STANDING IN THE ORDER OF FAITH

STANDING IN THE ORDER OF FAITH

Lesson for March 24, 2017

In God’s divine order of faith, the first thing you must do is hold your ground. You must refuse to let doubt and fear enter into your consciousness.

Ephesians 6:10-12    ¹⁰ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

¹¹ Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

¹² For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Whatever you are standing for, continually pray and give praise and thanks to God for the answer.

Praise and thanksgiving keeps moving things along. That is what you do while the clock is ticking. While you are waiting for the manifestation of what you prayed for.

Psalms 67:5-6   ⁵ Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.

⁶ Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

The depth of your praise will determine the magnitude of your harvest. Praise and thanksgiving will accelerate the time that it takes to supernaturally see the results.

You can get to a place in the game of life that you can get through life’s challenges by total emersion in God’s word.

Make every prayer a statement of faith. Affirming that we already have, when we pray, and what we say after the amen is extremely important to the outcome. Victory and defeat are in what you say.

Proverbs 18:21   ²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

This is where the battle is won or lost, in the words we speak and declare. If Satan can steal your words and get you to doubt the manifestation of what you are asking for won’t come to pass.

1 John 5: 4-5   ⁴ For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

⁵ Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

Every day we have to encourage ourselves in the Lord. We can make statements of faith as easy as statements of doubt and unbelief. It is our choice.

Matthew 12:36-37   ³⁶ But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

³⁷ For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

We are working in a word system. We have no choice that we are working in a word system. We however do have a choice of the words we speak. We can control the situation of what we speak.

It is thinking faith words, that leads us to victory. Believe you receive when you pray. Pray once and receive it by faith. Faith is now.

Matthew 6:6-8   ⁶ But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

⁷ But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

⁸ Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

If you pray seven times about the same thing, six times were in unbelief. Speaking unbelief nullifies your prayer.

Thank God for answering your prayer. Don’t dig up your seed thinking it didn’t work.

Start seeing yourself succeed, not fail. Decide what you want from God, locate scriptures of what you want from God.

Get those scriptures at least two or three, and firmly fix it down in your heart. Speak the promises, not the problem. Meditate on those scriptures.

When you tell God what you want, believe you already have it. You have to take it by faith; Grace gives, faith takes.

Once you pray, there are things you must do to receive the manifestation. Keep the word working, and refuse to allow fear or doubt to enter your consciousness.

See yourself with what you prayed for; get the vision on the inside of having what you prayed for. Make it words over matter. Not mind over matter.

Romans 13:14   ¹⁴ But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Make no provision for failing. Let every thought and desire affirm that you have already received what you prayed.

Never permit a mental picture of failure to enter your mind. Eradicate all thought of failure. Eradicate anything that does not contribute to your faith.

All thought of failure must be removed. If a thought of failure comes into your mind just say, Devil that was not my thought, I cast it out in the name of Jesus.

Isaiah 26:3    ³ Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

You have to protect your mind. Our mind is the most important thing when it comes to our faith. We must keep our mind stayed on the word of God.

Deal with your thought life, because it can defeat you, take control over your thoughts, think before you speak.

Thoughts are governed by observation, association and teaching. We have to guard ourselves against every thought of failure that comes into our mind.

When Joshua and Caleb spied in the promise land they were thinking, we will win this war, however the other 10 that came back were thinking failure.

Stay away from things and places that do not support your affirmation of success and that God has heard and answered your prayers.

Make plans as though they are already a reality. Money is not an object. If you can conceive it, you can have it.

You will never see the miracles and promises of God that will move you from the problem to the solution until you come to understand the divine order of faith.

1 Corinthians 14:40   ⁴⁰ Let all things be done decently and in order.

Follow that set order and you will get the desired results you desire: ignore that divine order and you will end up frustrated and defeated.

To get that word into your heart where it can do some good requires more than just listening. It requires meditation.

If and when you have a problem, before you do anything else you must clearly define and understand the nature of the problem you are facing.

Is it spiritual, physical, emotional or financial? Whatever it is, the first step is conquering it. It is facing it head on and identifying what it truly is.

You might be surprised how many believers reach out in search of a solution to a problem they haven’t really pinpointed the root or the origin of the real problem.

I see people all the time who are struggling to get free from their problems all the while they are listening to everyone and everything but Gods word.

If you have a problem, get in the word, seek Gods solution. Then pray asking Him for His solution to your problem.

Once you have released Gods power through faith filled words of prayer, believe that you received what you prayed.