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That’s the attitude a lot of Christians have today when it comes to the Bible. They can see in 1 Peter 2:24, for example, that by Jesus’ stripes we were healed, but they won’t believe they’ve received healing until they can feel or see some outward manifestation of it. As a result, they keep pushing their healing away. They pray…and pray…and pray for it, but they keep waiting for tomorrow to see if God’s WORD is going to work, and tomorrow never comes. You don’t want to do that! You want to believe you receive, as Jesus said, 'when you pray!' You want to be like Abraham. He believed God’s WORD before he saw any evidence of it in the natural. He called “those things which be not as though they were. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform” (Romans 4:17, 20-21). You can’t walk in THE BLESSING of God by acting like a doubting Thomas! You do it by following the faith of Abraham. You do it by having the God kind of faith. Romans 12:3 says God has already dealt to you the measure of that faith. The instant you got born again, He deposited it in your reborn spirit. He put on the inside of you the same kind of faith He used to create the heavens and the earth. So, go ahead and do something with it: Feed it. Increase it. Release it! Open your Bible and read and meditate on the promises of God. Say about yourself and your life what He said and believe that what you say comes to pass. Then stay with it. Don’t be on again and off again about it. Keep believing and confessing, and don’t ever give up. “Have the God kind of faith!” It will create a whole new world of BLESSING for you! V * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Putting a Rumor to Rest by Gloria Copeland Years ago, the devil started a rumor. He told a few Christians that as long as they lived in the world, they had to suffer as the world did. He told them they had to share the diseases and the defeat, the poverty and the failure of those around them. He told them to not even hope to escape those things (not until they got to heaven anyway)...that to do so would be selfish. It was a crafty lie. And it worked. Believers accepted it and began to spread it among themselves. You may have even heard it yourself. If so, I want to help you put that rumor to rest today. I want to help you get the facts straight once and for all. You see, despite what you may have heard, health, prosperity and victorious living aren’t concepts some comfort-hungry believer selfishly dreamed up. They’re God’s ideas. Since the beginning of time, God has desired for His family on earth to enjoy those things. He’s longed for a people who would take Him up on His many gracious promises and live in victory over the beggarly elements of this world. And through the Lord Jesus Christ, He’s made it possible for us to do that. As 1 John 5:4 says, “Whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith” ("Amplified Bible, Classic Edition"). BVOV : 9