How
many blessings are you going to receive from the Word of God? It
depends on how many you expect to receive. When God measures them out to
you, He’ll be using your measuring stick, not His own. He always works
that way.
Two people
can hear God’s Word about healing, for example. One will measure it with
faith. “Praise God, by His stripes I was healed!” he’ll say. “I believe
that with all my heart, and I’m going to keep on believing it until I
receive my healing.”
The
other will measure it with skepticism. “I don’t care what Bible verses
he comes up with,” he’ll say. “I just don’t trust that preacher. I’ll
give this healing stuff a try, but I doubt very much if anything’s going
to come of it.”
Both of those people will get exactly what they
expect. God will measure to them just as they measured the Word. One
will get healed...the other won’t.
I must warn you though,
sometimes measuring the Word with faith is hard. Years ago, when Gloria
first read the scripture, “Owe no man anything,” it was tempting for her
to measure it as a curse, not a blessing. We were living in a terrible
little house at the time, and she wanted a new one more than just about
anything.
How were we
ever going to buy a decent house without borrowing? It didn’t seem
possible. So, to her, it was as if that scripture had said, “Gloria, you
can’t have a new house.”
But
she refused to measure it that way. She grabbed the devil by the throat
and said, “Look here now, you’re not going to cheat me out of my
house.” Then she started believing that somehow God could provide her
with a house debt free. Sure enough, He did.
If you want to
receive blessings by the bushel load, start going to the Word with a
bushel basket. Put a big measure of faith in the hand of God. He’ll fill
it to overflowing and give it right back to you!
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