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B V O V : 7 not when you're suddenly faced with tragedy, disease, poverty or some other kind of storm. The best time to build your faith is now. The wisest thing to do is make a quality decision now and say, "I'm going to build my house on the rock of The WORD today and every day." What if you're already in the middle of a storm and your house is falling down around you? Is it too late for you? No, it's not. God will still help you. If you call on Him and start standing on His WORD right now, He'll work the miracles necessary to bring you through. But don't stay in the position where you have to keep living on last-minute miracles. If you're drowning in debt, for instance, don't just keep crying out to God every month to help you make your credit card payment. Find out from the Scriptures what He says about financial abundance. Begin believing God for all your debts to be paid off and to never have to borrow money again. Start building the financial future you have been promised in God's WORD and confess by faith: "I owe no man anything except to love him. God supplies all my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. The LORD is my Shepherd, I shall not Develop your faith to the point that when you see a financial threat coming, you know without a doubt you'll be able to neutralize it before it ever gets to you. That's what faith is designed to do." with those things (you can enjoy them and fellowship with God while you do them), I can tell you this from experience: When you're under real pressure, the best thing you can do is open your Bible or turn on some good preaching, and immerse yourself in The WORD. Why? Because "faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17), and it's faith in the power of The WORD that upholds you. Put Your Faith Shield Out In Front of You Actually, the very best thing to do is to get on The WORD in advance. Put it first place in your life before the pressure comes. Build your life on it every day so that it becomes the foundation of all you think, say and do. That's a far better way to live the Christian life than just going along day by day, and when trouble comes, wondering if you're going to make it through. If you're already established on The WORD beforehand, you'll know you're going to make it through. Trouble won't be able to shake you because you'll be like the man in Luke 6:47-48, where Jesus said: Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like: He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. Notice Jesus didn't say that by founding your life on The WORD, you'll be ready if the flood comes. He said when the flood comes. He was speaking prophetically, letting us know that in this world storms and floods will come. There's no question about it. The only question is, will we be ready for them? Will we be established on the unshakable foundation of God's WORD? The best time to start establishing yourself on God's WORD is not after the flood hits. It's "

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