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Living In The Arena Of

FAITH Pastor Charles Omofomah

Living in the arena of faith simply means living in the realm of

Him, He will give it to you (John 14:12-14). Thus this arena of

faith or the place of faith. I am saying “living” because the place of faith is supposed to be a lifestyle. It shouldn’t be something you get into today and come out of tomorrow, or get into this hour

faith is the arena of a guaranteed supply of whatsoever you can ask for. The question is: What are the prerequisites for us to get to this place where whatever we ask is given to us?

and get out of the very next hour. It is supposed to be your lifestyle.

Get The Light 8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is suf@icient

An arena is de@ined as a part of the ancient amphitheatre (like an

for us.”

auditorium strewed with sand for combat), any place of public contest, and any sphere of action. I guess you may be wondering why I chose to talk about faith again. Suf@ice it to say that until

9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have

Jesus Christ comes, we will never know all that we need to know about faith.

not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.

John 14:8-10

The Bible says that without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6), turning that around would read “With faith it is possible to please God.” Putting it simply, faith is the avenue through which we can please God. Still the Bible says if a man’s ways please God, He will make even his enemy to be at peace with him (Proverbs 16:7). So whatever the name of your situation is, if your ways pleases God because you are living by faith, even your enemy will be at peace with you. It means you will experience peace, where nothing will be missing and nothing will be broken. The fundamental thing that the enemy wants to destroy is your faith but when he tries and sees that you are living by faith, it ends as an exercise in futility. However, there are certain prerequisites for you to know before you can begin to live in the arena of faith.

In John 13, Jesus began to prepare His disciples with the Word for His departure. He did that because He was going to be out of the scene and He needed them to live by faith. He explained that the realm they were going to operate in was a realm where He will not be with them physically. So He was telling them that after now, the only thing that will make them survive is if they believed in Him. Thus they had to live in the arena of faith. When you live in the arena of faith, Jesus guarantees that whatever you ask of

One way we believe the lie of the enemy is by acting on it.

Something may have been given a name and said to run in your family tree, and then you go on google.com and you become a doctor or an expert at its symptoms, so much that when next you go for your appointment with your doctor, they are amazed.

Thomas had just asked a question to which Jesus said He is the way, the truth and the life. So when a description of the Father was requested by Philip, Jesus had to bring out our @irst prerequisite in verse 9 above. Look at two things here: “known Me” and “seen Me.” One thing that makes knowing or seeing things possible is the presence of light, which is knowledge. If I should introduce you to someone in a dark room, you can’t con@idently say you know that person because you didn’t “see” him or her in the darkness. Once there is light, you can see the person and vice versa. When Jesus said those words, He was saying you should not live in the realm of the senses; you should live in the realm of revelation knowledge. In essence, the only way to live in the arena of faith is by revelation knowledge or by the light. Jesus is the express image of the invisible God, that is why when you have a revelation of Jesus, you have a revelation of the Father.

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If you have a revelation of the Father, then you will live in the look at that verse of Scripture properly in your Bible, you will arena of faith. Until you have a revelation of Jesus, you cannot live @ind the word “exploits” is in italics, which means it was not there in the arena of faith. If Philip and the rest of the disciples had originally. It was added there by the translators to bring out the caught that revelation, they wouldn’t have asked that question. meaning, but I think it kind of obscures the meaning, because it Go for the light of Jesus on any issue, this means if you want to should have read thus, “…the people that do know their God shall know something about God’s way of being fruitful, look at the life be strong and shall do.” And what does it mean to do? It means to of Jesus Christ (the Word). When you see how God anointed Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil (Acts 10:38), you will realize that barrenness is not of God.

invent. Thus, whatever was invented in your life – poverty, sickness or unfruitfulness, was invented by your words. You say it and it is done. Creative force is in your mouth, creative force is in the word of your tongue. That is why the Bible says,

“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love If the Bible says ask in the Name of Jesus and it shall be done, it will eat its fruit” (Proverbs 18:21). why do we ask in the Name of Jesus and it is not done? It is not done because the spirit behind it was really not the spirit of faith. Also note that what you say is based on what is shown to you, What determines the spirit behind a thing is the light or what you see and what you have known by revelation knowledge. knowledge you have about that thing. If you look at your The truth is that all you need has already been created. It situation and all you see is faith or victory; that is the spirit that will be behind it. In short, you cannot live in the arena of faith, or fruitfulness as it were except you have revelation knowledge. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning (James 1:17). It means it is only good things that come from the light of God. So if you have the light of

has been created, so you just say what you see and bring it into the material world. Learn to create an image of what you see in the Word of God. When you read the Word of God and you see none shall be barren in the land (Exodus 23:26) and you begin to create a picture of your baby and you create and create it long enough, you will begin to speak what you are seeing or what is being shown to you. If you say it long enough, that is

God, only good things like fruitfulness and childbearing will come what will be created. What you say controls your nerve system, to you. If you must live in the arena of faith and in the arena of so what you keep saying and saying will begin to lead you in your divine healing, live in the arena of light. desired direction because your nerve system controls the entirety of your being. That’s why James says a little insigni@icant Speak Right member of the body (your tongue) is like a rudder in a ship that Jesus wanted to get His disciples to the point of faith or the realm turns the big ship wherever it wants. If the direction is in the line of believing in John 14:10, so that He could comfortably leave of fruitfulness and conception, you will carry your baby. them to operate in that realm. Jesus started by saying what He spoke was by the authority of His Father. There is a colon, which Take Action shows that the statement is not @inished, and that there is a Remember that one de@inition of arena is the sphere of action. relationship between the @irst and the second sentence. The last statement simply says in the King James Version “…but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.!” How can He interchange saying with doing? Remember the Scripture that says the Word

Faith consummates in action but it is what you see and what you are saying that will be created. Get the light! Get revelation knowledge! Before God created anything, He created light (Genesis 1:2-4) because that was going to be the strength of

of God is a two edged sword (Hebrews 4:12), which simply other acts of creation. That was going to be the spirit behind means the Father (God) says it, and you concur by repeating it, other creation. What is the spirit behind what you are doing? because two cannot work together except they are in agreement When you walk in the light, you will say what you say according (Amos 3:3). When the Father says it, that is a one edged sword; to that light and what you say will be created for you. then you say it, that is a two-edged sword, and it is ready to do it.

So Jesus was saying He’s not speaking of Himself but what His If there is a lesson to learn in the arena of faith, it is that you can Father says and merging both to become a two edged sword, only create what you see. If you haven’t seen it, then it cannot be which does the work. This means whatever is created by you or created. If you see a bouncing baby boy or a beautiful baby girl; for you is created by the words that you speak. that is what will be created. What you see is a function of your light and it is only the Word of God that is capable of creating the Doing refers to “…but the people who know their God shall be light that will create what you will see and what you will strong, and carry out great exploits” (Daniel 11:32). When you physically experience.

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