The Operation of God’s Faith

The Faith of God is designed by Him to bring blessings into our lives. It originates with Him amd is to be used by us.  Specifically, God gives us faith words which are His authority by which we are to live on earth. Also, He gives us promises of great things that He will supernaturally perform and fulfill in our lives. When we receive His words, we do not physically see those things. Our faith is the evidence that they exist. (Hebrews 11:1)  By our exercising God’s Faith, those unseen things are transferred from the spirit realm to the physical realm and manifest for our consumption.  

The Faith that we exercise is a “Power Law” embodied in the Holy Spirit. We receive Him into our heart and He teaches us the law. It is called the law of liberty and it dominates all natural thinking. James 1:25 declares, “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.” God designed the Faith structure. It is a pattern of specific thinking that comes from His knowledge.  We hear His  knowledge and keep it inside our heart. It naturally extends to our mouth.  Proverbs 22:17-18 declare, “Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy mouth.” When we say what God has said, His law is in operation.

There two spiritual components of the law: (l) spiritual thinking and (2) spiritual speaking.  II Corinthians 4:13 declares, “We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken, we also believe, and therefore speak;” We believe His word that we received in our heart and speak it with our mouth. We come into possession of His prepared blessings as we speak His words. What we are doing is believing to see or experience the goodness of God while we live. Psalm 27:13 declares, “I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”  

It is important to understand that Faith Law cannot be violated by unbelief in our heart for it to have the effect that God designed it to have. It cannot be interrupted by distractions. Unbelief is a distraction. It is natural thinking which refuses Spiritual understanding.  When there is a Faith thought being exercised by us, then we speak a word  that opposes what God has said, our mouth transgresses faith law. The result is that nothing happens for us.  Psalm 17:3 declares, “Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me and shalt find nothing: I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.”  If we consistently think and speak what God has already thought and spoken, we will see His goodness in our lives while we live. God Bless.

From Pastor Leroy Rankin

Our Blessings Follow completed Instructions

Almighty God, with whom we link in Covenant through Jesus Christ, is a Rewarder. The blessings that He has prepared to be released into our lives are given to us as rewards.  Hebrews 11:6 declares, “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” A reward, by definition, is something given in response to a specific action performed that the rewarder prescribes.  Only after performance is the reward released.

Our thinking regarding receiving rewards must begin with knowing God’s Will. We must know what He has prepared for us and what He requires us to do to receive them. The Holy Spirit reveals these things to us. (St. John 16:13)  St. Matthew 6:10 declares, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.”

Learning God’s Will causes us to become spiritually wise individuals. Ephesians 5:17 declares, “Wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord is.”  God’s Will is incorporated in specific commands or instructions to us.  After carrying out His instructions, we always receive a blessing. Proverbs 8:33 declares, “Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.” His Wisdom is critically important because He has ordained that only spiritually wise individuals inherit His glory.  Proverbs 3:35 declares, “The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.”

Wise behavior by us is God’s Will in motion. It is produced by our following His instructions.  When we follow God’s instructions in our family life, on our jobs and socially; we are acting wisely. With this wise behavior, we have a right to expect to receive God’s manifestations of His glory, or His promises fulfilled in our lives.  Hebrews 10:36 declares, “For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”

We will be challenged before we possess His blessings. God instructs us how to treat those who challenge us to inherit blessings. I Peter 2:8-9 declare, “Finally, be ye all of one mind having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.”  Blessing those who do evil to us is the Will of God. The Holy Spirit empowers us supernaturally to love those who come in conflict with us. When we obey God’s command to bless, we show Him that we love Him and we do His Will.  Psalm 31:23 declares, “O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.”  God Bless.

From Pastor Leroy Rankin

Walk in God’s Commands and Receive Blessings

 

Being “born again” by the Spirit of God, we are children of God.  The Holy Spirit ministers God’s words to us to bless us. His words are living, powerful words. When they enter our hearts, they produce three spiritual things in us: (l) an image of who we are in Christ, (2) a vision of the things that God has prepared for us and (3) an understanding of how to acquire them.  Our Heavenly Father has already prepared great blessings that make our lives abundant on earth.  Those blessings exist in spirit form, not yet physically manifested. (I Corinthians 2:9)  God gives us Promises to release the things to us.  (II Peter 1:4)  He reveals both the blessings and His Promises to us by the Holy Spirit. I Corinthians 2:10 declares, “But God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.”  We are empowered by the Holy Spirit to imagine that the revealed things are there and that they belong to us. Upon receiving the knowledge of them, we must take ownership of them. We do so by declaring with our mouth that we have the things.  The promised things are destined to manifest in our lives.

Now we must position ourselves to physically possess our blessings. To do so requires a specific walk in the sight of God. We must make a quality decision and walk in a disciplined manner in the Love of God. It is this walk that determines the reception of our blessings; because the prepared things are for those who love God. I Corinthians 2:9 declares, “But as it is written, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.”  The way that we show God that we love Him is to walk in the commands that He has given us.  Psalm 119:35 declares, “Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.”  We must receive His commands to walk in them.  St. John 14:21 declares, “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.”

 I  Thessalonians 4:2 declares, “For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.” When we walk daily in God’s command of love, we please Him.  Those who please God are certain to abound in blessings more and more. I Thessalonians 4:1 declares, “Furthermore then, we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God so that ye would abound more and more.” With keeping God’s commands, we walk in expectation of receiving. We live each day expecting the things that God has promised to happen.  Where no expectant thinking is operating, His Power is not at work within us.  Ephesians 3:20 declares, “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh within.”  The blessing is that expectant thinking empowers us to resist all natural, opposing thoughts that hinder the flow of God’s Blessings into our lives.  By walking in love and expecting, we are certain to experience God’s glory.  God Bless.

From Pastor Leroy Rankin

God’s Word must Grow inside our Hearts

The natural world has its own way of thinking, which is natural; it is based on what is seen. Natural thinking in people’s hearts prevents the Supernatural work of God in their lives.  God is a Spirit, not natural. When we are “Born Again” by the Spirit of God, we are to experience Supernatural manifestations of blessings directly from Him.  We are given a spirit to know the things that He gives to us.  I Corinthians 2:12 declares, “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” We must learn to operate in new spiritual knowledge to receive manifestations of blessings.

God created the heaven and the earth by thinking, then speaking. His thinking created the things in thought form. His speaking transmitted them out of Him. They worked and manifested themselves like a seed manifests. The mystery is that God has already given us everything that we need for an abundant life through spoken knowledge seeds. II Peter 1:3 declares, “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.”

The Kingdom of God, from whence we receive our blessings, is in Knowledge Power. Each Promise that He has made available to us shows us what He will do in each area of our lives as His children. We are to inherit them by exercising the Faith that He gives us. Faith Power is in “Thought seeds.” Our heart is the spiritual soil in which Kingdom word is planted.  It is planted as a small thought; it grows and becomes great. The great Power is already inside it; it is greater than all natural thoughts.  It simply has to grow within us like a seed.

When God’s thoughts become great within us, no other thought can enter our heart and force us to think it. St. Mark 4:30-33 declare, “And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or what comparison shall we compare it. It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth. But when it is sown, it growth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.” 

We facilitate God’s thoughts growing inside the ground of our heart by meditation. God’s word is planted and must be watered to grow. As we meditate, we are spiritually watering the word to facilitate increase.  We focus our minds on God’s Promises, accept what He says, and hold on to His thoughts. We must daily visualize or imagine things that are presently located in His Spirit and prepared to be released and transferred into our lives as His word grows within us.  As God’s thoughts grow, they become in us the greatest thoughts operating on earth.  Every negative thought and manifestation of Satan comes out of his kingdom of darkness, which is less than God’s kingdom.  Accordingly, through God’s Kingdom words, we are more than conquerors and positioned for great blessings.  God Bless.

From Pastor Leroy Rankin