Charles Capps
"God duplicated himself in kind!...Adam was an exact duplicate of God's kind!"
(Charles Capps, "Authority in Three Worlds," page 16)
"...But He is talking about man. He calls him elohim, created in the image and likeness of God. God duplicated Himself in kind. Man was created to have dominion and authority in the earth. It was Elohim among the elohim...We are the family of God--Elohim among the elohim. Man needs to return to his rightful place and see himself as the Creator created him! They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High, Psalm 82:5-6."
(Charles Capps, "Authority in Three Worlds," page 111)
"Jesus Christ was a man anointed with the Holy Ghost."
(Charles Capps, "Jesus, The Word Made Flesh")
“God said, Let us make man in our image after our likeness. The word likeness in the original Hebrew means an exact duplication in kind...Adam was an exact duplication of Gods kind.”
(Charles Capps, "Authority in Three Worlds," page 15-16)
"God created man to be god over the earth...God gave the earth to man. He said, 'If it gets out of line, don't call Me. You put it back in line,' (That's 1 Capps 1:27). Don't lay down and play dead and say, 'Oh, I guess it's God's will.' Use your faith and change the circumstances! Subdue it! Take dominion over it!"
(Charles Capps, "Authority in Three Worlds," page 15)
"As I was teaching from this text [Mark 11:23], Jesus said to me, 'I have told my people they can have WHAT THEY SAY and they are SAYING WHAT THEY HAVE."
(Charles Capps, "The Tongue: A Creative Force," page 139)
"God created the universe by the methods which you have just put into motion by the words of your mouth. God released His faith in words. Man is created in the image of God, therefore man releases his faith in words. Words are the most powerful things in the universe today. Let me say it again, 'The Word of God conceived in the human spirit, formed by the tongue, and spoken out of the mouth becomes creative power that will work for you. If the body of Christ would only grasp the truths and the principles that are taught in this book, and put them in action, they would change this world in twenty-four hours. Jesus said, 'I HAVE TOLD MY PEOPLE THEY CAN HAVE WHAT THEY SAY, BUT MY PEOPLE ARE SAYING WHAT THEY HAVE."
(Charles Capps, "The Tongue: A Creative Force," page 160)
"Another song goes like this: 'I know not today what tomorrow may bring--shadows or sunshine or rain.' As you get an understanding of your authority through the Word of God, you won't have to worry about what tomorrow brings. Take your faith and change what tomorrow brings!"
(Charles Capps, "Authority in Three Worlds," page 6)
"Now, let's bring this in to focus. IT (poverty) should obey you. You said, 'We don't ever have enough money. We will never be able to meet the payments;' and IT (poverty) followed you home. You sneezed and said, 'I am taking a cold.' AND IT (cold) was obedient to your words and the virus fastened itself to your body. You said, 'I just can't remember anything more.' IT (your memory) became obedient to your words. You said, 'My nerves are on edge.' IT (your nervous system) became obedient, because Jesus said, IT SHOULD OBEY YOU."
(Charles Capps, "The Tongue: A Creative Force," page 142-143)
Note: These teachings are from Christian Science not the Bible.
"What would happen if Jesus walked down the aisles of your church, laid hands on the people, and said, 'It will come to pass that after I have laid my hand on each one of you, every thing you say will happen just as you say it?' Half of the congregation would jump up and say, 'That just tickles me to feath!' And you would be two weeks burying the dead. The enemy has so programmed the minds of people until instead of resisting him, they have just sort of buddied up with him, and begun to talk his language."
(Charles Capps, "The Tongue: A Creative Force," page 145)
Note: This is so absurd that I can hardly believe my eyes, He actually believes that if you say, 'That tickled me to death,' that you are speaking death over your life.
“If there's any part of hell Jesus did not suffer, you'll have to suffer it. But, thank God, Jesus suffered it all, for you! In the place of the wicked dead, all the demons of hell and Satan rejoiced over the prize. The corridors of hell were filled with joy. 'We've done it! We've captured the Son of God! We'll no longer be in the pit of the damned! The earth and all that is therein is ours! Forever it will be ours!' Rejoicing in hell had never been so great as it was that day. But it was short-lived.”
(Charles Capps, "Authority in Three Worlds," page 143)
“Jesus was born again in the pit of hell. He was the firstborn, the first begotten, from the dead. He started the Church of the firstborn in the gates of hell... He went down to the gates and started His Church there....The Church started when Jesus was born again in the gates of hell.”
(Charles Capps, "Authority in Three Worlds," page 212-213)
"It took the devil over 900 years to kill [Adam], but now the devil has programmed his language into the human race, until people can kill themselves in about 70 years or less, by speaking his words."
"Some think that God made the earth out o nothing, but he didn't. He made it out of something. The substance God used was faith...He used His words as a carrier of that faith."
"Jesus was born again in the pit of Hell. He was the firstborn, the firstbegotten, from the dead. He started the Church of the firstborn in the gates of hell."
"We have programmed our vocabulary with the devil's language. We have brought sickness and disease into our vocabulary, and even death. The main word so many people use to express themselves is death---the word, 'death.' 'I'm just dying to do that,' they will say, 'I'm going to die if I don't. That just tickled me to death.' Now that my friend is perverse speech. That is contrary to God's Word. Death is of the devil...We need not buddy-up with death. All men ae going to die soon enough, so don't start buddying up with it now."
"It is in your power to release the ability of God."
"I have heard people say, 'Those who confess God's Word and say the promises of God over and over are just trying to act like God!' Yes! That's exactly what we're trying to do: Act as God would in a similar situation...What did He do? He spoke the thing desired."
"Most of my teaching came from Brother Kenneth Hagin."
Charles Capps claims that God Himself told him, "You are under an attack of the evil one and I can't do anything about it. You have bound me by the words of your own mouth."
"Have the God kind of faith, or faith of God...God is a faith God."
In Genesis 1:26 God says, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness." Charles Capps and Jerry Savelle suggest that the Hebrew word for likeness (demuth) literally means, "An exact duplication in kind."
"Adam had revelation knowledge that flowed from God, the Father. But when Adam bowed his knee to Satan, he shut God out. God found Himself on the outside looking in. His man, Adam, had lost his authority. Satan...had become god of the world system...Satan had gained ascendancy in the earth by gaining Adam's authority, and God was left on the outside. God couldn't come here in His divine power and wipe them out. He had to move in an area where it would be ruled legal by the Supreme Court of the Universe."
"These principles of faith are based on spiritual laws. They work for whosoever will apply these laws. You set them in motion by the words of your mouth."
(Charles Capps, "The Tongue: A Creative Force," page 132)
"You must release faith in the words you speak from the heart. You must believe that those things which you are saying will come to pass. This law is working for or against you every day."
(Charles Capps, "The Tongue: A Creative Force," page 133)
"Spoken words program your spirit (heart) either to success or defeat. Words are containers. They carry faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind."
(Charles Capps, "The Tongue: A Creative Force," page 135)
"In August 1973, the Word of the Lord came unto me saying, 'If men would believe me, long prayers are not necessary. Just speaking the Word will bring what you desire. My creative power is given to man in Word form. I have ceasded for a time from my work and have given man the book of MY CREATIVE POWER. That power is STILL IN MY WORD."
(Charles Capps, "The Tongue: A Creative Force," page 136)
"In September 1973, the Lord spoke to me concerning a teaching ministry. He said, 'Teach my people how to make my creative power work for them.'"
(Charles Capps, "The Tongue: A Creative Force," page 138)
"Learn to release your faith in words. You can have what you say if you learn to release faith from the heart in your words."
(Charles Capps, "The Tongue: A Creative Force," page 141)
"We need to quit praying and saying, 'Lord, I'm so unworthy.'...We've been beaten down, and the devil has just trampled us in the dust, because of a sense of unworthiness. I'll tell you when this WORD gets in your spirit, you'll never be the same. Lay hold on this Word, rise up and enter into it."
(Charles Capps, "The Tongue: A Creative Force," page 20)
"When it comes to the prayer of petition, if a person doesn’t know the will of God concerning their request, they can’t possibly pray the prayer of faith concerning that matter. Faith comes from hearing and knowing the will of God. If there is a question concerning God’s will, your faith will always stop at the question mark."
(Charles Capps, "Removing the Question Marks Releases Faith")
"In the first chapter of Luke, we find that God sent an angel to talk to Zacharias about Elisabeth conceiving and bearing a child. Zacharias said unto the angel, "Whereby shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years." (Luke 1:18)
The angel answering, said unto him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and you should not have said that!" (paraphrased).
Zacharias wanted a sign that it was going to happen. That's just like people today. They will believe the postman or the guy at the gas station, but if God says something, they want a sign!"
God in His wisdom, knew he had to shut Zacharias' mouth or he would blow the whole deal. When God dealt with Abraham, He changed his name, so that every time anyone called his name, it built his faith. (Abraham means "father of nations.") But it seems that God knew He had to shut Zacharias' mouth to stop him from speaking unbelief.
"And behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season" (verse 20) When it was fulfilled, Zacharias' voice was restored."
(Charles Capps, "The Miraculous Conception")
"God’s Word will get you saved, healed or filled with the Holy Ghost the same way that the miraculous conception took place! Any believer that will conceive God’s Word concerning healing in their spirit, it will eventually manifest itself in their physical body! If you conceive God’s Word concerning prosperity, then prosperity will manifest itself in your business affairs."
(Charles Capps, "Jesus, The Word Made Flesh")
"Isn’t it amazing how the teachings throughout the scriptures come together with the same truth? You plant the Word, the seed of faith, by saying it. If you had faith as a seed, you would say...But so many people don’t have faith as a seed. They say, "I wouldn’t say that. It might not happen." It probably won’t because they don’t have faith as a seed. You have to plant a seed if you expect to reap a harvest. Even so, you have to release your faith in words."
(Charles Capps, "Doers of the Word are Winners in Life")
