Stubborn Faith: Speaking the Language of Heaven

by Sid Roth
Fall 2014

Note from the editor: Sid Roth, a wonderfully brave Messianic believer, speaks boldly, plainly and with authority when he teaches about what he has learned. Read below his fearless and bold authority as he teaches on the subject of healing.

God says without faith you can't please Him. I want to be a God pleaser, don't you? Everything in His Kingdom is accessed through faith. Most believers think they understand faith, and yet most have not received all that God has provided for them. They read the promises in the Bible, but they don't see the fruit in their lives. If that's you, I want to teach you a key that I have learned — how to operate in faith by speaking the language of heaven.

First, we have to "receive the Kingdom like a child" (Luke 18:17 NLT). Imagine a father in a swimming pool reaching out to his three–year–old child standing at the edge. The father says, "Jump!" Now the little child doesn't even have a thought of being afraid. He trusts his father's love and protection and jumps. And the father is there to catch him. That's childlike faith. It's time for us to jump into the arms of our loving Father. I pray in Yeshua's name that the spiritual scales and the hurts and the disappointments you have experienced will be completely removed and you will become as a little child, totally believing the words of your heavenly Father.

Next, we need to be reminded of Messiah Jesus' teaching that "the thief [Satan] does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly" (John 10:10 NKJV). There are different Greek words for "life." The one used in this passage is zoe, which means "the life of God." It's not just your natural life. Messiah has come that you should have the life of God and that it should be abundant in your life.

One way we enjoy this abundant life is to be protected from the attacks of the enemy. 1 John 3:8 (AMP) says, "the reason the Son of God was made manifest (visible), was to undo (destroy, loosen, and dissolve) the works the devil [has done]." That is Messiah's purpose! What is your purpose? Listen as Jesus speaks to you personally right now: "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he himself will be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father" (John 14:12 AMP). So at a minimum, we are to do what the Messiah did. What did Jesus do? Nothing short of raise the dead, heal the blind, the deaf, and the lame. These are all normal ways to speak the heavenly language. How can you do this? You have to have zoe, that abundant life of God in you. Then you can destroy the works of the devil.

Our healing was granted to us in a covenant from God. The healing covenant and the remission of sin covenant happened in the invisible world when Messiah died for us. This was prophesied 800 years before Messiah came to earth. Isaiah writes: "Surely He [Messiah] has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows" (Isaiah 53:4 NKJV). The word "borne" in the Hebrew is nasa' which means "to be taken away." On Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the high priest would put his hand on the scapegoat and deposit the sins of the Jewish people and the scapegoat would bear (nasa') them away. They even went so far as to push the scapegoat over a cliff so no one would ever see those sins again.

In the Hebrew language, the word for "griefs" means "sicknesses." Jesus took your sicknesses to a place where you'll never see them again. He carried your sorrows. You know what the word "sorrows" means in the Hebrew? Your "pains." He took your pains, so why should you take them?

Peter is looking back at that great event when he says: "…by whose [Messiah's] stripes you were healed" (1 Peter 2:24 NKJV). Our language is a heavenly language in a zone where there is no time. There is no past, there is no present, there is no future, there is just now. Everything is now. "By whose stripes you were healed" — now! Have you ever pleaded, "Oh Jesus, please heal me"? If you could hear the assembly in heaven answering you, I believe they would be saying, "He already did it. Just take it!"

The best definition of true faith is found in Hebrews 11:1 (Wuest): "Now faith is the title deed of things hoped for." When you have the deed to your home, the house belongs to you. It is a done deal. Faith is your title deed to the promises of God. It is your evidence. Doubting Thomas wanted to see Jesus' wounds before he would believe that the Messiah had been raised from the dead. Jesus replied, "Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed" (John 20:29 NKJV). In other words, "Blessed are those that just take My evidence, who will take the title deed without seeing."

In Romans 4, Paul writes about the faith of Abraham. God says to Abraham, "As it is written, ‘I have made you the father of many nations'" (v. 17). At that point Abraham doesn't have a child through Sarah, but God is saying, "I've made you the father of not just Isaac, but of many nations." God speaks of the non–existent things as if they already existed. That is the heavenly language to which I am referring. We speak it even though we don't see it. Abraham "did not weaken in faith when he considered the [utter] impotence of his own body, which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old, or [when he considered] the barrenness of Sarah's deadened womb. No unbelief or distrust made him waver (doubtingly question) concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong and was empowered by faith as he gave praise and glory to God" (v. 19–20 AMP).

How was Abraham empowered by God? As he gave praise and glory to God. How are you going to be empowered? By giving praise and glory to God. This is so simple. Abraham was fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to do what He said and to keep His promise.

In Luke 13:18–19 (NKJV), Jesus tells us "the kingdom of God…is like a mustard seed, which man took and put in his garden; and it grew and became a large tree…." The Word of God is a seed. When you speak the Word of God, you plant that seed. In the natural, if you plant a seed, you don't go out the next day and dig it up because then there is no chance that seed is going to take root and grow. The way you dig up the seed spiritually is to speak the negative language of earth about your situation rather than your heavenly language.

Faith without a corresponding action is dead. I often wondered why Jesus cursed two different fig trees, and then God gave me a revelation. The first time He cursed a fig tree, nothing appeared to happen, but the next day it "dried up from the roots" (Mark 11:12–14, 20–21). If you had been there the first day, you might have said, "Jesus messed up big time — I heard Him curse the fig tree but it's still alive." But Jesus' word was working in the invisible world under the soil. The roots were withered. He had an impact when He spoke, but the results were not visible right away. That's an example of a healing.

The next time Jesus cursed a fig tree, it died immediately (Matt. 21:19). That is an example of a miracle. When you pray and believe, you could receive a healing, which is a gradual miracle, or a miracle, which is an instant healing. Many people, when they don't see anything happen, give up on their healing. Today, we want everything instantly. But maybe God wants you to start operating like Himself. You are a heavenly creation. You are in this world but you are not of this world. You are a heavenly being and when you pray, God's will for healing and miracles can intersect.

Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, that whoever would say to this mountain…." (Mark 11:23). I encourage you when you are praying, to speak directly to the mountain, or to the problem. "…Whoever would say unto this mountain, ‘You must immediately be removed and you must immediately be cast into the sea,' and would not doubt in his heart but would believe that what he is saying is happening, it will be to him…. Whatever you are asking, believe that you have taken it and it will be there for you" (Mark 11:23–24 One New Man Bible). I like that word "taken." Grab it! Take it!

Some don't speak the Word and some don't have an action. I believe you need both. Speak to your mountain and command it in the name of Jesus to immediately leave. If you are going by what you see, I believe your lack of experience might have you in the wrong realm. You're just an ambassador in this realm here on earth. Your realm is the Kingdom of Heaven. Become like a little child. This is how I put this into practice. If you have any sickness in your body, I ask by command for it to leave, whatever the condition is. It doesn't belong. It's not from God. You belong to Jesus. His blood covered your sickness and disease. Peter says, by His stripes you were healed. Past tense. I would ask you to speak to your mountain and command it to leave in Jesus' name.

Next, I would ask you to take your healing. If you don't see anything, then you're blessed. Jesus said, "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed" (John 20:29 NKJV).

Afterwards, I determine whether I have received either a miracle or a healing by testing it. If it was a back problem, I would bend over. If it was a knee problem, I would bend my knee. If it was a neck problem, I would move my neck around. God says faith without a corresponding action is dead. If you had a symptom and it's gone now, you received a miracle. When people don't get the miracle, they say, "I guess it didn't work for me." Instead, I propose that you speak the heavenly language from now on.

So many times I'll pray for people and they are healed, but later when they walk out of the presence of that heavenly atmosphere the devil tests them. They say, "I was healed, but the symptom came back." When I was a brand new believer, I met a man who was supernaturally healed so that he could see without glasses for the first time in his remembrance. The next day, he needed his glasses again. He came to me to find out why. At that time, I didn't know how to answer his question. Now I know that when the miracle occurs, the devil has to leave under the presence of God. Then he comes back and tests you for the Word's sake. I teach people to declare, "Get off me pain. You don't belong here. I am healed. You hear that? I am healed in Jesus' name. Go! Go!" Be stubborn. I find that if you don't dig up the seed, your healings can turn into miracles.

Finally, don't let any of this become a legalistic formula. Instead, focus on developing your loving intimate relationship with your heavenly Father. As you seek God first and consciously determine to walk in His presence and love, watch His healing power explode!

Footnote: In Sid Roth's radio broadcast and television show, he interviews people who experience supernatural events from God. Check out his interview with Judith MacNutt on her book, Angels are for Real.

Sid Roth is the Founder of the nationally syndicated radio broadcast Messianic Vision and the It's Supernatural! television broadcast.