YOU CAN HAVE WHAT YOU SAY !

YOU CAN HAVE WHAT YOU SAY: Before praying for people, I usually try to get them to make some kind of a confession of their faith. I asked them if they will be healed when I lay hands on them and pray. If they answer that they hope they will, I tell them they won't because they are in hope, not faith. Hope is of some definite future ! And faith is now. Others make a confession with some hesitancy, and that hesitancy is what defeats them. It is "the little foxes that spoil the vine." Those who have a quick confession full of faith receive almost instantly. It is not something big that keeps God's children from being healed or any of the other promises. It wasn't the giants of the land of Canaan who kept the children of Israel out. It wasn't the James who defeated them. If it had been the giants, they would have defeated Joshua and Caleb also. No, the people defeated themselves by their own wrong thinking and there on declaration of unbelief. By the way, unbelief is as the sin of witchcraft. So it is not the giants in life who defeated you. It is not the storms of life that defeat you. If you are defeated, it is because you have defeated yourself. You have defeated yourself by wrong thinking, or religious thinking, wrong believing, and wrong speaking. You can have what you say. Caleb and Joshua said they were able to overcome the giants. After 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, and after all the people of that generation who had accepted the evil report of the 10 spies had died, Joshua became the People's leader. He and Caleb led them to victory. When Caleb came to Joshua and said, "Give me this mountain," Joshua look back over the years and realized that their talking right had warned them victory before. Wanting to locate Caleb, he asked him if he were able to take the mountain. Joshua wanted to hear Caleb's confession of faith. He told Caleb that there were giants in the mountain. But Caleb, full of faith, said that he was well able to take it -- and he did take it. Many things happen because we expect them to happen a certain way. This is based upon some cemetery schools of thinking, I meant to say seminary ! They happened because we believe and take it until it comes to pass. I have found this true in my own experience. Sometimes ago I read that when one gets older, the arteries in his brain aren't as soft as they were when he or she was younger; they gradually keep hardening. I had research the place where I couldn't remember things as well as I once did. I went along this way for a wild until I realized there wasn't any need for it. The mind is part of my inward being and spirit, and it never grows old. Too many people look at things from an outward perspective, and these things are temporal and are subject to change. But the Word of God is eternal and it changes not. The very mall that I started believing right and talking right, I could quote all the Scriptures I had ever known, and my memory actually improve. We fail sometimes because we get ready to fail. We prepare to fail. We think it, believe it, and then do it. As believers, however, we have no business talking failure or doubt and even unbelief. We should talk faith . "And now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen." (Hebrews 11:1).