he confessed the Word of God and he decreed the decree and light shined upon his path and God showed him. And I’ll tell you now, he’s in a better situation than he’s ever been in his whole life. And I’m telling you, it’s because of God’s Word. It’s not because of anything in particular smart that he did. I think he’ll admit that. It’s because the light of God shined on his path. See, when you decree a thing by faith in the Word of God, now it makes a difference why you’re decreeing certain things. Now, if somebody said, well, I’m just going to say I’m going to be a millionaire because I just want to be a millionaire. What are you basing that on? Well, I’m just basing it on my desires. well, you’re probably going to go bankrupt. Somebody said, what are you basing all your confessions on? Oh, well, nothing in particular. Well, that’s probably what you’re going to get. Nothing in particular. See, you’ve got to have God’s Word for it. God bless you. We appreciate you joining us for the Concepts of Faith broadcast. We’ve been talking about God’s creative power. God’s Word is His creative power. It’s available to you to use today concerning the promises of God. What God has spoken is just as powerful as it was the day that He spoke it, the day that He inspired the writers to write it, and the promises of God belong to you. In Hebrews, the 10th chapter, verse 23, says, “…let us hold fast to our profession of faith,” now the word profession here, It’s translated in other places confession. So let us hold fast to their confession of faith without wavering, for he is faithful that is promised. Hold fast to it. Now, why would you want to hold fast to your confession? So you don’t lose it. So you don’t let it slip from you. Now, if there was no possibility of losing your confession of faith, then why would there be any need to hold fast to it? In other words, you need to be reminded of what you believe based on the authority of the Word of God, and it comes more profoundly when you hear it coming out of your mouth. Why confession works. It’s four CDs. for $29 plus $5 postage and handling, a total of $34. In these, we share with you about six reasons why confession works. First of all, it sets the law of faith in motion. The law of faith is set in motion. Jesus says, by whosoever shall say, believe, doubt not at his heart, believe what he’s saying will come to pass. He shall have whatsoever he sayeth. Now, you understand that’s based on the authority of the Word of God, not just saying something that you pulled out of the air somewhere, but based on the authority of the Word. This is the way you set the law of faith in motion. So when you’re confessing the Word of God, you’re setting the law of faith in motion. That’s offer number 7413. Four CDs for $29 plus $5 postage and handling. Total of $34. It’s entitled, Why Confession Works. We have a toll-free order line, 1-877-396-9400. 1-877-396-9400. 396-9400. Until tomorrow, this is Charles Keft reminding you the enemy is defeated, God is exalted, and Jesus is coming soon.
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