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Nothing intimidates God. It’s just as easy for God to heal cancer as it is for Him to heal a headache. It’s as easy for Him to buy you a new home as it is for Him to pay your rent. Even in times like these when the whole world seems to be in trouble, God can bring you through in triumph. He can do for you what He did for the Israelites. Exodus 10 says when darkness covered the nation of Egypt in which they lived—a darkness so thick the Egyptians couldn’t see each other or move for three days—“all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings” (verse 23). Think about that! If you’ll dare to believe God’s Word, you can have light in the middle of a dark world. You can have protection in the middle of a dangerous world. You can live healed in the middle of a sick world. You can live prosperously in the middle of an impoverished world. You can live free in the middle of a captive world. But let me warn you, you can’t do it by dragging around in an attitude of defeat. If you want to walk in that kind of constant victory, you must develop a spirit of faith and persevere in that spirit even when the devil is putting pressure on you. People with the spirit of faith always receive the blessings of God. They may go through tests and trials but they come out supernaturally every time. I like those odds, don’t you? I like to beat the devil every time. And, glory to God, we can do it if we’ll walk continually in the spirit of faith. The Apostle Paul gives us some powerful insight about how to cultivate that spirit in 2 Corinthians 4. Read carefully what he says: “We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal” (verses 13, 18). Open the Window The first and most fundamental fact these verses reveal about the spirit of faith is that it believes. What does it believe? The Word of God. What’s more, faith believes God’s Word just because God said it—whether natural circumstances seem to agree or not. That means if you want to maintain a spirit of faith in the area of healing, for example, you must start by getting your Bible and finding out what God has said about healing. Then you must choose to receive that Word as the truth. Don’t shut your heart to it by saying, “Well, that’s not the way my church teaches it,” or “That’s not what my grandmother taught me.” Just say, “The Word says healing belongs to me and I believe it!” Then keep putting the Word in your heart day after day until faith rises up within you and your body begins to line up with that Word. “Well, Gloria, I tried that one time and it didn’t work for me. I guess I just don’t have as much faith as you do.” BVOV : 19