Quest (10-29-2016)
I didn't find where you went. I went to Articles/Weekly Thoughts. It was not posted there when I started this thread. I started this thread the 28th. Where I went to find the post:
October 29, 2016 in Balanced Living, Christian Living, House Church, Weekly Thoughts by staff
Yep! Your bad!
It just hit me that Fenn is a house church guy. Is that why you're wondering?
Fenn is actually a Rhema grad, went the same time I did, but I didn't know him then. A good friend of mine is a good friend of his and I met him and drove him around when he came to our church in Pensacola back in the Brownsville revival days (after the split). I agree with a lot of the house church stuff. I go to an 'institutional' church (Bethel Atlanta) but they do have house groups. Don't get to go due to our current circumstances.
From the sermon "Praise the Lord" from 1918 by Aimee Semple McPherson :
"Jesus says: 'What things soever you desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.'
Now, if we ask God to give us a certain answer to prayer, and we then proceed to believe we have it, it is only polite to begin to thank Him for it, in other words, shoot upward through the prayer zone into the praise zone, and thank God beforehand that, according to His word, it is done."
Last edited by Colonel; 11-05-2016 at 04:28 PM.
Thanksgiving is the voice of faith.
Just one little thing to correct in what she said though. Just basically a technicality though. She said, "we then proceed to believe we have it..." Actually the verse says to believe we receive, THEN we shall have it. We don't believe we have it. We believe we receive it, because we don't actually have it yet in the physical/manifested sense.
And giving thanks for it IS the 'believing we receive' part.
Ezekiel 33 (11-07-2016), Quest (11-05-2016)
Her comment is perhaps more in line with the previous verse which she didn't quote :
Mark 11:23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
What I find amazing is that she is perfectly in line with basic Word of Faith teaching, just like Smith Wigglesworth was. In the next sentence she connects the principle to healing but also to deliverance from all kinds of other problems.