Releasing the Ability of God Through Prayer [Paperback]

Charles Capps (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1978

God's system of answered Prayer! God's Word is alive and powerful. It is living substance. It is law in the world of the spirit. Prayer is governed by spiritual laws and is designed to work for you. It is more powerful than the laws of nature that rule the universe today. Many times our prayers have bound God. When you learn to pray faith-filled words, you release God's ability and bring Him on the scene in your behalf. Your Legal Right! Under the New Covenant contract sealed by the Lord Jesus Christ in His own blood you have a legal right to enter the throne room of God. You can stand in God's presence without fear and be completely free from a sense of guilt. You can ask God to intervene supernaturally in your behalf. God's Word never changes --It changes things! God gave you His Word to put you over. He designed it to work in every area of life. His Word works, and it isn't limited by time or distance. Effective prayer using His Word will destroy the kingdom of darkness and release the ability of God in the earth. Learn how you can pray God's Word to obtain victory over obstacles and difficulties in life.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Charles Capps is a retired farmer, land developer, and ordained minister who travels throughout the United States sharing the truth of God's Word. He has taught Bible seminars for thirty years, sharing how Christians can apply the Word to the circumstances of life and live victoriously. Besides authoring several books, including the bestselling The Tongue-A Creative Force, and the minibook God's Creative Power, which has sold over 3 million copies, Charles Capps Ministries has a national daily syndicated radio broadcast and a weekly television broadcast aired over several networks called "Concepts of Faith." --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Harrison House Inc; 2nd Rev edition (June 1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892740752
• ISBN-13: 978-0892740758
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 3.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,509,269 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A new view on Faith and having a positive outlook on life, September 7, 2000

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Sylvia Straw (Jamaica, West Indies) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Releasing the Ability of God Through Prayer (Paperback)

This lightweight arsenal against negative thinking was given to me by my aunt when my life just was not going in the right direction despite my many prayers. I thought I had faith and I did... I just was not exercising it in the right way. Why ask God for something and then negate your prayers by worrying about it? This book teaches you to pray and then really Let Go and Let God. I found it to be so helpful that I carried it everywhere. As a matter of fact.. when my car was stolen the only thing I missed was not my vital documents... but my heavy duty battle gear against negative thinking. Charles Capp has definitely hit the nail on the head.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book about faith in general..., July 25, 2003

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G. Maxwell (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Releasing the Ability of God Through Prayer (Paperback)

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 or not 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.

Finally, while I agree that there can be misuse and abuse of ANY doctrine, to reject a teaching without understanding it is foolish.

I highly recommend this book. Read it with your spiritual eyes open and with your Bible.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Explains the Bible as our operating manual, June 18, 2003

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Mr. Frodo (Fairfax, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Releasing the Ability of God Through Prayer (Paperback)

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.