Well, so who is getting the honor? You and your faith? Ore God the One who changes?
Everybody can change his reality with his words. F.e. If you go into an bank and force them to give you all the money you will change your reality. You became from a free man an imprisoned man.
But this is not meant.
You are able to change you reality with words from an poor ore sick ore ugly person to an rich ore healthy ore beautyful person? If so, why this not every believer can? Why we find poor, sick and ugly believers? Is this there own fault? Have not faith enough? Are not such an faith hero like those who claim they can.
There a many false teachers on the road who are telling through visualisation and always repeating words can you change your reality. Methods which you can find in New Age and Shamanism.
I see behind our faith God, who makes it that what we trust comes true.
So that he is got the honor and not our EGO.
I can pretty much sum up the answer with just one word.
Ignorance.
Hos 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
And much of that ignorance is willful.
Many people will refuse to listen to a person whom they are told is in a cult or teaching doctrines of devils, and the like.
And many others refuse to listen because they can't look at
WHAT IS WRITTEN, because they can't take their eyes off from "reality", or what
they perceive as reality.
In other words, all they look at is what has happened to others, or what is happening to the rest of the world, instead of looking at WHAT IS WRITTEN.
God said to not let His word DEPART FROM BEFORE YOUR EYES, and to keep it in the midst of your heart, for they (His words) ARE LIFE AND HEALTH TO ALL YOUR FLESH.
The devil ALWAYS tries to get the believers to take their eyes off of the word of God, and at the world of the natural, because it is the same world he is god of.
How can you claim to be in the kingdom of heaven, which is IN YOU, when you are in the world?
Let me put it another way.
The kingdom of heaven is NOT in heaven, but where the believers are, here on earth.
And the kingdom of heaven is NOT the same place as the kingdom of man, or the natural?physical world. It is like the natural and spiritual worlds coexist in the same place, but on different planes.
When you focus your thoughts by looking at what is going on in the physical world, or what has happened, you just left the kingdom of heaven, because where your thoughts are directed, or whatever it is you are looking at with your heart/thoughts, there your are.
Mat 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
Mat 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Mat 12:35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Mat 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Mat 12:37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
The tree in the above parable are the words you agree with and have received.
The good word, is of course, the word of God, such as,
Mar 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
But an evil word/tree would be anything disagreeing with what is written, even a little. Such as, "yes that is true BUT what about so and so, you know they tried that faith stuff and died", or "that's true BUT what God really meant was, if it be HIS will and NOT what YOU DESIRE." Or something like what you said to me, "look at the rest of the world or church".
Whatever you look at the most, whatever you focus your attention on the most, is what your heart will believe. Which means, that is what your faith will be in or on.
The treasure spoken of is about all the time you spent looking at the words you agreed with and received, whether good or bad.
And who or what does the word of God say
brings forth this imaginary treasure
into reality?
The man himself.
The "good man...
BRINGS FORTH good things, and the evil man
BRINGS FORTH evil things.
But at the same time, notice, the seed planted, when it is mature, brings forth the same kind of fruit that the tree is.
For example, an apple tree can only produce apples and not poison berries.
And you you bring them forth by speaking God's word/promises in faith. As it is written. That means, you have to believe what is written
ABOVE what you see, hear, feel, perceive, experience, and that of others. Which starts with, looking at what is written and reminding God and the devil what His word says.
Like God said, His people not only don't receive from God, because of their (willful) ignorance, but they are sickly and destroyed because of the same said reason.
You CANNOT have faith in God to do anything for you, when you don't know what He's going to do and you can't have faith in the supernatural when you are always looking at the natural, because your faith will be in whatever you are looking at the most.
If you believe and accept what the doctor says, then that is what you have. If you reject his words, then that is what you don't have.
Luk 8:16 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.
Luk 8:17 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.
Luk 8:18 Take heed therefore how ye hear:
for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and
whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.