FAITH ANTICIPATES THE victory! Begin to expect the best and talk the best. Don’t talk about what you don’t have; talk about what you do have. Talk about who you are and what you have in Christ. Don’t sit around talking negative. If you allow your ears to become garbage cans, always listening to junk, you’ll start talking junk. But if you always listen to the Word of God, you will talk the Word.
You become like the people you hang around with. And you become what you hear. If you allow a negative seed to be planted in your heart, the devil will try to bring that seed to fruition. When you feed on junk, it will steal the Word of God from your heart. It will keep you from living for God, and you’ll begin to expect the worst. Your faith will not be strong enough to expect the best.
Keep your faith strong and stop anticipating the worst. Begin to claim what the Word says is yours by saying, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Phil. 4:13 NKJV).
It doesn’t matter what anyone else says is going to happen in the future. God’s Word says that He will take care of you. Even if inflation goes sky-high, God’s Word still works.
God took care of the Israelites as they wandered around in the desert, and He will take care of you too—even if He has to rain down manna in your front yard! God did it for His children in the Old Testament, and if He needs to, He will do it for His children today.
My trust is in God’s Word. It doesn’t matter what comes or goes, who’s in or out of office, what political party is ruling or not ruling—God’s Word will work.
Someone might say, “That is a very simple approach.”
Well, Jesus said that’s the kind of approach we’re supposed to have. In Mark 10:15, Jesus said, “Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.”
When you tell a little child something, he believes you. He doesn’t go worrying about what you said, and he doesn’t keep coming back and asking you if it’s going to happen. He expects it to be just as you told him.
Let us be the same way with God. If God said He would do something, then expect Him to do it. Expect it to be done, not because of who you are, but because of who you are in Christ Jesus.
You don’t ever have to anticipate the worst or have a lapse of faith again, but you will if you feed on junk instead of on the truth of God’s Word. You can’t get the victory with just head knowledge or by simply wishing it’s going to happen. You have to expect it and believe it in your heart. You have the victory when you believe God’s Word, no matter what comes or goes—no matter what you feel, see, taste, touch, or smell.
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Kenneth W. Hagin
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