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Attack Your Lack - Oral Roberts

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<strong>Attack</strong> <strong>Your</strong> <strong>Lack</strong><br />

way street. Both sides have to profit or it's a bad deal.<br />

"What's wrong with God, anyhow?" was a question<br />

I held inside me but never said out loud.<br />

Somewhere a light was shining inside me and<br />

I could hear a little bell going off in my mind. A<br />

truth was on the edge of my consciousness but I<br />

couldn't quite get it into focus. What was<br />

happening?<br />

God was trying to get through all the bad<br />

teaching I had heard about receiving.<br />

<strong>Your</strong> Salvation Was A Part Of God's<br />

Receiving Something Back From His<br />

Giving<br />

God was trying to show me that He gave... and<br />

He—God himself—expected to receive and DID<br />

receive as a result of His giving. I had not been<br />

close enough to God to understand this. One<br />

reason was that in my first 17 years of life I had<br />

never wanted to receive Jesus Christ into my<br />

heart as my personal Savior. That's a sad fact but<br />

it's a fact nonetheless.<br />

Papa was a preacher. I grew up in church and<br />

under the preaching of the Word of God. But I<br />

dreamed of being a lawyer and walking in the<br />

footsteps of Amos Pleasant <strong>Roberts</strong> who had been<br />

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