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When He sent Jesus to the cross and raised Him from the dead, God provided everything you’ll ever need to live a victorious, abundant life. The only thing that remains is for you to receive it. How? By doing the same thing you did when you received the new birth. You remember how you did that. You simply heard the gospel, believed that through Jesus salvation had already been provided, and you confessed Him as LORD. You took God at His WORD and got born again by faith. Faith doesn’t ask God questions, like “When are You going to do something for me?” It says just the opposite. As Romans 10 says: "The righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (verses 6-10, 17). This is the way we receive everything Jesus has provided—from healing, to prosperity, to any other aspect of THE BLESSING of God. We hear what The WORD has to say about it, and as we hear The WORD faith comes. It rises up in our heart until it overflows through the words of our mouth and produces the desired result. You can see an example of how the process works in Matthew 9. It tells the story about the woman who was healed of the issue of blood. You’ve probably read about her. She was sick for 12 years, spent all her money on doctors and just kept getting worse. Then, one day she heard the good news about Jesus. She heard The WORD He was preaching about how He was Anointed by God to heal the sick and she started meditating on it. She started saying within herself, “If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole” (verse 21). The more she said it, the more faith came. Eventually her faith got so strong she got up and acted on it. She pushed her way through the crowd where Jesus was preaching, touched His clothes, and was immediately made whole. “Yeah, but that woman’s situation was unique,” someone might say. “She was healed because Jesus was standing there.” No, she wasn’t. She was healed because she had faith in The WORD. Jesus said so Himself. He said to her, “Daughter...thy faith hath made thee whole” (verse 22). Your faith will do the same thing. It will enable you to receive from God whatever it takes for you to be whole in any area of your life. You don’t need Jesus to be standing there with you to get it, either. You just need your Bible and some good faith preaching—because that’s how faith comes. It comes by hearing and hearing The WORD of God. Words Are the Starter Button As Brother Kenneth E. Hagin used to say, “You can school yourself right into faith by confessing and meditating on the Scriptures.” You can fill your heart so full of The WORD that when you’re faced with a need, the first words that come out of your mouth are words of faith. * * * * article continues on p. 6 * * * * * * Points to Get You There: As you keep feeding on the Word, faith keeps coming until it eventually boils overs and you receive what you’ve been believing for. 1. Through Jesus, God has already provided everything you’ll ever need to live a BLESSED, victorious life. Ephesians 1:3 2. You just need to find out what God said about it, believe it and confess it. Romans 10:8 3. You can have faith for anything if you will feed on what The WORD says about it. Romans 10:17 4. Words are the starter button when it comes to receiving from God so make sure you only speak words of faith. Proverbs 18:21 5. Like the woman with the issue of blood, keep meditating on The WORD and the moment will come when your faith comes to a climax and you see the results. Matthew 9:22 BVOV : 5

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