Believe and Receive
Creflo Dollar
Did you know
that everything God has promised in His Word has already been done? The
only thing we have to do is believe and receive what rightfully belongs
to us by faith. People of faith always have a good report because they
are constantly walking by what the Word says and not by what their five
physical senses are telling them. To live the life of faith means to
live in full assurance of the finished work of Christ.
There are three ingredients of faith: belief, trust, and confidence.
Mark 11:24 says, “Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye
desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have
them.” Anything that can be found
in the Word has already been granted to you; however, you must believe
that you will get it. You can’t say you are believing something and you
are not trusting. Trust is maintaining a committed stance on what God
has said. When you trust in something, you have full confidence in it.
A great illustration of confidence that is born out of trust is to
think about when you sit in a chair. You trust that a chair is going to
be able to hold your weight, and, therefore, you are confident that if
you sit in it you will be secure. Most people have no questions when it
comes to believing in a chair’s ability to support them. However, when
it comes to God and the things He has promised us, people tend to lack
absolute confidence. The way to build it up is to meditate on the Word
of God and think about all the things He has already done. Has He ever
let you down or failed to come through for you? Think about the many
situations you have been in where God showed Himself strong on your
behalf. You can trust in Him as your source of all things.
Laying hold of the promises of God means adopting an ownership
mentality. This is not a mentality that is waiting for God to do
something, but is one that knows what already belongs to you. The person
with an ownership mentality says, “I OWN healing, deliverance,
abundance, and prosperity. These things are mine!” We actually get the
promises to manifest in this physical realm by releasing our faith in
the grace of God that is available to bring them out of the spiritual
realm and into the natural. Ephesians 2:8 says, “For by grace are ye
saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.” It is through God’s grace that each of the promises are at your disposal.
It’s hard to have faith when you don’t have understanding of the Word
of God, which is why it is important to attend a church that is
actually teaching you how to live by faith. Traditional, religious
mind-sets convince you that you have to try to get God to do something,
but the truth is, He has already done it. Instead of praying to God to
heal you, declare and admit that healing exists inside of you right now.
Healing isn’t being
made in some healing factory; it is already in existence! Declare that
you have faith in the grace of God versus faith in your own ability to
get God to move.
No matter what you are going through, or what your five physical
senses are telling you, don’t allow your life to be led by your sensory
mechanisms. Facts can change on a daily basis, but the truth of God’s
Word never changes. It has the power to change and rearrange the facts.
All God is looking for is someone who will believe and receive what He
has already done.
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