Letter #60 3/11/11 Pastor Dan Gore www.destinyshouse.com THE FAITH TO PICK A FIGHT
1 Timothy 6:12 "Fight the good fight of Faith"
Sometimes LOVE by itself, is not enough. You can love someone in great need, but not have anything in your hand to do anything to change their situation. A Christian with great compassion and love for others is not a guarantee of a Christian with power to change stuff. We can love others, and still have very little ability to influence their problem or need. But if you have a Christian dominated by love, who ALSO walks in the power/authority of God to change things and outcomes -- now that is something to behold and praise God for. Don't just be known for your love. Be known also as someone who, when you pray, things happen. This too is love.
One of the main keys to influence, is radical faith. We need Christians dominated by love, but we need even more, Christians dominated by love, who exercise the faith to influence things and turn things. Radical faith is not all that difficult. Faith changes outcomes. (Biblical) faith interrupts and changes desperate problems for a new outcome.
There is a faith that pleases the Lord: a persistent faith that is not controlled or dictated to by what is seen on the outside; a faith that looks at something that does not even seem possible or rational and re-creates the outcome. A faith that boldly speaks to the problem with authority: Mountain, get up and move in the mighty name of Jesus! There is a faith that ignores what is said or seen in the natural; ignores fear, and JUST BELIEVES.
Even though David should have been no match for the giant named Goliath, the FAITH in David was offended by what Goliath was doing. David saw the injustice and the Spirit of God in him responded quickly and appropriately. What injustices does you faith see? To be honest, we should get offended more often. Perceive the strategies of God, and go do the impossible through Jesus. Do you have the faith to pick a fight with a giant? Is there anyone or anything harassing you that has no business looking down on you and persecuting you?
There is a faith that is not so concerned about what can be seen on the outside. What is seen may not be accurate. There is a kind of faith that declares in the name of Jesus: WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT WHAT YOU GET...with God. WHAT YOU SEE IS ABOUT TO BE OVER-RULED, OVER-TURNED, TRUMPED. WHAT YOU SEE IS ON ITS LAST LEG, AND IS STILL TRYING TO CONVINCE YOU OTHERWISE. WHAT YOU SEE IS ABOUT TO BE EVICTED FROM THE PREMISES, BY YOUR PRAYER; BY YOUR FAITH PARTNERING UP WITH THE WRITTEN WORD. Can I be blunt about faith, without offending anyone? YOU ARE STILL AFRAID AND INTIMIDATED BY "IT", AND "IT" IS ACTUALLY SCARED YOU ARE ABOUT TO APPLY ENOUGH FAITH TO THROW IT'S ASS BACK INTO HELL WHERE IT CAME FROM. Who will blink first? Who is more convinced of their own position?
Remember reading about when Jesus crossed a lake for the purpose of picking a fight? (Mark 5) Legion knew why Jesus bothered to pick that exact place to park the boat on this particular day. There was about to be a fight for dominion and outcome. Some of our faith needs to be for that purpose alone: to change the outcome of an impossible situation; to change dominion. Legion was an army of demons who no one could subdue within this poor man living in the tombs. Just by showing up, Jesus turned Legion Mafia into Legion Baby, whining, crying, begging for mercy from the Man. Jesus' faith went out and picked a fight that day... and confronted a Legion of hell's demons. Jesus is looking for men & women to follow in these foot-steps. Who will take a stand and push back? Whose faith will cause a violent reaction? Who has the faith to pick a fight. Who has the faith, that when they walk up, the forces of darkness are afraid of them? You should scare the bad guys! Its true. They should see you coming up and become very concerned.
If disease, or poverty, or divorce, or cancer, etc. is a dark spirit: then consider that that spirit you are afraid of is actually afraid of you...when you start pressing in with determination faith, based on the bible. Consistently applied faith, regardless of what you "see" in the natural, is one of the most potent and dangerous forces against the darkness on the planet. But we often pull back just a few minutes too early, just when the enemy thought you were serious and he was about to give up the prize and hand it over to you in fear.
If you are converted/saved, then He is no respecter of persons. God's word about something is potent, regardless of who is praying the word. God's Spirit in a man or woman is potent regardless of what the doctor's prognosis may declare in the natural realm. God's cross and blood are potent, regardless of who is laying claim to them. God's very name is potent, regardless of who may be screaming out: "JESUS!! Help me!". We must continually doubt our doubts. Don't have great faith in negative forces. Don't just assume something can't be changed. We look at all disease and anything putting us at dis-ease as something that cannot possibly withstand the assault of Glory. The assault of Glory. The assault of your faith in action. The assault of the man/woman of faith in agreement with the Word of God to over-ride the very sign/symptom of disease. Keep assaulting the problem. Keep putting the force and power of God-given anointing on that thing, and see how much it can take. Keep persisting over and over until you wear the thing down. Keep applying the anointing liberally upon the problem until it can no longer stand up to you, or stand you. Your opponent is not invincible...not a god...not that tough...come on now.
Look around you. Look at your home, your neighborhood, your city, state, and nation. Do you see any injustice? Do you see any giants who have trespassed and defiantly ignored the Lord and done evil. Will you declare war over those things that are against life, health, peace, love, and the Word? Rarely will the Lord not heal someone when these things are applied consistently. Even if He does not heal or provide breakthrough, it does not mean we give up on all the others. Choosing to live a radical life of faith, regardless of the proof we see with our eyes, pleases the heart of God. He loves to see us become stubborn and radical with our faith. And without faith, we cannot possibly please Him. Radical faith says: I know what I see on the outside -- but that is not necessarily the way its got to be. The things that are not seen dictate to the things seen --- not visa versa. Is that truth firmly in our heart? Will your faith become offended and lead you to pick a fight? Will you stand up and fight for the weak and those who are unable to defend themselves yet?
Will you say inside your heart: "I'm curious if the Jesus in me could over-rule that situation. Lets just find out. I'm just crazy enough to pray for something that is impossible." All things are possible to those who are in Christ Jesus. "I want to go pick a fight with a few terminal illnesses and see what God might do. I want to go step in front of that Mac truck of despair and run IT off the road. Wait until my anointing gets hold of that. Lets see if disease can resist my Jesus and His blood. Lets see if that situation can resist a bold person of faith. Lets just see about that." And the Lord seems to be saying to us: "Whomsoever....will pick up my Name and use it. Whomsoever will pick up my cross and use it. Whomsoever will pick up my Holy Spirit healing anointing and use it.... can have whatever they ask for that is in line with my Word. It is theirs for the taking. Go take it. Go mess up the world with it. Go turn your world upside down with it." If you are willing to persist even when you have already prayed a thousand times over it with the bible; if you are willing to not give up your faith and press Daddy God until you see your miracle; if you are willing to destroy your enemy with persistent love, and not let TIME cause you to quit, you may just actually have whatever you ask for.
1 John 5:4 "Whatever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith. KJV
