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Attack Your Lack - Oral Roberts

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On Reaping <strong>Your</strong> Harvest, God Says, "GIVE It Time! and Don't<br />

Give Up!"<br />

seeds first, then reaping our harvests which is<br />

God's absolute promise to us.<br />

This thing of "PAYING" God through our<br />

tithes and offerings has not only hurt God's<br />

ministers from being seen as "workmen worthy<br />

of their hire" (Luke 10:7) and having their needs<br />

met to inspire others to get their needs met, it has<br />

also hurt many lay people and caused them to get<br />

a bad view of their ministers.<br />

A woman put it aptly when she said to a<br />

minister friend of mine who was urging the lay<br />

people to sacrifice: "The trouble is, preacher, you<br />

sac it and we fice it."<br />

When he told me this I replied, "Good for her.<br />

I feel the same way. Because God's giving and<br />

receiving works both ways for Him and for each<br />

of us whether we're a minister or a lay believer."<br />

He said, "She opened my eyes and since then<br />

I've got away from this PAYING thing, this<br />

sacrifice thing, and preached the Word of God as<br />

it is on giving and receiving, sowing and reaping,<br />

and seedtime and harvest."<br />

I've discovered you can't attack your lack as<br />

long as you are under bondage of "PAYING" God<br />

your tithes and offerings. Why? Because you can<br />

never pay. For that reason God sent His Son to the<br />

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