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 5th
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 5th 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, 5th 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 5th 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
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