ACT on the WORD of GOD

Born again, Holy Spirit baptized Christians can be powerless toothless spiritual lions because of their failure to continually ACT on the WORD of GOD.  Heidi Baker  www.irismin.com "practiced" healing blind eyes for a whole year prior to seeing any actual miracle result from her eye prayers.  Both God and Satin seem to want to make sure that we mean what we say and say what we mean and BELIEVE.  Additionally, God wants to make sure that we do not kidnap His glory/praise, but give it ALL to Him,
the healer/deliverer/miracle worker.  In fact, Joshua Mills www.newwineinternational.org  practiced
going through walls before he actually had his first translocation/ translation/transportation in the spirit adventure.  However, practice or acting on God's word is only part, a shadow, of His truth.  First and foremost is our daily relationship to Him, to the Trinity.  Without a relationship the marriage/friendship/ business deal is a corpse, waiting to be revived/resurrected.  Lord, we implore, mentor/woo us.
Charles Ndifon www.christlove.org  tells a story of a mom who carried a child 6 years prior to delivery.  Let us not be Christians who never come to full term, who are never birthed into the destiny for which we were created. Today a majority of Christians live a second rate/second best life, one comparable to their gentile neighbors.  God created his heirs to have superpowers, like superman.  Let us awaken to the marvelous things God intended when He thought of us at creation.  Let us awaken to the marvelous things God intended when He implanted us in the womb. 
We only see now heavenly stars born thousands of light years ago.  Those stars were born when God spoke.  Likewise, God spoke everything into being a long long time ago.  Yet only now are they appearing.  Our DNA comes from our ancestors; genetically, we are not a new creation (except when we are born-again by the real but invisible Spirit of God).  God spoke each of us into existence long ago.  We each have a spiritual purpose, a destiny, an assignment, a reason for existing.

Although God spoke EVERYTHING into existence, man, for the most part, has to follow through on what he speaks, in the name and power of Jesus Christ, God's son.  Joshua had to conquer the inhabitants of Israel before those lands, promised by God, became possessions of the Jews.  Like a clay pot, it seems that God has to put us through the fire of testing; and in the so doing strengthen us.  In the New Testament Jesus and His disciples frequently tell those requesting help/healing to act; when/as they respond the miracle manifests.

John Wesley wrote, "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can."

SCRIPTURE

Exodus 14:14    The Lord shall fight for you; you need only to be still.
Exodus 14:15-16 Alexander Harkavy   15The Lord said unto Moses, "Wherefore criest thou unto Me (to do your job)? (You) Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward; 16But (you) lift thou up thy rod and stretch out thine hand over the sea and (you) divide it; and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea."

Joshua 1:1-11 Alexander Harkavy  The Lord spoke unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, 2"Moses My servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.  3Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.  4From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.  5There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.  As I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.  I will not tail thee, nor forsake thee.  6Be strong and of good courage, for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give them.  7Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses My servant commanded thee.  Turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper withersoever thou goest.  8This Book of the Law shall not depart out of (cease from being spoken by) thy mouth; have not I commanded thee?  Be strong and of good courage.  Be not afraid, neither e thou dismayed, for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoeaver thou goest."
10Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, 11"Pass through the host and command the people, saying, 'Prepare you victuals; for within 3 days ye shall pass over this Jordan (river), to go in to possess (wage war and conquer) the land, which the Lord your God giveth (bequeaths/deeds to) you to possess (contend for) it.'"

Matthew 7:20 KJVer    By their fruits you shall know them.
Matthew 7:24 KJVer    Whosoever hears these sayings of Mine and does (act on) them, I will liken him to a wise man.
Matthew 7:26 KJVer    And every one that hears these saying of Mine, and does (act on) them not, shall be likened to a foolish man.
Matthew 25:40 NIV     He will reply, "I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me."
Matthew 25:45 NIV     He will reply, "I tell you the truth, whatever you did NOT do for one of the least of these, you did NOT do for Me."

Acts 9:34 NIV    "Aeneas," Peter said to him, "Jesus Christ heals you. (Now/immediately) Get up and take care of your mat."  Immediately Aeneas got up.

James 2:20 KJV    Faith without works is dead.

PUBLICATIONS

Allen, AA      (1911-1970)            God's Guarantee to Heal You   republished by   www.schambach.org
Caption - Thus Saith the Lord, the God of David thy Father, I have heard thy prayer; I have seen thy tears.  Behold, I will heal thee.  King James Version 
"We care NOT what your pain declares or what your feelings say.  God's Word says by His stripes ye were healed!  God's Word declares one thing.  Your pain declares another.  Which are you going to believe - God's Word or your pain?  What do you declare?  What is your testimony?  This is what it should be, 'BY HIS STRIPES I AM HEALED!'  Some think this is a lie, but it is NOT, for God's Word cannot lie...
You do NOT have to lie about your pains.  It is wrong to lie.  Do NOT say, 'The pain is gone,' when the pain is still there...If you still have pain, don't lie about it - just refuse to discuss it.  Quote God's Word, for it is truth...
Pain has nothing to do with your faith.  Feeling is not faith and faith is not feeling.  Faith is believing that you are healed because God says that you are healed...
A person who walks by faith ignores the testimony of his senses, unless it agrees with the Word of God." 
(Do what you could not do before. Crawl.  Then stand.  Then walk.  Never do nothing. 
This readiness and subsequent action is what happened at Azusa Street during the 3.5 years the Glory Cloud dwelt with the parishioners.  Before prayer, the wheelchair foot rests were moved out of the way in readiness for the patient to walk. Always expect.  Always act.  Act on the Word of God.)

Burt, Arthur                            Surrender Your Key to Spiritual Success    www.arthurburt.com
Chapter 4 Some Keys, but Not the Key  "Your faith is in His Word; His Word is a fact; and therefore you act on a fact!  And if you don't act, you don't believe!"
Chapter 7 If You Want More Grace, Embrace More Truth  "What you do does not matter as much to God as why you do it!  Ask yourself, 'Is it for God's glory'" (or for my own glory/ego/resume)?
Chapter 10 Walking the Land  "The Lord Jesus is our doctor.  I built a doctrine out of that radical perspective, preached it, and practiced it...On this day, however, Mrs. Friday persuaded me to go to a doctor for the sake of my family, and I submitted...One night, it dawned upon me that I was going (to die)...The Lord spoke to me, 'Yes, you are going (to die). You will either go and do what I require you to do, or I will end your life...The Lord told me, 'When you put your hands on that  tape recorder, I will heal you'...While I listened to Brother (Oral) Roberts, I managed to stretch out my hands and put them on the tape recorder.  The power of God went through me and I had an immediate witness from God that I was healed.  The next morning when I woke up, I felt twice as ill...Was I to believe the inner witness of the Holy Spirit Who told me during the night I was healed?...I knew I had been healed last night, but my body was just defying the witness of the Spirit of God...What do I believe...my body or the inner witness?...I knew God met my need,  even though nothing changed outwardly...Believing that, I acted on it, getting out of bed.  From the moment I acted upon my faith, the pain began to ease."
"'What are you looking at?' God asked...'Lord...I am looking at my leg.'  'Every time you look at your leg, you are feeding your unbelief,' He said.  'Feed your faith and starve your unbelief'...I came to understand I feed my  faith with the Word of God, but I feed unbelief with sense knowledge - what I see, what I hear - all my (5) senses.  If I wanted unbelief to die, I must starve it to death, So I said, 'Lord, I will not look at that leg again, not even when I am in the bath.'"
Against the advise of his wife he limped out "to do what I believe is the will of God."  As he went he "learned a divine principle - as you minister to others, you incidentally get ministered to yourself."  Eventually the itinerant preacher returned home - alive and healed.
"Smith Wigglesworth used to say, 'Faith is an act, not just a nice feeling.  Faith is an act!'"

Capps, Charles    England, Arizona, USA   Your Spiritual Authority    www.charlescapps.com
Chapter 1 Man Under Authority  "Peter said...in 2nd Peter 1, 'The Lord has already done it!'  He isn't going to do it someday.  In fact, the Bible tells us, God finished His work in 6 days, then rested.  Some of us have been trying to get God to work ever since!  He set it all in motion.    It was accomplished in Jesus Christ and is available to all who will receive it."

Ferrell, Ana Mendez                            Regions of Captivity                    www.voiceofthelight.com
Chapter 2 At Death's Door  "Defeat dwells in passivity, together with hope and faith, without action."

Hagin, Kenneth E (senior)                   I Believe in Visions                      www.rhema.org
Chapter 1 How God Raised Me Up from a Deathbed The following sections My Struggle with Mark 11:24 , I See It and Up and Out of Bed help clarify why many fail to enter into their healing. 
"In this moment, I saw exactly what that verse in Mark 11:24 meant.  Until then, I was going to wait until I was actually healed before I believed I had received my healing.  I was looking at my body...but I saw that the verse says you have to believe WHEN you pray.  The having comes after the believing.  I had been reversing it.  I  was trying to have 1st and then believe 2nd.  That is what most people do...I've got to believe that my heart is well while I'm still lying here on this bed...I've got to believe that my paralysis is gone while I'm still lying here helpless...
(Father God,) 'I believe in my heart that You have heard my prayer.  I believe that my heart IS healed and that my paralysis IS gone...
(Satan,) I didn't say that I am healed BECAUSE I feel like it...I'm healed because I believe it...Devil, if you say I am not (healed), then you are a liar.  I am acting on the Word of God.  If I am not healed, then Jesus is a liar.  Go argue with God about it; don't fuss with me'....
Then I said, 'Thank God, I'm healed.' I lifted my hands and praised God...
As long as the devil can keep us in the sense realm, he will defeat us, but if we will stay in the faith realm, we will defeat him."
(Each morning) "I declared I was healed and I WAS going to walk...On the 3rd morning I got out of bed, dressed (and) walked."

[In Hagin's sermons he admonishes us to act on any healing scripture declaration/proclamation.  For most, the quoting of scripture is insufficient spiritual muscle/backbone to reverse/exterminate/erase illness/disease.  After deliverance/healing ministry we often say that we are ill, rather than confessing that we WERE ill.  Jesus said to the evil spirit speaking through Peter's mouth, "Get thee behind Me, Satan" (disease/sickness/insanity/lier).  Jesus refused to entertain/acknowledge/listen to anything that would contradict Father God.  Hagin would go to work disabled and allow the Holy Spirit to clothe him with supernatural power so that as a youth he could earn money.  Hagin would climb a mountain as an invalid, but come down cured. 
Additionally he testifies that often when reading the Bible he would gain no further spiritual insight until he acted on any scripture (or spiritual principle) which had been revealed to him and on which he had promised to act, such as not to worry.]

Hinn, Benny    Faith Acts    http://www.bennyhinn.org/articles/articledesc.cfm?id=1574   Email
"A lady who went to Katherine Kuhlman's meetings 11 times before she was healed."

Children's Resources

Turner, Ann    Dear America - The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow - The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo (Dine) Girl, New Mexico, 1864     book
"During the Long Walk...'to Fort Summer'...Hweeldi, a place of suffering in the Starving Time...the Day of Burning, for when the soldiers came...in the Time of the parting of the Seasons...October...1864."
"My words fall like pebbles into the water hole - now I must act as if I believe them."

AUDIO VISUAL

Schambach, RW                            Give Me This Mountain CD                http://www.schambach.org/
God has given us many promises. But if we want to see the fulfillment of them, it will require some action on our part. God has prepared the land, but we must possess it!

WEB

Copeland, Gloria    DO the Word of God and Live Well    http://www.kcm.org/media/webcasts/   
9/23/2007    Watch    WM Video    MPEG4 Video    MP3
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Hinn, Benny   

Kayanja, Robert  10/25/2007    This is Your Day TV  broadcast  Uganda and Beyond #1    http://www.bennyhinn.org/
Robert Kayanja, host pastor for the the Benny Hinn Uganda crusade, was called at the age of 17 and launched into ministry at the age of 22. Now he is senior pastor of Kampala’s 10,500 seat Miracle Centre Cathedral.
Robert shares that it is imperative to ACT, that is, to plant the seed into the soil, for the seed to touch the soil, not just to pray.

Meyer, Joyce    Wisdom and the Blessed Life  #3    http://www.joycemeyer.org/OurMinistries/Broadcast/TV/Archive/20080404.htm        4/4/2008
Do not be so heavenly minded that you are no earthly good. Excellent real life applications for everyday living.
Meyer, Joyce  The Power of Attitude - Pt 2  4/17/2008 http://www.joycemeyer.org/OurMinistries/Broadcast/TV/Archive/20080417.htm
Only 2 of about 2,000 crossing the desert found the promises of God.  Why?  Due to a bad attitude and not due to their enemies or problems.  They did not (correctly) go after nor receive their inheritance.  Ouch.  Know about or quoting an inheritance or promise of God is insufficient.  We need to act aggressively in accordance with God's legal protocol.

Nori, Don                            Breaking Generational Curses                www.destinyimage.com
Superior book for new parents. 
"God's purposes aren't fulfilled by people who know His will.  God's purposes are fulfilled by people who DO His will."

Walters, Katie    Kicking the dogs from the door of your Destiny     5/29/2009 e-mail   kathiewalters@mindspring.com    www.kathiewaltersministry.com
"I read this somewhere on the internet a while ago. I can't remember who wrote that...
I got to thinking about it. I am always going on about people fulfilling the destiny and their calling. Still I meet people who think their calling is to sit in church and support someone else’s vision. While I think it's good to do all you can to encourage someone and support them, YOU my friend have your own calling. And at the end of the road Jesus is going to ask YOU, 'What did you do with the anointing I put in your life?' You saying, 'My church didn’t like it,' is not going to be an acceptable excuse. Do you know why? Because YOU can hear from God, and You are called, and YOU have a destiny to fulfill.
Everyone has the witness (nudging/prodding/witness/whisper) of the Spirit or the anointing within them. That’s why the apostle John said, 'You don’t need any man to teach you, because the anointing (or the Anointed One) is within you.' Does that mean that we don’t have teachers on the Church? No of course no... teachers, pastors, prophets, apostles, evangelists, are given to equip the church.
But YOU have to listen to the anointing or witness of the Spirit within you to discern what God is saying to you personally.
For example - someone could come to your church and prophesy or teach or preach.  You have to discern what is God saying to you. Maybe there are just a couple of sentence that are for you personally. There is a great scripture in Philemon that I love. Paul prayed for Philemon that, 'Your faith becomes effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing that is in you, in Christ Jesus.'
When you acknowledge the gift and calling in someone you cause it to be brought forth and activated. 'That was a great word you gave.' When you tell someone that, what happens? They are encouraged and it makes them want to do that again. If you criticize, then they shut down.
Maybe there are different things that the Holy Spirit brings out of one message, and He says a different thing to 20 people? Understand?
Jesus said, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.' (Matt 4:4) Not every word you hear, not every Bible verse you read, is proceeding Word for you. What is God saying to you NOW? Today? This week? The proceeding Word imparts life and faith and has power to move you to the next thing that God has for you.
One thing is for sure, you have to move on. You have to continually discern what is He saying to you now ( today). Today’s manna.
I talk often about Jeremiah. When God called Jeremiah he was a teenage prophet, by the way, not an old man with a beard running around the country doing prophetic seminars. I have a great new CD set called The Almond Tree and it’s about Jeremiah and his response to the call of God.
Well this is about YOUR response to the call of God. You can sit there forever in your comfort zone or you can rise up and say, 'I’m going to go for it. I’m going to be all I can be in God.'
God asked Jeremiah, 'What do you see?' and Jeremiah got into faith and saw a vision of an Almond Tree. God liked what Jeremiah saw and said, 'I will do what you saw.' In the KJV it says, 'You have well seen. I will hasten My Word and perform it.'
So you have to see your destiny, by faith. You can’t aim at what you can’t see. By faith you have to see your destiny. I don’t believe we have to wander around and around the mountain, wondering where we are supposed to be going and doing a kind of 'hit and miss' attempt at fulfilling the will of God.
God will show you what He has for you if you start to see by faith and believe YOU CAN HEAR FROM GOD.
By faith He can release a Word of you if you need confirmation, but He also puts His desires in your heart, so that when you fulfill the will of God it’s delightful to you, because it's in your heart.
You have to see.  You have to see.  You have to see.  You can see - by faith.
What’s in your heart? Where do you want to go" What is it you really want to do? You only have one life to live down here on earth. What kind of life do you want to live? A mundane, in my comfort zone, occasionally stepping out, kind of life? Or, an on the edge, exciting, what’s going to happen next, kind of life?
So you are going to make a decision. I am making a challenge. I don’t think it’s just me making this challenge. I believe it’s your Heavenly Father Who is stirring you up. He made an awesome deposit in you. Jesus deposited His life in you. He is looking for a return on His deposit. His deposit will bring forth your destiny, if you let it run it’s course.
BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU, there are dogs that lay at the door of your destiny. There are dogs that lay at the door of your destiny. Isn’t it odd to you that 'dog' is 'God' the wrong way round?
What are the 'dogs' then. Well, dogs in the Bible usually represented the gentile, the ungodly. those who weren’t familiar with God and His ways.
Religious spirits! Do you know there are lots of dogs in the church. Religious spirits - they have a certain kind of 'knowledge' of God, but it’s not really God.
It has a form, but has NO power, and it keeps people from entering in. Dogs at the door. Remember what Jesus said about the Pharisees concerning that?
You keep people from the Kingdom. YOU prevent people from entering into the Kingdom - with all your laws and man-made commandments. Jesus was angry with those people - dogs.  Having a knowledge of God, but denying His power. There are dogs - religious spirits, negative spirits, that make God’s people qualify to be used by God. But Jesus already qualified us 100%.  Dogs can also be jealous spirits, in people that don’t want you to go further than them. A good teacher or instructor is proud when a pupil begins to accomplish something. But sometimes if that same pupil becomes too good, or maybe becomes better than the teacher, then the instructor or teacher feels threatened. They begin to pull the person back. They want them to remain the pupil, the beginner.
I knew a prophet who was asked to teach in a church. He did a 'School of the prophets' and it was great. He soon had everyone prophesying and hearing from God. One of the girls attending the school began to show manifestations of a really wonderful prophetic gift. Soon people were asking her to pray for them and wanting appointments with her. The first man, the one who ran the school, got upset about it. He began to criticize her and pull her down. He started to say negative things about her to the pastor and elders. They asked her not to minister, and for 4 years she sat and withered away. She didn’t operate in her gift, because she was afraid. She thought she had done something wrong. It took about 6 months to get her really delivered from those dog bites and those religious dogs who stood in the doorway of her destiny. Intimidation, lies. Mean dogs who were jealous, who wanted the limelight. Fear and disapproval, false standard just to name a few of the religious spirits. Dogs - religious mindsets.
Guess what? Jesus has made you perfect in the sight of His Father. It is His righteousness that you are covered with - not your own. Jesus switched. He took your righteousness which is like filthy rags and took it to the cross; then He gave you His robe of righteousness in exchange.
What a great 'swap' - your rotten rags in exchange for the beauty and awesomeness and righteousness of the Mighty Son of God.
Like the hymn writer says, 'Jesus, my robe of righteousness. His beauty is my glorious dress.' How awesome is that? To be clothed in the holiness and beauty of the perfect Son - Jesus.
Don’t be afraid of the dogs - Jesus has given you power over them. The dogs can only minister to you through lies.  You have to choose not to believe those lies.  Now is the time to be all you can be in God,  You don’t have to qualify.  You just have to learn how to yield to the anointing.
God sees a great big vision for you. He is not limited. He is not limited by your inability, He is released through your believing in His ability.
You know what? If there is no food, the dogs will leave. If there is nothing for them to feed on, they will slink away. Don’t feed them, don’t listen to them, don’t give them any advantage.
If they lie (bark at you) and tell you, 'You are nobody: what do you know? What can you do?' Laugh at them and say, 'Thank you for reminding me who I am (without Christ and who I now am with Christ).  Thank you for reminding me (devil/Satan/misguided person) who YOU are.  Thank you for reminding; I am somebody. I am part of THE BODY (of Christ). I am royalty of the royalty.'
God has a wonderful great big destiny and calling on my life. I am going to fulfill that calling; are you?
God’s plan for you is not dull and boring. It's exciting and full of adventures. It might stretch your faith here and there, but you do have God’s faith inside you.  (Scripture says,) 'To every man is given the measure of faith."  That’s divine, unconquerable faith. Believe it. Go for it.
Have a spirit of abandonment to the purposes of God. God loves that childlike ability in you. Enjoy Him; He is mighty God, but He is also 'Abba' (daddy). 'Snuggle don’t struggle, nestle don’t wrestle.' I encourage people to say these things in my meetings.
In the 5^th century in Ireland some of the monks from the monasteries would board a little boat off the shore. It had no rudder, or oars. They trusted God to send the winds to take them where they were supposed to go. They were called 'The Peregrini.' I would say that this was a spirit of abandonment to the purposes of God.  God wants to send the winds of the spirit to take you were you are supposed to go. His plan and purpose for your life. If you have been in my meetings you know I always get people to say, 'Jesus - whatever.' Its good to say it every day. It's another way of saying, 'Jesus I’m open to whatever you say.'  Don’t let the dogs keep you from the doorway of your destiny. They are liars and thieves.
Get my CD set (The Almond Tree) and keep listening until you get the truth in you. The dogs can howl and scream and bark all they want, but they can’t touch you, if know who you are (in Him) and...(that you have a holy) calling and destiny on your life."