Have you ever desired a change in anything? I want you to know it’s not when you see that change take place that it really happens. The change begins the first time you speak to the situation. I remember the time we prayed in our church and asked for a thousand members. That was several years ago and we were just three hundred people then. Pastor Chris led the whole congregation in prayer for a thousand members. For a period of time, we were still about the same number, but we knew we had those one thousand members right from when we prayed! They didn’t immediately appear in the pews after we prayed that day but we saw them there with the eyes of faith. And when they started coming, they poured in like a flood. We had actually forgotten that we prayed for more members, but as the months passed by, we began asking God for finances to build a gallery, and that was when we remembered we had prayed for a thousand members and realized this was a manifestation of the answer.
The believer is not someone who sees things with his optical eyes before he acknowledges and says them. He’s someone who acknowledges and declares those things he desires ever before there’s any sign of their physical manifestation. Do you know that makes some people angry? When you start declaring good things from God’s Word about yourself, they’ll ask you, “What makes you think you deserve to have that? Why are you talking as if you own the world?” You should answer them, “Of course, I own the world. Don’t you know who my Father is? He’s Jehovah God!” They can throw up a tantrum and hit their heads against a brick wall for all you care, it still doesn’t change the truth of who you are and what you have in Christ. That truth, when you declare it by faith, will change any situation.
