Attack Your Lack - Oral Roberts

Attack Your Lack
"Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of
God."
It was then that Charles realized that whether you
hear God or whether you hear the devil, faith comes by
hearing. He said, "I saw I had more faith in what the
devil had been saying than I did in what God had said."
Charles felt a strong leading to find out in the Word
of God what God said about him as a believer and to
make a list of it. He wrote down every Scripture he
found about God's promises to the believer. He then
applied them to himself personally by confessing them
as a fact daily.
Friends learned what he was doing and said,
"Charles, you're confessing to a lie. Those things are not
happening in your life. You're sick, you're dirt-poor,
you'll never get out of debt, yet you're confessing them
as if they are real."
He said, "My life is being destroyed, yet I'm a
Christian. I know I'm going to heaven but God's got to
mean something to me in a practical way here...now.
I've been down and beaten up by all these negative
things hitting me. If there's something to this, I'm going
to find it. I believe I am finding it. I'm confessing it by my
faith in God until I can see it working in my life."
In every person's life, the time comes when he
must decide to tune out the critics and tune God in.
The list that he carried of God's promises became a
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