Speaking the Word of Faith

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I learn the lessons of that key to achieving faith of Mark 11:12-14; 20-26.1 ask God my favorite question in all contrary circumstances, “What are You up to?” Not bringing my confusions and distresses to Him, but first, asking, “Why have You sent me these distresses?” Then, knowing all is from Him, as Jesus instructed the disciples in that Mark incident, I see by my inner seeing of faith that a mountain is really only, not a barrier, but a plain surface on which God sends His supplies. See what the angel said to Zechariah when Zerubbabel was weighed down by a sense of failure–Zechariah 4:7: “What art thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel … a plain!”

A problem is an opportunity!Then, as Jesus instructed His disciples not to get into anxious praying, but to operate the “faith of God,” not faith in God (Mark 11:22), I catch on to what God is doing in the situation, and say He is doing it. I do this by what He conveys to my normal mind as I (or we, if a group of us) think a tiling over, knowing that “we have the mind of Christ,” and thus expect to find His mind through my mind, regulated by the standards of the Word of God and often confirmed by it. Then as I, or we, take this or that to be His mind, I decide what it is He would do in this situation, conveying His desire through my desire (Mark 11:24). Then having made that decision, I speak the word of faith, my prayer being a believing that what. I desire I received and saying so. This is what Jesus meant, by saying, “have the faith of God. Against all my soul feelings of absurdity and unlikeliness, and all external appearances, I say that word of God’s faith, and God’s faith is given us in Romans 4:17, “who calls the things that be not as though they are.” Then I go forward as having that matter settled in my faith-consciousness, and constantly as recognizing it as settled. Then comes the continued supply, even if sometimes it is slow in coming or comes in inexplicable ways as with Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:7-10. This is the Royal Priesthood.