The Dominion Force of Faith
- Sermon By: Pastor Henry Onyirioha
- Categories: Divine Intervention, God, Prayers, Sunday Charge
The Dominion Force of Faith
❖ Statements of Facts on Faith
- Anytime your faith shifts level, your victory shifts level.
- Your level of victory and the level of your success in life currently is tied to the level of your faith.
- Faith is a living force that grows! – 2 Thessalonians 1:3 – We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth
- The growth of faith is the growth of victory. Any area where your faith has grown, your victory in that area also grows. Understanding is a major fuel for the growth of faith – Acts 8:30,31; Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God
❖ The Understandings of Faith
There are two kinds of understanding that can cause your faith to grow.
- The understanding of what faith is!
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- Understanding makes you outstanding. If you understand what faith is, you will be outstanding in the operation of supernatural faith.
- The understanding of relevant scriptures.
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- We need understanding of scriptures in the areas we need dominion and apply them for victory in our lives.
1. The understanding of what faith is;
What Faith Is Not
- Faith is not just mental assent
- It is not strong wish or desire
- Faith is not just possibility thinking
What is Faith (Bible Faith)
It is accessing the thoughts & ways of God to experience the acts and wonders of God
- Isaiah 55:8,9 8-For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
- Psalm 103:7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel
- In faith, you see things the way God sees them, and you begin to think the way God thinks based on His Word and then begin to experience the acts and wonders of God
It is combination of positive expectation and actions based on scriptural revelations and convictions.
- It is getting revelations from the word and acting on it immediately based on your convictions to manifest your expectations.
It is seeing possibilities out of scriptures.
- Faith happens when the heart captures the pictures of scripture.
2. The understanding of relevant scriptures
There is an approach of scriptures that may not produce faith, for example
- Normal reading of scriptures can’t produce faith but enhances knowledge and equips one with what to study later.
- The memorization of scriptures directly may not build faith. It will enhance your general knowledge of the bible and equip you with what to meditate on later when you need it.
What is Faith (Bible Faith)
- Deeper insight of scripture for richer understanding by the study of the word builds faith. Acts 8:30,31, 35-37 –you need see something in scriptures that guarantees your result. It is what you comprehend that you apprehend!
- Hearing the voice of God behind the verse of scripture builds faith. Psalm 29:3 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters. Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, the voice behind the verse fires faith into your heart
- Seeing the word and not just reading and hearing it Habakkuk 2:1-3, Jeremiah 2:31 O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. The bible paints the picture in scripture so you can capture the same picture and venture to feature in the picture you captured.
❖ Pastoral Counsel
- Pray for God to open your eyes to see depths and wonders in the scriptures. Psalm 119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
- Pray to hear the voice of God that is behind the verses of the scriptures. Jeremiah 6:16 Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein
- Pray for God to turn the scriptures into clear pictures for you. Ephesians 1:16-18 16Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,