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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Tapping Into God's Power and Jehovah-Jireh God WILL Provide

Tapping Into God's Power and Jehovah-Jireh - God will provide
Tapping Into God's Power 
by Gary Carpenter 
One of the questions I am most frequently asked is, "Gary, really, how do I

tap into the power of God?" Many of these people come with desperate 
situations already upon them. Everything from having just been diagnosed
with a 
terminal disease, to imminent divorce, to imminent bankruptcy, some of them
even 
contemplating suicide. This is a serious question and I never take it
lightly. 
Oftentimes, however, when I give them the true answer to their question, it

sounds so "simplistic" to them that they become offended like Naaman the 
Syrian. Remember him? He was a powerful military leader who had leprosy. He
came 
to the prophet in Israel expecting to receive some "great word" from the 
prophet. The prophet simply told him to go dip seven times in the Jordan
River. 
Naaman became so offended by this "simplistic" instruction that he nearly 
returned to Syria without obeying the word of the Lord. Had he done so he
most 
certainly would have died a leper. Thank God he obeyed and received his
miracle 
and was healed. 
Most people that ask me the question "How do I tap into the power of God?" 
reject the answer by NEVER ACTUALLY DOING IT! All those that do it receive 
their miracle. All of those that do not do it forsake their miracle. It is
as 
simple as that. Period! 
What is the answer to their question? It can be found in the following 
verses: 
Isa 55:10-11 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and 
returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth
and 
bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall
my 
word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void,
but 
it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing 
whereto I sent it. 
There is only one way to "return God's Word unto Him" and that is by 
CONFESSING IT AS BEING PRESENT TENSE TRUTH IN YOUR LIFE! This is the faith
of our 
father Abraham. He had to begin calling himself the father of many nations 
(Calling those things which be not as though they were) long before his son
Isaac 
was ever conceived in the womb of Sarah. There simply is no separating the 
power of the Holy Spirit from the spoken Word of God! Get this; the Lord
said 
to me, "The Holy Spirit will not manifest the unspoken word of God for 
anybody...not even God the Father! The Holy Spirit would still be brooding
over the 
face of the waters today waiting for the SPOKEN Words 'Let there be
light!'" 
Jesus called the Holy Spirit the "finger of God" after He had cast out a 
devil. The Holy Spirit is the "MANIFESTER!" If people could just get a 
revelation that He only manifests the SPOKEN WORD of God, to the point that
they would 
actually begin SPEAKING the Word of God, they would soon find that they had

finally tapped into the POWER of God! 
It was as Abraham confessed the "promise" that the Holy Spirit began 
changing Abraham and Sarah's bodies at the molecular level, causing
sufficient 
change that Sarah actually began ovulating again (she was long past
menopause) and 
causing sufficient change in Abraham that he became virile again. But if 
Abraham had not been obedient to "speak the promise" as if it were already
so in 
his life ("I am the father of many nations") the Holy Spirit would NEVER 
have manifested those changes ... God's will or not! The number one way
that the 
Holy Spirit works in the earth is ...He manifests the SPOKEN Word! 
So, no matter what problems people come to me with: health, marital, 
financial, children, etc., etc., my counsel to them is always the same:
"Find two or 
three promises from the Word of God that cover your case. Begin worshipping

God for these promises and begin saying them out of your mouth as if they 
were already manifested in your life. Quit speaking the negative
circumstances, 
COMPLETELY! Keep saying about yourself what the Word says about you. The
Holy 
Spirit will manifest those promises in your life." 
That's it! Simple! Too simple for most folks to accept! Yet it is the power

of God! It works every time for those that do it! There are no exceptions! 
There are no difficulties that are too hard for the Holy Spirit! There are
no 
special cases! This always works! Period! Even those that "try it" usually 
fail because they become "weary in well doing" and quit before the
manifestation 
comes. But it will always come if they do not. It is through faith AND 
patience that we possess the promises. Amen? 
Example from mine and Sue's own lives: When we were saved and Spirit filled

many years ago I was a virtual egomaniac full of religious doctrines of
men. 
Sue was the product of the feminist movement that had vowed she would never

again let any man tell her what to do. Yikes! You talk about opposite ends
of 
the spectrum. Me full of "macho" man ego and her full of feminist
rebellion. 
Our home life was not a pretty sight, let me tell you. 
At first, we both tried to "help" each other by trying to "change" each 
other. A complete lesson in futility!!! "Can the blind lead the blind?" Had
we 
not learned the secret that I am sharing with you in this teaching, I have
no 
doubt that we would have been divorced within three to five years of our
being 
saved. We finally learned this lesson: NEITHER OF US ARE THE SAVIOR!
Neither 
of us could change "ourselves," much less the "other." We finally realized 
that if either (or both) of us were going to change, it would have to be by

the power of God HIMSELF! "How do we tap into the power of God?" was our 
question then. He taught us what I am relating to you in this lesson. 
God is so good. He not only taught us "what to do", He taught us "how" to
do 
it. For example, regarding Sue and I, He showed us from the following 
scripture that Sue and I (because we were born again) already had the "love
of God" 
within us: 
Rom 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed
abroad 
in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. 
But then He also taught us that 1 Cor 13:4-8 was the "manifestation" of 
God's love and that if we wanted the Holy Spirit to "manifest" that love in
us we 
had to do like Abraham and begin calling ourselves "already that way." Let 
me show you what I mean. Here are those verses from the Amplified Bible; 
1 Cor 13:4-8 Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is 
envious nor boils over with jealousy; is not boastful or vainglorious, does
not 
display itself haughtily. It is not conceited--arrogant and inflated with 
pride; it is not rude (unmannerly), and does not act unbecomingly. Love
[God's 
love in us] does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not

self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account
of 
the evil done to it--pays no attention to a suffered wrong. It does not
rejoice 
at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth
prevail. 
Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to 
believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all
circumstances 
and it endures everything [without weakening]. Love never fails--never
fades 
out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end. 
Sue and I began confessing this passage three times a day for ourselves by 
inserting our names everywhere that you find the word "love" or "it." For 
example, I would say for Sue, 
"Sue endures long and is patient and kind; Sue never is envious nor boils 
over with jealousy. Sue is not conceited--arrogant nor inflated with pride;
Sue 
is not rude, nor unmannerly, and she does not act unbecomingly. Sue does
not 
insist on her own rights or her own way, for she is not self-seeking" .....

etc. 
Get the picture? Then, I would confess it again for myself, inserting 
myself; 
"I endure long and am patient and kind; I never am envious nor do I boil 
over with jealousy. I am not conceited--arrogant nor inflated with 
pride;"...etc. 
Morning, noon, and night ... once for her and once for myself, a total of 
six times every day. Sue was doing the same thing. We literally typed these

confessions out so we could carry them with us everywhere we went. WE DID
NOT 
CHANGE OVERNIGHT...BUT THE CHANGE DID COME! The Holy Spirit HIMSELF began 
"manifesting" this Word within us. He literally "changed" our hearts, our 
attitudes, our emotions, and our thinking to where the "love of God"
literally began 
to flow out of each of us. THIS WORKS! 
It is important that I tell you that it was not necessary for us to 
"confess" these within earshot of the other. The reference scripture says
that His 
word does not return to HIM void! The only persons that need to hear these 
confessions are us and God the Holy Ghost! Why? BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT
MANIFESTS 
THE SPOKEN WORD THAT HE HEARS COMING OUT OF OUR MOUTHS! HE IS WAITING TO 
HEAR THE SPOKEN WORD! HE WILL NOT ACT TO MANIFEST THE WORD UNTIL HE HEARS
THE 
WORD SPOKEN! 
That's the secret! SPEAK THE WORD AS IF IT WERE ALREADY, PRESENT TENSE, 
TRUTH IN YOUR LIFE! The Holy Spirit is the SPIRIT OF TRUTH! He will
MANIFEST THE 
TRUTH in your life if you do! He will not if you don't! Again, too simple
for 
most folks. God made it too easy! Most people scoff at its simplicity. Yet 
God designed it to be simple ON PURPOSE so that everybody would be able to
do 
it. 
I have found this principle to be true in every realm of life. When I 
finally began putting verses like 2 Cor 8:9, Psalm 34:10, and Philippians
4:19 in 
my mouth and began worshipping God for His WORD and began speaking those 
verses as if they were already so in my life...sure enough...the Holy Spirit
began 
MANIFESTING prosperity in my life! 
When I needed healing and I began worshipping God for the truth of His Word

and I began speaking verses like 1 Peter 2:24 and Psalms 103 as if they
were 
already so in my life...sure enough...the Holy Spirit began MANIFESTING 
health in my life! It applies to EVERYTHING; depression, doubt, fear,
rebellious 
children, prosperity, marriage, healing, etc., etc. 
2 Pet 1:3-4 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things 
that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that
hath 
called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great
and 
precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine
nature, 
having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 
"BY THESE PROMISES" we partake of everything that He has given us
pertaining 
unto LIFE AND GODLINESS! Hallelujah! I'm about to have another one of those

running fits. Glory to God! We don't have to obtain things the world's way 
which is governed by lust, but we can receive everything directly from our 
Father's hand by partaking of THESE EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES!
We are 
"in the world" but not "of the world." We have a different SOURCE than the 
world has. 
Here is another important thing we had to learn concerning the confession
of 
God's Word: YOUR CONFESSION BEFORE GOD AND YOUR CONFESSION BEFORE PEOPLE 
MUST BE THE SAME! It does absolutely no good to spend time worshipping God
by 
confessing His Word over a situation and then continually say exactly the 
opposite to your friends. Remember what James said, 
James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 
You have to once and for all make up your mind. Is God's Word the TRUTH in
your life, or are the present circumstances the truth in your life? Which
is 
it? On what are you going to make your stand? Circumstances or God's Word?
Once you choose God's Word then you never let your mouth speak
circumstances 
contrary to what God has already said. This is very difficult on the flesh
and, 
if you are human like Sue and I, you will sometimes stumble and say the
wrong 
things when you set out to do this. Don't be discouraged. Simply repent and

begin speaking again in line with the Word of God. Eventually it will
become 
as natural to you as taking a drink of water. You won't even have to 
consciously think about it anymore, because you and the Word will have
become "one." 
Let me add one other thing. Time spent praying in other tongues helps 
shorten the "waiting" time for the manifestations of the promises. There
are many, 
many reasons why this is so but for now let me just name one of them, which

is contained in this verse: 
Rom 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not

what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh 
intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 
Let me put it like this. While we are allowing the Holy Spirit to make 
"perfect intercession" for us He "fills in the gaps" where we are ignorant.
For 
example, a person who was standing on God's promises for financial
prosperity 
might not realize that there is someone he needs to forgive for a past
wrong 
that was done to him. He might never, on his own, even think of it. But the

Holy Spirit will know to pray that he needs to forgive. Then the Holy
Spirit 
Himself will bring it to the man's mind that he needs to forgive that
person. 
Then the man can forgive and that will be one more roadblock gone on his
path 
to prosperity. See how that works? The Holy Spirit helps us "fill in the 
prayer gaps" because, quite frankly, we don't often know everything that
needs to 
be prayed...but He does! Thank God for praying in other tongues! 
Here is the Love Section from 1st Corinthians 13 again. Put your own name 
and/or the name of your spouse in the blanks. Begin making these
confessions. 
His Word will NOT return unto Him void! You are now tapping into the
unlimited 
power of Almighty God! 
1 Cor 13:4-8 ____________ endures long and is patient and kind;
____________ 
never is envious nor boils over with jealousy; ____________ is not boastful

or vainglorious, does not display himself/herself haughtily. ____________
is 
not conceited--arrogant and inflated with pride; ____________ is not rude 
(unmannerly), and does not act unbecomingly. ____________ does not insist
on 
his/her own rights or his/her own way, for ____________ is not
self-seeking; 
____________ is not touchy or fretful or resentful;____________ takes no
account 
of the evil done to him/her--he/she pays no attention to a suffered wrong. 
____________ does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but
rejoices 
when right and truth prevail. ____________ bears up under anything and 
everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person. 
____________ hopes are fadeless under all circumstances and endures
everything [without 
weakening]. ____________ never fails--never gives up - never quits.

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