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And he didn’t die. He got a little better. Oh, glory to God! They sent me a picture of him about
18 months later. He was smiling, and his hair had grown back. He looked like a normal 7- or 8-
year-old boy. They said he was healed. He was eating well, and he had gained his weight. He
was not having the pain. Glory to God. The doctors said they don’t understand it, but he’s doing
wonderfully.
And I thought, “What if they had waited?” What if they had said, “We’re going to wait until we
see and prove…” That’s not how it works. You believe,
then
you see. You decide the Bible is
true even though it doesn’t look like it in your life. It doesn’t feel like it in your life, but it’s true.
Let God be true and every man a liar. This is true. This is the will of God. I don’t care what
happened to them, or what someone said, or what a preacher said, or who wrote a book. The
Word of God is the will of God, and that is what I’m holding to.
Someone might ask, “What if you are holding to that and it doesn’t work?” What better way to
meet God than with the Word of God in your mouth saying, “I believe You.”
The Word of God cannot fail and does not fail. We can believe the Word no matter what. Can
you be broke as broke can be and still believe that it’s God’s will for you to be prosperous? Can
you believe it? Yes, you can. Can you feel powerless, and dumb, and unfruitful, and
unsuccessful, and still believe you are more than a conqueror through Christ? You’ve been made
the righteousness of God in Christ, and He always causes you to triumph. What if you start
believing that and saying it? It will come to pass in your life.
This is for you, and it affects you. It’s your right, your privilege, to be delivered, to be saved, to
be free, to be healed, and to be prosperous. Make up your mind that you’re going to believe it,
and set your face to it.
I remember when financial change came in Phyllis’ and my life. I will never forget it. We had
already been to
RHEMA Bible Training Center
. We had been there two years and graduated, and
I was already in the ministry, and traveling. I was teaching in the school, and I got fed up with
being broke. Every time I turned around, there was not enough, not enough. We couldn’t do this,
and we couldn’t do that because of lack of finances.
I remember one afternoon I came in from work and went into the bedroom. It was so strong in
my heart, I just fell across the bed and wept before the Lord. I said, “Lord, this is not Your fault.
I know it’s not Your fault that we have struggled and been behind and stayed behind year after
year and struggled and not had enough. This is not Your Word. This is not Your will. And I
don’t care what I see, I’m asking You to help me. Bring me up to what I see in Your Word,”
because I had been studying it and seeing it and preaching on it. I didn’t see it in my life, but I
saw it in the Bible. “Lord, bring me up to this, whatever it takes. Hook me up with the people
who can help me. Help me to get the materials in my hands. Open my eyes. Help me. Show me
what I’m not doing.” I cried out to Him in sincerity.
I didn’t see it all that day, but He heard my prayer. We weren’t out of all of our difficulties by
the end of the month, but He heard my prayer. He granted my request. It seemed like for the next
five years, every day He was showing me things. The first several things He showed me were
