According to Your Faith...

...be it done unto you. How many times did Jesus say that to those who came to Him for miraculous intervention? And what exactly was He saying to them?

Everyone who came to Him came in faith. They believed that they would get what they were seeking...they could see it coming to pass in the eye of their heart. They mixed that inner vision with words and action.

In essence, they had already conceived of a life different than the one they had. They chose life, blessing, instead of death and the curse. They were, in fact, already delivered—Jesus never said "I healed you, or I raised your child from the dead."

He was demonstrating the power within, the power of faith—believing 1) that what we say is going to happen, and 2) that we receive the instant we pray. [Mark 11:22-24]

Ephesians 3:20 says it this way: 'Now to Him Who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us...' Go up a couple of verses in that chapter, where the Holy Spirit, through Paul, says that God would grant us, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man.

As a Man Thinks...
Most people have heard Proverbs 23:7 quoted...'For as he thinks within himself, so he is.' And of course there's Joel 3:10...'Let the weak say, "I am a mighty man."'

I believe these truths demonstrate 'according to your faith be it done unto you.'

You don't read much about faith in the Old Testament. We know that Noah and Abraham and Moses had faith because we are told in the New Testament that their actions constituted faith. We see David believing in the Lord's deliverances, and then we see him delivered.

Some may call it positive thinking, but I think it's faith. Faith in two places—the heart and the mouth. The heart, where the vision of blessing grows from the Word and from the indwelling Spirit...and the mouth, where agreement with God and His Word is decreed.

Think From the Desired End, Not Of It
If it is true that 'as a man thinks, so is he...' then our access to God's blessing is between our ears. Change how you think within, or as Romans 12:2 says, '...be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.'

[Aside...note that the will of God is not tragedy, horror and misery...see John 10:10]

So we see that life-changing faith, the 'be it done according to' kind of faith, begins in the mind. See the unseen, the already answered prayer—think from the end, not of it.

We also know that all of the promises of God are 'yes' in Him [2 Corinthians 1:20]—Jesus spent 4 chapters of John telling us that the Father would give us whatever we ask [John 14-17, 1 John 3:22]. We can believe we receive when we pray!

The Mouth
The second place faith is in in the mouth. Job 22:28 says "You will also decree a thing, and it will be established for you..." Then of course there are the Psalms and Proverbs, books of wisdom that are all about using the mouth to reign in life.

Back to Joel 3:10...let the weak say "I am a mighty man." Not 'let the weak say "Dear God, I'm so weak..please help me!"' God is the Great I Am—we are created in His image, filled with His Spirit, and we are instructed to say 'I am' to change our lives.

Agree with God. He says 'by His stripes you were healed.' So you say 'I am healed.' And don't just say it over and over, like some rote, meaningless ritual. Meditate on being healed, see it, think from being already healed...then decree it with power!