What do you do when you are in pain? Do you deny the pain? Do you say, “I don’t hurt. I don’t have pain. I’m not really in pain. My back doesn’t hurt”?
No, you ignore it for a higher vision, a higher revelation. What do you look at? You look at the unchanging Word of the Living God.
Hebrews 6:18 says it is impossible for God to lie. If it is impossible for God to lie, then the only other alternative is that God must tell the truth.
So if God says that with Jesus’ stripes I was healed, then I must be healed. If I am not healed, God is a liar. And if God is a liar, the Bible is invalid and of no effect.
“Yeah, but I don’t feel well.”
That is your problem. You are walking by your senses instead of walking by the Word of God. You say you believe the Bible, but you do not. You believe the circumstances.
I have seen too many people come to meetings to be prayed for, then the first thing they say when they leave the prayer line is, “No, no. It didn’t work. I don’t feel any better.” And they never will.
Now, I am talking about faith here, not the supernatural intervention of God. When the gifts of the Spirit are operating, God is initiating it, and you do not have to believe anything.
But you cannot walk in those signs and wonders all your life. And a lot of people lose their healing before they get out the front door, because they do not know how to keep it by faith.
We must walk by faith.
Excerpt permission granted by Faith One Publishing
Apostle Frederick K.C. Price is the founder of Crenshaw Christian Center (CCC) in Los Angeles, California. He began CCC in 1973 and shepherded it into a ministry of world renown, with services held in the 10,000-seat FaithDome.
In 1978, Apostle Price received instruction from God to begin a television broadcast and, as a result, Ever Increasing Faith Ministries (EIFM) began broadcasting in five major television markets. Thus, the television broadcast soon after became global.
EIFM can be viewed on many television stations in all 50 states and in many foreign countries. Apostle Price is also heard on numerous radio programs and 19 Internet broadcast stations. Additionally, he can be seen on most social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, and others. In 1990, Apostle Price founded the Fellowship of Inner-City Word of Faith Ministries (FICWFM), which later became the Fellowship of International Christian Word of Faith Ministries before disbanding in 2017. And in 2001, he established an East Coast church, Crenshaw Christian Center East.
A visionary and prolific author, Apostle Price is the author of some 50 books on faith, healing, prosperity, and the Holy Spirit. How Faith Works is a classic on the operation of faith and its life-changing principles.
Although he had already operated in the fivefold ministry gift of apostle, in 2008 Apostle Price was publicly affirmed as an apostle of faith. Under the mantle of the teaching gift, Apostle Price established several schools for ministry and formal education at CCC. Among them are Frederick K.C. Price III Christian Schools (preschool to 12th grade); the Ministry Training Institute in 1985; a CCC Correspondence School; the Frederick K.C. Price School of the Bible; and in 2008, the Apostle Price Ministry Training Center. Over the years, Apostle Price has received many prestigious awards, most notably the Horatio Alger Award and the Kelly Miller Smith Interfaith Award.
A year after his affirmation and after more than 35 years of service, Apostle Price stepped aside as pastor to formally install his son, Frederick K. Price Jr., as his successor. For years he served as the presiding prelate of both CCC West and CCC East and as the chairman of CCC’s board of directors. Having retired from his position as pastor and all other official duties, he restricts much of his travel.
A devout husband, Apostle Price has been married to Dr. Betty Price for 67 years. They are the proud parents of four children, ten grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.