Greetings Saints,
Happy Independence day to you here in America, and happy independence to all you worldwide who are free in Christ Jesus! Hallelujah, that is our true independence, free from the curse and its effects! Glory!
Love you all and enjoy writing to you each week. Thanks for your emails and comments, you are a great encouragement to me. Thanks for the many prayers for our Pakistani Brothers and Sisters I mentioned last week.
We are in a continuing study at FICC Word Church on the art of believing. In other words training be a person who is not controlled by the elements of nature or the pressures of life.
I tell you, you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you've received it, it will be yours. Mark 11:24 (New Living Translation)
Here is the solution, pray for anything.
Here is the problem, if you believe that you've received it.
Jesus said we can pray for anything, and that we could have it! The reason we do not experience it more often is because we really do not believe. You say, yes I do believe Pastor Chuck, but if you did then you would receive according to the Masters Words.
So herein lies the problem. We must be honest with ourselves and admit we need some work on believing the Word over the circumstances. Now if it was easy, everybody would be doing it! But here are a few things you will have to practice in order to achieve this skill of original (before the fall) Adamic domination.
1. Steadfastness: You must train yourself not to waver. Once you pray, declare it is done and do not go back and forth with doubt and unbelief. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. James 1:5-8
2. Confession: You must so believe that you have already received it that your confession declares it. And speaks of future events with as much certainty as though they were already past. Rom 4:17B (Living Letters: The Paraphrased Epistles).
3. Patience: When you are not yet seeing it with your natural eye. Time is not the determining factor whether or not your prayer is answered! Stay the course, He is faithful who promised. That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Heb 6:12
4. Fully Persuaded: When the pain or symptoms get worse in your body, when the bills continue to pile up, when what you are seeing is the exact opposite of the answer to your prayer, you must already be fully persuaded that God cannot lie. What He promised in His Word He is more than able and willing to perform it in your life, so continue to act accordingly. And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. Rom 4:21
A final note, you must make it personal. Believe that God will do it for you. Actually you must take it, so to speak. It is yours so you must take it and not let go no matter what you see or feel or encounter.
Therefore I say to you, all things whatever things ye praying shall ask, believe ye that ye shall take, and they shall come to you. Mark 11:24 (Wycliffe New Testament)
And again:
And all things whatever ye believing shall ask in prayer, ye shall take. [And all things whatever ye shall ask in prayer believing, ye shall take.] Matt 21:22 (Wycliffe New Testament)
We have been given the authority saints and we must begin to take it. The world around us is suffering under the curse and we have the ability resident within us to do something about it for those who suffer. I am confident that He who began a good work in us will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Looking forward to seeing you in church this Sunday. We provide transportation if you are local. Dr Don Struble will be speaking this Sunday morning so you do not want to miss it.
In Him,
Pastor Chuck
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July, 2007 Newsletter 
