Ken and I can confirm this from personal experience. In the years since we started learning to walk by faith, we’ve found ourselves in occasional troublesome situations. Most of the time they were financial, and some were very serious.
I was thinking recently, for instance, about the time we fell $6 million behind on our ministry television bills. Talk about trouble. That definitely qualified; and, as we quickly discovered, we were not prepared for it! Once we fell into that deep financial hole, no matter how hard we tried, we just couldn’t seem to climb out.
Although we prayed about the situation, days became weeks, weeks became months, and still the deficit persisted. We knew it wasn’t God’s fault. He said whatever we desire when we pray, if we believe we receive it we shall have it (Mark 11:24). And He has no problem coming up with any amount of money. His economy is always prospering, no matter how bad the world’s economy might be.
What’s more, even though Jesus did say, “In this world you will have trouble,” He also said, “Take heart! I have overcome the world.” So we knew that as far as God was concerned, the $6 million was ours the moment we asked for it.
But for some reason, we still kept coming up short.
When we asked the Lord to help us see where the problem was, this is what He showed us: We didn’t have enough of the Word in our hearts at that particular time to receive an extra $6 million. We needed a breakthrough on the inside before we could get the breakthrough on the outside.
So here’s what we did: Instead of getting discouraged and saying, “God, why did You let this happen to us?” we started spending more time reading, meditating on and declaring what the Bible says about our finances. Instead of giving up, we doubled up on the Word!
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