The Blueprint of Faith: How to Receive the Promises of God

By Ken Primus

Why do you believe in God? Whether you desire healing, professional success, or inner peace, The Blueprint of Faith demonstrates how God makes promises to his children and provides explicit directions on how to ensure they are fulfilled in your life.

In this introspective, life-affirming book, author Ken Primus reveals the seven principles he used to receive his own promises from God-grace, hope, faith, persistence, patience, persuasion, and praise-and then clearly shows you how to apply each principle to your daily life. Primus interjects many of his own spiritual experiences into the chapters and also fully explores the enemies of faith-lack of knowledge, unbelief, doubt, and fear. In the final chapter, Primus shows you how to "put it all together": how to live by faith and how to apply the truths to your everyday life.

The Blueprint of Faith is a spiritual resource for those who are ready to trust in the power of God and live a more faithful life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Apr 4, 2006
• ISBN: 9780595787500

Ken Primus

Ken Primus served as pastor of Abundant Grace Ministries in Orlando, Florida, and has traveled the Caribbean teaching the principles of God. He now lives in Sebastian, Florida.

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Contents

1     

A Gift Given in Prayer

2     

The Ingredients Needed to Receive Your Promise

3     

Grace: What Does It Mean?

4     

The Untapped Power: Hope

5     

Faith to Stand

6     

The Enemies of Your Faith

7     

Being Fully Persuaded

8     

Patience that Undergirds

9     

Putting It All Together

1     

A Gift Given in Prayer

And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel. For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak (Eph. 6:19—20 King James Version).

During prayer one day in 1992, the Holy Spirit whispered to me and said, The blueprint of faith. I wrote the phrase down but didn’t fully understand what it meant until about three years later, when I was in my late twenties. I had written it down in a book of some thirty or forty such phrases, not placing that much importance on this specific phrase. At the time, it was just like the rest of the expressions I had collected. The idea was that one day I would go through the book and write sermons about the phrases I felt impressed to write about, but the Holy Spirit had other plans for this particular phrase.

The first time I was called upon to teach the Holy Spirit’s message, I had a feeling of total excitement. For about a year, I had been living in accordance with the revelations that God had given to me from the book of Romans about grace, hope, faith, praise, giving thanks, worship, and patience. I knew that these principles had worked for me, and I wanted to see whether they would work for someone else. I wanted very much to teach about these wonderful principles. When God felt that I was ready, he prompted my pastor to ask me to teach a sermon one Sunday morning. I felt inspired to teach what God had revealed to me, and to tell people how I had been applying and living according to these principles for the past year.

When the Holy Spirit first began to make this blueprint of faith real to me, I was experiencing a very dark time in my life. I had five sons, and we were financially struggling. I was working in a dead-end job, not happy at all. There was so much confusion in my life that it naturally spilled over into my family’s lives. It was during this turbulent time that the Holy Spirit began to impress upon my heart that I should study about grace. So I began to study everything that the Bible had to say about grace and favor. It was while I was reading the Epistle of Paul to the Romans that the Holy Spirit really began to speak to me about Grace and it’s true meaning.

The book of Romans is one of my favorite books of the Bible to read and study. It takes you deep into the heart and mind of God, and it releases you from bondage—from the negative opinions you have of yourself, from thoughts that you have no self-worth, and from all kinds of fear. The passages in Romans can deeply alter your way of thinking and living. They did for me. I love talking about and teaching these principles because every time I teach them, people become liberated from things in their lives that are oppressing them. Freedom is what the Bible is all about. The entire Bible is about freedom—freedom from sin, bondage, freedom from devil control, freedom from the flesh, etc. The underlying tone of every story in the Bible is freedom. Freedom is the reason we believe Jesus lived and died. I’ve spent some time going to Bible school, and I can warn you that if you are not ready or willing to have God work in you, stay away. You must be ready to face God, to change and grow, to put away foolish thinking and behavior, and to die to all lustful passions.

It took the Holy Spirit some time to make this blueprint of faith a part of my life. Romans 4:16—25 reveals a teaching that God opened to me over the course of several years, which I’ve entitled The BluePrint of Faith.

Needless to say, my life took some surprising turns as these principles began to take form and produce fruit in my life. I did not know that the lessons I was learning would give birth to this book, but they did. I am very grateful to God for all that he has done in my life through this revelation. It has brought me much freedom and continues to do so.

The revelation from Romans, chapter 4 delves deep into the life of Abraham to show how he received his blessed promise from God. Paul calls him the father of faith, so I will take a close look at the father of faith, and see what he did and how he applied the principles of grace, faith, hope, praise, giving thanks, and worship to get what God had promised him. The Bible tells us in the book of Hebrews that the Old Testament was intended to be an example for us: The following verses from the book of Hebrews show clearly that the Old Testament was and is an example for us.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith, a new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decay-eth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. Chapter 9

Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated