Paul's Word of Faith truth is not found in any of the false teachings from the Hagins, Prince, Copelands, Savelle, Deplantis, Murdock, Cerullo, Dollar, Winston, Pars and a host of other "Faith" teachers.....
Why? Because Paul taught us to be content in any state....the ones above teach you to sow seed to get back personally and be rich....and you are really not walking with God unless you are continually flush with cash and material wealth and things....Paul's Word of Faith proclaimed that he found contentment in all states and when he was poor and had abundance...these clowns teach you that it is God's only desire you be "blessed" at all times....code word for "blessed" means rich and needing nothing....I have heard Copeland and his son in law and all of them say this exact statement....SO a seed and watch God make you rich and needing nothing....
Modern day church of laodicea that Jesus vomits out of his mouth...
Well I don't believe that way and neither do the people who I personally know in my life or the ones I chose to listen to on the radio or TV. We believe being content is proper and right but it doesn't mean we don't strive to gain all that Jesus died to give us. I have had a major problem with fear and anxiety for much of my life.
Because of my fears and anxiety I lost family and friends. The enemy convinces people they should be alone and isolated much like the Bible's man of the tombs. I was like the woman of the tombs. I later began to trust Jesus to take care of me. I began to learn to be content with each small step and stride made each day. He taught me how to be content.
First., I was joyful and happy and content that I was no longer up all night tormented and afraid of doom to happen to me. The Holy Spirit had revealed to me Jesus is the Good Shepherd Who REALLY promises He will take care of me. And He did!
Then as that truth became more real and true in the months and years ahead ., the Holy Spirit taught me some other truths on top of the first level of rock solid truths of Jesus. I could begin to go outside my home and talk to people where a few years before I feared people. As that kind of fear of people was demolished I was able to move forward and begin to work again. The Lord actually teaches us how we demolish long held strongholds of the enemy in our lives by faith.
2 Cor.10:4-5
[SUP]4 [/SUP]For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow
and destruction of strongholds,
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5 [/SUP][Inasmuch as we] refute arguments
and theories
and reasonings and every proud
and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought
and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One),
You see., we are to learn to be thankful and content with each new lesson and blessing He gives us. Being thankful and content is how we learn more. But we are not to stay in one place. He wants us to press on.
Phil.3:12-15
[SUP]12 [/SUP]Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp)
and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me
and made me His own.
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13 [/SUP]I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured
and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
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14 [/SUP]I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.
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15 [/SUP]So let those [of us] who are spiritually mature
and full-grown have this mind
and hold these convictions; and if in any respect you have a different attitude of mind, God will make that clear to you also.
And He will make it clear to us as we go along.
This of course works in the natural realm. I had no job and was on welfare because of my fear and anxiety. But then the Lord gave me the Word and healed me and then gave me a good job.
I lived in a trailer with holes in the roof and was thankful for it even when it leaked. Later He gave me another trailer without holes in the roof and I was spared the leaking damaging roof I could not afford to fix.
Then the Lord gave me a better job as He began to free me of more fears and anxieties about life and taught me to dare to trust Him more. Then I lived in a double wide house with no holes in the roof and a back yard and a place for my dog and me to walk.
Now just this year the Lord gave me a house out in the country with a metal roof being planned when i move into it. He addressed my very personal fears and showed me by His own hand how He cares about my concerns and wants me to trust Him more each day. He has not left me alone. There is also a local church right down the road from my country house.
These steps of faith we take will lead us into more faith steps to take. That's what our life is about. The Lord Jesus doesn't say "step out and trust me but don't expect me to be there when you step out there." What kind of Savior is not able to save or keep us? So we dare more and more to step out where He leads and He is there always. Those who trust Him wholly find Him wholly true.
I'm not rich with money but I'm rich in the blessing of knowing I'm not alone anymore. He will always be here for me. That He will lead to more challenges and will walk with me through them just as He showed me before through the many jobs, illnesses, relationships with their losses and their gains.
This is our Savior. He teaches us that we need only Him. That when we have Him we have everything we need. Then He will also bless us with other things along the way. It is His joy to give us the kingdom!
