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Thank God I didn’t do that. I just kept coming back, saying, “God, I’m frustrated.” I tarried.
People slapped me on the back, and they said, “Hold on!” And they said, “Turn loose,” and “Say
‘Jesus.’” I did everything I knew to do and tried things I felt foolish about afterwards. You know,
when you’re hungry, you’ll try it. For months and years, I didn’t speak in tongues.
Why? I am waiting on God. Am I or am I not? I think I am. Am I? Am I really waiting on Him to
decide to fill me? I thought I was. You would hear me say these wise things like, “Well, now, I
don’t want it to be me. I don’t want it to be me. Just me.” Then who do you want it to be that got
filled? “I want it to be the Holy Spirit.” You want the Holy Spirit to be filled with the Holy
Spirit? “No, no, I don’t want it to be just me.” See that was my problem. I’m saying I want Him
to take me over and make me do it and do it apart from me and through me. That’s what people
want Him to do with their finances. They want Him to do that with their healing, over and over
again, in other areas, waiting on Him.
“God, what’s the hold up?” I’ll give you a clue: It’s not Him. “I’ve done everything that I know
to do.” Really? Have you now? “I’ve done everything I know.” Well, it could be that you just
don’t know enough.
This is what He told you to do. “Whatever it is you desire,” do what? “When you pray,” believe
what? Don’t just believe God can do it, don’t just believe it is His will, believe what? “Believe
that you receive it,” that you take it. And when you do, then you act on it.
Believing you receive is connected to acting on it. Lay hold, believe you receive, and believe you
take it. Let me remind you of miracles that happened in Jesus’ ministry. Let me remind you of
how they happened.
When the nobleman came to Jesus concerning his son, Jesus told him, “Go your way. Your son
lives.” The man believed the Word, and he went his way. His son was healed. (John 4:46-51)
Concerning the man at the pool, Jesus looked at him and said, “Rise! Take up your bed and
walk.” (John 5:5-8) Why didn’t He say, “Just be patient… keep waiting on God.” Theology has
taught us this. Man’s religion has taught us this, but not the Bible.
Millions think they’re waiting on God, and they’re not. I thought I was waiting on Him to fill
me.
Do you remember the man borne by four? They tore off the roof and let him down through the
opening. Jesus said, “Get up!” He said that numerous times. “Get up! Take your couch. Go to
your house.” (Mark 2:3-5) He couldn’t do that—that’s why he was there. He was physically
unable to do this, and yet he did it. How could he do it when he’s physically unable to do it?
When he reached the end of his ability to act on the Word of Jesus, he met the power of God,
which enabled him to do what was considered impossible.
To the man with the withered hand, He said, “Stretch forth your hand.” (Mark 3:1-5)
He made the blind man look up. (Mark 10:51,52)