The manifestation of Believing

[Steve Jaynes]

I heard a definition on the manifestation of believing that I would like to share with you for your consideration.It’s the knowing confidence that you get from the spirit within you to bring to pass any and all the manifestations. You might not have total confidence as you start but you have some. You have a desire to bring the promises of God to pass and bring God’s deliverance to yourself or others. You see the need and know the promises of God so you start, you begin to operate the spirit within you, and God gives you the believing that you need to bring to pass the impossible. As you act by believing God, God by way of the spirit gives you the extra believing that is needed to bring to pass the deliverance. That’s the manifestation of believing.In other words or example, someone comes up to you and wants to be healed. They have heard the teaching from God’s Word. They have some believing to be healed. They ask you to heal them. You have some confidence to heal, but may not have total confidence. But, you have some. So you just start just like you start speaking in tongues or interpreting or prophesieth. You speak one word at a time and you do not know all the words until you are finished. You are not nervous about getting all the words. You just speak one word at a time. You start, you speaking, and you acting. God gives you all the words as they are needed. In the same way you start and by way of manifestation of Believing the extra believing is there and the person gets healed.I don’t know about you but I had to think about this and search the Scriptures to see if it fits. We will need these back ground verses in our minds to start our search of the Scriptures. Look at how Jesus did it and Jesus said that we are able to do the works that He did and greater.In Mark 9:14-29And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them. And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him. And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them? And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not. He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me. And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming. And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child. And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us. Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him. And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead. But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose. And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.The prayer and fasting indicates a strong desire to see God’s deliverance made available to others. If we are going to see God’s deliverance we need to have the love of God and the strong desire to really help people. We also need to teach others the Word of deliverance that is in God’s word. We will need to teach about believing. Both the healer and the one needing healing must believe. See how Jesus got started. He asked questions. He taught about believing and the power of God. He got started and kept at it until the deliverance was completed.Look at Philippians, Chapter 2, and verse 13. This is a tremendous verse that you will need to in keep in your heart and your mind and your life as much as you can, everyday of your life.Philippians 2:13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.It is God that works within you. When you are born again you get God in Christ in you. “God which works within you, both the will and to do of his good pleasure.” God is with us all the time, just keeps that in mind as we go through this teaching. We can bring to pass the impossible by our believing according to the criteria that’s written in God’s Word. Look at Mark Chapter 11, verse 22.Mark 11:22-23And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God [or have believing in God or a real simple translation is ‘believe God’]. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.Jesus Christ says: “Believe God, believe His word, and believe all that He says He can do. Believe God. If you are going to say something you have to open your mouth right. You say it, ‘say to this mountain be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe that those things which he said shall come to pass. He shall have whatsoever he sayeth.’ You say it, you say like Jesus Christ said to the girl that was dead lying on the bed, get up and she got up. He said it. Remember Samuel, the Scriptures say that God let none of his words fall to the ground. God will not let your words fall to the ground, if you believe in God, have confidence in God and you are within the criteria of God’s Word. You say it, you start out by acting. You command it to happen, you say it. You say whatever it is you need to say. Now to say to a mountain, be cast into the sea, is quite a big thing. But you can do it. You can bring the impossible to pass by your command, by saying it.Now we are going to look at some of the criteria for this. What gives you the right and the ability to do this? One of them is God has given us the authority to take the place of Christ. Another thing we need is to have confidence and trust and faith in God and His Word. In Romans Chapter 10, verse 17.Romans 10:17So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.As you pick up your own Bible and you read it, you are hearing the Word of God. You are hearing it in your head in the morning and late at night, may be afternoon, wherever you pick up your Word of God and you read it. You are hearing it. You are hearing the Word of God and as you hear that Word of God it builds your believing. So believing comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God. How do you have faith or believing and confidence? You read it or hear God’s Words. You consider the Word. You consider, remember from Psalms it said to mediate day and night on God’s Word. You think about God’s Word. That produces confidence and conviction that God is able to bring to pass what he promised in His Word. You just believe that God can do it. One of the things you really have to see as you read God’s Word is how much God loves you. How much God cares for you and how much power God has within you? God loves you and wants you to have what you need to be blessed and have power for victorious living. Go to 1st John, chapter 5, and verse 14, and it says.1 John 5:14-15And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.He what? He hears us. Once we know a promise from God’s Word we know what His will is. Then we have the confidence, we have the believing, we have the trust that if we ask anything He hears us. If we know that He hears us, we know that whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petition that we desire of Him. We know that we have it. We don’t have to wonder about it. That builds our believing. That increases our confidence and trust in God. We know that God can bring to pass the impossible. We know that. As we act and believe on it we can command it to come to pass according to His will. Go to 3rd John, verse 2.3 John 1:2Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.Ok, you know something? This means that we can ask for many things, because God wants us to prosper and He wants us to be in health. People sometimes look at the words that I just read from 1st John 5 and they want to look at it very narrowly. They want to say this is the confidence that we are having in Him, that we ask anything according to his rules and regulations and you better follow them or you will not get anything! That’s how they look at. They put as much limits as they can on it.He hears us. And if we know that He hears us whatsoever we ask, we know we have the petition that we desire of Him. I say this means many, many things, because look at 3rd John 2, “I wish above all things that thou may as prosper and being in health even as thy soul prospers.” God wants you to be prosperous so we can ask many things. He hears us and we know that we have the things that we ask for from God. Look at Romans Chapter 4, verse 17.Romans 4:17(As it is written, I have made thee [this talking about Abraham] a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth [means make alive the dead] the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.Abraham believed God. He believed that God can quicken those that were dead, verse 18.Romans 4:18-21Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.He heard the promise of God and staggered not, but was strong in believing giving glory to God, and being fully persuaded that what He had promised He was able also to perform. He just believed that God could do it. He looked to God who was able, God could do that. That’s what he was thinking. God is able to do this.Let’s go to the Old Testament in 1st Samuel Chapter 14. We are going to look at Jonathan an Old Testament believer who had holy spirit upon him and see what he did when he trusted God. In 1st Samuel, Chapter 14, go to verse six.1 Samuel 14:6And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.What do we see here? Would you say that Jonathan has a hundred percent confidence in God or fifty percent confidence or just some confidence? I would say he has some confidence in God, but I wouldn’t say he had total confidence. He hasn’t got total believing at this point, because he says, “‘it may be’ that the Lord will work for us. Where there is no restraint to the Lord to say by many or by few.” He has some believing at this point and he starts to believe by doing something, by acting. Look what happens next.1 Samuel 14:7And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.Do, some action is going on here; see what happens is you begin to operate the manifestations. You begin and as you begin God will give you the manifestations of believing and the extra believing you need to pull it off. You see that. You start, you move ahead with it and you say “do all that is in my heart, I am with thee according your heart.” What an armourbearer though. Jonathan goes like this. “Hey, I’d like to go and try to really believe God really big now, what do you think?” And his armourbearer says, “Yeah go ahead. I will be with you. I will believe with you. Let’s do this.” What would have happened if the armourbearer says don’t you do that? It might weaken his believe, right. We don’t have to worry because that didn’t happen.1 Samuel 14:8Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.Jonathan is starting to act. He is starting to do. God is going to back him up; God is not going to let Jonathan’s words fall to the ground. Jonathan says we will pass over unto these men and we will discover ourselves onto them.1 Samuel 14:9-10If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them. But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall be a sign unto us.Jonathan is getting some more confidence, and he is saying this is what we are going to do. If they say stand there we are just going to stand there. If they say come we are going to go get you that means God is going to stand for us. How does he come up with this? “For it is God which works within you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure.” If you have some believing in God, God will fill in the rest as you act. That is the manifestation of believing.1 Samuel 14:11-12And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves. And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.What happened between ‘maybe God will work for us’. Perhaps God will work for us’ and what we see here. His believing has been increased, and he is ready to do it. The Lord has delivered them into the hands of Israel.1 Samuel 14:13-14And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him. And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.These two men got up and they whipped twenty men in a short period of time. They had confidence in God, that God would take care of them, that God would meet there need. I did not read that they got direct revelation from God saying ‘this is what you need to do.’ They knew God’s heart for man; they knew that this army was defiling the army of God, because Israel was God’s chosen people at that time. As you and I read God’s Word and we build confidence in God, we can say and command. We decide, you decide to bring it to pass because you know of God’s care for people from knowing God’s Word. As you read God’s Word you’ll see God’s care and love and concern that God has for people. When you see a need you can say, “Perhaps God will take care of that for you.” And you start and ”God which works within you both to will and to do of His good pleasure."You can see this same type of believing and action in the Scriptures and I have looked at many them and pointed them out in my Book “How to Read the Bible for Understanding and Power”. Search the Scriptures about David and Goliath, Esther the queen, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and more. See the different levels of confidence or believing they had. See what happened when they started to get involved. See if there levels of believing increased and if they saw God’s deliveranceSteve Jaynes

[Janet Gause(Orlando)]

By the way , I also agree with Emil. I told a very close friend and brother in the faith just yesterday that I think we , or at least "I" need to go back and take a very close look at the definitions we were given by Dr. because if you look closely it says "at YOUR COMMAND" Robert Gause

[Janet Gause(Orlando)]

I would suggest that you take a look at " letters from India" posted on Sangat Bains site, because what you are describing is exactly what he is doing. It seems that some of us made a law out of " wait for green light rev." I remember Dr. teaching us that God has already moved and now it's our turn. When we move , then God will move again. Robert Gause

[dick michaud]

Hi Steve,

Faith, believing, trusting God or whatever you want to call it. I think a good movie to check out is the true story of Angus Buchan, titled, "Faith Like Potatoes". I don't want to ruin it for you so I wont say more on it except please do check it out.