The Language Of Faith-Part 1
Foundation Statement: When you come into the Kingdom you must learn to speak the language of
faith, for it is the necessary thing to get from the battlefield to the victory
parade
I. Your tongue is the steering
wheel of your life; not God’s tongue (James 3:1-16)
A.
2-The less you miss it in what you say, the
more mature you’ll be
1.
Eph 4:16-Speaking the Word will help you grow
up & reveal that you’re growing up
B.
People see their words as a small insignificant
thing; small things can be a big deal
1.
3-A bit and a rudder or small things that
control big things
2.
5-A spark is a small thing, that can start a
real big fire
3.
6-Your words affect your world
C.
The steering wheel of your life
1.
Wherever the bit goes the horse goes;
wherever the rudder goes the ship goes; wherever your mouth goes you go
2.
EX: If you’re steering wheel was turned away
from church all the time you’d never have gotten here; if you’re mouth is
turning away from the destination you want to reach you’ll never get there
D.
GOD IS IN CONTROL
1.
He’s only in control if you put His word in
your heart & are saying it out your mouth
2.
Who controls the bit, controls the horse; who
controls the rudder, controls the ship; who controls your mouth, controls your
life (Matthew 12:34)
a.
You can go somewhere different until you say
something different; you won’t say something different until you sow something
different
3.
If Satan can’t gain control over ur mouth, He can’t control in ur
life-1 Sam 17, Dan 3
a.
He’s going to speak to plant something in you
so you’ll say it
E.
People want to talk what is, and end up
somewhere else
1.
A big thing the enemy likes to get people to
do is talk the problem, because it keeps them at that problem; it’s not until
they rise up in faith and call those things that be not as though they are,
that they’ll end up and a different destination
a.
If you believe what be and talk what be
you’ll be stuck with what be
b.
If you want change you have to believe what
be not, say what be not
2.
If u want to go somewhere different steer the
wheel in a different direction
II. The language of faith is to
call those things that be not as though they are
A.
God did this in the beginning; He didn’t talk
the problem, he spoke the answer (Gen 1)
1.
Staring darkness in the face He spoke light
B.
God exercised this principle with Abraham
1.
Genesis 17:1-4-God’s going to call him that,
He wants Abraham to call himself that
a.
4-Ur going to be called the Father of many
nations when ur not the Father of one
2.
Rom 4:17-Abraham before & like God called
things that be not as though they were
a.
He’s not calling those things that be not as
though they are going to be
1)
He’s talking like they be
2)
AMP-He speaks of non-existent things as if
they already existed
C.
This is the language of faith; it talks, not
like it’s going to be, but like it be
1.
Your victory may be not, but talk like it be
2.
Joel 3:10-Let the weak say I am strong
III. Is it lying? – God did
this with Abraham; was He lying? NO!
A.
To know what’s a lie you first have to know
what the truth is – What’s the truth?
1.
John 17:17-The Word of God is truth
2.
The truth is the Word of God; A lie is
anything that disagrees with the Word of God
B.
Don’t lie against the truth (James 3:17)
1.
If the Word says 1 thing and u say another
thing, that would make what u said a lie
C.
Let God be true and every man, situation, and
circumstance a lie (Romans 3:3)
1.
Any circumstance or situation that’s not in
line with the Word of God I let that be lie and God’s word by the truth
2.
Satan’s whole victory is depended upon you
believing his lie and speaking it
a.
He’s a deceiver and he wants you to believe
the lie (Revelation 12:9)
D.
To receive your victory, you have to believe
you receive it and that would include talking like you have it (Mark 11:23-24,
2 Corinthians 4:13)
E.
Is it lying?
1.
Are you speaking the Word of God?
a.
Circumstances are factual lies; they are
facts in the sense of they are clearly happening, but they are lies in the
sense what they say and what they Word says are not in agreement
2.
What’s your’re
intention in speaking?
a.
If you’re intention is to deceive, then
you’re lying
b.
If you’re intention is to release faith,
you’re not
IV. Examples of it
A.
John 11-Lazarus
1.
4-He loves Lazarus & surely this tried to
attack his emotions, but in that time of pressure he hears sickness & speaks
life-He’s steering the situation away from death
a.
He’s calling those things that be not as
though they are
b.
He doesn’t pray, He speaks; He believes what
he says will come to pass
2.
6-Why isn’t he rushing to get there? He knows
the end b/c he spoke it
3.
11-He’s says he’s sleeping; the language of
faith and the disciples don’t understand
a.
He’s refusing to speak the problem
b.
He knows he’s dead by the Spirit now and he’s
not upset b/c he knows the end
4.
32-40-There’s not faith in this and that’s
why he was agitated and not pleased
a.
When He saw her weeping and the Jews weeping
he groaned in the spirit and was agitated; This is not faith
b.
They should have been excited that he was
here because he was going to raise Lazarus from the dead
c.
37-38-They’re blaming him and there’s no
faith and Jesus doesn’t like it
5.
Jesus wept (Shed tears)
a.
32-Martha is blaming him, not believing in
him
b.
35-He didn’t weep with Martha, he wept on the
way to Lazarus’ tomb
c.
36-These guys have little understanding and
assume he’s crying about Lazarus
d.
He wept b/c those he ministered to and was
close to accused him and blamed him for the death of one he loved and don’t
have faith in him and who he is
e.
They’re hurting yes, but that’s getting ready
to be over
6.
39,40-I believe Jesus gets a little more firm
here
7.
41-42-Father you’ve heard what I’ve been
saying, what I declared from the beginning (verse 4)
8.
44-You quicken the dead by calling things
that be not as though they be
a.
He’s talking like the man in the tomb be
alive
B.
Luke 8:49-55
1.
49-She was dead
2.
52-Jesus heard death, but spoke life
3.
53-The world laughed at him (That will be
their response to this principle)
a.
They just knew that what he said wasn’t so
4.
54-He talked to her like she was sleeping and
he wanted to wake her up
C.
Joshua 6
1.
2-God calls those thing that be not as though
they are
2.
16-Then Joshua does
3.
God said it, but he needs you to join him