Attack Your Lack - Oral Roberts

Attack Your Lack
you can look at them often.
Papa would wait until our seeds began to
sprout and push their way up as plants through
the earth so we could see them. Then he'd say to
Vaden and me, "Come on, boys. Let's go see how
big the plants are."
I remember he'd stand there and study the
field of those little shoots coming up out of the
ground, often stooping down and feeling around
them to see how healthy they were.
Then he would say, "Let's go back to the
house. They're growing good."
It was such a great feeling.
It took me many years to throw off the old
teaching—or lack of teaching—that I was to give
but not expect anything back. When I finally
began to get my breakthrough I saw that God
himself is the "good soil"—the soil I can't see but
which is eternal and ever abundant and faithful in
reproducing my seed sown into harvests for me
to receive. I began to lose that old sinking feeling
that when my tithes and offerings left my hand
they were gone, just gone. I gained the exciting
feeling that they were being placed in God's
hands, who would see that not one of my seeds
would fail to grow or multiply. I couldn't see it
but I could KNOW it because I saw it in God's
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