Attack Your Lack - Oral Roberts

How to Attack Your Lack by Using God's Vocabulary
daily part of him. When he was well enough to plow
and to plant seed for a new crop, he would pause at the
end of the row, get out his list, and confess God's words.
Often he would fall back into the negative stream
and say, "Lord, You know I don't feel what I'm saying. I
feel like I'm lying."
The Lord said, "Son, how could you be lying when
you're saying what I said?"
Then he would realize what he had been saying all
the years before, he'd been lying. He saw that in the
past when he prayed he'd been praying the problem,
the need, the lack. He'd pray, "God, You know the
money's not coming in. You know I won't have the
money to pay the note at the end of the year. You know
I don't know what I am going to do."
Slowly he began to understand that the Lord was
showing him he'd gotten into negative praying, the
reverse kind of prayer from the Word-of-God kind of
prayer. This meant he had faith, but he was using it to
believe he was not going to be able to meet his
obligations. He had faith that he was going to fail even
more than he was already failing.
Time after time he would hear in his spirit, "Turn
your praying around. Start saying what I have said
about you."
Some days he carried his Bible to the fields with
him. While eating his brown sack lunch under the
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