Study Notes

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-People are exposing their immaturity by what they are saying-the measurement of your maturity is your words

B.     3-5-Like the bit and the rudder the tongue looks like a small thing, but it’s a big deal

1.     Wherever the bit goes the horse goes, wherever the rudder goes the ship goes, and wherever your mouth goes you go

C.    6-Your tongue has the power to govern your whole life

D.    You’re tongue is like the steering wheel of your life

1.     Whoever is behind the steering wheel determines where you go

a.      Satan’s wants to control your mouth so he can control your life

1)      He wants to plan something in your heart

b.      People want God to drive, but he won’t (He leads as a shepherd)

2.     Wherever you want to go you have to steer words in that direction

a.      If you steer away from where you want to go you’ll never get there

b.      If you things that are like they are and talk what is, you’re just circling your mountain (Duet 2:3)

c.      You’re circling your mountain and Jesus said to speak to it

II.     The language of faith is to call those things that be not as though they are

A.    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

2.     Calling things that be not steers you away from what be to what be not

B.     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

2.     Jesus did this (Mark 4, Luke 13)

C.    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.      AMP-He’s not calling those things that be not as though they are going to be

D.    This is the language of faith; it doesn’t talk what is or what’s going to be; it talks like it be

1.     Joel 3:10-Your victory may be not, but talk like it be

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 the truth – What’s the truth? – (John 17:17)

1.     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.     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.     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 you’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.    Luke 8:49-55-Jairus’ daughter

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)

4.     54-He talked to her like she was sleeping and he wanted to wake her up

B.     Joshua 6-God & Joshua

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

C.    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 no 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

V.    Hold fast to saying the same thing God says (Hebrews 4:14-16,10:23)

A.    Hebrews 10:23-Hold fast to your confession of faith w/o being moved

1.     Pressure

a.      That bit puts pressure on the tongue of that horse

b.      That rudder has pressure on it from the water when it tries to turn

2.     You’re going to have to make yourself say it because there are going to be times when you don’t want to say it and your flesh doesn’t want to cooperate

a.      You’re flesh is going to tell you that you’re not making sense

B.     Hebrews 4:14-16

1.     14-Hold fast to saying what I said (People want to talk the problem, feelings)

2.     16-Persist in your confession of faith and come boldly to his throne without wavering and you’ll find grace

3.     If you’re going to turn this thing around you’re going to have to put pressure on your tongue to say it when you’re hurting, when it looks like nothing is happening, when you get another bad report