Medical science tells us there are many incurable diseases, such as some forms of cancer, arthritis, heart disease and AIDS, just to name a few. Even though there are no known medical cures for these diseases, God's Word is a supernatural cure and offers supernatural hope to all who are afflicted.
There is probably no other subject as important to healing and health than the principle of calling things that are not. This one principle could be the key to your being a partaker of God's provisions concerning your healing.
Calling things that are not is the principle by which Abraham became fully persuaded that God would do what He had promised. Paul said that Abraham believed God, "who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were" (Rom. 4:17).
Here Paul is referring to Genesis 17. God called Abram the father of nations before he had the promised child, and He taught Abram to do the same. God changed Abram's name to Abraham, which meant "father of nations, or multitude." This was the means He used to convince Abraham to call for what he did not yet have in reality. God had established it by promise, but Abram had to call it into reality by mixing faith with God's Word.
Every time he said, "I am Abraham," he was calling things that were not yet manifest. Abraham did not deny that he was old. He didn't go around saying, "I'm not old," because he was old. But he said, "I am Abraham," (Father of Nations). This was God's method of helping him change his image, and it caused him to be fully persuaded.
Just as Abraham, you also must call those things which are not yet seen in the natural, if you are to live in the reality of God's promise. For God uses unseen spiritual forces to overcome natural things. First Corinthians 1:27-28 says, "God hath chosen... things which are not, to bring to nought things that are." Your part is to speak what is true according to God's Word.
David said, "I believed, therefore have I spoken..." (Psalm 116:10). Quoting David, Paul wrote, "We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak" (2 Cor. 4:13). When it comes to divine healing, this is a vital principle. For God's Word is life, health, and medicine to all your flesh.
Psalm 107:20 tells us that God "sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions." (Notice that God did not send His Word to heal, but He sent His Word and healed.)
The truth is that by Jesus' stripes "ye were healed" (1 Peter 2:24). Your healing is a complete work as far as God's Word is concerned. Yet we must be fully persuaded of it and call it into manifestation.
Healing Is in Your Mouth
One way to administer God's medicine to your body is to keep God's Word in your mouth. For Paul said, "The Word is nigh you even in your mouth and then in your heart." But, instead of calling things that are not, most people make the mistake of calling things the way they are.
I read an article many years ago about a lady who had a fever continually for several months. Doctors couldn't find anything wrong physically. They questioned her thoroughly and discovered that when she got upset about anything, she would always say, "That just burns me up." She used that phrase several times a day. The doctors were not sure if it had anything to do with her condition or not, but they asked her not to use the phrase anymore. Within weeks, her body temperature was normal.
Now let me ask you, how many times have you said, "Every time I eat that, it makes me sick... My back is just killing me... Those kids make me so nervous... I'm trying to take the flu..."? Your own words are giving instructions to your body. Eventually your immune system will respond to your instructions and you will have what you have been saying.
God's method is to call for positive things, even though they are not yet a reality in your body. Call them until they are manifested. Exercise your God-given authority over your body.
Apply Spiritual Medicine
To exercise your authority over your body, God's Word must be allowed to become part of you. This process is called receiving the engrafted Word.
Just as you would take medicine into your physical body to aid healing by physical means, so you must receive God's Word concerning healing into your spirit for supernatural healing. Just as medical science aids healing through physical means by administering medicine into the physical body, God's medicine provides divine healing by administering the promises of His Word through the human spirit. God's Word will heal your body, but it does it through spiritual means.
Although it is a spiritual cure, God's Word is like any other medicine - in that it must be applied on a regular basis. You must apply God's Word to your individual circumstance or situation by the confession of your mouth. No one else can do it for you. James admonished us to "receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls" (James 1:21).
God's Word becomes engrafted into your heart as you speak it. It is first in your mouth, then in the heart... this is God's order. When you declare God's promises concerning your healing, you are establishing God's truth even before it is reality in your body. This is not denying that sickness exists. It is denying sickness the right to exist in your body. It is taking your rightful position as one who has been redeemed from the curse of the law and delivered from the authority of darkness (Galatians 3:13; Colossians 1:13).
Some people who have misunderstood this principle try to deny what exists. But there is no power in denying what exists. The power is in calling for healing and health, and you do that by mixing your faith with God's Word.
If you are sick, you don't deny that you are sick. On the other hand, you don't want to always be confessing your sickness. Denying sickness will not make you well, yet confessing sickness establishes you in your present circumstance and gives you a mind-set of fear.
Make a decision to mix your faith with God's Word and call for God's promises to be manifest in your body. The mixing of your faith with God's Word will cause you to be fully persuaded. When you become fully persuaded, healing is the result.
Do you want your flesh to reflect the life of God's Word? Let the Word become so infused into your spirit that it becomes a part of you. Not only will His Word become your thought and affirmation...but it will be you. When God's Word concerning healing takes root in your flesh, it becomes greater than pain, greater than disease, and God's Word through your words is made flesh!
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Charles Capps is a retired farmer, land developer, and Bible teacher who has traveled extensively throughout the United States and several foreign countries sharing the truths of God's Word. He has taught Bible seminars for over 35 years, emphasizing the authority of the believer, faith and the power of words. We celebrated Charles' promotion to heaven at 5:15 pm Sunday, February 23, 2014. Charles Capps was a man of integrity, a man of his word and he got what he said. He called those things that be not as though they were.
