The 7 Step “Word of Faith” Miracle Model

Step 4 – We SPEAK the rhema and vision God has spoken to us.

When Abraham was 99 years old (Gen. 17:1), and had no children by his wife, God asked him to speak a word of faith and call the promise into being:

No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations. (Gen. 17:5 NKJV)

So now, every time Abraham speaks his name aloud, he is confessing the promise of God to Him (the name Abraham means “father of a multitude”). Abraham was convinced that “God… calls those things which do not exist as though they did” (Rom. 4:17 NKJV), and “by faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible” (Heb. 11:3 NKJV).

So our spoken words become the directives which frame the creative miracles we are going to see. Breath and spirit are the same words in the Greek and Hebrew languages. So when we speak what God speaks, the spiritual energy/realities which have been growing within us through our daily meditations on God’s rhema and vision pour out with our spoken words and create that which we frame with the words of our mouths. Death and life truly are in the power of the tongue (Prov. 18:21).

God will tell us what words to speak. We don’t need to come up with them ourselves. We ask God what He wants us to speak over our situations, and He will tell us. God said to Abram, “Your name shall be Abraham,” so God told Abram exactly what to say and incidentally, God waited a period of time before telling Abram to confess this new name. So we keep God in the center of the process at all times.  We don’t need to be doing things on our own initiative. Our only desire is to live as Jesus, out of divine initiative (Jn. 5:30).

So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplishwhat I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. (Isa. 55:11)

Step 5 – We ACT on the rhema and vision God has spoken to us.

Faith without works is dead (James 2:17). Take up your bed and walk (Lk. 5:24). We decide to get up and walk. We decide to walk on the water, to take risks, aware that God must and will come through. As long as our eyes stay on the Lord, our faith is intact and the miracle happens. Peter walked on the water as long as he looked only at the Lord Jesus Christ. When he looked other places, fear entered in, the power of God stopped flowing, and down he went (Matt. 14:29-31).

Abraham grew STRONG in faith (Rom. 4:20 NASB), which brought him to the place of instant total obedience to God’s ongoing directives to him. He acted, circumcising his family on the very same day God commanded him to do so (Gen. 17:23), his wife became pregnant immediately following, and within one year Isaac was born (Gen. 22:1,2).

We, too, grow strong in faith, through daily, prayerfully revolving in our hearts and minds the rhemas and visions of Almighty God, and in the fullness of time (Gal. 4:4) God brings forth a miracle.