CALLING THE DOG or THE MANIFESTATION OF FAITH

 

CALLING THE DOG, OR THE MANIFESTATION OF FAITH

I was working alone and all of a sudden I had a tremendous headache. My head hurt from the base of my neck all the way up and over the top and down to my temples and behind my eyes. I adjusted my hard hat and took some pills, but nothing was working. There was no one around, but it hurt so badly I heard myself moan out loud and even said out loud, "Ow! It hurts!" I immediately repented and called for healing. I said, "By his stripes I'm healed. Head, you're healed." I wasn't denying what was there. I was calling for what I didn't have. That's how faith works. We call for what's not currently manifest in our natural realm, but it is absolutely real in God's eyes. It's like calling the dog.

 

Sometimes the dog needs to be coaxed sternly with a voice of authority, "Come here!" At other times, with loving confidence, "Here, puppy, puppy. Puppy good dog." Either way, you will know what it takes to get that puppy to come.

 

We walk outside, see that the dog's not there, but call him anyway, and trust that he'll come. But sometimes, when we're calling, a cat comes instead. Too often, we forget about the dog entirely and start calling, "Here, kitty, kitty." Soon more cats come, and then the darn cats are all over us, and the dog never does get his dinner.

 

That's what happened to me. I started paying more attention to my head hurting (the cats) than to the healing I was calling for. Then I made myself stop. I told myself, "You've been healed. God sees you healed, so healing come here now, in the name of Jesus Christ." At one point, I realized I wasn't listening to myself, so I gave my head a little swat with my hand and commanded, "Listen up. Stop hurting right now. I'm calling you healed by the stripes of Jesus. The Holy Spirit is in charge here, not you." The pain went away and has never returned. The presence of health replaced the pain. God's Word puts it this way: God has "chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought [zero] things that are" (1 Cor. 1:28).

 

God tells us in 2 Peter 1:4: "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature." It says we "might" be partakers of the divine nature. The divine nature is quantum; it's in the spirit. Just like light itself was already existent in God before He called it into our natural realm, we can partake of the divine nature if we choose faith's way, God's way.

 

God taught Abraham how to have faith. Romans 10:17 declares: "Faith cometh by hearing." Abraham heard the people around him call him Abraham, which means "father of many nations." At the time, it was impossible that he could be the father of many nations, because he had no children. But he also heard himself say, "I’m Abraham (father of many nations).” It’s a scientific fact that we are more apt to believe what we hear ourselves say, than to hear it from others. God taught Abraham that by hearing and saying, faith would come. And it did. When Abraham was 100 years old, and Sarah was 90, they had their first son.

 

Faith brings the 5^th dimensional reality of God into the natural. Romans 4:13 tells us Abraham received a son at 100 years old because of the “righteousness of faith.” Faith is right. It’s the right thing to believe in. It’s totally a principle from God to us, a lifting up our consciousness to a quantum state of believing in what’s seen by God as real. We can be partakers of this divine nature because God invented it. He taught it to Abraham, and He’s shown us over and over again in the Bible how it works. God wants us to take it and see it manifested in the miracles that result from faith alone.  

 

When it comes to the Bible, we sometimes have trouble with calling “those things which be not as though they were” (Rom. 4:17). But besides the example of calling the dog, there are many things we do daily to call things in before we actually see them. For example, if any of you do Turbo Tax and it shows that you have a refund, you might say, “I’ve got a refund of $3000!” You don’t actually have it in the bank yet, but you know you do have it. Another example would be you turning on the oven to broil a steak. Your spouse asks, “What are you doing?” You say, “I’m broiling a steak.” But if you’ve just turned the oven knob on to broil, the oven is actually cold still, so your action is calling the thing that isn’t as if it already is.

 

When it comes to healing, and we may be manifesting pain or hurt or a disease, God isn’t saying that we deny the illness. That’s when we need faith the most. We call for what we don’t have! We call it in from the God realm, the 5^th dimension, the unseen world where things exist but in a form not yet put into natural, seeable form. To get them into our realm we have to first believe and “see” them in God’s world, the “vapor” world, the quantum, spiritual, 5^th dimensional world. It’s like boiling water. When you boil water it turns to a vapor that we can’t see, but the elements of hydrogen and oxygen are still there. When you take that vapor and slow the molecules back down, they change into the form of seeable liquid water—same elements, different forms.

 

“If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you” (Rom. 8:11).  Webster’s Dictionary defines “quicken” as “to enliven; to make alive; to revive or resuscitate; to hasten; to sharpen; refresh.” In this reference, the word “dwell” in both places comes from the Greek word oikeo, which means “to use or have a house.” We know that if someone has a house, they can change things around in that house. That’s what Holy Spirit can do in our bodies—change things around. And if we need new things, we can call them in from the 5^th dimension, God’s great big dimension, His huge unending warehouse of grace.

 

God has the ability to alter any nerve connections, any chemical imbalance, any muscular, tissue, organ malfunction, and change the minutest cellular action. One of the functions of the Holy Spirit is to bring into manifestation in our bodies and souls those things that God says we can have.

 

Just like we can call the dog, and the dog comes, we call what God’s Word says is available to us: “Here healing, here freedom, here love, here long life, here protection, here financial stability,” and they will come too.

 

The form is already there, just like our good health is already there in the unseeable. God spoke the unseen into the world of natural seeing. Jesus did the same thing. And we are to follow suit. Speaking God’s truth out loud is our faith bringing the unseen together for us in the seeable. It is God’s will. He sees us healed and fully well in every way, and by faith, we can see it into manifestation in God’s way too. That’s part of what it means to partake of the divine nature. And that’s why, if we don’t have faith yet like we want to, we ask the Lord to help us “grow in faith” like in 2 Thessalonians 1:3, and He’ll do it!  

 

Love, Carolyn

 

The Lord has been directing me on increasing my faith. From last Thursday till today, He allowed our internet to go off on all our computers. In that time period, Jane and I went back to listen to an old teaching by the late Charles Capps on faith. It’s been amazing and, once again, enlightening and inspiring. Today when our computers came back up, I saw that there are more of those teachings. Look him up on Youtube : The Tongue – A Creative Force by Charles Capps