I have always loved this testimony from Kenneth E. Hagin in today's "Faith Food":
Keeping His Word
"I am watching over my word to perform it" (Jerermiah 1:12).
You may be certain that if you accept God's Word and act on it, He is watching over that Word to make it good in your life. All you need to do is to act on the Word. It is very important that you learn this simple little lesson.
Acting on the Word is not struggling. It is not crying. It is not praying. It is simply acting on what God has spoken, and that brings results.
Several years ago, after I had spent hours struggling and praying about finances and healing for my family, I lay exhausted on the altar of a church. Once I was finally quiet, the Lord could speak to me.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"I came out here to pray through," I said.
"What do you mean by 'pray through?'"
"I guess I was going to pray until I had some kind of feeling or a witness that these needs are met. I'm 365 miles from home. I thought I would know somehow when my children were healed and our financial needs were met."
"Isn't My Word sufficient for you? You are not acting like My Word is so," the Lord said. "In fact, you're acting as if it were not so. You're acting as though you think if you pray long enough and loud enough, you might eventually talk Me into the notion of not being a liar and of keeping My word."
You may be certain that if you accept God's Word and act on it, He is watching over that Word to make it good in your life. All you need to do is to act on the Word. It is very important that you learn this simple little lesson.
Acting on the Word is not struggling. It is not crying. It is not praying. It is simply acting on what God has spoken, and that brings results.
Several years ago, after I had spent hours struggling and praying about finances and healing for my family, I lay exhausted on the altar of a church. Once I was finally quiet, the Lord could speak to me.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"I came out here to pray through," I said.
"What do you mean by 'pray through?'"
"I guess I was going to pray until I had some kind of feeling or a witness that these needs are met. I'm 365 miles from home. I thought I would know somehow when my children were healed and our financial needs were met."
"Isn't My Word sufficient for you? You are not acting like My Word is so," the Lord said. "In fact, you're acting as if it were not so. You're acting as though you think if you pray long enough and loud enough, you might eventually talk Me into the notion of not being a liar and of keeping My word."
Confession: I believe God. And I act like I believe Him!
Acting on the Word of God does not mean that you go out and write 'faith checks' or that you go throw out all of your medicine. It begins with rejecting any thoughts contrary to the promises of the Word that you are standing on and replacing them with the Word. Then it involves thanking and praising Him just as you would if you had the answer in your hands or that your eyes could see it. You refuse worry and fear and continually picture the answer so that by the time it is manifest, you have already rejoiced so much over it that it is ALMOST anticlimactic! The easiest and surest sign that you truly believe that you have the answer is when you no longer ask for something you do not have, but you THANK Him for what KNOW belongs to you! It takes time to develop that level of faith and it may be easier in some areas than others. We develop that faith through the Word (Romans 10:17) and meditating on it (Joshua 1:8). FEED on the Word concerning those things that you have need of and then ask according to that Word (1 John 5:14-15)! God is NOT holding anything back. He desires only good things for you (John 10:10 and 3 John 2). He is 100% ABLE and 100% willing, so let go of anything you may have been taught contrary yo that Truth! BELIEVE and RECEIVE! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Young and Free with "Wake":Shalom in Him!
