Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 31.01.1999
Miracles through the faith
There are at least three kinds of faith, trusting, obeying and creative saying. Because I trust in Jesus, I consider true all that He says. Because I love Jesus, I obey Him. Because the Spirit of Jesus lives in me, I can sometimes by the action of Jesus command things to take place.
Creative faith
"'God said: Let the land produce vegetation,.. .' And it was so." Gens.1:11 Worlds are created by God's word. His faith affects in His words. If someone says to an ill person: "Be healthy", and this was not healed, so the one who said those words, had not the faith of God. Is it any miracle, if God heals with His words an ill person or wakes up a dead person, when He has created universes from emptiness? What is a miracle for us, is not a miracle for Him.
God can give these creative words into the mouth of His friend so that the believer would use them instead of Him. Jesus acted in God's faith, when He said to a fig-tree: "'May you never bear fruit again!' Immediately the tree withered." Matth.21:19 When disciples wondered at the event Jesus said: "I tell you the truth: if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig-tree, but also you can say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and it will be done."
It is question about the quality of the faith and not its amount. This faith Jesus is ready to give to His friends. He says about them: "When you have done everything you were told to do, should say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.'" Luke17:10 All what we say has a certain effect. When we say proud and boasting words we disable ourselves from receiving God's faith. The same thing is expressed: "You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures." James.4:2-3
Everything, what I say, must be in harmony with the mind of God so that I could say creative words of His faith. I got the true salvation from Jesus, when my spirit heard the words of the gospel, which were said in the faith of God. In every case when the words are said in God's faith the Holy Spirit is the true speaker though a human being would be also speaking. It is a spiritual gift of God, when a believer of Jesus can participate in the creative actions of God.
All believers don't get the same kind of deeds of the faith for their tasks. "There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men." 1Cor.12:4-6
How you can take part in God's faith? All begins from the words that you say in your heart. If you let the words of God change your thoughts and attitudes of your mind, so it will happen that from your cleansed spirit starts to well up the words that have their source in God. "No-one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, 'Jesus be cursed,' and no-one can say, 'Jesus is Lord,' except by the Holy Spirit." 1Cor.12:3
God has given Jesus the name that is above every name. The next utterance that comes from one's heart is the first practice in saying the words of faith: "Jesus Christ be my Lord and God." And it will be done, as you said.
"'God said: Let the land produce vegetation,.. .' And it was so." Gens.1:11 Worlds are created by God's word. His faith affects in His words. If someone says to an ill person: "Be healthy", and this was not healed, so the one who said those words, had not the faith of God. Is it any miracle, if God heals with His words an ill person or wakes up a dead person, when He has created universes from emptiness? What is a miracle for us, is not a miracle for Him.
God can give these creative words into the mouth of His friend so that the believer would use them instead of Him. Jesus acted in God's faith, when He said to a fig-tree: "'May you never bear fruit again!' Immediately the tree withered." Matth.21:19 When disciples wondered at the event Jesus said: "I tell you the truth: if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig-tree, but also you can say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and it will be done."
It is question about the quality of the faith and not its amount. This faith Jesus is ready to give to His friends. He says about them: "When you have done everything you were told to do, should say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.'" Luke17:10 All what we say has a certain effect. When we say proud and boasting words we disable ourselves from receiving God's faith. The same thing is expressed: "You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures." James.4:2-3
Everything, what I say, must be in harmony with the mind of God so that I could say creative words of His faith. I got the true salvation from Jesus, when my spirit heard the words of the gospel, which were said in the faith of God. In every case when the words are said in God's faith the Holy Spirit is the true speaker though a human being would be also speaking. It is a spiritual gift of God, when a believer of Jesus can participate in the creative actions of God.
All believers don't get the same kind of deeds of the faith for their tasks. "There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men." 1Cor.12:4-6
How you can take part in God's faith? All begins from the words that you say in your heart. If you let the words of God change your thoughts and attitudes of your mind, so it will happen that from your cleansed spirit starts to well up the words that have their source in God. "No-one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, 'Jesus be cursed,' and no-one can say, 'Jesus is Lord,' except by the Holy Spirit." 1Cor.12:3
God has given Jesus the name that is above every name. The next utterance that comes from one's heart is the first practice in saying the words of faith: "Jesus Christ be my Lord and God." And it will be done, as you said.
The Bible version used in references is NIV