Christ, Out Life Ministries’ Scriptural Basis pt34 by Sylvia Pearce Program 34 |अधिक

Christ, Out Life Ministries’ Scriptural Basis pt34 by Sylvia Pearce Program 34 Speaking the Creative Word of Faith Negative faith works as well as positive faith. How did Jesus feed the 5000? The invisible was more real to him than the visible. He didn’t see the need, she saw the supply Once we learn how to operate by faith, we know how to call the things that be not as if they were already so. (Rom. 4:17) II Cor. 5:19 we have the word of reconciliation in every situation Gen. 1:3—“Let there be light.” Gen. 22:5—“I and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again to you.” Num. 13:30—“Let us go up at once, and possess it.” 2 Kings 6:16—“They that be with us are more than they that be with them.” John 11:43—“Lazarus, come forth.” Obed. 1:17—“Possess your possessions.” 2 Cor. 4:6—“God commanded the light to shine out of darkness.” Rom. 4:17—“Call the things that be not as though they were.” Rom. 11:1—“Faith is the substance of things hoped for.” Rom. 11:3—“Through faith the worlds were framed by the word of God.” The Ascended Christ Norman Grubb Two New Testament letters celebrate the Ascended Christ: Ephesians and Hebrews. Ephesians opens our eyes to what evidently to Paul’s eyes had only been progressively opened, for there is no mention of it in his previous letters. The Cross cut up off from our union with Satan; the resurrection gave us union with Christ in our personal living; the ascension gives us union with Him in His world Savior-hood. Here is the panorama of history. We stand on the Mount and view it. We are already out of this world in spirit, and in the heavenlies. See it, says Paul, and may the eyes of your understanding be enlightened. It starts with God’s foreordination. It ends with the final reconciliation of all things. Its marvelous middle term of grace is the formation of the Christ of eternity by the union of many sons with The Son. With spirits in heaven, but bodies on earth, the sons go to release other captives, millions of them. Paul’s triumph song for the Church is a throne shared now—a throne in spirit, while the body that contains it bears the scars of war. It is Christ’s throne. See the amazing power which lifted Him from the grave to the right hand of God in actual historical fact, both body and spirit. Believe that the same power has lifted us to the same exalted place in actual spiritual fact, through not yet in our bodies. Then act not as if this was a glorified experience still to come, not as if this is some mystical throne millions of miles away that we are told we share, but as a throne shared where we are in our own spirits, and in our own defiant world. Actually the enthroned Christ is everywhere; His throne, His lordship, His accomplished victory is in every square inch of the universe. Did He not say, “Go…teach all nations…and lo, I am with you always…”? And it is not the resurrected Christ, but the enthroned Christ who is with and in us. Let us get into the habit of recognizing this. I have found this to be the key to all situations—just when they are difficult, when all seems against deliverance, when the knots of disagreement seem beyond untying—to recognize Christ actually reigning there in the situation, and to take it for granted with thankfulness that we shall see that He is reigning. When we turn from the Ascended Christ in Ephesians to Him in Hebrews, we find a concentration on Him in His office as High Priest rather than on the fact f His enthronement. Nothing is said in actual words about our enthroned relationship with Him. But I suggest that to the eye that can see it, a relationship is etched in, so sensitive and profound that it fully rounds out the high priestly ministry of the enthroned Savior, and our relationship to Him in it. It actually carries us on beyond the Ephesians revelation to the fullness of the significance of the ascension. Now we mount up with wings as eagles to the ascended life. The Ascended Christ, the Great High Priest, is seen as the dynamic Savior doing His saving work, as much as ever, through His Body. The Ascended Christ lives the ascended life over and over again, in and through us. What you believe today prophesizes your tomorrows. We laugh at the impossible and shout, it shall be done. Limitless Possibilities—Only our vision and immaturity of faith is limited. “Whatsoever you desire.” Mark 11:22-24 Need produces desire; desire produces faith; faith quenches the pain of desire, and leaps and laughs at the impossible and shouts, “IT SHALL BE DONE.” What is our authority of faith God has given us the word of reconciliation II Cor. 5:20 How Faith works in the life of an Intercessor 1. There is a challenge; a problem; a MOUNTAIN in our life—This mountain greatly disturbs us. We want some resolve, we must have some change. 2. The agony precipitates the DESIRE for change. 3. The intensity of the desire causes us

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