Better than the Placebo Effect
Have you heard of the “Placebo Effect”? For example, if a person was having a fever and you gave him a piece of candy saying that it was a pill would reduce his fever, he may eat it. After eating, he may come back telling you that it was effective at reducing his fever.
What happened? How come a regular piece of candy can work to reduce his fever? It is because faith is very powerful. The person believed that he was going to get better after taking the piece of candy, and he could have confessed that he would feel better soon. There was an effortless expectancy to get well.
Have you ever experienced this: after seeing many ants crawling around, suddenly you feel the sensation of ants crawling over your body. What you see caused your mind to produce a real reaction in your body.
Consider this: if a person is able to heal himself through the Placebo Effect and even produce an illusion of physical sensations in his body based on sight, imagine what the truth of God’s word can do for a person who has faith in it?
If faith based on a lie can produce a beneficial effect, then the result of faith mixed with the Gospel of Jesus Christ should be much more assured and powerful!
“For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.” (Hebrews 4:2 WEB)
A seed sitting by itself is only potential power. That power of life is released by adding water, when the seed is planted underground.
God’s word is a seed, and mixing it with faith is the act of adding water, and the ground is your heart.
“A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied. Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.” (Proverbs 18:20-21 WEB)
Your mouth produces a harvest of fruits when you speak.
What you believe in your heart becomes a watered seed planted in good ground. What you speak with your mouth becomes a harvest of fruits of those seeds that were planted. You will eat that fruit—really experience the effects of what you once sowed.
What is it that you love that taste of? Do you love Death by complaining, cursing and expecting the worst to happen? Or do you love Life by praying, praising, worshiping, and expecting good things to come from God?
What is the power of having faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ? You can find out in “Messiah’s Miracles”:
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