Wow! People are Teaching this to Others!!!

Yet, this doctrine has become the modus operandi of the entire marketing strategy of WoF life.  Simply put, everyone wants something.  Now, the false teacher has a means to sell it to them.  It matters not if one wants money, fame, power or healing.  Through this faith doctrine, literally everything one’s heart desires is accessible by a faith incantation. 

Marilyn Hickey notes, "Say to your body, 'You're whole, body! Why, you just function so beautifully and so well. Why, body, you never have any problems. You're a strong, healthy body.' Or speak to your leg, or speak to your foot, or speak to your neck, or speak to your back; and once you have spoken and believe that you have received, and don't go back on it. Speak to your wife, speak to your husband, speak to your circumstances; and speak faith to them to create in them and God will create what you are speaking." "What do you need? Start creating it. Start speaking about it. Start speaking it into being. Speak to your billfold. Say, "You big, thick billfold full of money." Speak to your checkbook. Say, "You, checkbook, you. You've never been so prosperous since I owned you. You're just jammed full of money."

In Hickey’s world, at least God seems to have a role in it.  She notes that “God will create what you are speaking.”  Perhaps she missed the memo proclaiming that God is only a faith-user, but she clearly has accepted the word-power tenet of the technique.  Healing, beauty, physical strength, money and prosperity have never been so easy to acquire.  It merely requires that one speak positive confessions into existence.  It makes one wonder why so many destitute, sick and injured people continue to flock to hear these wolves preach.  Why have they not all been freed?  Why are they still poor?  Why do we see them leaving such events in the same wheelchairs they arrived in?  Sadly, instead of finding riches, they give what little they have to the false shepherd as “faith offerings” in the hopes of obtaining their counterfeit miracle.  And instead of finding healing, they are accused of lacking the necessary faith to deserve health. 

Even in the shallow end of the WoF pool, the teaching is the same.  T.D. Jakes and Joel Osteen, both considered to be “not quite as bad” as their colleagues in this shell game, are full-fledged proponents of the same lies. "It's what you say to yourself that gets you healed. If you say that you won't be healed, you won't be healed. If you say that you arebroke, you will stay broke. Oh! But I came to serve notice on the Devil. The Bible says, 'The power of life and death is in the tongue.' Slap somebody and say, 'You better speak to yourself.' " 

“You can cancel out God's plan by speaking negative words.  God works by laws”  Fear is a force just like faith is a force.  If you give into fear and start to dwell on that junk and start to act on it, that fear can actually bring things to pass just like faith can bring things to pass.  Job said, 'the thing I greatly feared came upon me.”

Faith-filled words are the instrument by which all of man’s needs may be met in this tradition.  Gone is the dependence upon God for one’s needs.  Gone are the acceptance of his judgment for sin, the consequences of uncontrolled spending and the need to rely on God’s direction for life.  The WoF proponent is in control of his own destiny through the power of his tongue.The quotes in this chapter are a mere foreshadowing of the great heights to which these teachers claim the word of faith can take those who speak it.  And, sadly, a mere foundation stone upon which an entire false systematized theology was laid.  The disclosure of their apostasy has only just begun.

Kluttz, Jeff  Apostasy! The Word-Faith Doctrinal Deception