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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.
The law said that if you've been cleansed, you go show yourself to the priest, but they have not been cleansed. But Jesus said, go show yourself to the priest. You know what he's doing?
He's calling them clean. You know, they could have thought, well, now he misunderstood us, and they could have hollered back and said, Jesus, have mercy on us. You don't understand, we're lepers.
And he would have just said, go show yourself to the priest. They could have looked and said, but we're lepers. We're not any better.
We're the kind that we don't believe it unless we see it. We want to see it first, then we'll say it. Then we'll go show ourself to the priest.
They'd have been lepers the rest of their life. You know what the Bible says? As they went, they were cleansed.
Now what happened when they turn and started toward the priest? The very fact that they took one step toward the priest, they were calling themselves clean. And I want you to know the power of God came on them and they were made clean.
As they went, they were cleansed. What would have happened if they hadn't went? Now that's not good English, but it'll get you to think in one.
Now, Jesus is operating in the principle of calling things that are not. He did all through his ministry. In John the fifth chapter, let me just refresh your memory of something.
Here's Jesus, he goes down to the Pool of Bethesda. And here is a man that's been crippled. He's been crippled for years, and there he lays by that pool.
Now his only hope is that when the angel come down in a certain season and troubles the water in that pool, if he can get in there before anybody else does, he'll be made whole of whatever plague he has. Now that's his only chance. And I don't know what season it was, whether it was just once a year or once a month or whatever, but he's got a problem there, hadn't he?
Everybody else gets in before he gets there because he's crippled. And some of them had different diseases, I suppose, and they could walk or move and get in there quicker. But Jesus walks up to this man and he says, Will thou be made whole? Now he didn't ask him if he wanted to be, he said, will you?
There's a difference in asking somebody if they wanna be made whole and will you be made whole? There is a great difference. In other words, if I lay hands on somebody and say, will you be made whole?
I'm not asking them if they want to be, I'm asking them, will they? Now, Jesus walks up to this man and this man starts telling him all of his problems. Said, sir, I have no man.
And when he gets through talking, Jesus said, rise, take up your bed and walk. The old boy just gathered up his bed and started home. I mean, he's got his bed on his shoulder.
He's going down through there and the Jews caught him in the temple and said, it's the wrong day to carry your bed. Well, he said, the guy that healed me, he said, take up my bed. They said, well, who was he anyway?
He said, come to think of it, I don't have any idea who he was. I want you to get this, this man got his healing because some guy said, rise, take up your bed and walk. Now, how many of you know that a cripple can't get up and take up his bed and go home?
When Jesus said to that man, rise, take up your bed, he's calling him well. Cripple people can't rise and take up their bed. And if that old boy had started arguing, well, you don't understand, fella, I've been this way for 38 years.
But anyway, here's the man standing there. He's carrying his bed, because somebody said, rise, take up your bed, and walk. He acted on the words of Jesus.
Now, he had faith as a seed. It was not the saying, but it's the acting that caused him to receive his healing. Jesus called him well.
Now, when you follow Jesus' ministry, you find that he was in the synagogue one day, and they were watching him to see if he would heal on the sabbath day. It seemed like Jesus got more trouble on the sabbath day. And here's this guy with a withered hand sitting back there in the synagogue.
And he spoke to him. He said, you with the withered hand, stand up. The old boy stood up.
He said, is it lawful to do good or evil on the sabbath day? Then didn't anybody answer a thing. And he looked at the old boy and he said, stretch forth your hand.
Now here's a guy with his hand. I can just see it all withered and twisted. Been that way for years since birth.
And he said, stretch forth your hand. Now anybody in his right mind knows that a cripple man can't stretch forth his hand. You know what Jesus is doing?
Jesus is calling him well. Now if he'll act on those words, and he did, he just stretched his hand out. It was just as whole as the other.
He called him well. He called him well. And the very fact that he made an effort to stretch forth his hand, he was calling himself well.
He was acting on those words. And I think there's something there we need to get a hold of. Because Jesus operated in this, all of his ministry, in every situation.
Now, we're going to have to move quickly. There's many things that we could say. In Mark the fourth chapter, Jesus in the boat going over to the other side of the lake, and they said, carest thou not that we perish?
Jesus got up out of the back of that boat. He looked out there and he saw the same storm they saw. He saw the same water coming in the boat that they saw.
And you know what he said? He said, peace. That's what he said.
If it had been some folks I know there, they'd have jerked his coat tail and said, you can't say that, there's no peace out there. You know what he's doing? He's calling the thing that's not.
There was no peace there, but he called it. And then he said, be still. There was no stillness there.
The waves were coming over in the boat, but he called it. And it ceased, and there was a great calm. Then he said to them, where is your faith?
I'll tell you where their faith was. Their faith was in their mouth. They said, we're going to drown.
See, there's in that negative stream. You'll find out your faith will always end up in your mouth, whether you believe God or whether you believe the devil, it'll always end up in your mouth. Now, the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
Now, you see Jesus then, as he goes to raise Lazarus from the dead, in the 11th chapter of John, here you see they come send a runner down there and said, he whom thou lovest is sick. Jesus said, this sickness is not unto death. Oh, but wait a minute, wait a minute, the man died.
What's Jesus doing? He's calling things that are not. And they start down there.
See, he stayed two days there. Two days later, he starts down there. And as he's going down there, he said, Lazarus sleepeth.
And they said, well, Lord, if he's asleep, he's doing well. But he said, Lazarus died. Now see, what's he doing?
What is Jesus doing here? He's made the statement that this sickness will not end in death, but the end results of this whole matter will bring glory to God. That was his first statement about it when he heard that Lazarus was sick.
Now, as he goes down there, he's calling Lazarus asleep. Lazarus is asleep. They thought he meant he's just taking a nap.
And he finally explained to him he died. Then he gets down there and he tells him to roll the stone away. And they said, but Lord, he stinketh, but now he's been dead four days.
As if that'd make any difference. But anyway, they finally rolled the stone away. Jesus looked up to heaven and he said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
What do you mean heard him? He hadn't said anything yet. Oh, but he did four days ago.
He said, this sickness is not under death. See, he's reminding God of what he said four days ago. I said it four days ago, and I thank you that you heard me.
And I knew that you always hear me. That's the reason he said it. He's establishing something.
He's calling things that are not. And then he steps out there and says, Lazarus. Now, you see, if it had been a Bible principle to call things that are as though they are, he'd had to stepped out there and said, Lazarus is in the grave.
But he didn't. He said, Lazarus, come forth. And I want you to know he came forth.
Stood there. Now, in Luke the 13th chapter, you find that Jesus walked up to a little woman. She'd been bowed over for all these years and couldn't lift herself up.
And Jesus said, woman, thou art loosed from your infirmity, but she wasn't, until he laid his hands on her. See, he called the thing that was not. Jesus in all of his ministry did this.
He talked to fig trees, he talked to the sea, he talked to dead people. And it's amazing they all obeyed him, cause he was highly developed in it. So you can talk to your problems.
You can conquer the things that loom as mountains before you by calling the things that are not. Can you see that? Can you say amen?
Praise God. Thank you so much for joining us for the Concepts of Faith broadcast. I trust you've been with us all this week.
Now, this is the last day for DVD offer number 7856, Calling Things That Are Not, a 60-minute DVD for $20 plus $4 postage and handling, a total of $24. What does it mean to call things that are not? Call things that are not manifest.
You know we do that in everyday life. If your children are out playing and you have dinner on the table, you call them and they come. Well, you don't sit out and say, Well, I wish to God they'd come in.
I guess it's not God's will for them to come. But did you know that's the way a lot of people do concerning the promises of God? They say, Well, if it's God's will, then it'll happen to me, and if it's not, it won't.
No, you have to call for the promise of God. You have to be faithful and diligent in calling things the way God said they were in His word, because there's a devil out there to steal, kill, and destroy. He'll steal your finances.
He'll steal everything you'll let Him steal. But if you call for the promise of God, first of all, did you know that faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God? So if you're saying what God said in His Word about you, then faith is coming.
So you need to know that you're creating faith by confessing the Word of God, and confessing God's Word may be calling things that are not as though they were. This is the way God taught Abraham faith. Abraham had a promise for 24 years and no manifestation of the promised child until God changed his name, changed his name to Abraham, which meant father of nations.
See, his name was first Abram. God changed it to Abraham, so he had to say what God said about him. And the more he said it, the more he believed it, the more he believed it, the more he said it.
I want you to know that God's Word is spiritual law. It is the power of God to create, to change situations and circumstances. So when you call for the promise of God, you're calling for what God's already given you.
You're not calling for what you have. You already have that. So you say what God said about you.
Thank God there's abundance and no lack. My God has met my need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. Well, I want you to know God's Word will change your life.
It will teach you how to call for what God has already given you, but it has not yet manifest. It's a biblically sound principle. Abraham, after he started saying what God said about him, the promised child was born in less than a year.
That's offer number 7856, Calling Things That Are Not, a 60-minute DVD for $20 plus $4 postage and handling, a total of $24. 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 yes, Jesus is coming soon.
To order the product offered today, call 1-877-396-9400 or write Charles Capps, PO. 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.
For over 35 years Charles Capps taught on the importance of faith and confession of Gods Word. Scriptural keys to unlocking the abundant life are revealed from his practical teaching that will enable you to act upon the Word of God and change the circumstances of your life. Capps Ministries continues broadcasting these teachings over radio, podcast, television, and streaming devices today, including new programs featuring Charles' daughter, Annette Capps.
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.
The law said that if you've been cleansed, you go show yourself to the priest, but they have not been cleansed. But Jesus said, go show yourself to the priest. You know what he's doing?
He's calling them clean. You know, they could have thought, well, now he misunderstood us, and they could have hollered back and said, Jesus, have mercy on us. You don't understand, we're lepers.
And he would have just said, go show yourself to the priest. They could have looked and said, but we're lepers. We're not any better.
We're the kind that we don't believe it unless we see it. We want to see it first, then we'll say it. Then we'll go show ourself to the priest.
They'd have been lepers the rest of their life. You know what the Bible says? As they went, they were cleansed.
Now what happened when they turn and started toward the priest? The very fact that they took one step toward the priest, they were calling themselves clean. And I want you to know the power of God came on them and they were made clean.
As they went, they were cleansed. What would have happened if they hadn't went? Now that's not good English, but it'll get you to think in one.
Now, Jesus is operating in the principle of calling things that are not. He did all through his ministry. In John the fifth chapter, let me just refresh your memory of something.
Here's Jesus, he goes down to the Pool of Bethesda. And here is a man that's been crippled. He's been crippled for years, and there he lays by that pool.
Now his only hope is that when the angel come down in a certain season and troubles the water in that pool, if he can get in there before anybody else does, he'll be made whole of whatever plague he has. Now that's his only chance. And I don't know what season it was, whether it was just once a year or once a month or whatever, but he's got a problem there, hadn't he?
Everybody else gets in before he gets there because he's crippled. And some of them had different diseases, I suppose, and they could walk or move and get in there quicker. But Jesus walks up to this man and he says, Will thou be made whole? Now he didn't ask him if he wanted to be, he said, will you?
There's a difference in asking somebody if they wanna be made whole and will you be made whole? There is a great difference. In other words, if I lay hands on somebody and say, will you be made whole?
I'm not asking them if they want to be, I'm asking them, will they? Now, Jesus walks up to this man and this man starts telling him all of his problems. Said, sir, I have no man.
And when he gets through talking, Jesus said, rise, take up your bed and walk. The old boy just gathered up his bed and started home. I mean, he's got his bed on his shoulder.
He's going down through there and the Jews caught him in the temple and said, it's the wrong day to carry your bed. Well, he said, the guy that healed me, he said, take up my bed. They said, well, who was he anyway?
He said, come to think of it, I don't have any idea who he was. I want you to get this, this man got his healing because some guy said, rise, take up your bed and walk. Now, how many of you know that a cripple can't get up and take up his bed and go home?
When Jesus said to that man, rise, take up your bed, he's calling him well. Cripple people can't rise and take up their bed. And if that old boy had started arguing, well, you don't understand, fella, I've been this way for 38 years.
But anyway, here's the man standing there. He's carrying his bed, because somebody said, rise, take up your bed, and walk. He acted on the words of Jesus.
Now, he had faith as a seed. It was not the saying, but it's the acting that caused him to receive his healing. Jesus called him well.
Now, when you follow Jesus' ministry, you find that he was in the synagogue one day, and they were watching him to see if he would heal on the sabbath day. It seemed like Jesus got more trouble on the sabbath day. And here's this guy with a withered hand sitting back there in the synagogue.
And he spoke to him. He said, you with the withered hand, stand up. The old boy stood up.
He said, is it lawful to do good or evil on the sabbath day? Then didn't anybody answer a thing. And he looked at the old boy and he said, stretch forth your hand.
Now here's a guy with his hand. I can just see it all withered and twisted. Been that way for years since birth.
And he said, stretch forth your hand. Now anybody in his right mind knows that a cripple man can't stretch forth his hand. You know what Jesus is doing?
Jesus is calling him well. Now if he'll act on those words, and he did, he just stretched his hand out. It was just as whole as the other.
He called him well. He called him well. And the very fact that he made an effort to stretch forth his hand, he was calling himself well.
He was acting on those words. And I think there's something there we need to get a hold of. Because Jesus operated in this, all of his ministry, in every situation.
Now, we're going to have to move quickly. There's many things that we could say. In Mark the fourth chapter, Jesus in the boat going over to the other side of the lake, and they said, carest thou not that we perish?
Jesus got up out of the back of that boat. He looked out there and he saw the same storm they saw. He saw the same water coming in the boat that they saw.
And you know what he said? He said, peace. That's what he said.
If it had been some folks I know there, they'd have jerked his coat tail and said, you can't say that, there's no peace out there. You know what he's doing? He's calling the thing that's not.
There was no peace there, but he called it. And then he said, be still. There was no stillness there.
The waves were coming over in the boat, but he called it. And it ceased, and there was a great calm. Then he said to them, where is your faith?
I'll tell you where their faith was. Their faith was in their mouth. They said, we're going to drown.
See, there's in that negative stream. You'll find out your faith will always end up in your mouth, whether you believe God or whether you believe the devil, it'll always end up in your mouth. Now, the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
Now, you see Jesus then, as he goes to raise Lazarus from the dead, in the 11th chapter of John, here you see they come send a runner down there and said, he whom thou lovest is sick. Jesus said, this sickness is not unto death. Oh, but wait a minute, wait a minute, the man died.
What's Jesus doing? He's calling things that are not. And they start down there.
See, he stayed two days there. Two days later, he starts down there. And as he's going down there, he said, Lazarus sleepeth.
And they said, well, Lord, if he's asleep, he's doing well. But he said, Lazarus died. Now see, what's he doing?
What is Jesus doing here? He's made the statement that this sickness will not end in death, but the end results of this whole matter will bring glory to God. That was his first statement about it when he heard that Lazarus was sick.
Now, as he goes down there, he's calling Lazarus asleep. Lazarus is asleep. They thought he meant he's just taking a nap.
And he finally explained to him he died. Then he gets down there and he tells him to roll the stone away. And they said, but Lord, he stinketh, but now he's been dead four days.
As if that'd make any difference. But anyway, they finally rolled the stone away. Jesus looked up to heaven and he said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
What do you mean heard him? He hadn't said anything yet. Oh, but he did four days ago.
He said, this sickness is not under death. See, he's reminding God of what he said four days ago. I said it four days ago, and I thank you that you heard me.
And I knew that you always hear me. That's the reason he said it. He's establishing something.
He's calling things that are not. And then he steps out there and says, Lazarus. Now, you see, if it had been a Bible principle to call things that are as though they are, he'd had to stepped out there and said, Lazarus is in the grave.
But he didn't. He said, Lazarus, come forth. And I want you to know he came forth.
Stood there. Now, in Luke the 13th chapter, you find that Jesus walked up to a little woman. She'd been bowed over for all these years and couldn't lift herself up.
And Jesus said, woman, thou art loosed from your infirmity, but she wasn't, until he laid his hands on her. See, he called the thing that was not. Jesus in all of his ministry did this.
He talked to fig trees, he talked to the sea, he talked to dead people. And it's amazing they all obeyed him, cause he was highly developed in it. So you can talk to your problems.
You can conquer the things that loom as mountains before you by calling the things that are not. Can you see that? Can you say amen?
Praise God. Thank you so much for joining us for the Concepts of Faith broadcast. I trust you've been with us all this week.
Now, this is the last day for DVD offer number 7856, Calling Things That Are Not, a 60-minute DVD for $20 plus $4 postage and handling, a total of $24. What does it mean to call things that are not? Call things that are not manifest.
You know we do that in everyday life. If your children are out playing and you have dinner on the table, you call them and they come. Well, you don't sit out and say, Well, I wish to God they'd come in.
I guess it's not God's will for them to come. But did you know that's the way a lot of people do concerning the promises of God? They say, Well, if it's God's will, then it'll happen to me, and if it's not, it won't.
No, you have to call for the promise of God. You have to be faithful and diligent in calling things the way God said they were in His word, because there's a devil out there to steal, kill, and destroy. He'll steal your finances.
He'll steal everything you'll let Him steal. But if you call for the promise of God, first of all, did you know that faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God? So if you're saying what God said in His Word about you, then faith is coming.
So you need to know that you're creating faith by confessing the Word of God, and confessing God's Word may be calling things that are not as though they were. This is the way God taught Abraham faith. Abraham had a promise for 24 years and no manifestation of the promised child until God changed his name, changed his name to Abraham, which meant father of nations.
See, his name was first Abram. God changed it to Abraham, so he had to say what God said about him. And the more he said it, the more he believed it, the more he believed it, the more he said it.
I want you to know that God's Word is spiritual law. It is the power of God to create, to change situations and circumstances. So when you call for the promise of God, you're calling for what God's already given you.
You're not calling for what you have. You already have that. So you say what God said about you.
Thank God there's abundance and no lack. My God has met my need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. Well, I want you to know God's Word will change your life.
It will teach you how to call for what God has already given you, but it has not yet manifest. It's a biblically sound principle. Abraham, after he started saying what God said about him, the promised child was born in less than a year.
That's offer number 7856, Calling Things That Are Not, a 60-minute DVD for $20 plus $4 postage and handling, a total of $24. 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 yes, Jesus is coming soon.
To order the product offered today, call 1-877-396-9400 or write Charles Capps, PO. 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.
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.
You know why most people wouldn't dare call for something that is not manifest? Is because they don't have faith as a seed. They don't dare plant the seed of faith to cause the manifestation of what they desire to come.
They stand back and prophesy that the thing is still standing there. And if you say to the mountain, who mountain you getting bigger, I'll never get over you? You always been there and you'll always be there, I'll never get over you.
You'll have exactly what you said. It's the same principle, you just working it in reverse. See, you're calling things that are as though they are, and so they are.
Why in the world would you want to call it the way it is? When the Bible says, call it the way you want it, or call it the way the Bible says it should be. See, this is calling things that are not.
You call it in the manifestation by speaking the word of faith until that faith gets in you for the manifestation of that thing. Can you see that? We're here in the 17th chapter of luke, we're talking about calling things that are not.
In verse six, the Lord said, if you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, or if you had faith as a seed, you might say, now the Greek says it different than this. This is the King James Bible. The Greek says, you would say, see stronger word, you would say into the sycamine tree, be plucked up by the roots and be planted in the sea and it would obey you.
See, the King James says should, and it should be translated, it would obey you. See, it's a stronger word. Should and would are two different things.
He says it would obey you. Now let's look at that for a minute. If you had faith as a seed, you would say.
Now that'll tell you why a lot of people won't dare say anything in faith, because they don't have faith as a seed. Now how many of you know when a farmer goes out here to plant 100 acres of wheat, that he does not need 10,000 bushels of wheat? You plant about one or two bushels of the acre.
So you only need about 200 bushels of wheat, maybe not over 100 bushels. So you see, faith works like a seed. So you don't have to have whole oodles and gobs of faith.
You just have to have faith as a seed. Do you know what oodles and gobs are? That's southern talk, and y'all are far enough south, you ought to be able to understand that.
He's not talking about a lot of faith, and he's not talking about having faith the size of a seed. He's telling you to have faith like a seed. You know what a seed has within it?
It has the ability within itself to reproduce the exact thing that it came from. The seed is in itself. There's life in that seed.
So if you had faith as a seed, you would say to the sycamine tree. Now let's get this down to good old Arkansas English, where you can understand it. How many of you know he's not talking about moving a forest here?
How many of you know he's not even talking about a tree? He's talking about a problem area in your life. Now he's just using that sycamine tree.
That was a literal tree he was talking about there, because it was probably right in the path, and they were walking down this path, and they probably had to walk around it, so it was an obstacle in their way. And he said, if you had faith as a seed, you would say to this tree that's standing in your way right here, be plucked up, be planted in the sea, and it would obey you. He's telling them how to remove an obstacle in their life.
A problem area in their life. See, we got the mini mac chains all today. We didn't have to use that to pluck up trees.
So he's talking about problem areas in your life. Say to it, be removed. You won't hinder me any longer.
Lack, you leave in my house. You're not staying around here because I have given and it is given unto me. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together.
I'll get the best job in the whole plant. You watch and see. I'll be the first one promoted.
Is that what you've been saying? No, I'll tell you what most of you've been saying. You watch and see, I'll be the first one laid off down there.
Then come home balling and squalling, wondering why God doesn't like you when you got laid off and you've been prophesying it for six months. I know I'm on your toes, but I'm gonna stand there a while. God will heal your toes.
You need your negative toes stomped on. Now, how do I know all these things? Because I've been there.
I've been there. And I'll tell you, I got so poor, I couldn't pay attention talking that way. Now, listen to what Jesus said.
He did not tell them, I'm gonna give you more faith. He said, if you had faith as a seed, you would say. In other words, if you had faith as a seed, you start using it.
You'd start saying some things in faith. You'd start saying these things are not gonna hinder me any longer. This problem is gonna cease.
Listen to me, problem, I'm talking to you. You're gonna disappear and depart and dematerialize. And a few months from now, I'll look back and won't even be able to figure out what the problem was.
Because I'm calling the Word of God into play. See, dig into the Word of God. Base it up on scriptures in the Bible.
You know, don't be like somebody said, well, I want you to agree with me on this thing that this will happen. Well, brother, what scripture are you standing on? Well, not any in particular.
That's exactly what you're gonna get. Nothing in particular. You don't have any basis for what you want to believe.
See, that's why you have to get in the Word of God and find out what God said about it. And then you'll have faith to believe it, see. And confess it until the faith does come.
Maybe when you read it in the Bible, you say, I just can't hardly believe that. It's just too good to be true. Well, just keep quoting it, because the faith, the divine energy of God that is in that Word, will get out of that Word and get inside you.
And it'll cause the manifestation of the thing that God said. Now, is that hard to understand that the divine energy of God is released in His Word? Now, let me give you an Old Testament scripture.
God sent His Word and healed them and delivered them from their destructions. Hosea said God's people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. See, when you don't know what God's promised, the devil can destroy you.
You don't know what to believe for. You don't know whether it's God's will for you to be prosperous or not, if you don't know what the Bible said about prosperity. There's people that just don't believe that it's God's will for them to prosper.
Well, no, they don't need to worry about it. They probably never will. Because, see, they don't have any basis for what they believe.
Now, here's the thing. Jesus said, if you had faith as a seed, you would plant that seed. You'd say something in faith.
Say to the sycamore tree while it's standing. Say to the problem while it's standing there, be plucked up and be planted in the seed, and it would obey you. But now, you see, somebody said, it's hard for me to believe those things.
You know why it's hard for you to believe that? It's because you've been too negative. It takes time to get rid of that old negative way of life.
You've got to develop yourself and discipline yourself to speak things in line with the word of God. See, it's not something that happens overnight. It's discipling yourself to speak what God says and say things that are in line with the word of God.
And then you'll begin to see the manifestation of it. All right, right here in the 17th chapter, look here at verse 11. And he entered into a certain village, and there met him 10 men that were lepers and stood afar off, and they lifted up their voices and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
And when he saw them, he said unto them, go show yourself to the priest. Now, what kind of answer is that? Here's 10 lepers that said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
Now, Jesus knows they're lepers. He can see they're staying 100 yards away. They had to stay out there away from the crowd.
And he looked out there, and he just said, go show yourself to the priest. They wanted him to have mercy on them and heal them. Oh, Jesus has started playing make believe again, hadn't he?
That's what some people say. Oh, just living in a land of fantasy. Well, now, wait a minute.
The law said that if you've been cleansed, you go show yourself to the priest, but they have not been cleansed. But Jesus said, go show yourself to the priest. You know what he's doing?
He's calling them clean. You know, they could have thought, well, now he misunderstood us, and they could have hollered back and said, Jesus, have mercy on us. You don't understand, we're lepers.
And he would have just said, go show yourself to the priest. They could have looked and said, but we're lepers. We're not any better.
We're the kind that we don't believe it unless we see it. We want to see it first, then we'll say it. Then we'll go show ourselves to the priest.
They'd have been lepers the rest of their life. You know what the Bible says? The Bible says, as they went, they were cleansed.
Now, what happened when they turn and started toward the priest? They started calling themselves clean. The very fact that they took one step toward the priest, they were calling themselves clean.
And I want you to know the power of God came on them and they were made clean. As they went, they were cleansed. What would have happened if they hadn't went?
Now, that's not good English, but it will get you to think in the morning. Can you see that? Thank you so much for joining us for the Concepts of Faith broadcast today.
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Through the knowledge. If you don't have knowledge of what He's given, then you couldn't possibly have Bible faith for it. Through the exceeding great and precious promises.
It is by these exceeding great and precious promises that He's given us all things that pertain to life. But now it's not going to come to you just because it's in the Bible. You have to hear it, you have to believe it, and you have to call for it.
Well, somebody said, well, I'd be lying if I was calling for abundance because I don't have abundance. That's what this video shares with you, how that you call for what you don't have. We do that in everything else in life.
Why would we log up on it and call things that are when we talk about what we have? Don't talk about what's happening to you. Talk about what the Word says will happen to you.
If you do what the Word says to do, thank God I have given its given unto me, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over. By the stripes of Jesus, I am healed because the Scripture says, ye were healed. So then we confess what the Scripture says, regardless of what is in manifestation or not.
I want you to know that God's Word is spiritual law. It is the power of God to create, to change situations and circumstances. So when you call for the promise of God, you're calling for what God has already given you.
You're not calling for what you have. You already have that. So you say what God said about you.
Thank God there's abundance and no lack. My God has met my need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Well, that's planting a seed for what you need.
You call things that are not. Any farmer that plants a seed of corn or soybeans or rice or whatever, he is calling for what he wants. He's not calling it the way it is.
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Okay, we're talking about calling things that are not as though they were. Have you found John the second chapter? All right.
Let's read here. Let's start with verse, well, verse one. And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there, and both Jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage.
And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus said unto him, They have no wine. Jesus said unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine power has not yet come.
His mother saith unto the servant, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. Now, you know that's good advice. Whatever Jesus says, do it.
You know that'll get you a miracle every time, if you'll just do it. And there was set there six water pots of stone. After the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece, Jesus said unto them, Fill the water pots with water, and they filled them to the brim.
Now listen, they filled them to the brim with water. They didn't fill them to the rim with brim. They filled them with water, H-2-O.
Now, I want you to notice, they're out of wine. And this is a problem there, because they got the governor of the feast there, and they bought out of wine. So they tell Jesus the problem.
He said, Well, fill the water pots with water. Now, Jesus knew it was water. Peter knew it was water.
They all knew it was water that was standing around there. And then Jesus said, Draw out now and bear to the governor of the feast. And I can just see old Peter punching John, saying, You do it, John.
You ain't getting me to carry that water up there, telling him it's wine. I mean, he could have my head before sunrise in the morning. He knew it was water.
Jesus said, draw out and bear to the governor of the feast. Don't take it to somebody else, take it to the governor. Now, what's Jesus doing?
See, there's people that'll say, well, now I'll tell you, these people are just always calling things that are not. They're just playing make believe. Why?
They're just trying to live in a world of fantasy. Why? That's not true.
Well, now what about Jesus here? Is he playing make believe? You know what he's doing when he said, draw out and bear to the governor of the feast?
He's calling that water wine. He called it wine. Now, I'm convinced that when they started with it, it was water.
But when they got there, it was wine. Now, notice what happened. Well, I can tell you what happened.
The wind blew my page.
No wonder it didn't look right. Let's read here from verse nine. And when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine and knew not whence it was, but the servant which drew the water knew, the governor of the feast called the bridegroom and said unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine, and when men are well drunk, then that which is worth.
But thou hast kept the good wine until now. And look at the next verse. And this was the beginning of make believe, which Jesus did in Canaan.
Oh, oh no, no, that wasn't what it said, was it? This was the beginning of miracles. See, there's people that tell you, oh, you're just playing make believe.
You know why? Bless their darlin hearts. They just don't understand God's principles.
See, he was calling that water wine. Now, that doesn't mean for you to go out here and fill your car up with a water hose and start calling it gasoline. Now, you ought not have to say these things, but you do, because sometimes people misunderstand the whole thing that you're trying to get over.
Jesus used this in his ministry, this principle of calling things that are not. Now, he was much more highly developed in it than we are. You can understand that.
And this was not put in the Bible to get you to start trying to make wine out of water or water out of wine or gasoline out of water or whatever. It's put there to point out to you that Jesus was operating in a biblical principle that we can operate in today. Calling things that are not.
And it worked very well for him through all of his ministry. And it'll work for us if we'll understand it and operate in it. Go with me to Luke the 17th chapter.
Now, while you're turning there, let me remind you that in Mark 11, 23 is a basic principle of calling things that are not. It may be in just a little different form. But Jesus said to the disciples there, he said, have the faith of God.
Now, a more literal translation is to have the faith of God, to have faith in God or have the faith of God. Whosoever shall say to this mountain. Notice, whosoever shall say to this mountain, be thou removed, be plucked up, be planted in the sea, or be removed, said, and shall believe, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have.
What's every saith? Now, notice, when he said that, say to the mountain, be removed, was it removed? No, no, it wasn't.
It was still standing there. Who ever would say to the mountain? Speak to it before it was removed.
Now, the problem is that many people say, well, now, here's the way I believe it. I believe that you can't say it until it's already happened. How in the world would you ever get anything out of this principle if you didn't say it first before you saw some manifestation?
See, there wouldn't be any way that you could use the principle of Mark 11, 23, unless you said it before it happened. Because the say in it and the believe in it came before the manifestation. So it is really a form of calling for things that are not.
The thing was not manifest. The mountain was still there. And then right here in the 17th chapter of Luke, Jesus says again something that is very important to this because he brings it down to a seed form in Luke the 17th chapter.
It began with verse 5 there. And you will find that he shares a secret that will absolutely transform your life if you get it. The apostles said unto the Lord, increase our faith.
Now notice, they asked for their faith to be increased. And the Lord said, if ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed. Now notice, he didn't say the size of a mustard seed.
He said, if you had faith as a seed. Now what are we referring to when you talk about faith as a seed? faith that you're willing to plant.
See a seed is not good for anything. If you had one seed, it wouldn't be good for anything. You couldn't take a wheat seed and make a pancake out of it, could you?
It's not enough. But if you got enough sense to plant it, you'll end up having enough seed to make a lot of pancakes. Now he said, if you had faith as a seed, you would say, you know why most people wouldn't dare call for something that is not manifest?
Is because they don't have faith as a seed. They don't dare plant the seed of faith to cause the manifestation of what they desire to come. They stand back and prophesy that the thing is still standing there.
And if you say to the mountain, woo, mountain, you're getting bigger, I'll never get over you. You've always been there and you'll always be there, I'll never get over you. You'll have exactly what you said.
It's the same principle, you're just working it in reverse. See, you're calling things that are as though they are, and so they are. Now can you see that?
Why in the world would you wanna call it the way it is? When the Bible says, call it the way you want it, or call it the way the Bible says it should be. See, this is calling things that are not.
You call it in the manifestation by speaking the word of faith until that faith gets in you for the manifestation of that thing. Can you see that? We're here in the 17th chapter now.
Let's notice 17th chapter of Luke, we're talking about calling things that are not. In verse six, the Lord said, if ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, or if you had faith as a seed, you might say, now the Greek says it different than this. This is the King James Bible.
The Greek says, ye would say, see stronger word, you would say into the sycamine tree, be plucked up by the roots, and be planted in the sea, and it would obey you. See, the King James says should. Now, the literal Greek, it's translated different, and it should be translated, it would obey you.
See, it's a stronger word. Should and would are two different things. He says it would obey you.
Now, let's look at that for a minute. If you had faith as a seed, you would say. Now, that'll tell you why a lot of people won't dare say anything in faith, because they don't have faith as a seed.
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Did you realize that this is a biblically sound principle in the Bible? In Romans the fourth chapter, the Apostle Paul talks about this, and he talks about God teaching Abraham to call things that are not. Verse 17, he says, 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, God taught Abraham to call things that were not as though they were. Now, you know, Abraham never was fully persuaded, but the scripture says of Abraham that he was fully persuaded that what God had promised he was able to perform. God could not get Abraham to say what God said about him.
Now, he believed in the Lord, but Abraham believed God. The scripture says Abraham believed God. Now, there's a lot of people that believe in the Lord, but they don't believe what God said about him.
And when it comes to calling things that are not, you have to call for what is not manifest. And the scripture says, who against hope, referring to Abraham, who against hope, believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations. In other words, when there was no natural hope, no hope naturally, Abraham took what God said and began to say what God said about him.
And it produced hope. God's word produces hope. Now that's the problem with some of you.
You've lost hope. You have no hope. And you know, the Bible says, faith is the substance of things hoped for.
One translation says, giving substance to things hoped for. Well, if you have no hope, then there's nothing for faith to give substance to. So it's important to give voice to God's word because it creates hope.
When you say what God said about you, that may be the only audible voice of God you will hear. And you know, that's what God said. And you give voice to God's word, and it does something to the human spirit that nothing else does.
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We're gonna have to start calling for the things that God promised. That doesn't mean that you deny what exists, you just don't put the accent on it. You call for the thing that's not manifest.
So if we would do what the Apostle Paul says, be imitators of God as dear children, then we would have to call things that are not as though they were. We call for what God promised until the promise comes. And you see, faith cometh by what?
Hearing. Hearing yourself speak in quote what God says will cause faith to come for the very thing that God said about you. All right, we're talking about calling things that are not.
Now let's read the other scripture there in First Corinthians. This is the two foundation scriptures, one in Romans the fourth chapter and the other in First Corinthians, the first chapter, where the Apostle Paul again says in verse 27 and 28, but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty and base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are, that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Now listen to what he said. God chose things that are not manifest, to bring to naught things that are. Now these are the basic scriptures that we're using for this teaching.
Now we're using others, of course, and sharing some things, but these are what we call the foundation scriptures. God's method is to call the thing that is not manifest. Now Hebrews chapter 11 verse one says, now faith is a substance of things hoped for.
It is the evidence of things, the evidence of things not seen. Now if you're having financial problems, then the thing that is not seen is the abundance. Isn't that right?
So then faith is the substance of the thing desired, or hoped for. If you hope for something, that means you desire it, right? So then faith is the substance of that thing.
But now faith without some speaking will not bring the manifestation because faith cometh by hearing. The faith is in the word of God to produce that thing. Now here's the way it works.
Now I'll give you just a very condensed idea of this because I don't want to spend too much time on it, but I do want to say enough about it to where you get it. God releases sufficient faith in every promise to cause the manifestation of it in your life and in your business affairs, in your marriage, in whatever. Every promise in this book has sufficient faith.
And when I say faith, I'm talking about a divine energy of God. The Spirit of God gave me this definition of faith. Faith is the divine energy of God.
It's released in His word. It's in His word. And when you speak His word and quote His word, you hear His word.
See, I'm talking about out loud now. Now this is one thing we've missed it in. We've thought that faith cometh by reading.
The Bible doesn't say that faith cometh by reading. It says faith cometh by hearing. Now if we read it out loud, we would hear it, wouldn't we?
So that's the whole idea behind what the apostle Paul said is that we speak and quote and confess God's word and we hear it coming out of our own mouth. And then it produces faith for that very promise. Now see, you could be highly developed.
In one area, say of salvation, there's some people that's highly developed in that. They say, oh yes, God will save you. He'll forgive you of your sins.
Yes, thank God. The Bible says, he'll no wise cast you out. All that come to him, he'll receive them and no wise cast them out.
Oh yes, God will save you. Yes, yes, I know he will. You know why they believe that?
Because they've quoted it and spoke it and they've taught it and they've shared it with other people. But then you come right over on the other hand and say, well, what about, will God supply my financial needs if I believe him? Oh no, God don't mess with material things.
Well, now, what's the matter here? Here's an individual that's highly developed over here into speaking God's word concerning salvation, getting people saved, but they haven't spent any time in the prosperity scriptures. So don't criticize them, they just may not have ever developed themselves in that area.
And as far as that, you go right on over in the area of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And it may be that they don't even know that the Holy Spirit is formed today. So they wouldn't have any faith for it, see?
Because faith cometh by hearing. So when we're talking about calling things that are not, we're talking about calling for the promise of God that is not manifest in your life, you see? Now, when we go by the biblical, scriptural way to do it, and that is to speak what God said.
This is the way Jesus defeated the devil on the Mount of Temptation. He just simply quoted what God said. I challenge you to read it there in the fourth chapter of Luke, and you will find out that he wouldn't say anything to the devil except what God had said.
That's the only thing he'd say. When the devil would come in, he'd quote scripture. And you know it works well on the devil, the devil started quoting scripture.
Yeah, yeah, he did. The devil knows a few scriptures. If you don't believe it, you can just listen to your radio some time.
You'll hear some folks saying some things on there that the devil knows a few scriptures. But now he always quotes them out of context. See, that's what I meant.
You hear people all the time on the radio and even television too, quoting scripture out of context, see? Using it like the devil used it. Be careful about that.
Now, here we have God's method is to call things that are not. Now, let's go over it. And I told you I was going to show you how Jesus operated in this.
Go with me to John, the second chapter. I was studying this one day and I said to the Lord, now, Lord, I'd like to know if this is a biblical principle of Mark 11, 23, that a man will have what he says if he believes and doubts not in his heart and calling things or not is a Bible principle, which I know it is. But I want to know why I haven't seen it in your ministry through the Bible.
And he said, well, you just hadn't been looking. And then he started carrying me through the scripture. Now, this will show you why, that there can be specific things in the Bible that is very evident when you study that specific thing.
But if you don't study it specifically, you could study the Bible all your life and miss it. That's why God has anointed certain people and used certain people in this day and time to be specialists in the area of ministry. There's people that believe that I'm unbalanced in my teaching because I teach so much on the power of words and confession.
See, confessing the word of God. They say, well, he's unbalanced. Well, he can start out preaching on the baguettes and he'll end up on words.
Well, you'd have to, you know. But anyway, they don't realize sometimes that God is using specialists today. Now, why would God do that?
Well, let me ask you something. If you were going to go have an eye operation, and you know that it's a very delicate thing to have an eye operation, would you go to a foot doctor?
That's very obvious, isn't it? You'd want to go to an eye specialist. You know why?
Because that's all he does, and that's all he studies, and that's what he deals with. And he's more highly proficient in it than anybody else on the face of the earth. That's why God has raised up ministries to teach faith.
He's raised up ministries to teach healing. He's raised up ministries to teach confession and different things, and that doesn't mean that I can't teach something else. But if you'll always stay with your anointing, you'll never get in trouble.
You know where a lot of people get in trouble? They get out of their anointing and try to get over here and teach what God's anointed somebody else to do. And they end up in error.
They end up teaching something off the wall. How did they miss it? They got out of their anointing.
They missed God. They got over in an area they didn't know anything about. You see, when we learn to stay with what God has revealed to us, then we'll have the anointing of God to teach it.
But don't go try to do somebody else's ministry, see? There's a lot of people that would like to have the ministry that somebody else has got, but stay with the one that God gave you, see? And he may change it a little.
It doesn't mean that you just have to stay with a certain thing, but stay with what you know. I've heard good ministers. I'm talking about good ministers.
I mean getting people saved by the hundreds and thousands. Then they get off to teaching on something they didn't know anything about and just blow the whole deal. I mean just get them off the wall with it and just get blasphemous with it, actually, because they got out of their own understanding and tried to teach something they didn't know anything about.
As long as they stayed with what God had anointed them to do, they're just doing great. But when they got over in that area, they just blew the whole deal, see? Well, that's just a little side trip, but it'll help you.
Can you say amen? Praise God. Well, when we stay with the anointing that God has given us, then we'll have better results.
Now see, this is why that a pastor has to be in all of these areas. He has to teach them all. So he will probably not be as highly developed in any one single area of love or healing or faith as somebody that his whole ministry is dedicated toward that.
But you see, a pastor has to teach it all. He has to be what we call the jack of all trades because he's got to pastor the whole church, see. And we just come in and teach specific things as God has anointed us.
Can you say amen? Thank you so much for joining us for the Concepts of Faith broadcast today. Now our offer all this week is video offer number 7856, Calling Things That Are Not As Though They Were.
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2nd Peter chapter 1 tells us that God has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness. How? Through the knowledge.
If you don't have knowledge of what he's given, then you couldn't possibly have Bible faith for it. Through the exceeding grade in precious promises. It is by these exceeding grade in precious promises that he's given us all things that pertain to life.
But now it's not going to come to you just because it's in the Bible. You have to hear it, you have to believe it, and you have to call for it. Well, somebody said, well, I'd be lying if I was calling for abundance because I don't have abundance.
That's what this video shares with you. How did you call for what you don't have? We do that in everything else in life.
Why would we log up on it and call things that are when we talk about what we have? Don't talk about what's happening to you. Talk about what the word says will happen to you.
If you do what the word says to do, thank God I have given it's given unto me, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over by the stripes of Jesus. I am healed because the scripture says you were healed. So, then we confess what the scripture says, regardless of what is in manifestation or not.
I want you to know that God's word is spiritual law. It is the power of God to create, to change situations and circumstances. So, when you call for the promise of God, you are calling for what God has already given you.
You are not calling for what you have. You already have that. So, you say what God said about you.
Thank God there is abundance and no lack. My God has met my need, according to His riches and glory, by Christ Jesus. Well, that is planting a seed for what you need.
You call things that are not. Any farmer that plants a seed of corn or soybeans or rice or whatever, he is calling for what he wants. He is not calling it the way it is.
He is calling for what he doesn't have. He plants about two bushel of rice seed or three, and he expects to get a hundred bushel. Calling for what he doesn't have.
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We're gonna continue on this because, you see, what we did in the other service, we started on the subject of calling things that are not. We got into some nitty gritty things and shared with you some basic things that will help you get an idea of why we should call things that are not. It's because we do it every day in all the everyday things of life.
We call for things that are not where we are. Well, that's the way we do the promise of God. When the promises of God are not manifest in our life, then we just simply call for them.
And when you do it, someone is going to accuse you of trying to act like God, well, you just think you're going to make these things happen by saying all these things. No, we're just simply calling for them. See, just ask yourself, if your son was in the other room, you wanted to talk to him, but you never did call him.
Do you think that he had come out and stand there and say, oh, I understand you want to talk with me? No, you would have to call him, wouldn't you? See, we do that in everything of life.
And we talked about it last night, the thermostat on the wall. When you walk up and turn a thermostat, if it's hot outside and you come inside, you want to turn the thermostat to 70 degrees and it's 90 outside, you're calling for 70 degree temperature when it's not there. It's not there.
But if you are smart enough to call it by turning that thermostat there and leave it set there in an hour or so, it'll be 70 degrees in there. But see, we do that in everything else in life. But when it comes to the promises of God, sometimes we just bomb out, and we say, well, you got to say it like it is.
Well, that's like going in your house and looking at the thermometer and said, well, it's 94. I guess I'll have to set the thermostat on 94 degrees. Well, you're going to get exactly nothing.
That's what a lot of people have done. They have called the thing that is, and when you call the thing that is by saying it like it is, when you have what you say and you say what you have, you'll have what you have. That's very basic and simple, but it's to the point, isn't it?
I think we can all understand that. Well, we're going to go a little further with it. See, we drove the nail through the board last night, and we're going to clench it on the other side tonight.
Can you say amen? Now, let's read the foundation scriptures. Let's go to Romans, the fourth chapter.
I want to give you the Biblical, scriptural basis for what we're talking about. Then we're going to carry you through the New Testament, and maybe even into the Old Testament. We'll quote some things from the Old Testament and point out to you that Jesus used this principle of calling things that are not throughout all of his ministry in the New Testament.
The apostle Paul in Romans, the fourth chapter, in verse 17 says, as it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations. Now he's quoting from the Old Testament in Genesis, the 17th chapter. He says, 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 we went into great detail in the other session to share with you that this is a principle of calling for things that are not manifest. If they're not manifest, you call for them. If you have lack in your finances, then what you need is abundance in your finances.
So you go to the scripture, you find out what God said about it, and you call for it. The word said, give and it shall be given unto you. It says, if you sow bountifully, you will reap bountifully.
And it says, if you give cheerfully, that God will make all grace abound toward you. That you having all sufficiency of all things may abound to every good work. Well now, that's God's word concerning the matter.
What are you gonna say about it? You see, the problem is that we have kind of drifted over into the negative stream of life. Do you realize that this world is in a negative stream?
The world is definitely in a negative stream. You know, you hear somebody tell you and we all do it. You say, well now, go down to the third red light.
Well, why did you say red light? It's green as much as it is red. Why didn't you say the third green light?
We're all programmed negative, you see. Well, laughed till thought had died. Why didn't you say laughed till I thought I'd live forever?
That's scriptural. But laughed till you died is not scriptural. See, laughter doeth good like a medicine.
How many of you taking medicine to die? That's what I thought, none of you. If you went down to the doctor and he gave you a bottle of pills or gave you a prescription, and you went to the pharmacy and they filled it and put a label on it, said, take three of these a day until they kill you.
Now, what would you do with it? You would throw it just as far as you could. Then, you see, why is it that we'd go around saying, well, I'm just dying to go going to die if I don't?
Just dying to tell this, just dying to hear about something. No, you're living to hear about it. And if laughter doeth good like a medicine, then thank God that tickled me to life.
Didn't tickle me to death. Now, you see how negative the world has become, and we just kind of followed right in their footsteps. I was at a little cafe there in Coy, Arkansas.
It's not a very big city. It's population 240. They got five bar stools at this little hamburger stand.
And I was sitting in there eating a hamburger one day, and this lady said, yeah, I said, you know, how's so-and-so doing? Well, I said, she's had her foot operated on, and you know, she's just tickled to death. And I'm sitting there thinking, hmm.
And a little bit, she said, yeah, I said, she had her foot operated on, and she said, she just don't have any pain at all. She's just tickled to death. And I thought, well, most dead people don't have any pain.
Now, you know, if I had have spoke up and said, well, isn't that a shame? She got healed and now she's dead. Well, they'd have said, what in the world are you talking about?
See, they don't even know how negative they are. But you see, we're in a negative stream. The world is, and if you're not careful, you catch yourself in that negative stream.
Now, that negative stream will carry you downstream. You know, any old dead fish can float downstream. It takes a live one to go upstream.
And if we're gonna call things that are not, we're gonna be different from other folks because most people wanna call things that are as though they are. See now, in all the other things of life, see in the natural realm, in the business world, they don't do that. They call for the thing that they desire.
But when you come to the promises of God, most of the world and most religious people call things that are. If they're having problems, they talk about their problems. They call the problem.
They talk about it. They speak about it. And they say, well, you know, this is the way it is.
And well, you know, every time I do this, while this happens, and you know, every time I eat that, it makes me sick. Isn't that amazing? How long you been saying that?
49 years. Been working good, hadn't it?
Well, maybe it did make them sick one time. But you see, God's method is to call things that are not. He said right here, the Apostle Paul said, before him whom he believed, talking about God, who called the things that are not as though they were.
You gotta call for the thing that's not manifest. And this is what God did, and this is what Abraham did, and this is what God expects us to do. But you see, unless we make a conscious effort to break out of the negative stream of life, we're just gonna fall right into the same stream.
And to tell the truth, most of us have already been there for years. We have to get out of it, and you won't get out of it overnight. I'll be the first to tell you, you're gonna have to develop some discipline, to discipline your tongue, and to speak things different.
Because if we're gonna be scriptural about our talk, and if we're gonna call for the things that God has promised that we don't have, we're gonna have to quit saying all the negative things. We're gonna have to start calling for the things that God promised. That doesn't mean that you deny what exists, you just don't put the accent on it.
You call for the thing that's not manifest. So if we would do what the Apostle Paul says, be imitators of God as dear children, then we would have to call things that are not as though they were. We call for what God promised until the promise comes.
And you see, faith cometh by what? Hearing. Hearing yourself speak in quote what God says will cause faith to come for the very thing that God said about you.
God's method is to call the thing that is not manifest. Now Hebrews chapter 11 verse one says, now faith is a substance of things hoped for, it is the evidence of things not seen. Now if you're having financial problems, then the thing that is not seen is the abundance, isn't that right?
So then faith is the substance of the thing desired or hoped for. If you hope for something, that means you desire it, right? So then faith is the substance of that thing.
Thank you so much for joining us for the Concepts of Faith broadcast today. I want to remind you all this week, we have offer number 7856, Calling Things That Are Not, a 60-minute DVD for $20 plus $4 postage and handling, total of $24. Calling Things That Are Not.
Did you realize that this is a biblically sound principle in the Bible? In Romans the fourth chapter, the Apostle Paul talks about God teaching Abraham to call things that are not. Verse 17, he says, 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, God taught Abraham to call things that were not as though they were. Now, you know, Abram never was fully persuaded, but the scripture says of Abraham that he was fully persuaded that what God had promised, he was able to perform. God could not get Abram to say what God said about him.
Now, he believed in the Lord, but Abraham believed God. The scripture says Abraham believed God. Now, there's a lot of people that believe in the Lord, but they don't believe what God said about him.
And when it comes to calling things that are not, you have to call for what is not manifest. And the scripture says, Who against hope, referring to Abraham, who against hope, believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations. In other words, when there was no natural hope, no hope naturally, Abraham took what God said and began to say what God said about him.
It produced hope. God's word produces hope. Now, that's the problem with some of you.
You've lost hope. You have no hope. And, you know, the Bible says, faith is the substance of things hoped for.
One translation says, giving substance to things hoped for. Well, if you have no hope, then there's nothing for faith to give substance to. So it's important to give voice to God's word because it creates hope.
When you say what God said about you, that may be the only audible voice of God you will hear. And you know, that's what God said. And you give voice to God's word, and it does something to the human spirit that nothing else does.
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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.
I welcome to the Concepts of Faith broadcast.
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We have again today my daughter Annette with me and we're going to be talking about one of my favorite subjects and I know you'll be blessed by it.
We're going to be talking about calling things that are not as though they were.
This is a principle of the Bible that got me from poverty to the blessings of God in a couple of three years after I got a hold of it and just began to do it.
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So we're going to talk about that and I want to begin with some foundation scriptures.
In the book of Romans, the 4th chapter, verse three, it says what saith the scriptures?
Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness.
Now in the Old Testament it says Abraham believed in the Lord and it was counted to him for righteousness.
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Abram believed in the Lord, but Abraham believed God.
Same man, all right, but it's a different time frame and we're going to talk about why that was.
It says Abraham believed God, it was counted to him for righteousness.
Now when you come over to the 13th verse, it says 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.
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Now this is important to understand.
It didn't come through the law, it came through the righteousness which is a faith.
And the righteousness which is a faith comes by speaking and proclaiming and saying that's how we become righteous.
We enter into the grace of God.
The only way you enter into the grace of God through faith.
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So he's going to enter in not through the law, but through the righteousness, which is a faith, and I'll mention it here, we'll get to it after a while.
But in Romans, the 10th chapter, Paul said the word is nigh, that he is in thy mouth and in thy heart.
That is the Word of Faith which we preach.
So first it's in your mouth.
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And the righteousness, which is a faith says the word is nigh me.
In other words, as close to me as getting it in my mouth and speaking it into my heart.
When I went to school, and probably when you went to school, they'd make us quote the multiplication tables back and forth to one another until we knew them by heart.
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They knew then that if you say it long enough audibly with your voice, it'll get on the inside of you.
Then you don't have to count apples and oranges and take away through you to find out what you got left and count them it.
It's a mathematical law we're talking about a law of faith and how God taught this law to Abraham.
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Now He tried to teach it to Abram, but it didn't take.
Abram would not say what God said about it.
And I've seen some people and you have to, they'll say, well, I, I wouldn't say that God has met my need according to his riches in glory, because I might be lying.
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Don't worry about it.
It won't happen because you don't have faith as a seed.
It happens only when you believe, doubt, not in your heart, and you have what you say.
So if you don't have faith to say it, that means you don't have faith.
Faith gives substance to things hoped for.
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Now come down the 16th verse.
And therefore it is the faith that it might be by grace to the end.
The promise might be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is the law, but that also which is the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
He's called the father of our faith, as it is written.
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I've 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.
God taught Abraham to call things that are not as though they were.
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Now what does it mean to call things that are not?
What was not manifest in Abram's life, that's right, was an heir.
And So what did God do?
He changed his name.
Changed his name, forced the man to say what God said about.
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Him.
So instead of being called Abram, he's now called Abraham, which means father of many nations.
And Abram was not the father of many nations when he was called Abraham.
It took a while for Abraham, the father of many nations, to see the manifestation, but God called him Abraham because God called that which was not into existence by saying it.
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When God changes your name, your name changed.
I mean, you know, you got to tell everybody what God said about you and this was the problem that happened.
Now, if you go back into Genesis, and I don't want to take a lot of time on this, but it'll help you, you'll find that God gave him the promise when he was 75 years old, said he's going to have a worldwide ministry, bless all the nations of the earth and everybody that blessed him would be blessed in them to cursed him, be cursed.
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Well, that thing is still going on.
But here's Abram, he is 75 years old.
He comes out and takes a lot with him.
You know God told him, come out and among you kin.
Sometimes you got to get away from your unbelieving kin folks.
You're going to believe God.
And when he separated from lot, the Lord said to him said you look to the east, West, North and South.
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Said I'm going to give you everything you can see now that was a physical land to them, the land of Canaan.
But today our promised land of the promises of this new covenant.
One of the greatest truths in this New Testament is before we get to Page 1, it says the New Testament, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ last will and Testament.
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So that's important.
We don't get it when we die.
We get it when he died and he said it in motion and all the promises of God.
The apostle Paul says yes and Amen, but what are we saying about it?
So if you don't have the promise of God manifest in your life, what do you do?
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You call for it.
It's that simple.
And why are you calling it?
Because it's not manifest.
And you know, sometimes people, you hear them say it.
Well, how can you say you?
Why do you say you heal when you're sick?
That's all the more reason you ought to say it.
You call them what you don't have.
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Well, if you call for what you do have, then what are you going to do?
You're going to reinforce it.
You're reinforcing what you have.
So the more you call for what you have, I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick or I'm poor or I'm this or I'm that, then the more you're going to have that.
Quite some time ago, I spoke with a Native American man.
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And in our discussion, somehow I sort of explained to him your teaching about words.
And he said, well, English is the language of fear.
I said, what do you mean?
And he's from the pueblos in New Mexico, and he studied language quite extensively.
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And he said, well, you people, when you have something in your body, you say, oh, it's my arthritis, or you say, oh, I have the flu or I have diabetes.
And he said when you say that, now he wasn't talking about on the basis of the word either, but he said when you say that, he said then it's yours.
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It makes it manifest or it becomes a part of you.
He said, the way we look at it is if there's something going on in our body, it's an energy that's just passing through.
And we say it's passing through.
In other words, you would say I'm fluing I don't have the flu, but I'm flu right now, but it's going see in other.
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Words it's saying, this too shall pass, right?
So he said, you when you say I have this disease or I am diabetic or I have cancer or I am this or I am that, then you are stopping that energy that could leave.
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Taking possession.
Taking possession of it.
And then it becomes a part of your baggage, so to speak.
So you're calling it.
You're taking possession of something you don't want.
And the people say, yeah, but you just have to say it like it is.
Now, you know, being a farmer for 29 years, I see how ridiculous that is because I bought a farm one time.
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It was grown up in Johnson grass on the tractor.
You couldn't hardly see over the Johnson grass.
Now, wouldn't it have been foolish if I'd have said, well, you know, we're going to have to sow it like it is.
We can't plant anything but Johnson grass.
I'd like to plant cotton, but you have to sow it like it is.
That don't make any sense at all.
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It certainly don't make any dollars.
No, but it's so foolish for people to say, well, you just have to say it like it is.
No, you don't.
That's what the world has told you all these years.
You sow it the way you want it, and words are seeds.
So Abram had the promise and God said to him, now you look to the east, West, north-south, and we'll give you everything you see.
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Did you realize that that was a physical land?
But our promises or the promises of the new Covenant, and God will still give you everything you could see that He's promised you in this book.
If you can get it on the inside of it, you can live out the reality of it.
How do you get it in there?
Paul said it in your mouth and in your heart.
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It's got to be in your mouth.
You got to speak it and proclaim it.
How does faith come?
Faith cometh by hearing.
The more you hear, it'll come more quickly if you hear yourself saying it.
So when you're confessing the scriptures on healing, and you declare by the stripes of Jesus I am healed, then you're saying I am healed, not I'm sick.
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You're saying I am healed.
You're calling for what you want, not for what you don't want.
What you don't want is to be sick.
So you don't say I am sick, thereby claiming it.
You're calling for healing.
I by the stripes of Jesus, I am healed.
In the Old Testament, the Scripture says, let the weak say I'm strong say the very opposite of what is if it lines up with the word of God.
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But most people just side in with whatever's happening to them.
And I think where this comes from, it's from Greek mythology.
People tend to believe, and some churches teach it, that whatever happens to you in life is God's will for you.
Well, you don't find that in the Bible, you find it in Greek mythology.
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They thought there's 300 million gods up in heaven working like puppeteers, 'cause everything happened on earth.
So if it happens to you, it's God's will.
No.
If that were true, there wouldn't be any need to resist the devil, would they?
Just buddy up with him.
And you know, and that's what most people do, they wouldn't dare resist it because it might be God.
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If this sickness of God, then they'll tell you that sickness is teaching them something.
Yeah, it'll teach you.
You don't want to be sick.
That's right.
I guarantee you, but this principle of calling things that are not is sort of like this quantum physics we talked about on some of the other broadcasts.
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It's kind of far out for some people because they haven't studied this in the Scripture.
But when you follow the teaching of Jesus, He followed this pattern and He called things that are not as though they were until they were in all of His ministry.
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He operated in that.
Another thing that we see when we study Abram and Abraham, God told Abram, I'll give you everything you can see.
And the way we make decisions is what we see ourself doing.
If I go to praying about something, meditating the word and confessing the word of it, if I don't have any great revelation about it, whether I should do it or not do it, I just stop and ask myself, what do I see myself doing?
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Now if you put the right word in here, you'll see yourself doing the right thing, either doing it or not doing it.
But if you don't put the right word in here, if you put the wrong words in there, you may see yourself doing it when you're not supposed to do it.
You're going to be in a heap of trouble because some people prophecy.
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Well, you see, I'll, I'll invest this money, I'll lose every dime I put in it.
Well, they talk theirself into things sometimes, and prophecy the very thing, and they live out the reality of it.
That's true.
I've seen so many people that they don't have the God inside image, the image that God gives us in His Word, that we are led by the Spirit of God.
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And we're out of time.
And what are we offering today?
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It's offer number 2856.
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Actually, you recorded this in a meeting.
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Calling things that are not.
Those are some good teaching.
Calling things that are not.
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Now sometimes people say, well now what do you mean calling things that are not well?
In the 4th chapter of Romans, the apostle Paul says that God taught Abraham to call things that were not as though they were.
And if you don't understand that principle, you're probably going around calling things that are as though they are exactly like they are.
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And they are, and they will always be that way if you continue to do that.
But if you will call the things that are not, they'll come.
Now, how can you call something when it's not out there?
If you just walk in an elevator and you going to call it.
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Like it?
Is and you're on the 1st floor and you punch the 1st floor, guess what you're going to.
Stay right there.
On the 1st floor, the doors are going to open again.
You say yeah, but I wanted to go to floor five.
Well, you punched the wrong button and a lot of you're punching the wrong button and wondering why you didn't go somewhere or something didn't change.
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