Living in Supernatural Faith

By Chiadikobi Levi Emmanuel

Faith is no longer a problem in Christ. We are recreated faith-beings. We are believers or believing ones, and not unbelievers. We have the ability to believe. This is our new nature.
A believer is an embodiment of faith. He has the Holy Spirit as his teacheran expert teacher who came from heaven for the same purpose. He teaches the believer how to fly in the supernatural faith. Jesus said He would lead us into all truth when He comes, and glory to God, He would not hesitate in carrying out His assignment.
However, the Holy Ghosts school is located in faiths arena, and the truth about God cannot be taught outside the faith. And so without faith, it is impossible to know Him. Therefore, by new creation the believer is adapted to approach God through faith so that with the indwelling Spirit as his teacher, none would teach his neighbor again, saying, Know God.
The believers understanding is no longer darkened. Godwho said, Let there be lighthas commanded light to shine forth in the heart of a believer. This light is already shining in him, for God has commanded the light and will not command it again. The believer, therefore, is now a light and cannot become a light, for he is already a light.
Any man in Christ has received a measure of faith from God (Rom 12:4). It is therefore to be disproved when Christians claim they have no faith. God dealt to everyone in Christ a measure of faith; therefore, none can claim he has none.
We are a believing generationa generation of faith. We were adapted to do exploits in the supernatural faith. You do not need to trouble yourself on how to have faithonly understand how to fly in supernatural faith, and you will begin to do exploits.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Africa
• Release date: Feb 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781482804027

Chiadikobi Levi Emmanuel

Revd Canon Chiadikobi Levi Emmanuel is an Anglican clergyman with a peculiar encounter with Jesus. 'What shall do to spread the Gospel'', the author once asked Jesus in a vision.'' ''Do not call me 'Sir,' Call me 'Jesus', He replied. ''Nevertheless go and do all you can and God in heaven will do all He could', He added. There and then He anointed him and since then mighty miracles, signs and wonders have characterised his ministry. He founded Jesus Healing Ministry, a teaching, healing and deliverance ministry in Nigeria. His divers TV programmes in local and cable TV networks have benefited many within and outside Nigeria.

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgement

Introduction

1. The Nature of Faith

2. Faith and Hope

3. Build up Your Faith

4. Without Christ, Without Hope

5. The Hope Set before Us

6. Laying Hold of the Hope

7. The Faith of God

8. The Spirit of Faith

9. Flowing in the Supernatural

10. The Fight to Faith

11. Beware of Evil Imagination

12. Take Hold of the Word

13. Faith Comes by Hearing

14. The Argument of Faith

15. The Believer’s Faith Problem

16. No Longer the Same

17. Righteousness Consciousness

18. Accepted in the Beloved

19. Believability

20. Conquer Sin Consciousness

21. Destroy Doubts

22. Understand Relationship and Fellowship

Life Testimonies

About The Author

About The Book

DEDICATION

‘Will this money be enough?’ I asked my father, Mr. Emmanuel Ani, the first day he gave me money for my university education. ‘No, my son,’ he replied, ‘but God will be with you.’

To this man, who gave me God rather than money, faith rather than wealth, I dedicate this book.

PREFACE

My heart’s desire is to see the simple faith I observed in the Bible taught clearly. I had been a faith victim in my early days as the so-called men of faith used to ask us away from where they cast out demons. They reminded us that we have no faith. They scared us away from the exercise of power, reminding us of the seven sons of Sceva. Yet when the Bible is read, the soft, comforting words of our Saviour still tell us that in his name we can cast out the devil and lay hand on the sick and they will recover.

If you have ever read any chapter in the synoptic gospel, you will discover how simple and loving God is and how he desires to demonstrate his love in response to people’s needs. One wonders whether it is still the same God of the Bible that is in control. These days many people’s attitude towards prayer showcases God as a sadist and makes one doubt God’s considerate and compassionate heart. Yet teaching about prayer, Jesus asked us to pray to the Father, who knows and understands our situation; upon reading about his response to those who entreated him for help, we see a compassionate heart.

The sin factor is another factor that was used in scaring away the young believers. We were told that all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God. This for sure was the state of the world since the fall of Adam; however, Jesus came to save the world from such a dilemma. He really saved man and restored him back to God, so if any man is in Christ, he becomes a beloved child of God. Although this is in our doctrine, until this day it is not awakened in the hearts of many. Our preachers preach more on the depravity of man and vanity of human existence without balancing it with the results of Jesus’s redemptive work. They have sung our old nature into our fabrics but have left untouched our new nature in Christ. We are weak, sinful, foolish, nothing, and even abominable before God. They teach us, forgetting that in Christ we have a new nature. We are partakers of divine nature, righteous and acceptable before God.

The young saint needs a ground to stand and learn how to flow in the supernatural faith. This book is written to inspire him. It may not be the best for him; however, it will nurse him. The ideas shared in it are those upon which I stand flying in the supernatural faith.

Just as I said, the book definitely is not all-encompassing; however, I claim that I have a light. Yet the book is open to criticisms that the best bread for the young saint will be delivered to him. My joy, and of course, that of any critic will be to see that every saint may learn how to walk by faith.

However, when Jesus met me in a revelation, I asked him what was to be done to spread the gospel. He said to me, ‘Do all you can, and God will do all he could.’ I therefore, prepare this book to the best I can, trusting in all he could do for his children.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This book is a product of inspiration. Many people are, therefore, indebted in the production. First, I thank E. W. Kenyon, T. L. Osborn, Kenneth Copeland, David Oyedepo, and many other inspirational writers who like carpenters shaped my soul over years. Secondly, I am heavily indebted to Riversoft Ministry for developing My Sword, the numerous bibles, commentaries and Bible dictionaries that helped me in writing this book. May the good Lord prosper their ministries the more in Jesus’s name. I also thank Ven. Dr S. N. Awuzie, Ven. Ok. C. Emeribe, Rev. E. E. Ndubisi, Rev. C. C. Ude, and other spiritual fathers of mine who God used in training me.

I appreciate my wife, lfeoma, for her encouragement and moral support during the long hours I spent working on this book. Finally, I thank Benson Okonkwo and Barr Obiora for helping proofread the manuscripts and also Ngozi Ama for typing the manuscripts. You are all wonderful people; may God bless you.

INTRODUCTION

Faith is no longer a problem in Christ. We were recreated faith beings. We are believers or believing ones and not unbelievers. We have the ability to believe. This is our new nature.

A believer is an embodiment of faith. He has the Holy Spirit as his teacher—an expert teacher who came from heaven for the same purpose. He teaches the believer how to fly in the supernatural faith. Jesus said he would lead us into all truth when he comes, and glory to God, he would not hesitate in carrying out his assignment.

However, the Holy Ghost school is located in faith’s arena, and the truth about God cannot be taught outside the faith, and so without faith, it is impossible to know him. Therefore, by New Creation, the believer is adapted to approach God through faith so that with the indwelling Spirit as his teacher, none would teach his neighbour again saying, ‘Know God.’

The believer’s understanding is no longer darkened. God, who said, ‘Let there be light,’ has commanded light to shine forth in the heart of a believer. This light is already shining in him for God has commanded the light and will not command it again. The believer, therefore, is now a light and cannot become a light, for he is already a light.

Any man in Christ has received a measure of faith from God (Rom.12:4). It is therefore to be disproved when Christians claim they have no faith. God dealt to everyone in Christ a measure of faith; therefore, none can claim he has none.

We are a believing generation—a generation of faith. We were adapted to do exploits in the supernatural faith. You do not need to trouble yourself on how to have faith—only understand how to live in the supernatural faith and you will begin to do exploits.

CHAPTER 1

The Nature of Faith

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

—Hebrews 11:1

In understanding the meaning of the word substance above, I love quoting the Barnes Bible commentary. ‘The word rendered substance is hupostasis in Greek and properly means that which is placed under; ground, basis, foundation, support. It also means reality, substance, existence, in contradistinction from what is unreal also, imaginary, or deceptive.

‘A belief that there is such a place as London or Calcutta, leads us to act as if this were so, if we have occasion to go to either; a belief that money may be made in a certain undertaking, leads people to act as if this were so; a belief in the veracity of another leads us to act as if this were so. As long as the faith continues, whether it be well-founded or not, we feel and act just as if it were so, or as if we saw the object before our eyes.’

Now the word substance, hupostasis, occurs in the New Testament only in the following places: 2 Cor. 9:4, 11:17, and Heb. 3:7, and it is rendered ‘Confident and Confidence’.

From the foregoing, it is obvious that faith is the basis upon which the unseen is accepted as existing. It provides the foundation, the ground upon which the things hoped for are accepted and responded to. It gives all the force of reality to what is believed. This means that faith is that which makes one believe confidently that the unseen is real, that what is expected will come to pass. It is, therefore, an evidence of the unseen and the expected. Faith is, therefore, needed for the heart to be firm and confident that what is believed for and expected will come to pass.

Now, according to Barnes, the word rendered evidence—elengchos in Greek, occurs in the New Testament only in this place and in 2 Tim. 3:16, where it is rendered reproof. It means ‘proper proof’, or ‘means of proving, to wit, evidence’; then ‘proof that convinces another of error or guilt’; then ‘vindication or defence’. The idea of evidence is to demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt the thing under consideration and so produce conviction in the mind. So when a proposition is demonstrated, when a man is prosecuted and evidence is furnished of his guilt, or when he establishes his innocence, or when one by argument refutes his adversaries, the idea of a convincing argument enters into the use of the word in each case.

In like manner, the Christian believes what God says. He has never seen heaven, he has never seen an angel, he has never seen the Redeemer, he has never seen a body raised from the grave. ‘But he has evidence which is satisfactory to his mind that God has spoken on these subjects’, and his very nature prompts him to confide in the declarations of his Creator. Those declarations are, to his mind, more convincing proof than anything else would be. They are more conclusive evidence than would be the deductions of his own reason, far better and more rational than all the reasoning and declarations of the infidel to the contrary. He feels and acts, therefore, as if these things were so—for his faith in the declarations of God has convinced him that they are so.

From the ongoing discussion, it is obvious that faith is the support, the ground, the basis, the proof, the knowledge, the idea, or whatever upon which the heart generates firm assurance on the things unseen or expected. Fortunately, from the scriptures, faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God. It is generated when the word of God furnishes enough proof in our hearts and makes the invisible or the expected a reality.

Nothing illustrates this like the faith of a child in her mother. A mother promises to buy a football for her child. (This could be likened to hearing the Word of God.) Now the child, on hearing this, jumps up and rejoices as if his mother has already purchased one for him. This is what faith does in one who believes and trusts in God; he immediately starts behaving as if he has already gotten the promise. The child goes out to tell his friends that his mother would buy a football for him. ‘Mike,’ he calls his friend, ‘you will not play with my ball when my mother returns from the market unless you allow me to ride your bicycle now!’ This is a confession of faith. Thus the idea that his mother will buy a football for him automatically changes his behaviour and his language. So the idea that he will receive a football already creates an underground support for all the action this child exhibits. Now the child has a convincing proof in his heart that made him believe that his mother could fulfil her promise. The evidence, elengchos, the logical proof, the argument why the mother would fulfil her words, may have developed unconsciously with time all the while he had been living with and trusting the mum.

Faith Is Not the Same as ‘Believing’

Faith is not the same as believing; it helps one to believe. Believing is a verb. Faith is a noun. To believe is ‘to judge, to deem, to accept as true’. Faith supplies the basis, the ground, or the evidence that helps one believe. Believing is accepting as true. Faith is a substance, the foundation, the basis for the acceptance. The child above believed the mother based on the faith he had in the mother. The faith, for sure, developed with time as the mum dealt with the child in love and in faithfulness over the years. On the contrary, if the mum was unfaithful to her words or not buoyant enough, the child could have disregarded the promise of buying a ball for him by the mum.

Faith Comes by Hearing

Faith comes by hearing. Reading about faith or about the great men of God does not produce faith. It only sensitizes the reader.

Listening to testimonies of what God has done does not produce a strong faith. It produces a cloudy faith, which vanishes in the face of trouble, temptation, or battle of life. Faith comes by hearing the word of God.

‘The Sower sows the word’ (Mark 4:14).

The word is the seed. A seed is anything that has life in it and is capable of reproducing that life.

Webster’s 1820 dictionary defines a seed as ‘The substance, animal, or vegetable, which nature prepares for the reproduction and conservation of the species. The seeds of plants are a deciduous part, containing the rudiments of a new vegetable. In some cases, the seeds constitute the fruit or valuable part of plants, as in the case of wheat and other esculent grain, sometimes the seeds are enclosed in fruit, as in apples and melons.’

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