Dear Mothers,
I have had a teaching on faith in my heart all day but haven't been able to write as I have been too busy. Oh, wow, what a day! Anyway, I will just jot down some thoughts.
Ya know I was thinking of the scripture that says that faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. I guess for some reason, I thought that if I read my Bible a lot then I will get more faith. And yet the scholars of our day read the Word all the time and many have no faith. So what does this scripture mean? I think it is spiritual. That we get faith as we hear a Word in our hearts from the Holy Spirit. The Bible is a spiritual book. Yes, the Lord could speak a word as we read the Bible or we hear a message on faith. But for us to have the true faith that brings miracles, we have to have a Rhema word from God. Or an alive word spoken to us that says that we know that we know that we know that our miracle is going to happen. And it is this Word made alive in us that is the live seed that will grow and produce a miracle.
Also the Word says that without faith we can't please God. Ya know on a regular day? You don't need mountain moving faith to clean the house or homeschool the children. But when we run outta road to walk on and yet we have to keep walking? We have to have faith. The God kind that moves mountains and pleases God. Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. OK, we have eyes to see ... we can hear and feel and taste and smell. But faith doesn't have anything to do with our senses. The Bible says faith comes when there is no evidence of a physical answer to the problems. God kind of Faith can't be experienced if there is a physical way for something to happen, anyway. So a totally hopeless situation is what is needed for the true faith to be played out.
The things we see in the physical realm are subject to change but the eternal is forever. On this earth, we can loose things that will be loosed in heaven. And we can also loose things on earth that loose hell and its demons. All through our imaginations. In the area of our imaginations is where our faith is to be played out. Our visions are our power and they move heaven and earth and hell. If we are born again and we abide in the vine of Christ, then anything we ask in Jesus name we receive. But if we get into unbelief, we cause all kinds of hell on earth. We are powerful beings. We are made like that. The same power that raised Christ from the dead dwells in us.
In the Spirit realm, we do not use our eyes or our senses. Our physical senses are to be used for this earth and for our business here on the earth. But the spirit realm, in our spirits, we don't use the physical senses. Just like we don't smell with our eyes. Or we don't taste with our ears. With faith, we don't use our physical eyes or ears. I mean we know the wind moves the branches on the trees with an invisible power, the wind. And our faith is like the wind -- it moves things mysteriously. Faith moves mountains, as it is more powerful then the wind.
How do we see with spiritual eyes and hear with spiritual ears? We see with our imaginations. God speaks to us about our imaginations. We are to cast down vain imaginations and all that exalts itself above the knowledge of God. The Word says that if we delight ourselves in Him, He will give us the desires of our heart. OK, the desires of your heart are your map inside your spirit to guide you. Of course, if the desire of your heart is evil, then I would question if you really loved Jesus. But if you have a wayward husband, then, of course, as a Christian wife, the deepest desire of your heart would be that your husband be saved. But then the devil comes along and says, "It ain't gonna happen." He speaks to you through your eyes and your ears and then he gets you to imagine evil and this is his stepping stones to get his work done.
FEAR
FEAR is faith in reverse. It is like faith but it produces evil instead of good. It is powerful and moves the flesh. It moves our flesh into perversions of all kinds. And it produces diseases and accidents and all the sins of the flesh.
Fear has to be present for Satan to work. He lives and breathes and has his being in an atmosphere of fear. Fear in a home, day after day after day, will produce wickedness. Satan will stay until he gets something done and then he will leave. At all costs, get the fear out of the house. Don't live with it and hope things will work out. Satan ain't gonna leave your house just because he feels sorry for ya. He breathes disease and fear and it is his workshop. Fear is a feast to him and deceit and lies are what he is powerful in. But see, God is greater. He is greater in us then he (Satan) in the world. So we can get rid of the fear in our homes by getting a word from God.
Satan won't mind you -- he just minds Jesus. So you have to pray and get a word from the Lord. You have to put Jesus first. Maybe you can just sit in a chair with the baby and pray. Pray until you can SEE the answer to your prayers. Pray until you know that flesh and blood has not told you the answer but only the heavenly Jesus has told you the answer.
See, the Lord is heavenly, daily manna. You have to ask Him everything all day long. Don't move out on your own. Hear His voice through your spirit and through making sure your mind is clean and on the Word of God. If you are thinking negative thoughts about your family, then these are thoughts from Satan. No one knows the future. We have to stand on the word that says we will be saved and our household. Also the Word says that it isn't His will that any perish. So if we think someone is hopeless, then our mind is being controlled by Satan and not the Holy Word of God.
Often the devil will tell us that our kids are doing wrong and we don't know that they are, but we have a feeling, a fear that says they are doing wrong. This feeling didn't come because someone told us that but it came out of our imaginations. And sometimes our kids do things that help our imagination to live in full bloom. But it is not usually the truth. Sometimes it is the truth? You can't tell, as Satan is a deceiver and will play cat and mouse games with ya until you turn blue. But God's word is true. It always is true! And it is eternal.
Ya know years ago, as I was believing for Jim to come home -- man, it was hard. I would just get in bed and cover up my head and give up. I had no hope for sure. But God would speak to me of the God kind of faith. The kind that moves mountains. And I can say truthfully that when I would pray the prayer of faith, I would begin to see a miracle ... and these were true miracles. I didn't know where Jim was and no one else did, either. So it wasn't like someone told me he was coming home. But when I would begin to renew my mind with the Word of God and give my imaginations to God, I would see a miracle. Jim would come home and God would give us some happy days. But then the fear would come and Jim would leave again. Jim said he felt like a yo-yo. But my faith brought him home and my fear would cause him to leave. Jim was a sinner -- he was bound by Satan. But see, I was the intercessor and I held in my hands the answer for both of us. Eventually, I learned how to walk by faith and not by sight. Now I live like this all the time.
Reality isn't this physical world or what we see with our eyes. We shouldn't go around making all of our decisions by the rules of this world. Because this world is a passing thing. But true reality is Christ and His Word. He is eternal and we will live forever in heaven and that will be forever. Reality is the eternal life after this life. Don't give yourself to a world that you won't live in for more then an earthly lifetime. We who know Him were created for heaven.
Equip the Saints
Ya know the world is so full of terror lately and fear. The earth seems to be so unstable because of the sin in it. It seems our foundations are so shaken. And yet we should rejoice as He has overcome the world. Our faith overcomes the world and the laws of sin and death.
Some of us women are very sensitive to the spirits out there. Both holy and unholy spirits. Wow, some of us walk about as accidents going someplace. I know I do. We yield our faith to this and that and then to the fear and, boy, do we get smacked in the head. I don't feel our diet has near as much to do with our nervous worry as our level of faith going up and down. The Word says to keep your heart for out of it is the issues of life. Yes, we should eat healthy if we can. But during the Depression era, folks didn't hardly have any food but they lived on faith.
Well, I am interrupted so best stop.
Love,
Connie
