Attack Your Lack - Oral Roberts

How to Attack Your Lack by Using God's Vocabulary
Of all the things God says about giving and
receiving, Luke 6:38 stood out like water in the desert
to Charles. He wrote it down on his list: "Give, and it
shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down,
shaken together, and running over, shall men give to
your bosom..."
Charles had been a giver of one tenth of his meager
income, the tithe, but without understanding it was not
a debt he owed but a seed he sowed. Up to now he had
made no confession that when he gave, it would be
given to him. He was a giver to the best of his ability,
but he was not a receiver to the best of his ability. His
GIVER was working but not his EXPECTER or his
RECEIVER!
One day he was praying what God said in Luke
6:38. He had read Jesus' words on when you give it
shall be given to you so often that it was like he could
hear Jesus talking directly to him. The words began to
come alive in him and he was living them. As he prayed
those words Jesus had said, he heard himself say,
"Thank God because I have given, it is given to me.
Lord, You said if I give, it shall be given to me. I don't
have it now. I don't see it with my natural eyes. But as
sure as You said it in Your Holy Word, it's already given.
Now it's a matter of my receiving it. So I now look for
and expect a miracle return to come to me."
When Charles did this, it changed his confession of
only words coming from his mouth to a confession of
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