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things I knew and was not doing. I knew it, but I wasn’t doing it.
Knowing
is not the same thing
as
doing
. He took me one by one, and I’m telling you, we started to come up. We began to come
out. We began to have money come in like we never had come in. We began to sow like we
never had before, and praise God, we’re still coming up!
But you have to get serious about it and not just lie around and wait and see what’s going to
happen. You have to say, “It’s here. It’s in the Bible, and I’m going to have it. If Jesus bought it,
if He paid for it, I’m going to have it. No matter how long it takes, or what I have to do to stand
and persist, I’m going to have this in my life.” You have to be willing to stay with it month after
month, year after year. And if you do, you’ll have it, you’ll see it.
Again, in Matthew 19:2 it says, “Great multitudes followed him; and, he healed them there.”
I don’t know if we’ve seen this like we should have. Do you remember when Jesus got upset, got
mad? You might ask, “Jesus got mad?” Oh yeah, He threw the tables over. He grabbed the tables
and slung them, and coins and things went flying. He took a whip, and with a real stern look in
His eye, He cleared that place.
Look at Matthew 21:12. “And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold
and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them
that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer;
but ye have made it a den of thieves. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and
he…” said what? “
Not now, I’m busy
”? Did He say, “
Can’t you see I’m upset? We’re not having
a healing meeting in here, we’re having a house cleaning. Everywhere I go, everyone wants to
get healed. It’s not always the will of God. You understand sometimes God’s doing something
else…
” Is that what He said? No.
You would get that impression from some of the things people say. “God’s so busy. My little old
physical thing, I know it doesn’t rate very big on the scale of stuff He’s having to deal with.”
They don’t even believe that themselves. They try to sound humble, and it has nothing to do with
it.
He is God, the Almighty. I’ve heard people say, “I don’t want to bother the Lord.” They are
underestimating Him, big time. People have this picture of God sitting at the old telephone
operator switchboard on the throne, and the prayer calls are coming in, and the lights are
flashing, and God is having to plug in and answer this prayer from the high priest, and the prayer
minister, and the soldier on the front line, and oh, He’s busy! You don’t want to bother Him
because the whole prayer switchboard is lit up and flashing. I thought I even saw a couple drops
of perspiration on the Father’s face. No! There is no heavenly switchboard. God wouldn’t even
have a computer. A computer to Him would be like an oxcart; He would have no use for such a
primitive device. We think we’re so “high tech.” Wait until you get to heaven—you’ll find out
about high tech. God the Father is not old, there is no perspiration on His brow, and He is not
loaded and almost overwhelmed with all of the needs of all of the people on the planet. He is
sitting on the throne, the Almighty, with complete peace, complete power, and complete joy, and
He can hear the king’s prayer, and the widow’s prayer, and the soldier’s prayer, and your prayer,
and find you a parking place downtown all at the same time.