“abide in Christ and his words abide in them. Public scandalizing and shamelessly mocking those who encourage people to trust God and believe for answered prayer is commonly practiced by so-called bible-believing, evangelical clergy. Not so much ridicule is aimed at the seeker as is directed to the ministers who encourage such faith. I’ve known of people who’ve given up on ever being well or getting positive results for their prayers because some faith sapper from a main-line or so-called "Evangelical pulpit told them it isn’t God’s will to heal everyone, or that “Healing isn’t in the atonement. These cult claimers, those who consider themselves to be heresy detectives, oppose most things spiritual and cause considerable confusion and needless doubt in the body of Christ.
Look at Mark 16:17-18 NLT, “These miraculous signs will accompany those who believe: They will cast out demons in my name, and they will speak in new languages. They will be able to handle snakes with safety, and if they drink anything poisonous, it won’t hurt them. They will be able to place their hands on the sick, and they will be healed.
This passage is descriptive of possibilities in the lives of those who answer the call of the great commission. These abilities weren’t just promised to clergy, but to “Believers.” Ask anyone who negatively uses the terms, “Name it and claim it”, or “blab it and grab it” which one of those abilities that are promised to believers is a part of their ministry. They will more than likely tell you that none of the above have ever been evident in their ministry. Those are the folks James had in mind when he wrote about “asking (naming) in faith, with no doubting. Then he described the doubting man: (James 1:8) “Let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”
Marcia Greenwood tells us: “The only way to become a Christian is to “Name It and Claim IT”. Becoming a Christian doesn’t come as a result of wishing, hoping or joining a church.
Romans 10:8-10 (NKJV) tells us, “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Translated into today’s vernacular: Name Salvation, Claim Salvation”.
It takes faith to name and claim anything. The woman, mentioned in Mark 5:25-34, who had an issue of blood for 12 years knew her only hope was Jesus. She “named and claimed” her healing, and was rewarded for doing so. “For she said, ‘If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.’ Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction.” The woman said,” If I can touch his clothes, I’ll be healed.” She named it and claimed it.
Mark 11:23-24 strongly tells us to “Name It and Claim It” when we are experiencing problems as big as mountains in our lives that “whoever says to this mountain, ‘be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.”
Jesus was the first one to ever teach this doctrine, and I for one would certainly hesitate to call it a “false doctrine” as so many preachers do today. Most of those who disclaim this truth are relying on second-hand information, without doing the Scriptural research. They heard someone else say it and then they preached it as fact.
