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Although that may sound like bad news, the good news is this: Financial trouble—no matter how big it might be—is no problem for God. Therefore, anyone can come out of it. All they have to do is what Ken and I and Keith and Phyllis did: Put God first place in their lives and, instead of getting discouraged and giving up, choose to double up on the Word.
Anyone can do that! Anyone can put God’s Word in his heart in such abundance that it eventually comes out of his mouth in faith and produces a financial breakthrough of biblical proportions.
Sadly, however, I’ve found a lot of Christians aren’t willing to give the Word this kind of focused attention. They don’t want to take the time and put in the effort.
They’re kind of like Naaman in the Old Testament. Have you ever read about him? He was the Syrian army officer who had leprosy and went to the prophet Elisha hoping to receive healing. When Elisha told him to go dip in the Jordan River seven times, he got upset. He didn’t want to do that. He just wanted Elisha to wave his hand over him and say a prayer. He wanted instant, easy results.
Believers today sometimes have the same attitude. They don’t want to do anything themselves. When trouble comes, they want to come out of it by having someone else lay hands on them and pray. But that’s generally not how God works. He set things up for us to receive from Him through the spiritual law of seedtime and harvest.
I don’t mean to imply you can never get an instant healing or financial breakthrough. When you’re young in the Lord and spiritually immature, you can. The pastor or another faith-filled believer can lay hands on you or pray for you and you can receive an immediate miracle.
But that’s not how you’re supposed to live. God never intended for you to just survive from miracle to miracle, or to ride on the coattails of someone else’s faith.
God’s will is for you to grow your own faith by continually planting the Word on the inside of you. He wants you to be like the man Jesus talks about in Mark 4 who “scatters seed upon the ground, and then continues…night and day while the seed sprouts and grows and increases” (verses 26-27, "The Amplified Bible").
As I’ve already said, this is the key to experiencing consistent victory and overcoming every kind of trouble! You do it with the faith that comes from living every day with God’s Word in your heart and your mouth.
You Get to Choose What Your Outcome Will Be
“But Gloria,” someone might say, “I just can’t see how the Bible can make that much difference in my life. Although what it says is true, it’s still just a book.”
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