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NOVEMBER 2001 PUBLISHED MONTHLYBYKENNETH HAGIN MINISTRIES
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Abound
With Thanksgiving
On November 22, efforts. But no answer came. Depression and discour-
people throughout the agement surrounded him. Everything he touched
United States will seemed to turn to defeat.
gather together with Finally, he decided to leave his station and go
their families and deeper into the interior of the country to another mis-
friends to celebrate the sion station so he could seek God without distraction.
Thanksgiving holiday. He determined to get on his face before God and pray
Thanksgiving commemo- until he got an answer.
rates a day our forefather set Does that sound familiar? I’ve heard people say,
aside to offer thanks to God for “I’m just going to take off and go to the woods (or the
blessing them and bringing them into barn or the mountains or somewhere) and pray until I
a new land rich with material provision. For get my answer!”
the Christian, however, Thanksgiving is also an When this missionary arrived at the more remote
opportunity for us to thank God for blessing us and mission station and walked in, the first thing he
bringing us into a new land rich with spiritualprovi- noticed was a sign hanging on the wall. It said, “Try
sion — the Kingdom of God (Col. 1:13). thanksgiving.”
T Many times, people fail to receive their needs met Immediately the Spirit of God spoke to his heart
R from God because they fail to offer thanks. Thanks- and told him thathad been his problem; he had
giving is an important expression of your faith prayed over and over about his situation and never
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because you cannot genuinely give thanks for some- thanked God for the answer! He had really been
E thing unless you believe you have received something. praying in doubt and unbelief, and God knew that
H The Bible tells us the Father has already blessed giving thanks would get him into faith and keephim
us with all spiritual blessings in Christ (Eph. 1:3) there.

and with all things that pertain unto life and godli- The missionary immediately returned to his own
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ness (2 Peter 1:3). If you really believe the Word of station, thrilled with what God had revealed to his
T God is true, you can’t help but thank God for blessing heart. He didn’t even spend the night at that interior
you — no matter how bad your situation may seem. mission station because he had received his answer
T Many times we pray over and over again about the from Heaven!
same problem, but we never thank God for the As he journeyed home, he praised God in simple
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answer.If we really believe the Lord has heard and faith that God had heard and answered his prayers.
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answered our prayer, we will thank Him. But when As he did, every bit of depression, disappointment,
E we continue to pray and pray without thanking God, discouragement, and defeat lifted from him. By the
we aren’t even acknowledging that the Lord has time that missionary reached his own station, he had
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heardus, let alone answeredus! such revival in his heart that God was able to use him

After you ask in faith, thanksgiving will keep you mightily to bring a major revival to that entire area!
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established in faith (Col. 2:7). Instead of talking If you want your life to abound with the blessings
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about what you don’thave, begin to thank God of God, let your heart and mouth abound with
R according to His Word for what you dohave. thanksgiving to God continually! As you overflow
Each time we release our faith by offering praise with thanksgiving to the Lord, He will pour out bless-
U and thanksgiving to God — not only for what He has ings greater than anything you could ever imagine.
done, but also for what we expect Him to do — no And your thanksgiving will be the key that unlocks
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power in hell can hinder God’s provision on our the abundance God has already provided for you to
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Many years ago, a missionary to China was living
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in constant defeat because of the overwhelming strug-
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prayed about his situation, repeatedly asking God
— Rev. Kenneth Hagin Jr.
why he wasn’t seeing any results from his missionary
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Kenneth E. 4 El Shaddai — The God Who Is More
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u you’re going to make it through, it’s time to meet El
Shaddai, the One who is morethan enough!
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The Word of Faith
KENNETH E. HAGIN
And when Abram was ninety years
old and nine, the Lord appeared to
Abram, and said unto him, I am the
Almighty God; walk before me, and
be thou perfect.
— Genesis 17:1
When the Lord God appeared
to Abram, what He actually
said in Hebrew was, “I am
El Shaddai . . . .”
El Shaddai is one of seven
covenant names through which God
revealed Himself to Israel. In
Hebrew, El Shaddai means “the All-
Sufficient One,” or “the God who is
more than enough.”
The translators of the King James
Version translated El Shaddai as
“Almighty God.” I like that. Since
God is the All-Sufficient One, then
He is Almighty — the One who is
more than enough.
Throughout the Old Testament,
Almighty God revealed and unveiled
Himself as the God who is more than
enough. He is the God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob. At one time, God
told Abraham, “. . . thy seed shall be
a stranger in a land that is not
theirs, and shall serve them; and they
shall afflict them four hundred years;
SINCE GOD IS THE
ALL-SUFFICIENT
ONE, THEN HE IS
ALMIGHTY — THE
ONE WHO IS
MORE THAN
ENOUGH.
And also that nation, whom they
shall serve, will I judge: and after-
ward shall they come out with great
substance”(Gen. 15:13,14).
Four hundred and thirty years
went by. God came on the scene and
spoke to a man by the name of
Moses, who led the children of Israel
out of Egypt. As they were leaving,
however, Pharaoh’s heart was hard-
ened. He went after them with his
soldiers, intending to recapture them
and make them his slaves again.
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The children of Israel stood on the the All-Sufficient One — the God who several days and were almost fainting
shore of the Red Sea, crying, “What is more than enough! from hunger. Jesus told His disciples
are we going to do?” The Egyptians In other places in the Old Testa- to feed the multitude.
were behind them, and the Red Sea ment, we see this God who is more They replied. “We don’t have any-
was before them. On one side of them than enough revealing Himself in the thing!” They looked around, but all
was wilderness, and on the other side lives of men and women — patri- they found was a little boy who
were mountains. archs, prophets, priests, and kings. offered them his lunch: five barley
The God who is more than enough We see Elijah praying on Mount loaves and two small fish (John 6:9).
spoke to Moses and said, “Stretch Carmel, and the fire of God falling Jesus had them seat the crowds in
forth thy rod.” When Moses did so, from Heaven to consume the sacrifice. groups. He took the little boy’s lunch
the waters of the Red Sea parted long The prophets of Baal were conse- and fed the five thousand. He’s more
enough for the children of Israel to go quently defeated (1 Kings 18). We see than enough!
across on dry ground. They were David’s mighty men of war and think A famous modern preacher once
delivered! When the Egyptian army we are reading the exploits of super- said, “Well, that’s really no miracle.
attempted to follow, they were men. Although they did supernatural After all, the loaves of bread were big-
drowned in the depths of the sea (see feats, they were not wounded or gerin that day than they are today.”
Exodus 14). killed. They overcame their enemies But he was forgetting that those five
One modern scholar wrote, “It because the power of God was upon loaves were just onelittle boy’s lunch!
really wasn’t much of a miracle for them. He’s the God who is more than Modernism can try to explain it
the Israelites to cross the Red Sea. enough, even in the midst of war! away, but the truth is, when Jesus
The water was only ankle deepat the In the New Testament, we see comes on the scene, no matter what
place they forded.” Jesus appear on the scene and the circumstances, He is more than
When I read that, I thought, Dear declare, “. . . he that hath seen me enough!
Lord! That poor simpleton thinks that hath seen the Father” (John 14:9). He We see Jesus attending a wedding
a whole army drowned in ankle-deep told the Jews, “Your father Abraham in Cana of Galilee with His mother.
water! It would have been a greater rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, She told Him they had run out of
miracle than ever for a whole army to and was glad” (John 8:56). wine, and she instructed the servants,
drown in ankle-deep water! They answered, “Thou art not yet “Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it”
The issue is not that they drowned (John 2:5).
in ankle-deep water; the issue is that THE LORD JESUS Jesus told the servers to fill water
God divided the waters and Israel pots with water and carry them to the
crossed over on dry land. It happened CHRIST governor of the feast. By the time they
just as the Bible says it happened: got there, the water had been turned
God divided the Red Sea. DEMONSTRATED into wine, and the governor exclaimed,
When the children of Israel arrived “You’ve saved the best till last!”
safely on the other side, the women IN HIS EARTH Then we see Jesus approaching the
got out their musical instruments and city of Nain and finding a funeral pro-
began to sing and dance. In the song WALK THAT HE IS cession coming out of the gates, bound
the Spirit of God gave them, it said, for the cemetery. The dead man was
“…the depths were CONGEALED in THE GREAT GOD the only son of a widow. So Jesus, the
the heart of the sea” (Exod. 15:8). One who is more than enough,
“Congealed” water is frozen water. I AM. stopped the procession, walked up to
God made the water stand up on both the coffin, and commanded the fellow
sides like a wall. He froze it, and the to get up. The man did, and Jesus
children of Israel walked across the fifty years old, and hast thou seen restored him to his mother (see Luke
sea on dry ground! Then the word was Abraham?” (v. 57). 7:11-15). Jesus is more than enough!
spoken, and the water came together Jesus said, “Before Abraham was, I One day, word came to Jesus that
again. God is more than enough! am” (v. 58). His friend Lazarus was dying, but
Once the children of Israel were God had revealed Himself to Moses Jesus purposely tarried a few more
delivered from Egypt and reached in the Old Testament as the great I days before making His way to
Canaan’s land, they ran into other dif- AM. Jesus was telling the Jews, “I am Bethany.
ficulties. One day, they were fighting a that God; you are looking at God right When Martha learned that Jesus
crucial battle against their enemies. It now.” The Lord Jesus Christ demon- was coming, she ran out to meet Him,
was getting dark. If night fell, they strated in His earth walk that He is saying, “Oh, Master, if only You had
might lose the battle. Joshua, their the great God I AM. He is more than been here, my brother Lazarus would
leader, prayed that the sun and moon enough! not have died!”
stand still in the sky (Joshua 10:13). We also see Jesus and the disciples Jesus said, “Your brother shall rise
As a result, God stopped the whole with the multitude out in the wilder- again.”
universe. Time stood still because a ness where Jesus preached what we Martha replied, “Oh, we know that
man of God prayed! God could do that call “The Sermon on the Mount.” The he will rise again in the resurrection
because He is the Almighty God — people had been without food for at the last day.”
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El Shaddai — The God Who Is More Than Enough
Jesus said, “I am the resurrection Bartimaeus said, “Lord, that I might what it will be like when we get to
and the life.” Then He said, “Take Me receive my sight.” Heaven. “Someday all this sickness and
to his sepulcher.” (Lazarus’ body had Jesus healed Bartimaeus, giving pain will be over,” we say. Or, “One of
been placed in a cave, which was sealed sight to the blind. Why? Jesus is more these days, I’m going to leave this vale
with a stone.) than enough! of tears. Here I wander like a beggar
When Jesus ordered people to roll through the heat and cold . . . ,” quot-
away the stone, they protested. “By IF WE BELIEVE ing an old church hymn.
this time he stinks,” they said. But But things can be different now! If
they did what Jesus commanded. GOD AND we believe God and trust Him, things
Jesus said, “Lazarus, come forth!” can be different here and now in this
Lazarus came forth, still wrapped and TRUST HIM, life. He’s the God who ismore than
bound in grave clothes. Then Jesus enough, not “was” or “will be.” He is!
said, “Loose him and let him go!” (See THINGS CAN BE He isthe All-Sufficient One. He is
John 11:1-44.) not just the God of yesterday; He’s the
The God who is more than enough is DIFFERENT HERE God of now. He didn’t say, “I’m the God
greater than death! who wasmore than enough.” No! And
Outside Jericho one day, Jesus saw AND NOW IN He didn’t say, “I’m the God who will be
a blind beggar named Bartimaeus sit- more than enough.” He said, I AMEl
ting by the side of the road. When Bar- THIS LIFE. Shaddai.”
timaeus heard that Jesus of Nazareth God is El Shaddai today. Let Him be
was approaching, he began to cry out, the God who is more than enough in
“Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy So often we relegate everything to yourlife!
on me!”(Mark 10:47). the past. We say, “Oh, it was wonderful
Jesus stopped and said, “What wilt back when God did all of those things.”
thou that I should do unto thee?”And Or we skip the present and talk about
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just ahead (referring to the end of the
A Sobering Vision
last days), for it is time for the gift of
the working of miracles to be more in
prominence. We now have entered into
the area of the miraculous. Many of
On Saturday, September 2, 1950, as some young, and some teen-aged.
My own people will not accept the
Rev. Kenneth E. Hagin conducted a Some of the younger ones held babies.
moving of My Spirit, and will turn
tent revival in Rockwall, Texas, Jesus All of the women were bowed together S
back and will not be ready to meet Me
appeared to him. Here is Rev. Hagin’s in sorrow and were weeping profusely.
at My coming. Many will be deceived E
account of part of that vision. Those who did not carry babies held
by false prophets and miracles of
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************** their hands on their stomachs as they satanic origin. But follow the Word of
As I lay under the power of God, it bowed over and wept. Tears flowed God, the Spirit of God, and Me, and I
seemed that I stood on a plain and from their eyes like water. you will not be deceived. I am gather- H
could see for miles. There was no sign I looked at the scroll again, and ing My own together and am prepar- C
of life. I felt so lonely. To the west I again looked up to see what I had read ing them, for the time is short.”
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saw what appeared to be a tiny dot on about. I saw the skyline of a large city. There were several other exhorta-
the horizon. As I watched, it grew Looking closer I saw its skyscrapers tions to watchfulness, to awake and to A
larger. It was a horse with a man upon were burned-out hulls, and portions of pray, and not to be deceived. Then I
it, riding toward me at full speed. the city were in ruins. It was not writ- read, “As it was in the days of Noah, E
The horseman came to me, stopped, ten that just one city would be so also shall the coming of the Son of
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and handed me a scroll — a roll of destroyed, burned, and in ruins, but Man be. As I spoke to Noah and said,
paper twelve or fourteen inches long. that there would be many such cities. ‘Yet seven days and I will cause it to T
As I unrolled it, he said, “Take and The scroll was written in the first rain upon the earth, forty days and
read.” At the top of the page in big, person; it seemed as if Jesus Himself forty nights, and every living sub- M
bold, black print were the words, were speaking. I read, “America is stance will I destroy from off the face
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“WAR AND DESTRUCTION.” I was receiving her last call. Some nations
of the earth,’ so today I am speaking
struck dumb. He laid his right hand have already received their last call and giving America her last warning R
on my head and said, “Read, in the and will never receive another.” Then
and call to repentance, and the time F
Name of Jesus Christ!” I began to read in larger print it said, “THE TIME OF
that is left is comparable to the last
what followed on the paper, and as the THE END OF ALL THINGS IS AT
seven days of Noah’s time.
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words instructed me, I looked and saw HAND.” This statement was repeated
“Warn this generation, as did Noah
what I read about. four or five times. his generation, for judgment is about E
First, I read about thousands upon The scroll continued, “All the gifts to fall. And these sayings shall be ful- R
thousands of men in uniform. Then I of the Spirit will be in operation in the filled shortly, for I am coming soon.
looked and saw these men marching, Church in these last days. The Church This is the last revival. I am preparing U
wave after wave of soldiers marching will do greater things than even the My people for My coming. Judgment is T
as to war. I looked in the direction Early Church did. It will have greater coming, but I will call My people away,
they were going, and as far as I could power, signs, and wonders than were even unto Myself, before the worst A
see there were thousands of men recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. shall come. But be thou faithful and E
marching. We have seen and experienced many watch and pray.” Then the message
I read the scroll again, then looked healings, but we now behold amazing concluded with the words, “For the F
and saw what I had just read about. I miracles such as have not been seen time of the end of all things is at
saw many women — some old with before. More and more miracles will be hand.”
snowy white hair, some middle-aged, performed in the last days which are (To be continued . . . )
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Kenneth Hagin Jr.
The devil doesn’t have any authority happen to me?” They become so involved in trying to figure
out why something happened that they actually forget to
over you if you’re walking in line with
pray and trust God for the answer! They begin worrying
the Word — if you’re not giving place to instead of praying and believing God.
him through anxious and fretful thoughts. Really, in the midst of a test or trial, it shouldn’t be a
matter of asking “Why did God let this happen?” It should
Discover how to use the Word of God to
be more a matter of just trusting Him and doing what He
conquer your thoughts and kick the said to do in His Word. The Bible says, “Trust in the Lord
with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own under-
worry habit!
standing” (Prov. 3:5). That’s how the victory comes —
through trust and faith, not through worrying, fretting, and
W having anxiety.
hat is worry? Worry is fear triumphing over faith.
Worry never accomplishes anything productive. Worry
Worry is also the misuse of the imagination God
never produces victory because worry is fear triumphing
has placed within us. Have you ever just sat quietly,
over faith. Worry is the misuse of the creative imagination
thinking and meditating on the Word of God? Did you realize
God has given you. Worry will rob you of God’s promises.
that as you were meditating, you were using your creative
Worry is the highway that leads from somewhere to
imagination?
nowhere! So don’t travel on the highway of worry. Stay off
How does worry begin? It begins with a thought or an
that road!
imagination. When you dwell on the wrong thing, it gives
After you’ve made the decision to trust God and not
you a negative feeling and worry begins to set in.
worry, the devil will still put thoughts in your mind to try
In a test or trial, instead of praying and committing the
to make you worry and fret. But you have to resist those
problem to God, some people will say, “Oh, why did this
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thoughts. You have to go back to Because God promised in His cannot afford to allow myself to think
thinking in line with the Word and Word to meet your needs, you can upon any thoughts that are not in
seeing yourself blessed. begin to imagine what you’re going to line with God’s Word.
Someone might say, “Wait a do when the money comes in that you We’ve seen that there is nothing
minute! The Bible says,‘CASTING were believing God for! You can begin wrong with using our God-given
DOWN imaginations, and every high to see yourself giving more money to imagination to meditate on God’s
thing that exalteth itself against the missions. You can begin to see your- Word and see ourselves the way God
knowledge of God, and bringing into self in a new suit or dress. You can sees us. It’s only wrong when we
captivity every thought to the obedi- see yourself with a better car. You can don’t use it in line with the Word of
ence of Christ’[2 Cor. 10:5]. And begin to see yourself buying a new God. Second Corinthians 10:5 tells us
you’re telling me to imaginesome- house. You can see yourself with the so plainly in a nutshell what we
thing?” new tires you need for the car you aren’t supposed to imagine: “Casting
But let’s look at that scripture in have. Why? Because of God’s Word, down imaginations, and every high
its setting. you can see yourself with all your thing that exalteth itself against the
needs supplied! knowledge of God, and bringing into
2 CORINTHIANS10:4,5
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are
not carnal, but mighty through God to
the pulling down of strong holds;)
Worry is the highway that
5 Casting down imaginations, and
every high thing that exalteth itself
against the knowledge of God, and leads from somewhere to
bringing into captivity every thought to
the obedience of Christ. nowhere!
Notice that verse 5 says, “Casting
down imaginations, and every high
thing THAT EXALTETH ITSELF
AGAINST THE KNOWLEDGE OF
GOD. . . .” In other words, you’re to We receive those things we need captivity every thought to the obedi-
cast down imaginations that tell you because we have committed every- ence of Christ.” Therefore, we can
God’s Word isn’t true and you’re not thing to God and His plan, and He is know the thoughts we aresupposed
going to make it in life. You’re to cast in control. We trust and believe Him to dwell on and the thoughts we are
down the thoughts that say you can’t to meet all our needs and we see it as notsupposed to dwell on.
receive your healing and be made done! It’s really very simple. We are only
whole. Imagination that is operating in to think thoughts that are in line with
Those thoughts are contrary to the line with God’s Word is like the blue- the Word.
knowledge of God, because the Word print for whatever it is you’re believ- You see, the Gospel is simple; it’s
plainly says we can be healed, walk ing for. not complicated. Back in the days
in health, and experience abundant We should give place to God’s pur- when Christ lived on the earth, He
victory in life. So it’s the vain imagi- poses and plans for us as we meditate made serving God simple. It was the
nations that exalt themselves against and believe God’s Word. Those are religious people who made it hard,
the knowledgeof God that we are to the kinds of thoughts we are to give because they made serving God noth-
cast down and not think about! place to. ing more than a bunch of man-made
The Bible never said, “Don’t imag- The kinds of thoughts we are not rules and regulations.
ine.” It simply said, “Cast down imag- to give place to — the imaginations It’s still the same way today, some
inations that exalt themselves we are to cast down — are thoughts two thousand years later. It hasn’t
against the knowledge of God.” such as, Oh, what am I going to do changed. Man still has his tradition
You see, “the knowledge of God” now? There’s no way I can make it and his way of doing things. But we
says, “You’re healed” (Isa. 53:5). So through this problem.Those thoughts are to live our lives by God’s Word,
you have every right to imagine and are vain imaginations of worry and not by man’s ideas and traditions.
see yourself healed. You have every fear that need to be cast down and And the Bible says that God’s Word is
right to believe God for healing, brought under subjection to the obe- full of power (Rom. 1:16). We don’t
because when you believe for healing, dience of Christ (2 Cor. 10:5). have to live as the world lives,
your believing is based on the author- Christ has said, “I have redeemed because we have God’s Word. We
ity of God’s Word. you from the curse of the Law. I was don’t have to worry about the things
The Word of God or the knowledge made a curse for you that the bless- the devil brings our way.
of God also says, “But my God shall ing of Abraham might come on the You have the ability and the
supply all your need according to his Gentiles through Me” (Gal. 3:13,14). authority to cast down worry and to
riches in glory by Christ Jesus”(Phil. Now my mind can work with that! I resist anxious thoughts. You can use
4:19). So, you see, you have the can easily meditate and think upon the same energy you’ve used in the
authority to imagine yourself pros- that kind of thought! I am redeemed! past by worrying and put that energy
perous and with all your needs met. The Word of God says I am! But I to better use by casting down vain
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The Word of Faith
Kick the Worry Habit
imaginations and by casting your worry? Then youworry about it. But make God’s promises ineffective in
care over on the Lord. my Bible tells me Ican cast my cares your life. The devil uses worry to dis-
Some people spend all of their on the Lord, so I’m going to sleep in tract you from the Word and to get
time and energy worrying about a peace!” you to dwell on anxious, negative
particular situation instead of casting Sometimes I’ll say, “I’m not going thoughts instead of on the Word.
their cares over on the Lord and to worry about something I don’t Then gradually, you are no longer
trusting Him to work it out. For have any control over anyway. I know thinking on the Word at all or trust-
instance, they’ll say, “I just can’t see God has control of everything, and ing God to see you through to victory.
any way out of this situation” or “I my faith is in Him.” Then I quote the You see, you cannot worry and
don’t know how God is going to work scriptures that cover whatever it is I think on the Word at the same time.
Likewise, you cannot think on the
Word and worry at the same time!
You see, you cannot worry and Therefore, we know what we are to
think upon.
think on the Word at the same time. The Apostle Paul said, “. . . what-
soever things are true, whatsoever
things are honest, whatsoever things
are just, whatsoever things are pure,
this out. I don’t know if everything need. I lay my head down on my pil- whatsoever things are lovely, whatso-
will turn out all right or not.” They low, praying in tongues, and I always ever things are of good report; if there
lose sleep at night worrying about the fall fast asleep. Then I’m fresh the be any virtue, and if there be any
problem. But when daylight comes, next day. I’m not tired and worn out praise, think on THESE THINGS”
the problem is still there; nothing has physically, mentally, and emotionally (Phil. 4:8)!
changed. from worrying, fretting, and having You can kick the worry habit sim-
When the devil tries to work on anxiety. ply by conquering your thoughts and
me with similar thoughts, I say, “All Worry is the enemy’s tool to steal keeping your heart and mind set on
right, Mr. Devil. You want someone to the Word of God from you and to God’s Word!
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