2Corinthians 5:17-18 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) into Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come. But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself (received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself) and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation (that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him)."
Proverbs 20:27 (Amplified) says, "The spirit of man (that factor in human personality which proceeds immediately from God) is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts."
Proverbs 21:30 (Amplified) says, "There is no (human) wisdom or understanding or counsel (that can prevail) against the Lord."
Revelation knowledge comes into our spirit, by the Word and the Holy Spirit, according to the above scripture. All of the human wisdom, counsel, and understanding cannot stand against God's Wisdom. All of our human knowledge comes from our five senses and not our spirit. When we try to understand spiritual things in the sense realm, our senses will deny that the spiritual things are real. Our human wisdom (sense knowledge) cannot stand against God's Wisdom.
God created the new creation man by and in His Spirit. We are created to be led by His Wisdom and to hear from the Holy Spirit. Our sense rebel against the Super-natural things of God, because they cannot understand. It's only in our spirit, that we can get True Wisdom and counsel from God. We were created by faith in Jesus, and this is the Spiritual connection we receive from God through. When Jesus gave the "Parable of the Mustard Seed," He said we should have "Faith as a mustard seed." The mustard seed is very, very small, but if it is planted in good soil, then it will grow into something much larger.
As new creation, we are created as fertile soil for the Seed of the Word, by the Holy Spirit. All words are seeds, not just the Word of God. Your spirit is now alive to God and is "fertile soil." We know that "faith comes by hearing." Romans 10:17 (Amplified) says, "Faith in God, comes by hearing the Word of God." Faith in any other thing comes the exact same way, by hearing. This is why Proverbs 4:23 (Amplified) admonishes, "Keep and guard your heart (spirit) with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it (your spirit) flow the springs of life."
As a new creation, you have the ability to hear, know, understand and to walk in the spirit realm, in a way that no other being on this planet has ever done. Your old man (the senses) has guided your whole unsaved life, has never been renewed. You still understand the Word by your old sense realm when you read it, but it stays in the sense realm (like reading a story). When we came into the Body of Christ (the Church), we probably didn't know much of God's Word and we didn't know how to walk in our new born-again life. We've mostly receive information in the Church still, based on the senses and not the spirit. Much of our learning has come from the intellectual realm of the senses. And, we've placed the spiritual, Super-natural into a time for the future ("when we get to Heaven...) and the past ("those things have passed away"). This is because your flesh (senses) cannot accept the Word as being "Truth."
We continue to teach, move, walk and talk like we did before being saved. This seed of faith was sown into our spirit (fertile soil) and was crowded out by the sense realm (knowledge) that previously guided our unsaved lives. Learning to understand and adapt our new spirit man to the realm of God's Word, is not been taught to God's people. Faith comes by hearing. If we've hearing isn't Truth, then it remains in the senses and our faith grows in that realm.
When the Wisdom of God instructed the Church about "having what you say," many rejected the teaching because of what was being ministered about it. We begin hearing that it was "foolishness" and then put our faith in that, because "faith comes by hearing." We continue speaking like we always did, because it "makes sense" in the natural realm. Even though we read in the Word about the power of spoken words, our faith never developed in it, because of what we heard preached. There is ample proof in the Bible that we can "have what we say," our senses couldn't grasp the revelation of it. Our speech mostly remained like it was before we were born-again. We had more faith in the sense knowledge speech, than we had in the Word, because of the world we spent our old life.
Many in the Church, consider Jesus' Words in Mark 11:23 (Amplified) as being "metaphorical." They reject this being Jesus speaking literally, because the senses tell us "You can't move a mountain." When we read this scripture carefully, we realize Jesus wasn't simply speaking about moving a mountain, but about believing and having what you say. Jesus said we're to "believe in our hearts, without doubting and to believe what we say, and then He said, "We can have whatever we say." Our words of belief will work for or against you.
We talk contrary to the Blessing, healing, prosperity, hearing God and many other things that are spirit and then we wonder why these things don't work for us. God calls this, "wicked speech," in Proverbs 18:20 (Amplified) saying, "A mans (moral) self shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth, and with the consequences of his words he must be satisfied (whether good or evil)." Jesus said in Matthew 12:37 (Amplified), "For by your words you will condemned and sentenced."
Romans 10:10 tells us that it was "what we believed and what we said," that made us "justified and acquitted through Jesus." You confessed and believed "Jesus was your Lord and Savior," which led to your being saved and not being condemned and sentenced. Does what we say and believe make a difference in our lives? Yes, of course. If this principle works towards our salvation, then why wouldn't it work for other things after we're saved?
God created our new creation, we believe His Word and bring the senses into submission to the Word, by faith. We've been created to "speak" with creative power and to believe the impossible. But, if it's not preached, then it cannot be heard. If we don't hear it preached, then faith for it doesn't come. We read about the woman with the issue of blood, in Mark 5:27-28 (Amplified) which says, "When she heard the reports concerning Jesus, she came up behind Him in the throng and touched His garment." Verse 28 says, "For she kept saying, If I only touch His garments, I shall be restored to health." This woman was gaining faith by what she heard Jesus preach. She build faith by what she then said. And, she had what she said and believed. She was cured.
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