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CREFLO A. DOLLAR, Jr.

DAILY GUIDE TO MIRACLES from Oral Roberts Ministries
Sunday, January 9th, 2005
http://orm.cc

MEDITATING ON GOD'S WORD
Creflo A. Dollar, Jr., Pastor
World Changers Ministries

"Ephesians 1:3 says that God has blessed us with all spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ. These blessings are on the inside of us. The question is, How do we get the blessings that are deposited in us to come upon us?

We do it the same way Jesus did it. From His early childhood Jesus spent time reading and meditating on the Scriptures. In essence, He clothed Himself in them. We know this because when Jesus was found in the temple in Jerusalem speaking to the teachers of the Law after His parents discovered He was missing, the Bible says, All who heard Him were astonished at His understanding (Luke 2:47 NKJV). And Jesus was only twelve years old at the time!

Also, because Jesus spent time studying God's Word, He became what it said (Luke 4:17-21). We, too, become what we meditate on. When we meditate on poverty, worry, distress, and sickness, that's what we yield to. On the other hand, when we meditate on God's Word day and night, we can expect the blessing that God has deposited in us to come upon us. Joshua 1:8 NKJV puts it this way: You shall meditate in [God's Word] day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

So how can you get the blessings that are deposited in you to come upon you? By meditating on God's Word day and night so that you may be sure to obey all that is written in it. This is God's plan for your success and prosperity."

ON DOCTRINE NOTE:
Creflo Dollar quotes Ephesians 1:3, which notes that the blessings are spiritual, having their origin in the heavenly places in Christ, yet he then attempts to define those blessings as being "on the inside of us," and then must be extracted into the temporal world, expressed and actualized as part of the temporal desires of this world for prosperity, success and, by implication, wealth and health. Ephesians makes no such statement.

He then turns the Scriptures upside down in their relationship to Jesus Christ. He claims that Jesus Christ extracted the blessings, because He became "what it said," attaching his Word of Faith wordspeak into a definition of Jesus Christ. This is attempting to say that the Scripture determined the reality of Jesus Christ, similar to Kenneth Copeland's claim that the spoken words of the prophets literally created Jesus Christ, "Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies." (Kenneth Copeland, The Power of the Tongue, pp. 8-10)

Jesus Christ did not become what the Scriptures said, the Scriptures said what the pre-existent Jesus Christ already was and is:
"Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, he explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures," Luke 24:27.

"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God," John 1:1.

Wrong theology is backward theology, and that is no more apparent than in the claims of Creflo Dollar in relation to Jesus Christ.

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