The Prayer of Faith
Faith means ·being sure [the assurance; or the tangible reality; or the sure foundation] of the things we hope for and ·knowing that something is real even if we do not see it [the conviction/assurance/evidence about things not seen].
Heb. 11:1 Expanded Bible
For we walk by faith not by our senses (our five senses). 2 Cor. 5:7
Introduction.
We are surrounded by evil spirits in this world. To understand this warfare, we do not use our physical senses but those supernatural gifts that God has already provided to us through using His word. The Word of God is the sword of the Spirt of God given to us as new creations. This new man, this new species that never existed on planet earth walks by faith and does not require evidence or confirmation by the five senses.
There are new kinds of faith. There is Sense knowledge Faith that demands physical evidence to satisfy the senses before he/she can see that which they have prayed for. The God Kind of Faith depends on the Word of God alone. This type of faith the believer finds the passage in scripture that covers their need and makes that their own.
Prayer based on the Word of God rises above the senses and contacts the author of the Word, who is the Lord Jesus Christ.
For although we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh, since the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but are powerful through God for the demolition of strongholds. We demolish arguments and every proud thing that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to obey Christ. And we are ready to punish any disobedience, once your obedience is complete. 2 Cor. 10:3-6
Sense Knowledge versus Revelation Truth.
The other day I met a lady that asked for prayer for the infirmity she had. As I explained divine healing to her, she told me she was not going to believe something that her body was telling her that she had. She said not even doctors had a cure for her condition. I told her boldly that Jesus took her infirmities upon His body on the cross of Calvary. I told her to believe God and His Word and that it was Satan has put disease upon her. I told her that Satan is the god of this world and that Jesus when He was on earth went about full of the Holy Spirit healing all those who are oppressed of the devil. (Acts 10:38). You see what she had was sense knowledge she believed the truth that the world has stated but she needed revelation knowledge of the word of God showing that Jesus took upon himself al diseases and illnesses at the cross of Calvary. Our faith should not be based on feelings but should be based on God ‘s word. I am not saying to ignore the symptoms of the body. I am telling you to get your body into line with what God’s Word says.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Eph. 1:3
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, (Revelation Knowledge) and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2 Peter 1:2-4
The Seen versus the Unseen
God purposely chose what the world considers nonsense (the unseen) to shame those who think they are wise, and He chose what the world considers weak (faith in God) in order to shame those who think they are powerful. He chose what the world looks down on and despises and thinks is nothing, (the unseen) in order to destroy what the world thinks is important. I Cor. 1:27-28
For we fix our attention, not on things that are seen, but on things that are unseen. What can be seen lasts only for a time, but what cannot be seen lasts forever. 2 Cor. 4:18
You need to see what this scripture means. Understand that everything has been provided for us in Christ Jesus. We have been blessed with all blessings. You can’t see them because they’re in the spiritual realm, but God says they are there. A lot of people operate and Sense Knowledge rather than Revelation Knowledge. Sense Knowledge will contradict the Word of God. When you start walking by Revelation Knowledge, you’ll see what God has in His Word and you will make it a reality in your own life. Remember our faith grasps the truth of the word of God says and makes it a reality as we believe it.
I remember one time that the devil was hitting me with symptoms of dizziness. I was believing in my heart that I was healed, and I was confessing with my mouth thanking God I was healed but my actions contradicted what I believed. As I was laying in bed, I began to start to feel dizzy once again. I said to God thank you father for healing me! Immediately the Holy Spirit answered me and told me the following: ‘if you were healed why are you laying in bed. A person who is healed goes about doing what they should be doing.’ So, I got up and went outside to the backyard to do my daily exercise. What I did I put the word of God into action. That is how we resist the devil. This means the Word of God is true. As we believe it, confess it, we must put our faith into action. Sense Knowledge states that it was not true but relying on Revelation Knowledge we receive are our spiritual blessings. I fixed my actions; I got out of that bed and went out to exercise. Satan still was hitting my body with dizziness, so I continued to confess the Word of God and the symptoms left me. My words and actions came into agreement with the word of God. We must act on the word of God. We must take that step of faith and act as we believe God and His word.
We must believe, speak, and act on the word of God. Faith is an action. You see Sense Knowledge will contradict the Revelation Knowledge found in God’s word.
Move in Faith
Our victory was won by Lord Jesus Christ at Calvary and His resurrection and ascension.
And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, the waters that come down from upstream, and they shall stand as a heap.” Joshua 3:13
• The people followed and saw the great wall of water and thought the prophets were wrong. But God wants us to step out first in faith.
• The beginning of Luz de Cristo. Delano/Kester. The building we were to possess was filled with drug addicts and criminals who did not want to move out. We preached the Word of God to them and little by little as they accepted Jesus they moved out.
And the LORD said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to possess it, that you may inherit his land.’ Deut. 2:31
• The Lord gave but we must possess it.
• It becomes in reality when I possess it. We have to put our foot forward.
Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses. Josh. 1:3
• You must tread. You must walk. You must take the step of faith in obedience.
• Authority and power over the enemy. Many people are waiting for God to do something when we have to move in faith.
• You have to move out in faith. You take the blessings of God. You take healing, finances, and everything else the Lord has promised.
Spiritual Blessings. God sat down because His work was finished. You are complete in Him.
And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. Col. 2:13-15
Jesus stripped the devil of his powers. He has made us head over them through His name.
Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, (or the dethroned power of this world) that come to naught (nothing): I Cor. 2:6
• The world follows them.
• Christians know their authority in Christ Jesus.
God chose the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are.
I Cor. 1:28
God chose the insignificant and despised things by the world – yes, even things that don’t exist! – to abolish the power of the things that do exist.
God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important.
Think, Speak, and Walk in Victory!
• Put the devil on the run.
• You rule Satan.
• Resist the devil and he will run from you in Christ with His authority and power.
• We are to reign in life as kings!