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Originally Posted by countmeworthy
Abraham means 'Father of many Nations'.
[And ABRAM fell on his face: God talked with him, saying, As for me, BEHOLD, MY covenant is with you and you shall be the Father of many Nations. Genesis 17:3
Translate Abraham into English....Abraham introduces himself as "Hello. My name is -Father of many Nations-. Everywhere he went, he SPOKE the Word..BELIEVING he was the father of many nations for that is what his name Abraham means.
Thus 3 months later, after God changed Abram's name to Abraham ( I think) He and Sarah conceived Isaac.
Word-Faith says..Abraham and Sarah conceived Isaac because not only did Abraham believe God's promise but he spoke and confessed God's promise. He went around saying 'I AM the Father of many nations'. His confession of Faith then birthed Isaac.
I had NEVER seen that account in that light !!!! HONEST!!
WOW!! It was an AWESOME revelation for me!
I then took scriptures that were inscribed into my being and began to speak the Word of God with FAITH...not in a self-centered, shallow way but with DEPTH..with HEART..that changed everthing for me.
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cmw,
Great story about Abram/Abraham. I loved it.
I myself also morphed from the sing-songy "pray-reading" to a more personal style of declaring God's word by faith.
Some LC readers might object to my using "personal" to categorize my practice, as if theirs was by comparison "impersonal". But I found the formulaic practices in the LCs to be just that. I was even taught a song: "Oh Lord, Amen, Hallelujah/ that's the way to let Him in". I did see personal variations in the practices of the believers as they prayed over the Scriptures, but these were by far exceptions to the rule. The rule, as I saw/practiced it, was pretty ironclad: "Oh Lord, life... Amen, life... Hallelujah, life...oh Lord, abundant... Amen, abundant life... Hallelujah, abundant life."
All of which, of course, was WONDERFUL for a newbie just coming out of the "silent pews". I had a mouth! I could speak! I could pray! Tremendous!
The practice of praying out loud God's word, of hearing my voice declare God's holy breath into being, instead of the curses and threats and idle boasts of my earlier days, was a phenomenal experience for me. But like many things in the LSM program, this seeming "advance" soon became a cage. The LSM-promulgated practice, in this case praying God's word, became
the "recovered" truth/experience/practice, and any different experience or practice or interpretation was considered deviant.
So I guess I'm partly with the LSM program, and partly not.
Countmeworthy, thanks bunches for the "Father of many nations" story. Like with "pray-reading", or what I usually term "declaring God's word", sometimes you have to speak something into being. Sometimes you have to lead with your mouth, and your brain and heart can catch up later!!
