ACT AS GOD WOULD ACT !

ACT AS GOD WOULD ACT ! I have heard people say, "Those people who confess God's word and say the promises of God over and over are just trying to act like God !" (Ephesians 5: I). "Therefore be imitators of God [copy Him and follow His example] as well beloved children [imitate their father]. And walk in love,[esteeming and delighting in one another] as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, a slain offeringing and sacrifice to God [for you, so that it came] a sweet fragrance." The amplified Bible. Yes ! That's exactly what we're trying to do: Act as God would and in a similar situation. We know how God would and in a bad situation because of what He did in (Genesis 1:3). He saw darkness over the earth, and He said, "Light !" What did He do ? He spoke the thing desired ! Some will say, "But that was God." That's exactly right, that was God. But in Genesis, God also said: . . . "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the counter, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth with upon the earth." (Genesis 1:26). How was man going to have dominion ? You can understand how Adam could run the Jack rabbit out of the cabbage patch, but what was he going to do when the elephant begin pumping down the Cabbage ? God said for him to subdue it. He was to do it the same way God did --- with the power of faith filled words. He was to subdue the earth, and he was to do it God's way. When he saw something that he didn't like, it was his responsibility to change it. He was to change it the way God changed things --- speaking faith filled words. Of course God is highly developed in the spoken Word. Many of God's people are highly developed in the world and what the world is saying rather than what God has said ! "What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them." (Mark 11:24). In other words, pray the desire; don't pray the thing that you don't desire. Speaking the thing desired, even when you pray.