Join us on this enlightening journey as we delve into the concept of God’s creative power and how you can actively integrate His Word into your daily life to transform your circumstances. We’ll explore practical applications, share stories of faith in action, and equip you with the knowledge to resist satanic influences. This episode is your guide to embracing the power of faith and God’s promises.
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, we’re going to talk about God’s creative power and how to get it to work in your life. Now, we’re teaching from our mini-book. Now, there’s a lot of things that I could have shared with you in this meeting that But as I began to meditate on what the Lord would have me to speak and what He’d have me to share, it kept coming to me to share something that you can sink your teeth into. And when you go home, you can do it. Now, you know, you can get people all inspired about some things sometimes. But when they come down and get their feet on the ground, they’re still in the same place. But we’re going to talk about something that’s practical. How many of you know the Word of God is practical? God’s Word is practical. The Apostle Paul said, I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth. Well, thank God if we believe it, it’s the power of God. So God’s power, His creative power, is His Word. And as we put that Word to work in our lives, it’ll work for us. I want you to open your Bibles, if you have them, with me to the fourth chapter of Romans. I’m going to read some Scripture just as the foundation Scripture, and then we’re going to get into the little booklet, God’s Creative Power, and going to share some things from that, because I want to show you how to take the Scriptures from the Bible and use them in your daily life to change the circumstances and the situations that you face in life. You can take your faith and the Word of God and you can change every circumstance that you face in life. If you get started on it soon enough. I think the problem is that sometimes we wait, you know, we just kind of stand around and wonder, well, I wonder what’s going to happen in this situation. And then all of a sudden we realize that we haven’t done what the Word said to do. Now, how many times have you done that? You know, the pain hits you in the stomach or somewhere. You go around three days saying, I wonder what I got. And all of a sudden you realize, hey, whatever it is I got, I don’t want it. So you resist it. But we need to learn to do that right on the front end, right when the thing begins. And you can stop a lot of things if you’ll just begin immediately to resist the devil. And I don’t know why we do that. But I catch myself sometimes. I just sat around two or three days wondering why in the world this is happening or why in the world that’s going on. Then it suddenly dawns on me that this is the devil. And I hadn’t resisted him. I’ve just sat around and wondered what was going on. I’ll tell you a situation that happened in my life several years ago. And it’s amazing how that so many things can happen before you ever recognize it’s the devil. Now, I was farming at the time. The air conditioner on my tractor went out. Three of them. Three air conditioners on the tractor went out. My car air conditioner went out. My truck air conditioner went out. I went somewhere in my airplane, the air conditioner went out. We went to a meeting in Memphis and over there we got in the guy’s car and his car quit. And we had to catch a ride to the meeting. Had to call a taxi. And we go to a hotel and camp meeting in Tulsa. They put us in a room and the air conditioner wouldn’t work. They changed us, put us in another room. We go down to the Chinese restaurant to eat, and the air conditioner went out. Now, by this time, my lightning-fast mind said, something’s going on. Now, you know, it’s been three months, and now I’ve decided something’s wrong. Wouldn’t it have been good if we had decided that about the second day it happened? I looked across the table at my wife and I said, this is satanic. This is the devil. And just as soon as we get back to the room, we’re going to stop this. And we did. We broke the power of satanic oppression over us. See, the devil is out to stir you up and get you all out of whack, if he can, by just causing you trouble everywhere you go. And you know what the Apostle Paul called that? A thorn in the flesh. That’s exactly what it was. Now, you know, everybody’s tried to name Paul’s thorn in the flesh. They want to call it everything but what Paul called it. Paul said it was a messenger of Satan sent to buffet him. And that’s exactly what was happening in our situation there. And we took authority over it with the power of the Word of God in our faith. And we broke the power of that thing. And it stopped. Now, that didn’t mean we never had any more trouble with air conditioners. But it didn’t run in that kind of string, you know. And that’s what’s happened to a lot of people. We just don’t recognize what God is saying in His Word, and we don’t recognize the fact that the power of God’s Holy Word is to put these things back into the right place, right perspective. That’s what God wants us to do, is to take God’s Word and take authority over it, see, and to set it back in its place. And I’ll tell you the best way to do that is just instantly when it happens. Now if you’ll learn to live by the Word of God. See Jesus said to the devil when he was tempted him on the Mount of Temptation. He said man shall not live by bread alone. Tried to get him to turn stones into bread. He said man shall not live by bread alone but he’ll live by every Word of God. We need to learn to live by every Word of God. And that’s what I want to share with you is how to live by every Word of God. Take it at face value. And when the circumstances arise, just get on the devil like ugly on an ape, man. I mean quick. And just stop it. Because you don’t have to put up with some things that come to you in life. I know I was sitting in a hospital room with an aunt of mine, and she was telling me about her daughter, about my age, said she was all crippled up with arthritis at age 40, and said, but you know, Brother Capps, we just have to receive everything that comes to us in life, don’t we? And she’s just nodding her head, and I was shaking mine, and said, no, in the name of Jesus. And it shocked her until she like lost her false teeth. Sounded real religious, you know. We just have to accept what comes to us in life. And I said, no, in the name of Jesus, we don’t. The Bible said, resist the devil and he’ll flee from you. When the circumstances of life does not line up with the Word of God and what it says about you, it’s time for you to resist the circumstances of life and learn how to put it back in the right perspective. And the time to do it is instantly. Immediately, if not sooner. Glory to God. I’ll tell you, I get excited about this. Where are we? You found Romans, the fourth chapter yet. Let’s read verse 13. For the promise that he should be heir of the world was not to Abraham or his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. Now, underline the phrase, the righteousness of faith, because this is going to mean something to you, very important, in just a little bit. Verse 16. Therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed. What promise? The promise that you would be heir of the world. Now listen to this. We need to realize that we’re not just worms in the dust. Let’s back up and read that verse 13 again. For the promise that he should be heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. Now who was the seed of Abraham? The seed of Abraham specifically was Jesus. But Galatians 3.29 says, If ye be Christ, then are ye Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise. Glory be to God. What promise? The promise that he would be heir of the world. His seed would be heir of the world. Now that’s not just talking about Jesus. We enter into that because if we’re Christ, we’re Abraham’s seed and heirs according to that promise. Therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace to the end, or to this end, the promise might be sure to all the seed. Say all the seed. All the seed. I’m part of the seed. So it’s to me, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. For 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. Now get a hold of this. God calls things that are not as though they were. Now I can go in several directions from right here. I want to preach 17 different sermons from this point right here. But we’ll just have to narrow it down to a few. But we’re just going to follow the Holy Ghost. Is that alright? God calls things that are not as though they were. He taught Abraham to call things that were not as though they were. He said to Abraham, I have made you, not going to, I’ve already done it, I’ve made you the father of many nations. And he didn’t have the promised child. But God said, I’ve made you the father of many nations. Past tense, see, already done. God talks in past tense. He speaks in results. If we’ll learn to imitate God, you’ll be astounded at what’ll happen in your life. But if you’re always talking what is, you’ll be astounded again at what’ll happen in your life, only it’ll be in a different direction. You’ll be amazed at the problems you have. Because when you speak the things that are, you are establishing present circumstances. But when you call the things that are not, you’re calling for a change. You go to the promise and you find what God said about your situation in life. See, I said the Word of God’s practical. There is a practical application of every single promise in the New Testament to your everyday life. Now the problem comes when we don’t give the time and meditation to find out how to apply that to our situation. Thank you so much for joining us for the Concepts of Faith broadcast today. We’ve been talking about God’s creative power. In fact, this is the second week we’ve been talking about this subject. Now all of this week we have CD offer number 7210. which is two CDs for $15 plus $4 postage and handling. It’s entitled God’s Creative Power. In this series, we talk about the fact that God’s creative power is his word. You know, the scriptures tell us in the beginning was the word. The word was with God. The word was God. Now, you know, the word is still God today. I’m talking about God’s word is still God over every situation and circumstances of life if you will believe it and act on it in faith. Now, I’m not talking about acting in presumption. You know, sometimes people act like they have faith when they don’t have faith. That’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about the Word abiding in you. God’s creative power is His Word. He spoke the worlds into existence. And when he spoke the world into existence, he looked out and saw darkness and said, Light be, and light was. He called light out of darkness. He used his words to release his faith as carriers. The words were containers to carry his faith out there into the vast nothingness and call light into existence. So God spoke words that created things. Now, we are created in the image of God and in his likeness, and we have the ability to speak God’s word after him. And when we begin to confess what God said about us until it gets in our heart, you see, Paul said it’s in your mouth and then in your heart, Romans the 10th chapter. He said, if thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, believe in the heart God raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved. That’s the way you get the word of God in your heart. That’s the way you get born again. That’s offer number 7210. It’s entitled God’s Creative Power. Two CDs for $15 plus $4 postage and handling, a total of $19. We have a toll-free order line, 1-877-396-9400, 1-877-396-9400. Until tomorrow, this is Charles Capps reminding you, the enemy is defeated, God is exalted, and Jesus is coming soon.
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