THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The word of faith theology is insidious. It does lead to wrong conclusions, as that lady referenced indicated. I’ve had my own similar struggle with that kind of theology and the way that Satan can use it to attack one’s faith.
This poor guy is rejecting the wrong thing. He should not have rejected God because he couldn’t reconcile Him to his theology, but rather rejected the theology because it doesn’t reconcile with God (as revealed in Scripture).
This is what happens when one tries to intellectualize God. God and how He works cannot be reduced to a formula and we cannot force His hand no matter how much *faith* we work up within ourselves, or how much we are convinced that HE HAS to act in a certain way.
The practice of claiming certain verses and demanding that God perform in a certain way because of how we interpret them is doomed to failure and to destroy people’s faith. The main result is usually guilt and condemnation heaped on the person (like this lady) for whom God allegedly did not come through for her as she was told He would.
Name it and claim it theology is nothing but entitlement mentality, It leaves no room for God’s sovereignty. It is essentially self-serving, using God as a sugar daddy instead of letting God be God.
Well said, metmom.
>God and how He works cannot be reduced to a formula and we cannot force His hand no matter how much *faith* we work up within ourselves, or how much we are convinced that HE HAS to act in a certain way.<
Indeed, within given parameters God leaves such room that He cannot be boxed in as some do. The book of Acts makes that manifest.