Redemption had one objective: to restore man to unlimited fellowship with the Father.
You know, in human relationships, the moment that our fellowship is broken with a loved one, we lose our liberty and freedom with them.
There comes a sense of constraint.
The moment that fellowship is broken with the Father, there is a sense of constraint.
We cannot pray as we ought.
Faith is measured by our fellowship.
If we have a low type of fellowship that you will find in many homes, faith will be of a low type.
If your fellowship in the home is of a high order, your faith will be at flood tide.
The same thing is true of your heavenly Father.
If you are in perfect fellowship, loving Him, rejoicing in Him, then faith will move mountains.
But if you are under condemnation, if the sense of guilt or sin dominates your life, then your faith goes down to zero. The sense of unworthiness comes from poor fellowship.
If your prayer life sags and you have no joy in it, it is because your fellowship is broken.
Then go to Him and ask Him what the trouble is. This will usually clear up the matter.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)
When you have confessed your sins, remember they are forgiven, and when the Father forgives, He forgets.
There is no memory of it.
You dishonor Him when you remember them after they are once forgiven.
You cannot ask His forgiveness without getting it. You should then go on and live as though you have never sinned.
That is the only way you honor the blood that cleanses and the Word that gives you faith.
Rich fellowship is rich faith.
Above every other thing that you do, keep your fellowship rich and sweet.
Faith’s Dominion
Faith is dominant. Faith must rule. Reason must take its place as a helper.
The moment that reason thinks that it can assume leadership, the spiritual life of the believer begins to weaken.
Feelings must be conquered.
As long as feelings have any place in the council, faith is weakened.
Feelings must be utterly absolutely subdued, ignored. Fear must be eliminated. Faith and fear cannot associate together.
Either fear or faith rules.
Faith and fear have never been companions.
Faith and fear have never been linked up. Faith is dominant; faith is victorious; faith rules.
Fear and failure are ever linked together. Reason always wants to see, to understand.
Faith has eyes and it sees the thing done before it is begun.
It sees the dam built before a bucket of cement has been put in. It sees the desert irrigated and blooming as a rose before the blueprints are even drawn.
Faith sees with eyes that are accustomed to view the finished product, while reason’s eyes see obstruction, difficulties, handicaps, human weakness, and human failings, and stands powerless in the presence of human impotence.
Faith brushes them aside, stands full-orbed, and sees them finished and completed.
Faith’s highest joy is realizing a thing before it is built, entering the house and lying down on the couches of comfort before the house is even placed upon the parchment.
Faith must rule.
HOW FAITH TALKS
Faith talks in the language of God. Doubt talks in the language of man.
When I dare to say that I am what He says I am, then I am what He says I am.
What the Word says I am, I am, because He knows what He did in Christ to make me what He says I am.
The Word says that I am complete in Him. Well, God is the author of the Word. He is the author of my redemption, so if He says I am complete in Him, then I must be complete in Him.
It is barely possible that I do not understand His method of measurement.
It is barely possible that I do not understand His standards of perfection.
But I rest in what He says and I am satisfied with what He says.
What He says is what He sees in us by grace. And what He sees is what we really are.
It is not what we believe or what the church has taught us, but when He says, “We are the fullness of Him that fills all things,” we are. (See Ephesians 1:23.)
When He says that He “has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ” (Ephesians 1:3), then we are blessed.
Whether we have enjoyed it or not, that is not the issue. He has blessed us.
When He declares that we are seated together with Him in the heavenlies, we are. (See Ephesians 2:6.)
Now you go about your work today, and every idle moment that you have, repeat some of these great facts over and over again.
After a while, they will become a part of you, just as the multiplication table is a part of you. Just so will this divine consciousness or Jesus consciousness become a part of you.
You cannot think God’s thoughts after Him without God following His thoughts into your life and changing your thoughts into reality.
You think weakness and you are weak. You think strength and you are strong.
You think about God indwelling you and God will rise up and fill your body, His temple, with His glory.
Just as He overshadowed Solomon’s temple with the cloud of His glory, so will He overshadow you.
Just as He filled that temple with His glory so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the wonder of His presence, so He will fill you today. The world’s thoughts will be unable to minister in you because of the ineffable glory of His presence. Let faith speak through your lips today.
Don’t talk doubts anymore. Just talk faith.
Last Words
Let the world hear your confession. Every time you confess your sonship rights and your sonship place, you defeat the adversary.
Sickness has no dominion over you. Disease has no dominion over you.
Want, hunger, and need have no dominion over you. You are now in the family of plenty.
You are in the family where you lie down in green pastures, and you are led by streams of sweet water.
Your soul is restored from calamity, fear, and doubt. You fellowship and commune with Him in quietness.
You are walking now in the paths of righteousness, taking advantage of your righteousness.
You are doing the works of a righteous man.
You are praying the prayers of a righteous man.
The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. (James 5:16)
You are praying for the sick.
You are casting out demons.
You are living a life of victory because you are the righteousness of God in Christ.
This is what we are in Christ.