Real faith in the Word says that if God says it is so, then it’s so. “The Lord is my helper.” “The Lord is my strength.” Faith “Says” the Answer And if our thinking is right and our believing is right, then our talking will be right. God has given us His Word to direct us so that our believing will be right. Satan doesn’t defeat you, you defeat yourself. The devil can’t defeat you because Jesus has already defeated the devil for you. It is simply wrong thinking, wrong believing, and wrong talking that whips folks. Say that the Lord took your infirmities and bare your sicknesses. Let’s quit saying the wrong thing and start saying the right thing. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper.” Paul said, “He said I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. The devil’s got me bound.” But nowhere in the Bible do we find where God said to boldly say that. Too many people are boldly saying, “I’m whipped, I’m defeated.
But that is not what God told us to boldly say. Pray for me that I’ll hold out faithful to the end,” is a familiar request in prayer and testimony meetings. “I don’t know if I can make it or not, I hope I can. Yet God said, “I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.” Hebrews 13:5, 6 I feel as if the Lord has forsaken me,” cried one poor sister. Are we boldly saying that the Lord is our helper? That is what we should be saying. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. … For he hath said, I’ll never leave thee, nor forsake thee. You can’t see it or feel it, but it is a destructive power nevertheless. The whole world became alarmed when atomic bombs were being exploded, releasing radioactive material into the atmosphere. There are those who say, “I’m not going to believe anything I can’t see.” But in the natural we believe a lot of things we can’t see. The believing comes before the receiving. “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:24). You have to believe you’ve got it before you can receive it. Constantly affirm, even in the face of contradictory evidence, that God has heard your prayer because the Word says so. They keep looking at the wrong thing – at the symptoms, at conditions, at themselves – and so they walk in unbelief and destroy the effects of their praying. Too many people pray and pray, but they never see themselves with the answer. What are these directions? (“Attend unto” or study God’s Word, and obey this Word, “keep them in the midst of thine heart.”)Īnd what is God’s medicine? “My words are life unto those that find them and medicine to all their flesh.” But the medicine has to be taken according to directions in order to work, and one of the directions is, “ Let them (my words) not depart from before thine eyes.” Keep looking at what the Word says. In other words, “My words are medicine to all their flesh.” The first two verses of this passage tell us the directions for taking this medicine. Notice also in verse 22, “For they (my words) are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.” The Hebrew word translated “health” here is also the word for medicine. And even though He wants to make health a reality in your life, He cannot because you are not acting on His Word. If, however, you do not see yourself as without sickness, then that Word has departed from before your eyes. If that Word does not depart from before your eyes, you are bound to see yourself without sickness and without disease. God’s Word says, “Himself (Jesus) took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses” (Matthew 8:17). If they are sick, they think of themselves as dying. Notice that this Scripture says, “Let them (my words) not depart from thine eyes …” Many people fail because they see themselves as failing. For they (my words) are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Let them not depart from thine eyes keep them in the midst of thine heart. My son, attend to my words incline thine ear unto my sayings. The eyes of faith see the answer as having already happened. We have seen that faith is not hoping that we will see the answer in the future, faith is believing that we have the answer now. In our past lessons on faith we have been learning that faith is not something which we have as much as it is something which we do. Central Truth: By continually looking at the Word, faith sees the answer.