In this thought-provoking episode of Concepts of Faith, Charles Capps explores the misconceptions surrounding the will of God and the pursuit of happiness. Through biblical principles and real-life testimonies, learn how delighting in God and His Word can naturally align your desires with His plans. Charles breaks down how resisting the devil and proclaiming God’s promises can open doors to God-given desires and abundant life. Understand the importance of financial giving and how it can lead to blessings that mirror the riches of heaven. Through practical examples and spiritual insights, listeners will be encouraged to stop speaking problems and
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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That’s what I want to point out to you. That these things don’t happen to you just because it’s in the Bible, just because the Scripture says that we’re redeemed from the curse. That doesn’t mean that none of the curses are going to come to you. They’re going to all come to you if you don’t resist them. With the Word of God. Can you see that? So we have a responsibility to be a doer of the Word of God and to do what God tells us to do. Submit yourself to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Now the Bible didn’t say flee from God. It says he’ll flee from you. There’s no place in the Scripture that says pray for God to get the devil off you. So we begin to confess God’s Word. Now here’s a good one. On page 17 of this little booklet, if overweight, take these gospel capsules before meals three times a day. Now listen to this. You may think, now that’s a foolish thing. I do not desire to eat so much I become overweight. I present my body to God. Now see, the apostle Paul said, present your body to God. I present my body to God. Somebody said, yeah, but I do desire to eat so much I become overweight. I’d be lying if I said that. No, no, you’re changing your desires by your words, see. You want to know why you get in situations sometimes, especially when it comes to eating habits. You hear people say, well, I’ll tell you, I just can’t eat without pie. I guess I’ll get big as a barn. They probably will. Then you always got these faith folks that says, glory to God, I’m going to cast the calories out of this pie. You fixing to get fat. Now, I can tell you how to get the calories out of the pie all right. It works every time. Eat it. You’ll get every one of them. But now you begin to say, I do not desire. What you’re doing, you’re changing your desire. The Bible says you can have what you say if you believe, if you doubt not in your heart, and you believe what you say and it will come to pass. I do not desire to eat so much and become overweight. I present my body to God. My body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in me. I’m not my own. I’m bought with a price. In the name of Jesus, I refuse to overeat. Body, settle down. And in the name of Jesus, conform to the Word of the living God. I mortify. Notice, it’s something I do. I confess it. Then I mortify, put to death the deeds and desires of the body and command it to come into line with the Word of God. Now, I had a man tell me, where was this, honey, that this fellow told me the other day, just a few days ago? It was in Dallas, Texas. He said, I lost over 100 pounds. And he said, I eat all I want. But what he said I did, I took this confession thing and I confessed it until it killed my desire for food. He lost over 100 pounds. He’s still 100 pounds overweight. But he weighed over 400 pounds. And he said, lost 100 pounds. And he said, I eat as much as I want. He said, I just don’t want as much. Now see, this is the key to it. And this is what makes it so easy. When you do it God’s method, see, this is calling things that are not. See, the thing that’s not is, somebody might say, well, I do desire to eat so much that I become overweight. Well, you’re calling for the thing that’s not there. You don’t have the desire not to eat, so call for it. See, take it scripturally and call for it. You call it the way the Word says it ought to be. Not the way it is. Don’t establish present circumstances. And I’ve had several people write me and tell me how that one man told me he lost 30 pounds in I forget how many days, 60 or 90 days. And he said, he told me the same thing. He said, I eat just as much as I want. But he said, I found out I didn’t want as much after I started confessing the word. After about three months, he said it began to curtail my appetite. Amen. Now you can call it mind over matter if you want to, but it’s not. It’s faith in God and His Word over matter and bringing your body under control. We better get off of that. Let’s move on over here to some of these other confessions. I delight myself in the Lord and He gives me the desires of my heart. Now let’s look at that for a minute. That’s in Psalms 37 and 4. Delight yourself in the Lord, he’ll give you the desires of your heart. Now, so many times we take that and we say, Oh, glory to God, I delight myself in the Lord, and he’ll give me a new Cadillac and a new house and all this. Well, now that possibly might be included in there somewhere down the line, but that’s not really what he’s saying here. Delight yourself in the Lord is to delight yourself in the Word of God. Now, when you delight yourself in the Word of God, God will put the desires in your heart that are of God. Do you see what I’m saying? The desires then that are in you will be of God. That’s why that when you delight yourself in the Lord, you’ll lose your appetite for food and some things that used to just run you wild. You’re just like that commercial on television. You just come flying through the house and run up against the cheesecake in the refrigerator. You can change those things with the Word of God and your confession and by resisting the devil. You can change it. So if you delight yourself in the Lord, He’ll put the desires that are of God in your heart. Now I’ll tell you quite frankly, finding the will of God, some people really struggle with it. Because they say, if I sell out to God, He’ll make me go to Africa, sure as the world. But now listen to what he said. If you delight yourself in the Lord, he’ll give you the desires of your heart. If you delight yourself in the Lord and in his word, if he wants you to go to Africa, he’ll put a burning desire in your heart to go to Africa. I’m convinced God will never make you go anywhere you don’t want to go if you’re fully submitted to God. Amen. In fact, it’s what the Apostle James called the perfect law of liberty. You do exactly what you want to do, and you’re in the perfect will of God. Now, you’ve got to be careful with that. Now, listen to me. You’ve got to be totally sold out, willing to do what God wants you to do, and then He’ll put the desires that are of God in your heart. Then you end up getting to do exactly what you have the greatest desire to do, and you’re in the perfect will of God. Isn’t that right, Tom? You move time back 12 years and Tom would have fainted if he could see what he’s doing right now. Fainted dead out. I mean, you couldn’t have convinced him in a million years that he’d be pastor of church. Even teaching a Sunday school class, he would have fainted at that. But now he’s doing exactly what’s the desire of his heart. Same thing with me. I hated to teach a Sunday school class. They forced me into it. Till God gave me a teaching gift. And I delighted myself in the Lord. And then it got to where, man, just show me a couple of folks I can teach and I’ll go teach them. I just couldn’t wait, man. teaching prayer groups, and boy, just anywhere they’d give me audience, man, I’d go teach them something. Why? Because I delighted myself in God, and He changed the desires in my heart. Then I got to do just exactly what I wanted to do, and I was in the perfect will of God. Now, brother, you can’t get it any better than that. I mean, you can’t beat that with a stick, as a fellow says. I have given, it is given unto me, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over. Jesus 638. I know some call it Luke 638. I call it Jesus 638. Because that’s what Jesus said. Now notice, that’s a future tense promise. In other words, if you give, it will be given unto you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over. But now, notice. If you give, once you give, it’s not future tense anymore. Once I’ve given, since you gave in the offering tonight, you quit saying it shall be given. You start saying, now it is given unto me. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over. Thank God, men given to my bosom. I sow bountifully, I reap bountifully. My God meets my need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Now, everybody wants Philippians 4.19 to work for them. My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. But Philippians 4.19 is not for everybody. Just for those that gave the way the Philippian church gave to Paul once and again to his necessity, even sacrificially to Paul’s need. And that’s why Paul could say, And my God shall supply all your need. according to his riches in glory. You know what it means to supply your need according to his riches in glory? That’s to supply your need here on earth like you was already up there. Ooh, that’s abundance, isn’t it? Now, let’s follow it on over a little bit here in this booklet. There is no lack. My God supplies my need according to his riches in glory. Now, see, you’ve got to activate that promise by your giving. You’ve got to do it. The Lord is my shepherd and I do not want because Jesus was made poor that I through his poverty might be made rich. He came that I might have life and have it more abundantly. Now see, this confession is taken from several scriptures. From Psalms 23, 1, 2 Corinthians 8, 9. 2 Corinthians 8, 9 says, You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be made rich. In other words, He suffered poverty that you might have abundance. But Jesus suffered poverty that we through His poverty might be made rich. Now the word rich means abundance. So if we can ever get it settled in our minds that Jesus wants us to have abundance. He came that you might have an abundant life. Thank you so much for joining us for the Concepts of Faith broadcast today. And before I leave the broadcast, I’ll remind you that all of this week we have CD offer number 7210. It’s entitled God’s Creative Power. Two CDs for $15 plus $4 postage and handling. A total of $19. I take the God’s Creative Power booklet, the little mini book, and go through these confessions explaining why we use these and why we confess these things. It sets the law of faith in motion. It causes faith to come. It changes the heart. And it keeps the answer before you. You know, some of you, you’re keeping the problem before you. You talk your problem. You think your problem. You wake up in the night thinking about the problem. You sleep the problem. You eat the problem. You’ve got a problem. And the problem is what you’re saying because faith cometh by hearing. Paul said the word is nigh you. It is in your mouth and in your heart. You see, you never solve a problem by talking the problem. You solve the problem by talking the answer. Go to the word of God and see what God’s answer to it is and say what God said about it. If you have lack, he said, give, and it shall be given unto you good measure. Press down, shake it together. Running over shall men give unto your bosom. God said it. Jesus said it. It is a fact. It is the truth, whether you ever do it or not. But when you proclaim what God said and get your mind renewed to the Word of God, then you go to thinking like God thinks. Renewing your mind is like putting a pencil in a glass of water. You start stirring it, first of all, it’s just cutting water. But you keep stirring it, it’ll get the water to fall in the pencil, pull the pencil out, and the water keeps circling the glass. That’s what happens when you say what God said in His Word concerning you. When you say it long enough, you go to thinking like God thinks. That’s called renewing your mind to the Word of God. God’s creative power is just as powerful as it was when he spoke the word, but if you don’t confess it, it may never work for you. That’s God’s creative power. CD offer number 7210. Two CDs for $15 plus $4 postage and handling. A total of $19. We have a toll-free order line, 1-877-396-9400. Until tomorrow, this Charles Capps reminding you, the enemy is defeated, God is exalted, and Jesus is coming soon.
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