“And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God” (Romans 4:19-20).
Some people believe that to have faith is to deny the negative situation they are experiencing. To them, faith means if they felt symptoms of fever for example, they should say, “I don’t have fever.” That’s not faith. Faith is not the denial of the facts; but it is denying those facts the ability or authority to control the circumstances of your existence. Faith means even though you “feel” the fever, you refuse to allow it knock you down; you say, “I was healed two thousand years ago and I’m still healed now. Fever, get out of my body in the Name of Jesus!”
Can you see the difference? One guy is denying the facts, but the other is overriding the facts with the Word of God! When David confronted Goliath, he didn’t deny that he was facing a giant. He didn’t say, “there’s no giant threatening Israel”; if he had done that, Goliath would have whipped him! He saw the giant, but whereas everyone else focused on the size of the giant, David only gave consideration to the truth that he was in covenant with Jehovah (1 Samuel 17:45). He prevailed over the giant because he overrode that fact with the greater truth of God’s Word.
I remember a beautiful testimony from one of our pastors. She had gone for a certain job interview and when she got there, she was told the interview was over and the candidates needed for the job had already been shortlisted. Actually, she hadn’t even been invited for the interview! But before she went there, she had been praying and had received a rhema-word to go there. Stunned at her boldness, the panelists invited her in for an interview and she got the job!
That’s faith! She didn’t get there saying “I confess that the interview isn’t over in the Name of Jesus!” She overrode the fact with the rhema-word she had received. So, quit thinking faith is all about denying facts or pretending to have what you actually don’t have. Faith is calling real what God has said about you, therefore acting that way.
Prayer
Dear Father, thank you for teaching me today about faith. I can see now that to have faith is not to deny the fact, but to override those facts with Your Word! I declare that my faith is alive and producing results as a result of what I’ve learnt today, in the Name of Jesus. Amen.
Further Study
Rom 4:17-19: “As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb”
(Taken by permission from Christ Embassy Church , aka Believer’s LoveWorld Ministries , Lagos, Nigeria. www.ChristEmbassy.org )
