Attack Your Lack - Oral Roberts

Attack Your Lack
"I began reading my Bible with an ear to what God
said. Jesus had told us to let His sayings sink down deep
into our hearts. I'd made the mistake of listening to what
other people said about what they had heard somebody
else say they thought God had said. They really didn't
know the Word of God themselves and it was their talk
about God that I was listening to. So God's Word was
not alive and moving in my heart or on my lips. And
without knowing God's words and saying His words I
began to see that was where I had missed it."
To hear Charles Capps explain these things today,
knowing how small he had been in his thinking on his
hardscrabble little farm, it's hard to believe he could be
where he is now in following-and enjoying—God's
formula for success and prosperity as a Christian.
He explained, "One day I was trying to pray, which
was never easy for me. I was never comfortable with
prayer. Here I was on the earth, which was something I
could see and feel, trying to reach Someone I couldn't
see in a place I thought was so far away it was more of a
dream than reality. I just blurted out what I was
thinking: 'Lord, things are not working. Things are
getting worse.'"
It never occurred to him that God would speak to
people today. He was shocked when he heard the Lord
say something back to him in his spirit. It wasn't a voice
but an impression in his spirit that gave him these
words: "Who told you that?" He stopped and thought a
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