BELIEVING GOD IS A DECISION YOU MUST MAKE !

BELIEVING GOD IS A DECISION YOU MUST MAKE ! Although faith is the ability to conceive God's Word into the human spirit, you don't always want to believe God; or let me set this way your body does not always want to believe God you must make a decision to believe God. When I make the statement you I'm talking about the human spirit, not your body. You don't just wake up some morning feeling like believing God. In fact, most want is you wake up thinking, "dear God, I wish I didn't have to believe that today. I know it says that in your word. But it looks so different in the natural. I wish I didn't have to believe what you said." But you must make a decision to believe it if you are to receive it. Sometimes that means you believe it in the face of apparent defeat or diverse circumstances. Even in the face of lack, you stand on your decision to believe the promise. When things are going wrong it's time to button your lip and only believe. The apostle Paul said it this way. "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. . ." (Ephesians 4:29--30). In certain situations, if you can't speak in agreement with God's word, then don't speak at all. But there are other times we must force our mouth to speak and declare God's word over the situation in order to change it. Our words should always be filled with faith, and not with sickness or disease and fear. And they should minister grace to the hearer. Have you ever stopped and asked yourself, "who is the number one hearer of what I say ?" If you look in the mirror, you are looking at the number one hearer. You are the one to hear it first. First you hear it in your thought. Then you speak it. Remember we are talking about you hearing your voice on the tape recorder. When you heard it, you were embarrassed, because it didn't sound at all like you thought you sounded. The reason for that was you had always urge yourself mostly with the inner ear. If you plug up your is and speak, your voice sounds louder to you, because your inner ear is picking up that sound. Your voice is picked up by the inner year and is fed directly into the human spirit are what the Bible calls heart. This is how you get God's Word into your heart. This is why faith will come more quickly when you speak God's Word. For your spirit will receive the words you speak more quickly than it will receive words that others speak. I can read the Word of God to you, but it will not affect you to the same degree as if you speak and declare the word of God yourself. Your voice speaking the word of God transmits the force of faith into your human spirit more profoundly. That is why| Proverbs says, "Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart."(Proverbs 3:3). You write these things on the table of your heart by speaking them. The psalmist David says, . . . My tongue is the pen of a ready right."(Psalms 45:1). That is how you write God's Word on your heart. That is how faith,. Faith comes by hearing the word of God. To hear it, someone must speak it. And you speaking the word of God is the most effective way for you to receive faith in God. Faith will come more quickly if you confess the Word yourself.