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Attack Your Lack - Oral Roberts

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How to <strong>Attack</strong> <strong>Your</strong> <strong>Lack</strong> by Using God's Vocabulary<br />

"I saw SEED-FAITH as doing what the Word of God<br />

says: if we give, He will give to us 100-fold. Each seed I<br />

planted I had given, and what I had given is given. Jesus<br />

says, 'If you give, it shall be given.' That's future tense.<br />

But once you've given, it's given unto you. Oh, I didn't<br />

have it then. I didn't see it with my naked eye, but I<br />

began to experience a knowing inside that as sure as<br />

Jesus said it in His Word, it's already given. Now it's a<br />

matter of releasing our faith to receive it. So I began to<br />

look and expect a miracle to come to get me out of<br />

sickness, my poverty, my misery. When I began doing<br />

that, it changed the way I felt about God and the way I<br />

felt about myself. It changed my inner image. I began to<br />

see myself healed...and being prosperous as a child of<br />

God.<br />

"I mean I began to see myself being healed while I<br />

was sick and to see myself prosperous when I was<br />

poor. First, Satan tried to get me to think I was out of<br />

my mind and just dreaming. He was trying to trick me<br />

into doubt-talk that I'd get sicker and poorer. But when<br />

<strong>Oral</strong> told us to talk faith-talk, to say God's words rather<br />

than negative words, to believe what God says rather<br />

than what the devil says, I saw myself in my spirit<br />

believing that my sickness and poverty were no<br />

problem for God to heal.<br />

"By the end of that year, I was a well man. I was a<br />

SEED-FAITH Christian, and I was able to pay off my<br />

debts and hold my head up. People began asking me to<br />

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