SOME THINGS WE SHOULD BELIEVE

CHRISTIANS were called “believers” in the early church.
When Jesus said, “all things are possible to him that believeth” the Greek word used there for “believeth” means “a believing one.”
He said, “These signs shall accompany them that believe,” this word also means a believing one.
The believer really means a possessor, one who has accepted Christ, received Eternal Life, has taken his place in the family.
The professing Christian who is only a mental assenter lacks the reality of Eternal Life in his spirit. He hopes and yearns for it, dreams that someday he will have it, but the believer joyfully thanks the Father for it.
The word, believe, is a verb. The word, faith, is a noun. Everywhere Jesus uses the word, believe, he means possession.
John 6:47 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth hath eternal life.”
Believing there is equivalent to possession.
The same thing is true today.
Some Things Not To Believe
We should never believe in failure. We should never think or talk failure because we are believers.

The believer, in the mind of the Father, is a success.
He is God’s own child.
We should never talk about lack or inability to do things.
We should never mention weakness.
We remember that God is the strength of our lives and that we have received God’s ability.
Jesus said to the disciples that they were to tarry in Jerusalem until they received power from on high.

The Greek word translated “power” means “ability.”
Then they were to tarry in Jerusalem until they received the ability of God.
We have never majored this. We have never heard it explained. How it grips our hearts. We hardly dare say it out loud: “God is my ability.”
We have ability to do anything that the Master would have done
We have ability to love the unlovely and the hateful just as He loves them.
Christ died for the ungodly and the unworthy.
We have the ability to live for these unworthy ones and these ungodly ones.
We have the ability to know the Word, because God is our ability. He is the author of the Word.
We should never talk hatred, because hatred is the badge of the adversary.
We should never allow ourselves to think it.
We should never for a moment permit ourselves to admit that wrong can win or that sin can conquer.

We are God’s representatives. We are taking Jesus’ place, doing Jesus’ work.
We have His Name with all authority. We have Him as our wisdom.
We have Him as our ability.
If we only knew it, we are supermen.
If we could understand how He looks upon us, how He thinks of us, we would never again talk weakness and failure and lack.
We are in God’s class of being. We are partakers of His nature.
We are taking the place of Jesus in His absence.
We are doing the kind of work that Jesus did.
“Greater things than these shall ye do, because I go unto the Father.” Whatsoever ye shall demand in my name, that will I do that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”
We step out of the old realm of the Senses where weakness and failure dominated into this new realm of success and victory.

We know that that Righteousness gives us access to the throne room of God and we have as much a right to go into the throne room as Jesus.
This puts prayer on a new basis. We are not pleading and crying, but we are going in as sons and daughters assuming our responsibilities and laying the needs of the world before Him.
Prayer becomes like an executive meeting.
We have come in to get a requisition to meet some special need.