Christos) down from above, who shall descend into the deep to raise him up from the dead,’ but what saith it, ‘the Word is night thee, even in thy mouth and in thine heart… for with the heart man believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Keep in mind, that seven verses earlier, the message of Apostle Paul was that “Faith speaks on this wise, ‘say not in your heart, who shall ascend up to Heaven to bring Christ (Gr. Therefore, according to his revelation, the Lord Jesus Himself has to give a specially quickened (by Him) “rhema word” before the believer can actually “hear” and receive the promise of God’s Word. His basis of this revelation was that God had shown him that in Romans 10:17, “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God,” the word “God” in the verse was actually the Greek word “Christos,” meaning Christ Jesus Himself.
Hearing the Word of God, alone, was not enough to produce faith in their hearts and bring any potential manifestation in their life. He said that without a “special quickened word” from the Lord Jesus Himself, their attempt at faith was presumption, and could not produce faith. He preached that God had revealed to him the reason so many WOF believers were unable to see the manifestation of their faith was because they were just believing the written Word of God without any special “rhema word” directly from the Lord Jesus concerning the scriptures they were believing and confessing. It became more controversial this week when on a weekly webinar under our ministry covering, a video was shown, whereby a popular WOF teacher, speaking at a WOF convention, told the audience that he had just received a new revelation concerning “a rhema word.” Convincing them that they were hearing something brand new from the Holy Spirit, he spent over an hour unfolding his new revelation. With its adherents unable to go to the scriptures to find it, when it is taught there is a heavy reliance on personal special revelations from God to explain its meaning. It’s initial origin is unknown, but is now accepted in many circles as a bonified unquestioned truth.
The term has developed within our ranks in the charismatic and Word of Faith Community, a “rhema word” carries the general meaning of a special “quickened word” from the Lord Jesus. Pickney takes time out from his current series of teachings to deal this week with some controversy regarding a modern, yet unbiblical term called, “a rhema word.”
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