Faith According to Jesus Christ: How to Grow in the True Knowledge of Our Lord and Savior

By Dallied Kien

Learn how to change your life through prayer, meditation, and the four stages of faith. In Faith According to Jesus Christ: How to Grow in the True Knowledge of Our Lord and Savior, author Dallied Kien shares his story of success defeating a terminal disease using the power of the Word of God and His Son, Jesus Christ. And, more importantly, he teaches you what you need to do to share the joys of the world to come. Kien addresses the following topics, and many more:• What is “meekness”—and why do the meek inherit the earth?• Why must we ask for help in the name of Jesus?• Why is it important to speak in tongues?• How can we cure ourselves from focusing on the worries and cares of everyday life? This is a practical book filled with the knowledge and steps you can follow to attain your perfect life, on earth and in heaven. By focusing on Bible passages chosen to point toward a different need or want in your life you will find that through prayer and meditation, you can change your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hillcrest Media Group
• Release date: Dec 31, 1899
• ISBN: 9781634137867

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A NOTE TO READERS

My message is directed to those people who are already connected to the four dimensions—or levels—of faith and also to those who have no faith. It may happen that, as you read portions of the book, you will find that some sections are not addressed particularly to you because you are at a higher level. If this occurs, please read the passage, but don't be annoyed because the message does not fit your expectations. Instead, accept the message with joy and love for those who are in need of this type of good news. Also accept with humility and joy the messages and divine revelations that you have already mastered, and continue to read because whatever your level of faith is you will find your story in this book.

The sections of this book which truly deal with the title are those beginning with Chapter Thirty, while the rest is a study of various points of theology and biblical study about Jesus, such as Who is He? Why did He come to earth? to help those who have no faith to become acquainted with Jesus Christ before they tackle the object of this book. Why? Because without the knowledge of Jesus, nobody can experience new life in Jesus. If we carefully look at the topics of the first twenty-nine chapters, we will observe that they talk about life, love, repentance, the spirit of faith, the Holy Spirit, the Word of God, the atmosphere of miracles, images of God, the light of the body, righteousness, the way, trust, meekness, and so on. All of these are other names for Jesus. Indeed, He declared in John 14:6: I am the way, the truth, and the life; and in John 8:12: . . . ‘I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life. And Proverbs 12:28 says: In the way of righteousness is life. And in its pathway there is no death. John 3:36 tells us: He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides in him. Romans 10:9–10 also says: . . . that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead you will be saved. For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Finally, Jesus Himself declares, in John 17:3: And this is eternal life that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. Therefore, knowing Jesus is the only one condition to live with true faith in Him. In fact, we cannot have genuine faith in Jesus Christ without true knowledge of Jesus Christ, and the first twenty-nine chapters aim to help people to know our Lord and Savior. Even 90% of Christians do not know Him. This is why they fail to walk in absolute victory in every area of their lives. Chapters One through Thirty deal with the foundations of faith, with the aims of permitting you to receive the basics of faith deep inside yourself. Why? Because the Bible is the Book of Faith. In other words, every believer must know the reason why Jesus came to this world, what his relationship with Christ should be, and who he is in Christ. Those first thirty chapters are aimed at casting doubt out of your mind so that you can be granted faith and become grounded in it. The purpose of those thirty chapters is to reveal the wisdom of God and real faith in God—and how to get true faith and put it to work. You cannot acquire the true knowledge of God and Jesus, which is true faith in God, unless you succeed in defeating doubt in your thoughts and heart. And yet, eternal life consists of knowing the only true God, the Father, and Jesus Christ His Son, whom He has sent for you (as we learn in John 17:3).

How can you know Jesus if you doubt the Word of God or God's wisdom? The first thirty chapters of this book are aimed at leading you on the path of real knowledge that will enable your spirit not to doubt anymore but, rather, to acquire a perfect knowledge of God the Father and His Son, as well as His principles. So what do we do in this book? We teach you to understand the faith God has given you. And, when you understand that, you will become comfortable using your faith. When you face a challenge, you will not look for who will help you, you will know you can handle it. When you are done with the challenge you are facing now, you will be able to use the same faith to live a victorious life. When you understand faith, you are going to be able to use it to do anything.

INTRODUCTION

If you are weak in any area of your life and intend to master it, then this book is your tool to fulfill your destiny in that area of life. This book will teach you the different tools God the Father has put at your disposal to always be successful in anything you are involved in. The first thing you must know is that you are born again when you proclaim that Jesus Christ rules over your life. At the very moment you proclaim that, you will receive the person of the Holy Spirit in your heart together with the power of God to perform whatever you say in the name of Jesus. This is the principle of God's Word, as described by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in John 6:63: It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. Jesus is saying that when we speak God's Word we see both the manifestation of the life of God and also the spirit of God in action.

To understand the main characteristic of the spirit of God, let us be reminded of the Word of Jesus in Acts 1:8: But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you . . . . In other words, the spirit of God has inherent power—power to affect changes. Therefore, if God's Word is spirit, it means God's Word possesses transforming power and has the ability to activate the power of God that dwells in us. No wonder the Bible says, in Hebrews 4:12: For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the hearts. Do you understand what that means? Hebrews 4:12 says the Word of God is life and the power of God, and John 6:63 declares that God's Word is life and spirit. This means that spirit must be a synonym for the power of God, since the Holy Spirit comes upon us with the power of God (Acts 1:8).

Jesus is saying that God's Word has the ability to cause the Holy Spirit to come and dwell in the heart of the believer and also to give him His everlasting life and that, if the Holy Spirit is already in his heart, God's Word activates the power of God in him and, therefore, the power of God is ready to give life to everything he says.

In Greek, the life of God is called Zoe—eternal life. But what is eternal life? The Bible says, in John 17:1–3: Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: ‘Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. And this is eternal life that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.'

Eternal life is not simply life after death, but also refers to our current life (our own existence on earth), and spiritual and supernatural birth—our entire existence in the knowledge of God and Jesus. Do you understand why that is true? The knowledge of God the Father and Jesus are eternal life. Moreover, your knowledge or consciousness of who God the Father and Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior are gives eternal life to everything you think, believe, say, and do. Your consciousness of the Lordship of Jesus Christ over your life gives you power and authority over anything that can hurt or bind you. This means that you must be aware of the Lordship of Christ over your spirit—your mind, will, and heart. Take your stand on the consciousness of the Lordship of Jesus Christ over your mind, will, and heart and you will never be defeated by anything such as sickness, poverty, or addiction.

You can therefore bring upon your life the provisions of blessings that God has in store for you and cast away any curse of the law you do not like. This makes it sound like I am telling people to ignore the law. Is that my intent? No, it is not my will to tell people to ignore the law. John 14:21 says: He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him. So you must know Jesus to have His commandments. And when this knowledge of Christ becomes part of your inner being, the love of Jesus causes you to do His commandments. So the true knowledge of God encapsulates the law.

Our faith encapsulates our consciousness of who God the Father and Jesus Christ are, our beliefs concerning God's Word, our professions of faith (in other words, what we say in consent with God's Word), and what we do in agreement with God's Word. It is no wonder, then, that in the Scriptures every time Jesus healed someone, he said, Your faith has made you whole. It is because you are the one who can make changes happen.

Through your meditation or profession of God's Word, your knowledge concerning God the Father and Jesus Christ increases and then you get abundant eternal life as Jesus declared in John 10:10: The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. Profession is part of meditation, which can either be speaking aloud or whispering reading, or simply deep thought. The way for meditation to give you the mind of God is to read aloud God's Word. That is why this book intends to give you an abundance of knowledge about the person of Jesus, what He came to do on earth, and what He is doing now, so that you can become victorious in any area of your life through your faith and have abundant eternal life. This is the reason for putting the first twenty-nine chapters into this book.

Let us go back to John 6:63, which says: It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. We understand that God's Word is the principle of eternal life. Therefore you are under obligation to meditate upon and speak God's Word to produce eternal life, and not death, as it is written in Proverbs 18:21: Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit. Another way to talk about this same truth is that Jesus Himself teaches us in John 6:63 that God's Word produces life: It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. As believers in Jesus Christ, we are compelled to speak only God's Word to give life to everything we utter, otherwise our words will produce death. Eternal life produces everything you need to live and enjoy a fruitful and productive life. When you are born again, you are a spiritual child who needs to grow in the things of God in order to become a spiritual giant.

A spiritual giant is a man whose mind has been renewed and brought to perfection, having the same thoughts as God. His will has been strengthened and made mature like the will of our Lord Jesus Christ. And, finally, his heart has been purified and is full of God's Word. Human beings can be defeated only in these three areas of his spirit: heart, mind, and will. There is no way to defeat a man who has been perfected in those three areas of his spirit being. You have seven means to build your spiritual being and activate the power of God in you.

All Chapter Three defines in detail what a God-kind of faith is, and Chapter Two deals with the spirit of faith.

These are the seven ways of expressing your spirit of faith and God-kind of faith:

By meditating on God's Word

By professing God's Word about yourself

By giving thanks to God the Father for what He has already done or will do for you—either in the physical realm or in the spiritual realm

By calling, asking, or demanding in the name of Jesus Christ; or by living by the name of Jesus. In fact, Jesus gives us the legal authority to use His name in John 14:13–14: And whatever you ask in My name that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it; and in John 16:23: And in that you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. We have the authority to ask the Father in the name of Jesus (in His name means in His place). When we ask the Father it is as though Jesus Himself is asking. To ask in the name of Jesus means to take the place of Jesus. To turn down this request is to turn down Jesus. We have to understand the power behind the Word He gave us. When you ask the Father in the name of Jesus, He does not consider whether or not you have faith. This point is very important. God deals us a measure of faith. There is no delay when you ask the Father in the name of Jesus. 1 John 5:13–15 says: These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God. Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we asked of Him. Colossians 3:17 tells us: And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. The name of Jesus is an instrument. You can do the impossible in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. (To understand what calling, asking, and demanding in the name of Jesus Christ are, I recommend you read Acts 3:1–10.) Peter healed the lame man by using the name of Jesus. (This issue is also dealt with in Chapter Four and Chapter Five.)

By speaking in tongues

By knowing Jesus Christ and God the Father, because this knowledge is eternal life

By loving Jesus or doing what Jesus tells you to say and do; this is a perfected knowledge and a way to live life to the fullest—in other words, perfected faith, complete love, or excellent eternal life. I seem to say that living life to the fullest is the same as an excellent eternal life. Is that what I mean? Yes, excellent eternal life is perfect love and perfect love is living life to the fullest, as it is written in John 10:10: "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly."

It is only by faith that we relate to God, since He cannot be seen. This book will teach you how to grow your spiritual being and bring it to perfection in every area of your life. Each of these different ways of growing in spirit causes God to grant you the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness. In other words, it gives you the peace of God. Once achieved, the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension or understanding, will guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus. In fact, Philippians 4:4–7 tells us: Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. So Philippians 4:7 simply means that God's peace, which is far beyond human understanding, will keep your hearts and minds safe in union with Christ Jesus.

While you are growing and making your spiritual being strong and powerful, you can also bring into existence the promises of God for your life by using your spirit of faith. So, as you are reading this book and confessing God's Word, notice the effects of God's Word on your mind, on your will, on your spirit (heart), and on your body.

As you work your way through this book, pay careful attention to the things you can do that you could not do before you started reading and confessing God's Word, and give thanks to God for these divine changes in your life, conditions, spirit, and body. Keep on thanking God the Father for the effective working of His Word. Declare now, as you begin, that your mind is ready to pay attention to His Word, and that your heart is ready to accept that. Declare that your will will be strengthened by the Word of God and nothing is going to make you miss the revelatory knowledge it will bring to you. God is the master communicator; pay attention to His Word and you will receive it in your heart and picture it with your mind.

As your faith in—or love for—Jesus grows, or your spirit becomes strong, you will become more and more fully persuaded by God's Word and the power of God will bring whatever you say to completion. This love we are talking about is a love based on the measurement of Jesus's Love, not a love based on the measurement of the Old Testament. Indeed, Jesus declares in John 13:34: A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. But God said in the Old Testament, in Leviticus 19:18: You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD. Do you see the difference? Jesus tells us to love one another not by our measurement of love but by His measurement of love. This is how you express a God-kind of faith. When your faith reaches the level of love based on Jesus's measurement of love, then as soon as you speak you bring into the physical realm what your words talk about.

You activate the power of God through the Word of God. That is Faith.

I refuse to fear. It does not matter what I see. I simply refuse to fear because fear will activate the power of the devil. Fear will activate the negative forces in your life. But faith activates the power of God. That's why the Bible says in 2 Timothy 1:6–7: Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of sound mind; and in Hebrews 11:6: without faith it is impossible to please God because, without faith, you cannot activate the power of God. How can we stir up the power of God that dwells in us? We activate or stir up the power of God in us by speaking in tongues or by expressing our spirit of faith—by speaking the same things as God, in other words, faith's proclamation or faith's profession. For instance, if God declares that by the stripes of Jesus, I am healed, then my faith proclamation becomes: I am healed in the name of Jesus, no matter what symptoms I possess or what my medical report says. And what I say will become true if it falls under the satisfaction of two conditions (no doubt, and forgiveness of others), as revealed by Jesus in Mark 11:22–26. The Bible also says, in 1 John 5:4: For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. So our faith is our victory; our faith is also the key for our victory so that we can become free to live a life of victory. Romans 5:1 declares: Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. You cannot have righteousness before your faith works. In the same way, you cannot have peace—or any other gifts—of God before your faith works.

Righteousness is the product of faith. Do not try to be righteous on your own, which is a common mistake people make. Instead, let your faith make you righteous before God. This is the real and true wisdom. Scripture also says, in Hebrews 11:32–35: And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets; who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, become valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again. Can you see what that means? Our faith is our victory and our supernatural weapon to overcome any challenge, danger, or difficulty of life—including our victory over death. Our faith is also our tool to change our world, situation, and the circumstances of our lives. Our faith changes our world, as it is written in 1 John 5:4: For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Our faith overcomes the world. It overcomes sickness, disease, poverty, and failure; our faith overcomes Satan; our faith overcomes every situation and circumstance we do not like.

If the power of God is not activated by our faith or our spirit of faith, then darkness comes. Darkness represents all of the negativities of life, eventually including destruction and death. But all of these can be avoided if you speak God's Word to activate the power of God in you.

Here is a reminder of the seven ways to activate the power of God in you:

By meditating on God's Word

By confessing God's Word about yourself

By giving thanks to God the Father for what He has already done or will do for you

By calling, asking, or demanding in the name of Jesus Christ; or by living by the name of Jesus

By speaking in tongues

By knowing Jesus Christ and God the Father

By loving Jesus or doing what Jesus tells you to say and do

This book is not a theoretical book. It teaches you about the realities and truths about your life because, first of all, these truths derive from God's Word. Secondly, I have experienced in my life, and in my body, everything I am teaching you about. Lastly, anybody who has the will to change his mind towards God or Jesus—and put into practice everything which is written in this book—will go through the same experiences reported in this book and obtain the same results. You may tell me: Because of the concrete nature of comments like this, I would recommend you include a disclaimer on the copyright page which makes it plain that you cannot guarantee any results. However, two other books of mine, Wisdom Principles and Jesus Has Revealed the Secrets of the Spiritual World which are free resources on my website (https://twitter.com/ dalliedkien) explain the two main reasons that cause people to fail: doubt and unforgiveness, based on Mark 11:22–26. So if you have genuine faith, or the God-kind of faith, there is no way for failure. It is only a matter of time—be patient and your desire will come to pass according to Proverbs 10:24, that says: The fear of the wicked will come upon him, And the desire of the righteous will be granted. Jesus declares in John 17:17: Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. So if Proverbs 10:24 tells us that the desire of the righteous will come to pass, and I doubt this truth, that means I have no faith in Jesus, therefore my doubt will come true and my desire will remained unsatisfied. There is no failure in God's way of doing things.

If you want to be successful in any area of your life, pay attention to the Word of God, fix your gaze upon it as it helps you to change your mind, continue to be fully persuaded by the truth God's Word carries so that these truths become strong and powerful beliefs in your heart. Once you can do that, then your mouth will automatically speak these truths. This process is what is called the spirit of faith, the profession of your faith, or a faith proclamation. You may think that although two of the items listed could be processes, the third one (the spirit of faith) cannot. It is simply a thing—not an activity. However, spirit of faith, the confession of faith, and faith proclamation refer to the same reality. Indeed, 2 Corinthians 4:13 tells us: But since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, ‘I believed and therefore I spoke,' we also believe and therefore speak. So spirit of faith or confession of faith or faith proclamation or faith profession stands for expressing our beliefs in God or Christ Jesus. So expressing your beliefs in God is our favorite activity to activate the power of God in us. Chapter Two deals with this issue, and it is what Caleb did that pleased God in Numbers 13:27–14:38.

Confession or professing is saying the same thing with God. This means that the words you say or speak concerning your life, body, mind, and will—or your health or life—line up with the Word of God. Here are the definitions of confession from Merriam-Webster's online dictionary:

a: an act of confessing; especially : a disclosure of one's sins in the sacrament of reconciliation b: a session for the confessing of sins

a statement of what is confessed: as

a : a written or oral acknowledgment of guilt by a party accused of an offense

b : a formal statement of religious beliefs

an organized religious body having a common creed

In Greek and in the New Testament, Confession means saying the same thing as God. Paul, the Apostle who wrote half of the New Testament, refers to this definition whenever he uses the word confession: a statement of what is confessed: as a formal statement of religious beliefs. For instance, Paul wrote in Romans 10:9–10: . . . that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead you will be saved. For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation. So saying aloud your beliefs is confession, is profession, and is spirit of faith.

Your spirit of faith—or faith's proclamation concerning the Word of God about you—will progressively change your mind and cast away worries about this life, or any other fear and doubt in your mind and give you the thoughts of God which refer to you. When your mind has no more doubt and worries, you will get the peace of God and the absolute conviction that God's Word is the truth. Then this truth will come out of your mouth and frame your life's course. Deuteronomy 28:15–68 lists the thirty challenges every human being will have to face during life on earth, namely: poverty; generational curses; curse wherever you go; weakness when you face bad circumstances or difficult situations; spoliation or plundering; being a laughingstock for others; unproductiveness; experiencing a decrease in glory; being the tail and not the head; having to be a borrower and not a lender; sickness; defeat or failure; fear; doubt; spiritual blindness; poor vision; weakness; being in need of all things; confusion or a lack of wisdom; disaster, tragedy, or misfortune; oppression; anxiety; hopelessness; despair; improperly trusting in the riches and protections of this world; incurable diseases; madness; slavery or bondage; focusing only on what you see; unknown disease which is not written in the book of the law; and, finally, destruction or death.

Some of those curses may be hard to understand for a modern reader. Exodus 20:5 defines what generational curses are: You shall not bow down to them nor serve. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me. Deuteronomy 28:19 says: Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed you be when you go out, which is curse is the curse I named curse wherever you go. This curse simply means that wherever you go and whatever you do you will be cursed. But Jesus came to redeem us from the curse of the law as it is written in Galatians 3:13: Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree'), . . .

But our faith is the victory that overcomes the world, and overcomes these thirty curses of the law (or thirty challenges of life) that try to put human beings under the power of the devil. In reality, as soon as you become a child of God and put to work what this book teaches you, the thirty challenges of life will be turned into thirty mirages because the devil will have been deprived of his power by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Satan will have no more power over us. Instead, as a born-again Christian you will have power over him. With faith we will be catapulted into God's Kingdom of life and light full of prosperity; generational blessing; blessings wherever we go in the name of Jesus; dominion over the circumstances of our lives; the ability to hold real estate; being the favorite of others; productivity; an increase in glory; being the head and not the tail; being a lender and not a borrower; health; success; light; happiness; strength; faith in Jesus; trust in Jesus and a focus on God's Word; satisfaction of all of our needs; wisdom and understanding; freedom; peace of mind; hope; divine healing; a sound mind; better eyesight; and eternal life.

So what do you need to do to get these blessings? You must know this striking and wonderful truth: Unless you confess or speak God's Word over your life, you will never get this specific blessing. It is your declaration—your spirit of faith, or your God-kind of faith—that causes God to rise in your life and bring into being whatever you talk about. Everything you need to have a wonderful life is inside you. It will not come from heaven. You carry in you all that you will ever need. Everything you will ever need in this world for a good life—including money, if you feel that is important—is in you. The Word of God created the world, therefore if you treasure God's Word in your heart you can also create anything you want to bring into physical being, or change any of the circumstances in your life that you do not like.

You can use the name of Jesus to change any circumstances you do not like and cause them to favor you, as it is written in Philippians 2:10: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth. Do you see what this means? Everything in this world recognizes the power in the name of Jesus, so what you have to do is to have faith without doubt in the name of Jesus. When you call the name of Jesus in faith, God releases His power, the anointing of the Holy Spirit that dwells in you according to John 14:13–14: "And whatever you ask in my name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son, if you ask anything in my name, I will do it." Colossians 3:17 also states: And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. The Bible is saying that, whatever you do—whether by your speech or actions—you are to do it in the name of Jesus. This means that you are to do all things in love, because Jesus is love. Love is the power of God.

The name of Jesus is an instrument. You can do the impossible in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Jesus gave us His name to live by. This is the best way to live by faith, as it is written in Romans 1:17: The just shall live by faith. So every day, as soon as you wake up, say, as I do: Father, I thank you because everything I put my hands on today will be successful because I do it in the name of Jesus. I go out and come in in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. By doing this, you activate the power of God that dwells in you and, through this, can go out and be successful and victorious at everything and anything—any day and every day—all through life. In the Scriptures, the Word of God is likened to a seed (Luke 8:11). The seed of the Word is designed to produce in you a harvest of what it talks about: health, prosperity, peace, joy, abundance, and victory.

In the natural realm, a seed of any plant possesses the life of the plant in it, the power to give life to the plant. In the same way, God's Word is a seed that has the power of God that gives life to the reality it contains. But if the heart is not made ready for the entrance of the Word it will not produce the desired results. Your mind is the fallow ground of your heart. Your mind must turn towards God so that once God's Word is sown in your heart it can take deep roots in it.

You will learn, in this book, how to take hold of your inheritance as a son or daughter of God in the spiritual realm—and how to bring your inheritance forth in the physical realm. God's Word can create your healing, God's Word can create a job for you, and God's Word can create money for you. God's Word is the principal component of everything that exists in this world; therefore, be wise and understand what matters in this world: the Word of God, the creator of everything.

You will also learn in this book that the key to all the life on the earth is the Holy Spirit (or the Holy Ghost). The Word of God does not work without the Holy Ghost. When God speaks, the Holy Ghost brings it to pass. Likewise, when we speak in agreement with with God's Word, the Holy Ghost in us brings it to pass. (Exodus 14:15–16, 21 states: And the LORD said to Moses, ‘Why do you cry to me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward. But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. . . . Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided.) The Holy Spirit makes the Word work, otherwise it is empty. The Bible says, in Hebrews 11:6, that without faith it is impossible to please God. So express your spirit of faith to cause God to rise up in your life and bring into being whatever you desire or dream about. Moreover, never say anything negative about your life for . . . by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned (Matthew 12:37).

All you have to do is to refuse to be taken in by the thirty challenges mentioned in Deuteronomy 28:15– 68, and instead thank God the Father in heaven for the power in the name of Jesus and the authority his Son Jesus Christ has given you to let you enjoy a fruitful and productive life on earth. This book will teach you how to master all these things. Your main goal, as you have already learned is to get to have the thoughts of God, and then allow yourself to be fully persuaded about God's Word so that you will become a source of living water. But what does it mean to become living water?

John 7:38–39 says: ‘He who believes in Me as the Scriptures has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.' But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was net yet given, because was not yet glorified. So the term living water refers to God's Word. By accepting God's Word in our heart, we will become a fountain of living water to bring life to others. In the same vein, by receiving the Holy Spirit, we are turned into a fountain of living water. Proverbs 16:22–23 explains: Understanding is a well-spring of life to him who has it. . . . The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips. In the Amplified Bible, Proverbs 20:5 says: Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water. But a man of understanding will draw it out). We can also look at Proverbs 18:4, which states: The words of man's mouth are deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is a flowing brook; Proverbs 4:23 (Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life); John 6:63 (It is the Spirit who gives life, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life.); Proverbs 3:18: (She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, . . .); Proverbs 10:11: (The mouth of the righteous is a well of life, . . .); Proverbs 15:4 (A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, But perverseness in it breaks the spirit.); Proverbs 18:21 (Death and life are in the power of the tongue, . . .); and Isaiah 58:11, which declares: The LORD will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. Finally, the Bible says in John 4:13–14: Jesus answered and said to her, ‘Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.'

Only good words will flow out of your mouth and you will never say anything that is contrary to the Word of God, instead only speaking God's Word. If you succeed in attaining this goal, you will live a life of increasing glory and victory where there is no more failure or defeat but only love, joy, peace, prosperity, success, divine health, divinity, and a life in which you exercise dominion over Satan and the power of darkness.

Our thoughts or our consciousness are vital to being able to receive our inheritance in Christ Jesus. How can we, once and for all, remove our own thoughts and replace them with God's thoughts?

The answer is found in Joshua 1:8: This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe 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. Doing this on a daily basis will change your own thoughts step by step and replace them with God's thoughts, as it is written in James 1:23–25: For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. In other words, when you look at yourself in the mirror you see and forget the picture of your true identity; God says you are like that man who walks away from the mirror forgetting what he has seen. The mirror of God—or the perfect law of liberty or God's Word that makes men free—gives you your own true image.

The Bible says that the one who continues looking at God's Word and takes his attention away from what his own mind tells him concerning himself is the doer of the Word. The mirror shows you your true identity, but you must remember what you see. God sees you as perfected in Christ. A mirror has the ability to show our reflection, but our Father is telling us to look at His Word as our mirror and see who we really are. Since we are born of God's Word, we should reflect the nature of our Father in our behavior. In the same way, as a natural man cannot feed his body by looking at food and not eating it, it is impossible to feed our spirit by listening to (or looking at) God's Word if we do not act upon it. Let us look at again James 1:25: But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

This wonderful scripture reveals the best way to become a genuine believer in Christ Jesus. This scripture gives us the principle that causes us to effortlessly do God's Word. Have you caught the secret? The Word of God is saying that the one who sees himself and Jesus in the Word of God and does not forget the pictures of himself and of Jesus Christ brought to him by God's Word is doing the Word of God. This means that if you hear God's Word and keep the picture of what you hear in your mind, this picture will help you to do God's Word. In fact, when we picture God's Word with our mind and meditate upon it, we store this picture in our heart once we are convinced of the truthfulness of God's Word, and truly understand it. This means that anything we think about becomes a belief, and is stored in our heart once we determine that our thought (or the picture in our mind) is true. God the Father is saying, If you hear My Word and remember, you will always and automatically do My Word.

Therefore, memorizing the pictures of God's Word is the key—the secret to doing the Word of God—as it is written in James 1:25. This same truth is also revealed in Romans 8:1–2: There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. There is no condemnation for those who live according to God's Word. When your thoughts have been turned into God's thoughts, when the pictures of yourself and the pictures of your Lord and Savior Christ Jesus remain forever in your mind, you will always do God's Word and God will never condemn you. Your real righteousness will remain in you as long as you keep in your mind the pictures of yourself, the pictures of your life, and the pictures concerning your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that God's Word has brought to your mind.

This reality is also what our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Himself talks about in John 17:3, saying that our knowledge of the true God and Jesus gives us eternal life: And this is eternal life that they may know You, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. Remember that Romans 8:2 also states: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death, which specifies that the law of life has made us free from the law of sin and death. In other words, our mind is the center of our real union with Jesus, our Lord and Savior. If we succeed in keeping the pictures of ourselves about our lives, our real identities, and the pictures of Jesus Christ—as they are brought to us by God's Word— we will automatically treasure them in our hearts and then automatically speak them (in a spirit of faith) and do what God's Word says.

Let us look at another scripture. 2 Corinthians 3:18 states: But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. God calls the one you see in the mirror the Glory of the Lord. We see in a mirror the Glory of the Lord, so we are the Glory of the Lord. That's the name God calls us, so we must answer to that name: the Glory of the Lord. So, if the doctor said to me, You are HIV positive, I would respond: No! No! No! The Glory of the Lord cannot be HIV positive. HIV cannot be there. I am the Glory of the Lord.

You may ask: It is entirely possible that a doctor could say that you are HIV positive, even if you are faithful, isn't it? But what do you see about your life, what picture do you have about your life? Proverbs 4:20–22 says: My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them, . . . What you see gives you a picture. God shows you the true picture of yourself in His Word. Medical reports give you a different picture of yourself. You might see in your medical report a man close to death, who has no hope. What are you seeing? You must choose to see either the pictures from your medical report or the picture given you by God's Word. What gives you the picture you have? What you see is what you get, as it is written in Proverbs 23:7: For as he thinks in his heart, so is he . . . What you think is what you see with your spiritual eyes. When God says in Proverbs 4:21: Do not let them depart from your eyes . . . what He means is that your eyes must only focus on God's Word so that the pictures they send to your mind are only God's report about you, not the reports of your doctor concerning yourself. 2 Corinthians 4:16–18 states: Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outer man is perishing, yet the inner man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. Do you see? God wants you to change the way you see—and what you see. He is saying though your body is affected by cancer, HIV, or diabetes, your real you is not diabetic and your spirit (your real you) is renewed and becomes stronger day by day. God also qualifies any physical affliction as light and temporal—subject to change. Finally, 2 Corinthians 4:18 shows us how to look: while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. You should not focus on the things you see. Don't recognize, taste, hear, see, and smell that condition, and don't allow it to control the circumstances of your life. You shouldn't consider the cancer, HIV, and so on. You shouldn't allow them to affect the circumstances of your life. Don't pay attention to the medical report, because, if you do, you will get a new picture of yourself and you will begin to talk, laugh, and worry, etc., according to what the doctor has said. This will affect your life. Stop considering your condition. No doctor is God; God has the final say. Don't consider the medical report, it's a fact, but it is not the important reality. Don't see your grave. Dream! Cancer, HIV, and medical reports are all subject to change. God's reality is absolute. (My book Wisdom Principles gives detailed information about this issue.) As you stay looking at the Glory of the Lord, you are transformed. Keep reflecting on what God says about you, and the transformation will take place. This is the mirror's principle: Keep looking at what God says about you and, as you do, you will be transformed into the image of God which refers to you. There can be no disease in your body when you are perfected in Christ—the second part of this book more specifically deals with this issue.

Keep thinking about what God says about you and the transformation will continue to take place. As the Bible says, you will change from glory to glory. There are three levels of meditation. As you begin meditating on the Word, the first level is simply thinking about it. And then you begin to mutter it, saying something like Glory to Jesus, my Lord and Savior. I have the life of God in me. Sickness cannot stay in my body. Thank you, Jesus, for making my life and the life of my family beautiful. You fill your brain with God's Word. You fill your consciousness with it and purposely decide to do it. Your consciousness is so filled and you are so fully persuaded that you begin to roar. You cannot keep it in anymore, as it is written in 2 Corinthians 4:13: But since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, ‘I believed and therefore I spoke,' we also believe and therefore speak. You cannot be quiet. You find you must speak out: I am the Glory of the Lord. I am the life of God in me.

As you keep meditating on God's Word, suddenly you start shouting God's Word and giving glory to God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit because the Word has filled your consciousness and your heart. As you continue looking, there is a transformation in your thinking and speech—and then in your deeds. Instead of looking for the pain, you look up to Jesus. Look for healing; do not check for the pain. If you check for pain you will find it; so do not do that. Look, instead, for a change in your healing, even a small change, like Elijah did. This little change will give you a strength that accelerates your healing. Remember that the Bible says, in Proverbs 23:7: For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. This means that our way of thinking determines our personality and our identity. And Joshua 1:8 declares that if we keep speaking God's Word by meditating on it, that activity will cause us to do accordingly— meaning that our personality will change. Therefore, Joshua 1:8 is the tool God has made available to us to give us His mind so that we can effortlessly do as He commands. Therefore, meditation on God's Word over a period of time is the principle of making a lasting change of our mind towards God.

In your walk with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, you need the Holy Spirit in your heart to get the ability to change the circumstances of your life and live the glorious, victorious, and wondrous life of the children of God. Now, you may wonder: How can I receive the Holy Spirit? According to Scripture, we receive the Holy Spirit either by listening to God's Word or when an anointed man of God lays hands upon us, as it is written in Acts 10:44: While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word; in Acts 8:16–17: For as yet he had fallen upon none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit; and in Acts 19:1–6: And it happened, while Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul having passed through the upper regions, came to Ephesus. And finding some disciples he said to them, ‘Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?' And they said to him, ‘We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.' And he said to them, ‘Into what then were you baptized?' So they said, ‘Into John's baptism.' Then Paul said, ‘John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied; and, finally, in Acts 11:15: And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as upon us at the beginning. So if you have not yet received the Holy Spirit, first go find a good and anointed pastor or priest of Jesus Christ, who will help you receive the person of the Holy Spirit together with the power of God. We can also receive the Holy Spirit as we listen to good pastors, since our faith is being built when we hear the Word of God and the Holy Ghost falls upon us while we are listening to God's Word. In fact, reading aloud from this book could also produce the same effects.

You must also be aware that the content of your heart and mind is the reflection of your true identity, that's why the purpose of this book is to fill your heart to the brim with Jesus's words and renew your mind with Jesus's thoughts so that you outwardly manifest your divine nature or glory. You will then only talk like Jesus and only act with the power and authority of Jesus—and also have the ability to change every circumstance in life you do not like. There will be no more failure, sickness, or defeat in your life, only love for Jesus and one another, which comes with the consciousness that greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world, catapulted into God's realm of abundant life, reigning in life with your invincible weapon—the power in the name of Jesus.

Jesus declares in John 15:5: I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. The phrase I am the vine; you are the branches means having the same sap as Jesus, in other words, having the same life as Jesus. No wonder the Bible declares concerning us—the believers in Christ—in Colossians 3:4, that Christ is our life. Without the knowledge of the truth that Jesus's life flows in us, we will continue to act like ordinary men. Our consciousness of the life and nature of Jesus—and who Jesus really is— changes everything. No wonder the Bible says, in John 17:3, that eternal life is our knowledge and consciousness of the only true God and Jesus Christ whom the Father sent to earth.

Our knowledge of Jesus Christ puts Christ in us and, once this happens, Christ begins to live in us, giving us the life and nature of Christ or God. This means that our knowledge of God the Father and Christ is greater than our sensory perception, feelings, or human knowledge. This same truth is revealed in Romans 8:1–2, where it says: There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. Flesh in this scripture stands for our senses and feelings, while Spirit refers to the Word of God, as it is also written in John 6:63: It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. Do you get the picture? First of all, Romans 8:1 declares that those who walk in