Calling those things which are not as though they are.

“…God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;”
Romans 4:17

God calls those things which do not exist as though they did. What a great statement! God is always contradicting the darkness in the world.

In creation God contradicts the darkness. 'Let there be light!' When he said that it was dark. He contradicts the situation.
Jesus tells the cripple to stand up.
He tells the leper to be clean,
He tells the blind to see,
He tells the mute to speak, and the dead to rise!
He tells the storm to be still and the evil spirits to be silent.
Everywhere he goes he contradicts the circumstances.

We are made in God's image and we need to rise up and start contradicting a few things. We already do it in the natural world. When we come home and it's cold we turn up the thermostat. We come home and find the house too cold at 8 degrees. We turn up the thermostat to 22 degrees. We call it 22 degrees but it's initially still 8 degrees. We are calling those things which are not as though they were. It's time to set your thermostat on your situation by faith.

We overcome the world and our difficulties by faith. We change the climate of our situation with our faith.

“For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith.”
1 John 5:4

We are not to be moved by what we see but by what we see in the spirit.

“For we walk by faith, not by sight.”
2 Corinthians 5:7

Faith is a fight!
Moving by faith in the world is a fight. Sometimes we think we'll say a little prayer and something will happen. But often that doesn't work. No. We need to rise up a start contradicting a few things. We need to curse sickness, poverty and oppression. We need to start to fight!

“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.”
1 Timothy 6:12

Fighting and faith go hand in hand. The devil may start it but me and God are going to finish it. Towards the end of his life Paul wrote:

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”
2 Timothy 4:7

And we fight the fight by calling those things that are not as though they are. The Bible says:

“Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'
Joel 3:10

We are to call things that are not as though they were. Let the sick say I am healed. Let the poor say I am rich. Initially it may sound a bit peculiar. But you are called to be peculiar!

“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:”
1 Peter 2:9, KJV.

Say these statements out loud right now!

I am strong!
I am healed!
I am in a period of uncommon favour.
I am a millionaire!
I have no fear!
I have power to get wealth!
God has healed all my diseases
I have the strength of a teenager!
I am free from every addiction the devil put on me!
By his wounds I am healed!

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