@AnnetteCapps_'s Re-re- ... -review of the #CallingThingsThatBeNot-teaching reminds me WHY I 'Compulse' over these Connections | @CopelandNetwork @AquilaReport
I do it because ... we'll get to that---first, |That word| (really a part of 'the phrase that FINISHES her/her-dad's/The-Bible's phrase) seems important; so I found out a little more about |that word| (below-linked to the broadcast that inspired me to review my purpose) and share I my findings with you below---maybe I'll add some more beneath (and/or you might start/continue the discussion in the comments).
... and I have to mention that a lot of help (a share of revenue, extra topics from magazines & advertising, etc.) comes from WowApp: Using the Wowism Community's Fairness to Prevail over Economic Greed
The phrase Annette-&-co. use--"Calling Things that Be Not"--is completed (importantly) by the phrase "as #Though they Were."
The word |Though| sits at the peak of the high tower above the proto-words *thaukh, *to- (Demonstrative Pronoun ... see That), which evolved into ancient words that mean "Even If, However, Nevertheless, Still, Yet."
just like #Although #Tho
Annette and her friend review her Charles Capps' (her dad's) teaching on pragmatic prayer---it's like a thermostat, where you tell the device 'what you want the temperature to be' -not 'what the temperature is now!' And she compounds that teaching by reminding us that God--when they were bringing the world into being--did not say 'It's dark everywhere! Dark-dark-dark!' but God said "Light, Be!"
She also reminds us that--when Jesus was sleeping in the lower decks of the boat where His disciples were panicking over the tumult of the stormy sea--He came up and responded to the weather, "Peace, Be Still!" not 'Look at how terribly violent you're becoming, storm!'
But--when she commented on 'people who think they're praying to improve their situations when they're merely compounding their troubles by "describing them to God" or -who do pray for solutions but accidentally pray for solutions that are worse than the problems'--I remember the idea that 'God knows the best way to get you through all your problems!'
I know maybe that's 'something to tell children when God doesn't instantly give them their wishes,' but still---there's a hint of the old "You think you know better than God?!??!!!"
I'm also reminded of 'the idea that Jesus/God weren't "MAKING the things happen," but were "saying the magic words & pointing at the things which were happening anyway" (one of the basic principles of stage-magic)'---an idea frequently 'proposed' (or rather, 'implied') by FAMILY GUY ...
For instance: when God saw the light, he then said "Light, Be!" (rather than saying 'Hey! There's light over there!') Rather than saying, 'Just wait, this storm will pass soon,' Jesus said "Peace! Be still!" Sorta like when I want to 'amaze' my nieces & I point at the traffic-light when it turns green, or -slowly raise hand as the automatic garage door opens, or -mime 'opening the sliding-doors' in front of those automatic-doors 🧙
But 'Calling Things that Be Not' is a teaching that comes from many-many Scripture-passages, as shown in this webpage by Kenneth Copeland Ministries (as well as in the book linked to the picture above, I'm sure).
I'll 'compulse' some of these passages (eventually 'all of them'), but I'll start with a simple copy/paste:
*All scriptures are from the English Standard Version.
- Genesis 15:6
“And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.”
- Genesis 17:5
“No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.”
- Joshua 1:8
“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
- Proverbs 4:20-22
“My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.”
- Proverbs 18:21
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.”- Mark 11:23
“Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.”
- Mark 11:24
“Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”
- Luke 1:37
“For nothing will be impossible with God.”
- Luke 10:19
“Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.”
- Romans 4:1-5
“What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.’ Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness.”
- Romans 4:16
“That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.”
- Romans 4:17 (this is 'the main verse from which the name of the teaching comes')
- Romans 4:18
“In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, ‘So shall your offspring be.’”
- Romans 4:21
“Fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.”
- Romans 8:14
“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.”
- Romans 10:10
“For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.”
- Romans 10:13
“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
- Romans 10:17
“So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”
- Romans 12:2
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
- 1 Corinthians 1:28
“God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are.”
- 2 Corinthians 4:13
“Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, ‘I believed, and so I spoke,’ we also believe, and so we also speak.”
- 2 Corinthians 5:7
“For we walk by faith, not by sight.”
The Aquila Report's depiction of "Blind Faith" - 2 Corinthians 5:17
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
- 2 Corinthians 10:4-5
“For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.”
- Colossians 3:2
“Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.”
- Hebrews 10:23
“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.”
- Hebrews 11:1
“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
- Hebrews 11:3
“By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.”
- Hebrews 11:6
“And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.”
- Revelation 12:11
“And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.”
... though--looking at those passages without having them 'recontextualized' in the Texans' prosperity-idea (essentially that we are "co-heirs with Christ" and thus destined for the great fortunes that come with the Amazing Grace)--the passages basically say that 'our place in God's Kingdom is already ours---the only way we can lose it is if we throw away the blessing when it's time to renew our devotion again.'
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