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How the father nature of God must long for man to return to the security and simple faith of pure fellowship with Him, taking His Word as fact that can be fully trusted!
In the “seed” there are possibilities beyond the power of the human mind to conceive, just as in a little seed there is a potential tree a million times bigger than the seed.
By keeping God’s garden planted, as the farmer does his fields, a child of God can accomplish things a thousand times greater than men of the highest human talents can accomplish, by receiving His promises.
Appropriating faith cannot go beyond one’s knowledge of the revealed will of God.
So true
It is only by knowing that God promises what you are seeking that all uncertainty can be removed and a steadfast faith is made possible.
Faith for the appropriation of God’s promised blessings is the result of knowing and acting on God’s Word (Romans 10:17).
The Word Is the Seed
Jesus said, “The Word is the seed.”
Until the person seeking healing is sure from God’s Word that it is God’s will to heal him, he is trying to reap a harvest where there is no seed planted. It would be impossible for a farmer to have faith for...
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Freedom from sickness comes from knowing the truth. God does nothing without His Word. “He sent His Word and it healed them” are the words of the Holy Spirit (Psalm 107:20 Fenton’s translation). “All His work is done in faithfulness” to His promises.
God does nothing without His Word.
For each sick person to know that it is God’s will to heal him, it is necessary for the “seed” to be planted in his mind and heart. It is not planted until it is known and received and trusted.
The “seed” must remain planted and be kept watered before it can produce its harvest.
For one to say, “I believe the Lord is able to heal me” before he knows from God’s Word that He is willing to heal him, is like a farmer saying, “I believe God is able to give me a harvest, without any seed being planted and watered.”
matter. Salvation is by faith—that is, by trusting the known will of God. Being healed is being saved in a physical sense.
Salvation is by faith—that is, by trusting the known will of God. Being healed is being saved in a physical sense.
Praying for healing with the faith-destroying words, “if it be Thy will,” is not planting the “seed”; it is destroying the seed. “The prayer of faith” that heals the sick is to follow (not precede) the plantin...
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seed. “The prayer of faith” that heals the sick is to follow (not precede) the planting of the “seed” (the Word...
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The Gospel does not leave a man in uncertainty praying with an “if it be Thy will”; it tells him what God’s will is.
Seed is powerless until it is planted.
Many, instead of saying, “Pray for me,” should first say, “Teach me God’s Word, so that I can intelligently cooperate for my recovery.”
After being sufficiently enlightened, our attitude toward sickness should be the same as our attitude toward sin
Our purpose to have our body healed should be as definite as our purpose to have our soul healed.
When, in prayer, we definitely commit to God the forgiveness of our sins, we are to believe, on the authority of His Word, that our prayer is heard. We are to do the same when praying for healing.
We can be sufficiently enlightened by the promises of God by simply believing that our prayer is heard before we have experienced the answer (Mark 11:24). Following this with the observance of Hebrews 10:35–36, we can always bring to pass the fulfillment of any divine promise. It is God’s will for every Christian to successfully practice Hebrews 6:11–12.
Mark 11:24 (NKJV)
24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
We can be sufficiently enlightened by the promises of God by simply believing that our prayer is heard before we have experienced the answer (Mark 11:24). Following this with the observance of Hebrews 10:35–36, we can always bring to pass the fulfillment of any divine promise. It is God’s will for every Christian to successfully practice Hebrews 6:11–12.
Hebrews 10:35-36 (NKJV)
35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:
We can be sufficiently enlightened by the promises of God by simply believing that our prayer is heard before we have experienced the answer (Mark 11:24). Following this with the observance of Hebrews 10:35–36, we can always bring to pass the fulfillment of any divine promise. It ...
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Hebrews 6:11-12 (NKJV)
11 And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end, 12 that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Between the time we definitely commit to God the healing of our body and the completion of our healing, we can, and should, learn one of the most valuable lessons of our Christian life. That lesson is how to observe Hebrews 10:35–36. Only divine promises can make our faith steadfast.
Hebrews 10:35-36 (NKJV)
35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:
No, he held fast his confidence and added to it, in advance, the sacrifice of thanksgiving
(Jonah 2:9).
Jonah 2:9 (NKJV)
9 But I will sacrifice to You
With the voice of thanksgiving;
I will pay what I have vowed.
Salvation is of the LORD.”
Hebrews...
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Hebrews 13:15 (NKJV)
15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.
God always fulfills His promises when He can get the right cooperation.
He always accepts us and undertakes for us when we observe Mark 11:24 and Hebrews 10:35–36. “With long life will I satisfy him” is God’s promise to be appropriated by all (Psalm 91:16).
Notice here that the words of God are life only to those that “find” them. If you want to receive life and healing from God, take time to find the words of Scripture that promise these results.
When God’s Word becomes health to all your flesh, your cancer will be gone, your tumor will be gone and your goiter will be gone.
The flesh of thousands today is unhealthy flesh because they have failed to “find” and “attend” to that part of G...
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It matters not what particular kind of unhealthy flesh—whether cancer, goiter, tumor—God says, “health to all their flesh.” Whose flesh? Those who “find” and “attend” to the Words of God on the subject. This is exactly the same way that the Word of God becomes health to the soul.
Instead of having your eyes on your symptoms and being occupied with them, let God’s Words not “depart from thine eyes.” Look at them continually and, like Abraham, wax strong in faith by looking at the promises of God and at nothing else.
Romans 4:19-21 (NKJV)
19 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. 20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.
As the only way a seed can do its work is by being kept in the ground, so the only way that God’s “imperishable seed” can “effectually work in us” is by it being kept “in the midst of our hearts.” This does not mean occasionally, but continuously.
The reason why many have failed is because they ha...
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When the farmer gets his seed into the ground, he does not dig it up every day to see how it is doing, but says, “I am glad that is settled.” He believes the seed has begun its work. Why not have this same faith in the “imperishable seed”—Christ’s Words, which He says are “spirit and life.” Believe that they are already doing their work, without waiting to see.
If the farmer, without any definite promise, can have faith in nature, why can’t the Christian have faith in the God of nature?
If a field in which the seed has been sown could talk to us, it would say, “The seed worketh in me mightily.”
This passage in Proverbs shows us the method of obtaining results from the promises in God’s Word: 1. There must be the attentive ear. “Incline thine ear unto my sayings.” 2. There must be the steadfast look. “Let them not depart from thine eyes.” 3. There must be the enshrining heart. “Keep them in the midst of thine heart.”
When your eyes are upon your symptoms and your mind is occupied with them more than with God’s Word, you have in the ground the wrong kind of seed for the harvest that you desire. You have in the ground seeds of doubt. You are trying to raise one kind of crop from another kind of seed. It is impossible to sow tares and reap wheat. Your symptoms may point you to death, but God’s Word points you to life, and you cannot look in these opposite directions at the same time.
Numbers 21:8 (NKJV)
8 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”
The word “looketh” is in the continuous present tense. It does not mean a mere glance, but “let [His Words] not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.”
but to the body, not to a particular part of it, but to “all their flesh.”
Seeing only what God says will produce and increase faith.
Don’t doubt your faith; doubt your doubts, for they are unreliable.
