Admon Mikha'el
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I’m sitting here listening to a preacher preaching about belief and it just entered into my consciousness – unbelief is not the lack of belief, but the antithesis of belief. It’s actually form of belief! When you doubt, you believe – it’s the same act, just a different target. If you don’t believe Jesus can heal you, you actually believe that He cannot. That seems like common sense, but we need to dwell on it a bit. Our believer “organ” is always working and always believing. It never stops. It’s how we target that believing that’s important. Are you going to believe in Life, or death? Health or sickness? Prosperity or poverty? It’s tricky though. People may think they they’re not actively believing in poverty, but if they don’t believe in prosperity, that’s precisely what they’re believing in – poverty! If you don’t believe in something you actually believe in the opposite. It’s like math. (4 – 4) or, four minus four, is actually (4 + -4) or four plus negative four. You’re always adding, but to the negative if you are in “unbelief”. While we live, we always breath, our heart always beats, and we always believe.
Believing is the activator of faith. The lady with the issue of blood heard about Jesus and believed He could heal her. That belief motivated her to act, thereby activating faith. And it was by her faith that anointing flowed into her from Jesus and healed her. Her faith made her well, but it was her believing that targeted her faith. What you believe in is the targeting mechanism by which faith is put to work. Not believing in divine healing means you’re actually believing in sickness. Your faith will act appropriately, following your belief. Jesus couldn’t heal many in Nazareth because few believed that He could. Because of that, their faith was against Him and as such, they didn’t get healed.
Even His own people demonstrate this:
John 6:40-44
40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
41 The Jews then complained about Him, because He said, “I am the bread which came down from heaven.” 42 And they said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that He says, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
Rather than believing that He was the Messiah, their lack of belief is manifested here by an active believing against His Lordship. “Who was this man, a common son of a working class father who lives down the street? I believe he’s just a normal man.”
Can you imagine that? Not believing in Jesus isn’t the lack of belief – but the active believing AGAINST Jesus. When people casually say, “I don’t believe in Jesus,” they are actually saying that “I believe against Jesus.” That’s emnity. Even if it seems passive, math is math. Believing is extraordinarily powerful. It is by believing that Peter was able to enable his faith to walk on water with Jesus. It’s by believing that you are saved. Our believing capacity is the fulcrum on which our faith swings – and our faith is the conduit by which anointing travels, be it anointing to sickness and death, or the holy anointing of The Christ to life and health.
Believing is the activator of faith. The lady with the issue of blood heard about Jesus and believed He could heal her. That belief motivated her to act, thereby activating faith. And it was by her faith that anointing flowed into her from Jesus and healed her. Her faith made her well, but it was her believing that targeted her faith. What you believe in is the targeting mechanism by which faith is put to work. Not believing in divine healing means you’re actually believing in sickness. Your faith will act appropriately, following your belief. Jesus couldn’t heal many in Nazareth because few believed that He could. Because of that, their faith was against Him and as such, they didn’t get healed.
Even His own people demonstrate this:
John 6:40-44
40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
41 The Jews then complained about Him, because He said, “I am the bread which came down from heaven.” 42 And they said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that He says, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
Rather than believing that He was the Messiah, their lack of belief is manifested here by an active believing against His Lordship. “Who was this man, a common son of a working class father who lives down the street? I believe he’s just a normal man.”
Can you imagine that? Not believing in Jesus isn’t the lack of belief – but the active believing AGAINST Jesus. When people casually say, “I don’t believe in Jesus,” they are actually saying that “I believe against Jesus.” That’s emnity. Even if it seems passive, math is math. Believing is extraordinarily powerful. It is by believing that Peter was able to enable his faith to walk on water with Jesus. It’s by believing that you are saved. Our believing capacity is the fulcrum on which our faith swings – and our faith is the conduit by which anointing travels, be it anointing to sickness and death, or the holy anointing of The Christ to life and health.
