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done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.”
    Remember the example in the last chapter about the teacher at exam time who told her students exactly what they needed to know? Here is God once again spelling it out for us: “whoever says, ” “believes what he says, ” “has whatever he says ,” and “whatsoever things you ask. ” Four times Jesus tells us to open up our mouths and make some sounds of faith! Jesus didn’t say we will have what we need, or we will have what we want, or we will have what we deserve. He said we would have what we say! Every day, what are we saying? Are we talking about things or are we talking to things? Are we whining about our problems, or are we using our faith to overcome them?
    Have faith—the God kind of faith. How do you know when you have faith in God? You believe it in your heart and you say it with your mouth. If you believe “He bore my sickness, I believe I’m healed” (1 Peter 2:24), then say it with your mouth. If you believe “My God will supply all my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19), then say it out of your mouth. If you believe “My marriage is blessed, my career is prospering, I have sweet and undisturbed sleep and rest, and I have the peace of God that passes understanding, guards my heart, and guards my mind, so I don’t have breakdowns and meltdowns,” then say it out of your mouth because that is how we live our lives with the God kind of faith.
    Let’s grow our faith by hearing and hearing and saying and saying. Let’s speak to our mountains and overcome every problem, every sickness, and every battle that comes our way. Let’s believe God is our counsel, our strength, our wisdom, and the God who makes a way when there is no way. Let’s walk strong through the cancer, the heartache, the loss, the financial downturns, and the emotional crises, and let’s be examples of faith and power so the world will stand up and take notice. Let’s live the kind of lives that bring people into the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ!

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    Faith Changes Things

    G ood thing the guy on the television couldn’t see back at me because I was acting like a crazy person. When I hear Christians talking about how miserable their circumstances are and then begin blaming God for them, I just about lose my cool. And this time was no different. It was a Christian program, and the person being interviewed was saying things like “Why has God caused this to happen to me? Why hasn’t He stepped in and saved me from all of this? Where is God when I need Him the most?” To all of this, I started yelling, “Use your faith! Where’s your faith? You are not helping our cause here. Use—your—faith!”
    This kind of thing gets me all fired up because there are so many Christians who love the Lord but are only experiencing a fraction of the kind of life God designed for them. Simply because they either have never learned to use their faith or they have chosen to not believe in the message of faith, they can’t experience God’s best. The real bummer is when they get themselves into bad situations and then blame God for not magically making all their problems disappear. These people just do not get it, and if you have friends like this—get each one a copy of this book.
    So many Christian people choose not to spend the time to build a relationship with Jesus, and they live their lives on their own, by their own strength and their own wisdom. Only when they come to a place where there are no answers and they feel there is no way out do they turn to God. They say, “Hey, God, why’d You do that to me?” And this is God’s reply: “Don’t blame Me, I’ve been doing exactly what you have been expecting Me to do in your life: nothing! You have decided to be out there on your own, and you created this mess all by yourself.