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The Paradigm Shift: Grace is what God has already done; our faith then simply responds to it. Grace (What God has done) must be mixed with faith (Our response)...Eph. 2:8  "For by grace you have been saved through faith..."

Note: For those who are convinced this is the truth (Matt. 28:20) that all believers are to heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons, and present salvation but have not experienced the reality of  it (As the Great Two-Fold Commission) this outline is for you.

This Points to the New Birth as Huge and Scripture’s Message: We’ve Already Got it When We Became Born Again! This is An Outline for Understanding fuller Grace through Faith in Our Salvation—connecting us to the power of God!


     1Co 2:5 “…that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.”
     1Co 4:20 “For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power.”

Our Salvation includes: forgiveness, guidance, wisdom, protection, provision, God's presence and HEALING--spirit, soul,and body.

By B. D. Tate  
Predule:
This is a systematic approach to presenting fuller Grace through Faith in our salvation—the power of God. Many of the things we have learned can be forgotten and not connected to the whole message. In a way this is a CURRICULUM of the things we have understood, God has revealed to us, and we need to take in.

These revelations, answers, and disciplines, need to be applied to our life. This is also a tool for us to check our own walk with God, in order to reinforce and fill in the gaps, if something was missed. It is imperative that we locate our own heart in these truths, revelations, and applications so that we can operate in fuller grace.

What has been the problem? As one minister put it, “The promises of God are yes and amen, but reality is something else.”  This describes… More

Introduction:
The memo I never got. Grace is what God has already done and has already given; faith is my response to believing and accepting and acting upon it. The following (3) booklets address this memo that changed my paradigm and opened up the flow of God’s grace in our congregation. I include...More
Booklets:  The Memo I Never Got
                 Grace & Faith Must Work Together (AW)
                 /uploads/7/0/1/4/7014934/vague_christianity_booklet.pdfVague Christianity
The Results are supposed to speak for themselves! 
            John 10: 37 “If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; 38 “but if I do,               though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that                 the Father is in Me, and I in Him."
It is the same Jesus in us to do the same things He did for the same purposes to show the truth of the gospel and that God is in us (John 14:12)! As stated before, all the rhetoric, hype, great preaching and eloquent arguments mean nothing if there is nothing confirming, validating, or attesting to the power of God. We are not seeking signs, wonders, and miracles but as Jesus said, “These signs shall follow those who believe…” If we are not getting results...More

Booklets:  Testimonies I, II, III, IV
                 Healing: Side by Side
                 What Did Jesus Emphasize?

Part I: What We've Learned

            1) Bible Definitions (connecting the dots)
            2) The First Major Question
            3) We Are Under Grace Really
            4) There is a Better Way to Pray
            5) We Must Be Established in Grace Being Convinced

1) Bible Definitions

Bible definitions (connecting the dots) are vital to taking away the veil or mystery, and taking away the confusion. What is faith? What is Doubt? What is Unbelief? What is Grace? What is the curse? What is the Sovereignty of God? What is our part? What can the evil ones do? What is the veil?
These are fundamental questions that must be answered thoroughly and biblically; rightly discerning the Word of truth. If our definitions are different we will come out at different positions concerning what we believe. More
Booklets:  Understanding Doubt
                 Understanding Unbelief
                 God is Not in Control (This World is Fallen)
                 What We've Learned
                 Where Does Sickness & Disease Come From?
                 Why is there Suffering in the World?
                 Tension Theology (A safe guard for interpretation)

2) The First Major Question

The First Major Question: Is it God's will for us to know His will? Fundamentally: It is! Faith knows! Why Faith is to our advantage?
It dawned on me not to long ago that sections of Christianity teach that it is God’s will that we do not know His will. If we are in doubt about God’s will for us to know His will this will greatly hinder our faith. We can’t stand in confidence not knowing the will of God. This is a fundamental flaw.../uploads/7/0/1/4/7014934/the_first_major_question.pdfMore
Booklets:  We Must Be Established in Grace! (MP3 Sermon 2012)
                 Receiving isn’t’ a Mystery
                 Understanding Doubt (We are to know God’s will)
                 God’s Will is Not a Mystery
                 Why Faith? It is to our Advantage!

3) We Are Under Grace, Really...

We don’t get what we deserve; we get what we believe! What we believe or accept governs...Grace upon grace…no longer to be burdened with guilt, shame, condemnation, and fear of judgment…God has satisfied His wrath, His anger, His judgment towards us in Jesus Christ on the cross. God is satisfied that everything is paid for and atoned for in the blood; every sin, every violation, every selfish action, everything that is contrary to His love, all completely judged…past, present and for all time! John 12:32 “And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all (Judgment) to Myself."
We are no longer held by the law...More
Booklet:   What We Accept Governs (MP3 Sermon 2011)
                Under Grace Not Law 
                Walking in the Spirit vs. the Law                                                                              
                The Law vs Faith   
                How Does Grace Live? (The gift of No Condemnation)

4) There is a Better Way to Pray

Understanding our authority! Getting better results; we have not arrived but we have left! We must speak to the mountain. We are all God’s prophets to speak the oracles of God… with God; not speak to God about the mountain.
We have understood prayer as a time to ask God for things, needs, provisions, protection, for ourselves and others. We have considered that God hasn’t anticipated our prayers, needs, desires, etc…that we need to get God to move. We consider that God moves when our faith is pleasing enough to Him...More
Booklets:  Speak to the Mountain (The Problem)
                 Authority & Faith 
                 Yes And Amen In Him (MP3 Sermon 2012)          
                 A Power We Knew Not of…
                 We Have Received; We Need to Acknowledge it!

5) We Must Be Established in Grace

God’s word is planted and established when we are convinced of His will in any matter. We have “enough” faith when we are convinced…WE MUST HAVE OUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED!
This is the truth: we must be established in God’s grace! We must be certain about healing being for everyone before we can address issues and questions that arise when some are not healed. We simply won’t pursue further revelations...More
Booklets:  We Must Be Established in Grace! 
                 We Ask but don’t receive 
                 Receiving isn’t a Mystery

Part II: Another Major Paradigm Shift: It's About His Love For Us!

It's About His Love For Us! Another Major Paradigm shift has occurred in our understanding. It exposes the fallacy of our effort of trying to Love God with all of our heart to understanding it’s about His love for us! (More) 
Booklet:    Our Focus is to know How Much God’s Loves us! (MP3 Sermon 2012)
                How Does God Show us His Love? (MP3 Sermon 2012)
                We Cannot Beat the Law! (MP3 Sermon 2011)
                Walking in the Spirit vs. the Flesh!
                He Ever Makes Intercession! (MP3 Sermon 2012)
Part III: A Third Major Paradigm Shift: Worship Is For Our Benefit Not God's!

For most of my Christian life (since 12 years old), I have misunderstood the true nature                of worship. I have looked at it like it was my purpose and obligation to God because He is my      creator. I was made to worship, and when I don't, I'm not pleasing God. I often don't worship       God, because I tend to see it as a vague and often useless responsibility, to help in my life on     earth. The only use I saw in it was appeasing God. I worshiped out of fear or duty, knowing it is   expected. I worshiped because I should, after all God is God. I worshiped so that God would not be angry at me or curse me...More

Booklet: God is Great, Majestic, High And Lifted Up! (What Benefit Is That To Us?)
              Worship The God You Need!

Part IV: Common Problems

A) Misunderstandings
B) The Third Paradigm Shift
C) Overcoming Pitfalls
D) Overcoming Objections


A) MISUNDERSTANDINGS

            1) The fallacy of expecting immediate results!  (More)

                                Booklet:     Looking For Immediate Results

            2) We’ve been waiting on God to move when He’s already moved, He’s waiting on us!                                                                                                                                

                                Booklets:    Two Pillars: God Allows & Chooses if… (MP3 Sermon 2012)
                                                   Authority and Faith
                                                   No Responsibility; No Authority!

            3) God’s Sovereignty and Our part “The Video Game Analogy” Who’s Responsible?   
                                              

                                Booklets:      God Is Not In Control?
                                                     No Responsibility; No Authority!
                                                     He Ever Lives to Make Intercession! (MP3 Sermon 2012)
                                                                                                                      


            4) The Great Commission is Two-fold with Healing & miracles intended to help the greater work,   
                  winning the
salvation of souls. We are called to do what Jesus did and what He commanded his  
                  apostles to do…


                                Booklets:       Healing is a Major Aspect of the Gospel
                                                      Jesus’ Attitude Towards Sickness & Disease
                                                      What Did Jesus Emphasize?
                                                      Why Is There Healing?

            5) Where does sickness and disease come from? What is the curse? What power does Satan
                 and the
demonic actually have? Why is there suffering in the world? What was Jesus attitude
                 towards sickness and
disease? Does God use S & D to discipline us?                                                   
                                Booklets:        Where Does Sickness & Disease Come from?
                                                       Jesus’ Attitude toward Sickness & Disease
                                                       Why is There Suffering in the World?
                                                       We Can’t Beat the Law! (MP3 Sermon 2011)

B) THE FOURTH PARADIGM SHIFT: We Have Received!

1) We have received; we need to acknowledge it!

If we are born again we have all that Jesus is and all the Holy Spirit is… Salvation comes with stuff; we get to use His stuff! “The computer analogy” We have the same Spirit to do the same things, for the same purposes and for the same reasons…More
                                Booklets:       We Have received; we need to Acknowledge it! 
                                                      You Have the Faith of Christ
                                                      As You Have Received Him, So Walk In Him
                                                      Smith Wigglesworth “Tongues” 
                                                      The purposes of Praying in the Spirit—tongues

            2) What God did in Christ is in us! What we’ve been given…We have no excuse to
                not operate in God’s grace…The “Just as” Jesus verses…

                                Booklets:        He Ever Lives to Make Intercession! (MP3 Sermon)
                                                       Awake to Righteousness
                                                       Holiness & Righteousness
                                                       “Just As” Jesus 

            3) Why don’t we see it? If we have these things why don’t I feel it? I don’t feel the power
                of God in me; I don’t sense the grace abounding in my life…

                                Booklets:        Hardened Hearts (AW & II)
                                                       Training (to be like Jesus)
                                                       You Have the Faith of Christ! (Why Then Don’t We see
                                                                                                          it?) 

                                                        It Works For Others But Not For Me!

            4) Where Growth Takes Place: The Battle ground is the heart and this determines the
                issues of life including grace and faith, we must change the composition of what is
                ruling our heart…Spirit, Soul, Body explaining the battle within…Hardness of heart:
                what we focus on we grow sensitive to; what we ignore or do not cherish we grow
                hardened to. “The Garden Analogy”

                                Booklets:           AW Hardened Heart 
                                                          Hardened Heart II 
                                                          THE HEART DETERMINES (MP3 Sermon July 11, 2010)
                                                          Guard Your Heart
                                                          What We Accept (MP3 Sermon)
                                                          GOD DOESN’T DETERMINE WHEN (MP3 Sermon
                                                                                                                        Oct.5, 2010)


            5) Being Receptive is Huge! Learning what hinders us from believing or being receptive
               is vital! What hinders us from accepting what God had done…sin consciousness
               nullifies faith…the renewed mind!

                                Booklets:           Receiving Isn’t a Mystery!
                                                          We Have Received; We Need to Acknowledge it
                                                          The Law verses Faith (grace)
                                                          BEING RECEPTIVE IS HUGE (MP3 sermon Feb. 13,
                                                                                                             2011)


            6) Set-backs, Failure, Overcoming the hindrances, Indicators & locating our
                heart,
 asking the right questions, is vital: Receiving isn’t a mystery; getting after
                the weeds the fiery darts of unbelief and doubt; Casting down arguments and
                imaginations that are contrary to God’s; becoming a believing believer!

                                Booklets:           We Ask But Don’t Receive—Set Backs 
                                                          Indicators & Location 
                                                          Casting Down Arguments                            
                                                          Fiery Darts—Getting After the Weeds 
                                                          Receiving isn’t a Mystery 
                                                          It Works For Others But Not For Me!

            7) Peace is Power getting in touch with God’s virtue, putting proper priority on God’s
                Power, recognizing the leading, compassion, and call…What did Jesus emphasize?
                We put on the full armor…We put on Christ!


                                Booklets:           Peace is Power 
                                                          What Did Jesus Emphasize?
                                                          Put on Christ! (MP3 Sermon 2012)

            8) Why are signs, wonders, and miracles given? There are some thirteen reasons
                given in the Gospels other than just to show that Jesus is the Messiah! All of them
                point to the same needs we have today, and for the same purposes that Jesus needed
                them—if he needed them then how much more do we? 

                                Booklets:           Why Signs? 
                                                          Jesus Attitude Towards S & D
                                                          What Did Jesus Emphasize?

            9) Revelation knowledge verse Carnal or Sense driven knowledge (from the world)
                or Spiritual mindedness verses carnal mindedness (knowledge)…We must own the
               Word for ourselves
 it is a work of the Spirit!

                                Booklets:           Revelation Knowledge
                                                          We Must Be Established
                                                          Think, Act, and Speak Faith

            10) Believing acts upon the Word (Biblical def. of Believing), training to be like the
                  master
, practicing and expecting…”The sports analogy" Think, Act, and Speak the
                  Language of faith! We are supernatural beings with Jesus! Where is your faith (Jesus
                  expects us to use our faith)?

                                Booklets:           Think, Act, and Speak Faith! 
                                                          Training to Be Like the Master 
                                                          Awake to Righteousness

                                                             
C) OVERCOMING PITFALLS

            1) Holding onto the Truth and what we do know in spite of the things we don’t
                know
…Trusting the testimony of scripture over the testimony of man and experiences
                in this world…

                               Booklets:           Discerning God’s Leading!
                                                         How is it going? (Grace & Faith in your life)
                                                         We Ask But Don’t Receive—Set Backs!
                                                         Disqualified? No, In Christ I'm Qualified!

            2) THE GREATEST PITFALL to faith IS compromising the integrity of the Word to
                reconcile physical reality with God’s promises.
 We can’t let experiences, failures,
                and circumstances have power in us to rule over what the Word of God actually says!
                If our experiences tell us one thing and the word of God testifies to another which is
                the truth?      

                                 Booklets:          How is it Going? (Grace & Faith in your life)
                                                         
            3) Our imagination can’t run undisciplined; we must see ourselves doing what Jesus
                did! We must speak and think a new language!

                                Booklets:           Casting Down Arguments 
                                                          Think, Act, Speak (the language of) Faith

            4) Unwilling to take Responsibility? If we deny our responsibility that doesn’t take it
                away…as we abdicate our responsibility we are giving away our authority! The
                problem: We are responsible but powerless until we come to Christ then in Him our
                power is restored in His grace. A better perspective of God's Sovereignty...

                                Booklets:           No Responsibility; No Authority!
                                                          Vague Christianity
                                                          God's Not in Control?

            5) The Cross-over: Overcoming symptoms “What is telling us we’re not healed? What
                is telling us we are powerless?”
 We must cross over from being sense driven or
                carnal/natural man dependent to revelation knowledge dependent—God’s Word is
                what we believe despite what our senses tell us.

                                Booklets:           THE CROSS OVER: WHAT IS TELLING YOU YOU’RE
                                                             NOT HEALED?

                                                          We Ask But Don’t Receive—Set Backs (the Cross over)
                                                          Revelation Knowledge

            6) We’ve got the best job in the whole universe but we got to want it! Our First Job is
                not what we do for a living!

                                Booklet:             Finding Our Place in Christ
                                                          How is it Going (In grace & faith)?

            7) Understanding the need for true brokenness for God’s grace to operate fully in our
                 lives…The Baptism that Christ was baptized with…

                                Booklets:           BROKENNESS THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST
                                                          Vague Christianity

             8) Four Major Hindrances: Do not love the world…Do not love family (more than
                 God)…Do not love self (more than God)…Do not be afraid of man…However, in
                 Christ we are not under the law but under grace!

                                Booklets:           The Law verses Faith (in Grace)
                                                          What Does the Law Look Like? (So that I can cast it
                                                                                                                   away)
                                                          Our Focus is to Know How Much God’s Love’s Us!
                                                          FOUR MAJOR HINDRANCES TO FAITH
                                                          We Ask But Don’t Receive—Set Backs (hindrances)

            9) Overcoming the indictment of being powerless; overcoming the reproach
                within…how do I accept that I’ve missed this or denied it, or rejected it only to find I might be wrong? 

                                Booklets:            THE BATTLE OF PRIDE
                                                           LET THE RESULTS SPEAK

D) OVERCOMING OBJECTIONS

            -Is healing for all? Not all receive so how can it be God’s will…

                                Booklets:           Healing is a Major Aspect of the Gospel 
                                                          Jesus’ Attitude towards Sickness & Disease
                                                          Why Is There Healing?

            -Why aren’t all healed? Even Christians with great faith don’t get healed…

                                Booklet:             Why Some Fail to Receive their Healing (F.F. Bosworth)

            -Isn’t it God’s will for us to suffer? (There are sufferings of this world and the
             sufferings of Christ; they are not the same…)

                                Booklets:            Why is there Suffering? 
                                                           SUFFERINGS OF THE WORLD VS. SUFFERINGS OF
                                                              CHRIST—THAT I MAY KNOW HIM


            -Isn’t the power of God just for show? Isn’t the power of God for heaven not here?

                                Booklets:           WE DON’T NEED IT IN HEAVEN WE NEED IT NOW!
                                                          We Ask But Don’t Receive—Set Backs
                                                          What Did Jesus Emphasize?

            -We aren’t supposed to know…it’s a mystery; it is God who works all things for
             our good…  


                                Booklets:           RESIGNATION VERSES PEACE THAT SURPASSES
                                                          We Must Be Established in Grace

            -What about guilt? What about the pressure of failing? 

                                Booklet:              What About Guilt?
                                                           The Law verses Faith 
                                                           How Does Grace Live?
                                                               
            -It works for others but not for me…

                                Booklet:               It works for Others; But Not for me

            -We Ask but don’t receive…

                                Booklet:              We Ask But Don’t Receive—Set Backs
                                                           How is it Going? 

            -Why some fail to receive their healing…

                                Booklets:           Receiving isn’t a Mystery; 
                                                          Why Some Fail to Receive their Healing (F.F. Bosworth)
                                                          Yes and Amen
                                                          We Have Received

             -What about Job? What about Paul’s thorn in the flesh?

                                Booklet:              What About Job?
                                                           PAUL’S THORN WAS A MESSENGER OF SATAN

              -Why haven’t heard these things before or been taught these things?

                                Booklet: 

              - You are making yourself to be Like God!

                                Booklet:               You are Making yourself to be Like God!

                -Why do some receive healing when they don’t embrace it as always God’s will to heal?

                                Booklet: Why Do Others Receive Healing Who don’t Embrace it As
                                              God’s will Always to Heal?
 


 

*Booklets that are in ALL CAPITALS are not produced yet…

  Further Resources:

                E. W. Kenyon, New Creation Realities, Healing
                F. F. Bosworth, Christ The Healer
                T. L Osborn, Healing the Sick
                John G. Lake, On Healing
                Smith Wigglesworth, On Healing; Greater Works; The Holy Spirit
                Andrew Murray, Divine Healing
                Angus Buchan, Faith Like Potatoes (DVD & Book)
                Andrew Wommack, Living in the Balance of Grace & Faith; God Wants You
                                                                     Well; Authority of the Believer; AWMI.Net
                Jack Moore, Power Serve            
                Joseph Prince Ministries, Website: Josephprince.org
                B. D. Tate, Website: Lordsbcc.org
                Joyce Meyers, Website: Joycemyers.org