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Title: Releasing the Ability of God Through Prayer by Charles Capps ISBN: 0-89274-075-2 Publisher: Harrison House Pub. Date: 01 June, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Guaranteed to revolutionize your prayer life!!
Comment: This is certainly not your typical book on prayer. It is full of powerful truths that have been hidden from the Body of Christ for centuries. One thing that has held Christians back is the fact that they never really learned how to pray. This book will change your prayer life forever! I recommend it to every believer!
Rating: 4
Summary: Good book about faith in general...
Comment: While I do not agree with all Charles Capps has to say, I do believe that he shares some important truths that have long been neglected by the Church.
Though any truth may be taken to an extreme, to deny it all together is just as bad if not detrimental. Is Charles a "name-it-and-claim-it teacher? If by this you mean that we have the authority to name a scriptural promise and "claim" it then yes, Capps is definately in this camp. And we all should be as the scriptures teach that whatever God has provided by his Grace, we can claim by faith. All of the promises are "Yes and A-men" so where specific promises are concerned, you do NOT have to pray and see if God wants you to have what He has already died to give you!
Also, a major complaint made in other reviews is that Capps teaches that we are not to pray to Jesus. This is scriptural! Jesus Himself declared that "in that day ye shall ask me nothing..." We are to go directly to God and ask for He is our Father and we are His children. We are to go to the Throne in His name--not pray to Jesus. This is Bible. This is teaching straight from the Master and yet because Capps said it, it's now heresy? Get your theological thumb out of your mouth and grow up!
Some of Capp's detractors seem to have a very shallow understanding of what the Bible teaches in regard to faith and prayer. Some believe in a "No-Fault" religion.
They simply pray and if God says yes on that particular day, then fine--the prayer is answered. And if not, Cay sera sera. Either way, it is not the fault of the person praying. NO, this is wrong. Whether your prayers are answered depend a whole lot more on you than on God.
Lastly, no, we are not God but there are plenty of scriptures that talk about the power of the tongue. To say that Capps is into "heresy" is simply theological pride, ignorance or a combination of both.
Critics of this type of message had better be careful to call what God has said "heresy." I believe most of those who do not understand this type of teaching are better off keeping their mouths and their pens shut until they get a little light on the subject. Otherwise, it is to contribute to your own folly.
I highly recommend this book. Read it with your spiritual eyes open and with your Bible.
Rating: 5
Summary: Explains the Bible as our operating manual
Comment: I would like to say first of all that there's a widespread tendency in Christian circles to include the words "if it be your will" in every prayer. Well, that does a couple of things here. First, it sort of absolves the pray-ER of the responsibility to search through meditate on the Scriptures to find out God's will for him/herself, and second, it makes any kind of effective faith impossible.
When Jesus said "not my will, but Yours be done" - He knew his Father's will, and he proclaimed that it be done. We need to do the same. If I tell my kid "we'll go to the park tomorrow, if it's my will" - he'll ask - "well, what's your will then on this one, Dad?!". See - how can he believe my promise (it can't really be called a promise) if he doesn't know my will?! A good thing about God's will is that it's made clear in the Bible, and He doesn't change his mind.
So, find out His will, and ask ("Whatsoever you shall ask [the Father] in my Name" - yes, we are to ask the Father, Jesus is the mediator of our covenant with God (our covenant is with God the Father - Jehovah, just like Abraham's covenant was with Jehovah, except Jehovah wasn't revealed as the Father at Abraham's time). The office of the covenant Mediator is Jesus's divinely appointed office - so if we were to ask Jesus Himself and not direct the prayer to the Father, how can He mediate if we cut out God the Father out of the equation?! So - after we ask, we are to walk by faith, not by sight (believe that you receive it, and you shall have it - i.e., receive it by faith first, before it's manifest).
If anyone terms such scriptural approach "name it and claim it" - fine, but that's how it works, just kep in mind that naming has to be done when you know the will of God (at the very least, you need to know that He can't and won't grant answers to prayers that promote sin or use sin as a means to an end (a classic example - if you fell in love with one's wife and want to marry her by breaking her already existing marriage, or if you ask God to help you get into a school after you have knowingly falsified information on your school application that has a direct bearing on the acceptance decision), and that Jesus came to give us life, and give it MORE ABUNDANTLY, and "you don't have because you ask not" - some incorrectly call such asking "twisting God's arm" - please don't be offended, but it's God's intent that we ask before He does anything for us) - and remember, He is a Healer and a Provider (there's some of His will revealed in these names of God). After that, claim it as yours! (ask, and ye shall receive - well, you asked, God's word says that you SHALL receive (not MIGHT receive), so it's as good as done (no word shall return to Me void, but will accomplish the purpose for which it was send). Remember - by the fruit of your lips shall you be satisfied.
If something doesn't work right away - search the scriptures, read more literature such as the book under review, talk to the right Christians who rightly divide the Word, and keep trying - and you batting average will be better that any baseball star! After all, learning to walk in the spiritual realm is not unlike learning to walk in the physical world as a child - the more you do it, the better you get, and after a while, you practically never fall down!
Sorry I didn't logically organize my argument, but I think you catch the main drift. Please read John chapters 14, 15, 16 and Hebrews if you want to see for yourself where my argument is grounded. Also, this discussion gives you a glimpse of what the book talks about. For those who are just entering into this new realm of the understanding, it might be helpful to read first E.W. Kenyon's "Basic Bible course", and "Father and His Family" to help put your Bible knowledge into a system, and then proceed to Mr. Capps's works for more day-to-day applications.
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Title: The Tongue: A Creative Force by Charles Capps ISBN: 0892740612 Publisher: Harrison House Pub. Date: 01 June, 1976 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Authority in Three Worlds by Charles Capps ISBN: 089274281X Publisher: Harrison House Pub. Date: 01 June, 1982 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Faith and Confession by Charles Capps ISBN: 1577941322 Publisher: Harrison House Pub. Date: 01 June, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Success Motivation Through the Word by Charles Capps ISBN: 089274183X Publisher: Harrison House Pub. Date: 01 June, 1982 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Angels: Knowing Their Purpose, Releasing Their Power by Charles Capps ISBN: 0892743085 Publisher: Harrison House Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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