Section 02 - Step 2: Know Your Rights

You say, "Yes, but it is something that I want that is in this world."

Yes it is, but God created this world. And He is the ultimate originator and the source of all things.

Provided Through Human Vessels

God may provide for you through human channels. In fact most of the time He will provide like that.

If you desire something from God that is going to cost money, you are not going to wake up and find dollar bills under your pillow. It won't happen unless some human being felt led to go and put it there.

It is going to take human channels to be fulfilled. God is not a counterfeiter. He is not going to create things, because the earth is already created and things will take place in the earth through human vessels.

What if you want something spiritual from the Lord? The chances are that God is going to use a human channel to pray for you. Or someone may lay hands on you and to impart to you the thing that you are wanting.

For example, perhaps you have a strong desire to be used by God, whether it be in a ministry of healing, the prophetic ministry or something like that.

If so, the chances are God is going to send somebody to minister to you by the Spirit and the Word. He or she will release that thing into you, to equip you for it.

So firstly you must look to the Lord as the source, knowing that God is going to use a human channel. But you must also know that God alone is the originator.

No Doubts

I want to ask you this question now.

"What right do you have to ask the Lord for this?"

You see if you don't have a right to ask Him for it, then how can you honestly come before God and say,

"Lord, this is what I desire. This is my passionate core desire, and I want this thing now from you because you are the source."

What if God says,

"But I don't want you to have that."

You say, "That's not fair Lord. Everybody else has one. I know people who have it and you gave it to them. Why don't you want to give it to me?"

You see while there is doubt in your mind about whether you have a right to ask the Lord for this, you are never going to get it. This is because you are not going to come to Him with that same passion that a child has.

It is like the passion that the young guy had for his watch. He nagged and nagged and bugged, until eventually his dad said,

"Just take your watch!"

No Taking No

The Scripture speaks about importunate prayer which is where we keep bringing it to the Lord. The Lord loves that kind of prayer.

It is not that He wants us to nag Him. But rather when we really go out of our way and we have a determination, He sees a core desire.

I have found something amazing as I have trusted God for things, both in the temporal and in the spiritual realm. People often have the idea,

"If only I have enough faith to believe God for this, it would come."

Well I have come to a place where my faith has grown very strong in many areas. And I could really exercise my faith to get something from the Lord if I really want it.

If I don't really want it, I am not like that guy under the water who said,

"I have to breathe and nothing else counts in life!"

You see when there is a core desire, then you are going to reach out and grab the hand of the Lord. You are not going to take no for an answer. That is the kind of thing that moves God.

It is like the woman who came to Jesus for the healing of her child. He said to her,

"No, you're a dog, and I don't give the children's bread to the dogs."

Well she wasn't going to be satisfied with that and she said,

"Yeah, but you let the crumbs fall on the ground to the puppies. I'll settle for the crumbs."

She had determination and Jesus was amazed at her. He was moved and He gave her what she wanted, even though she didn't deserve it.

You cannot do that until you know that you have a right to come before God.

Read the Word

So how can you find out if it is God's will and whether you have a right to ask for it?

You need to go and read His will. In fact it is His last will and testament, and there are two of them – one old and one new.

Go and read the Word and find some Scripture that shows you that you have a right to ask the Lord for what you want. This also helps to build your faith, and faith is very necessary as we will see shortly.

Your starting point then is to know your rights. And how do you know your rights? You can read in the Scriptures and find out what God says we have a right to receive at His hand.

Make it Your Own

Once you know your rights, now you are in a position to do something with those rights. You need to do something with those Scripture promises and the assurance that you got from the Word.

You need to take that Word and make it your own. If you don't you are going to say,

"You know the Scripture does promise this, but that was written to somebody thousands of years ago. Maybe it applied to them, but it is not for me."

Or you will say,

"That Scripture was written for the nation of Israel, but I am not part of Israel."

You see you have to make that Scripture real to you. You have to come to the place where you know that God says,

"I am willing to give it to you."

Remember the leper who came to Jesus and said,

"Lord, if you are willing you can make me clean."

Jesus said, "Yes I am willing; be clean."

You need to hear the Word that says,

"Yes, you do have a right. Yes, I do want to give to you."

Memorize the Word

How do you get to that place where you know you have it?

You start by using the two m's. They are memorization and muttering. You must take the Scripture and memorize it.

Perhaps you say,

"But I don't have a very good memory."

Can you remember what you want from the Lord? Can you remember what you desire from Him? If you are under the water, trust me you will remember it. You will think of nothing else.

You must memorize the Scripture and get it into your heart, into your mind and into your soul. Let it sink down in you until you can quote it instantly without even thinking.

When that happens it starts to become part of you, instead of something written down on a piece of paper or electronic file if you are using one of the modern Bible texts. Make it part of you through memorization.

Mutter Away

The best way to keep feeding it in to your inner being is to mutter it. That means you have to speak those words and that Scripture.

Well you know you can't go around all day speaking Scriptures. Perhaps you are at the office working with somebody when you quote a Scripture. They are going to say,

"Huh? What are you saying?"

Perhaps you pick up the phone and say,

"Good after, this is Customer Service. How can I help you? Thus says the Lord…"

You see you can't quote Scripture in public, but you should be speaking it a lot during the day and all the time. So the only way you can do it is to mutter softly to yourself,

My God supplies all my needs, according to His riches in Christ Jesus.

Somebody might say to you,

"What did you say?"

You simply reply,

"It's okay, I'm just muttering to myself."

You don't even need to say it out loud. You can say it under your breath. Just mutter the Scripture over and over again, until it is totally saturated in you.

Add Desires and Pictures

You must also add a little bit more to the Scripture. You must add your desire to the Scripture. In other words, you must take the Scripture and say,

"The Scripture promises this, therefore I have my desire."

So if you desire healing, you can take the Scripture,

By his stripes you have been healed.

Now you can add to it and say,

"By His stripes I am healed. Therefore I no longer need to suffer from this disease."

An even better one would be,

"I have been redeemed from the curse. This sickness is a curse, and according to the Scriptures I have been redeemed from the curse of the law, therefore I don't have to keep this thing anymore."

That is actually a beautiful Scripture for most things. Poverty is a curse. You can say,

"I have been redeemed from the curse, therefore I don't have to be poor anymore."

Mutter this to yourself over and over again, until you come to the place where eventually you believe it.

You need to change those words to pictures. Perhaps you say,

"I don't need to be poor anymore."

The trouble is it is not so easy to picture yourself 'not poor'. It would be better for you to say,

"I can now be wealthy. I can now have an abundance and more than enough to meet my needs."

Speak the words, form them into pictures and keep feeding them inwards.

Faith Comes Out

Do you know what is going to happen? Eventually it will start coming out.

You are going to be dreaming yourself speaking these Scriptures. You are going to dream that you are wealthy or that you are well.

And when somebody asks you a question you will find yourself saying some of the Scriptures without even realizing it. Someone may ask you,

"How are you doing today?"

You will respond immediately and say,

"I am healed in the name of Jesus."

You won't have to force it. A lot of people force it, and they think that just by speaking those words out loud that it will make it happen.

No it won't happen until you have fed it inwards. Because you see if you feed it inwards it will start to come out again. It is as though you have filled yourself so full of it, that when you open your mouth it is the first thing that comes out.

You stand up to preach and you find yourself speaking all those Scriptures all the time because you know them so well.

It affects everything you say. You have already been talking about the things you desire. Now you will do it even more because you start to say,

"God says I can have it."

When it comes out that is when faith is produced. That is what the Scripture means when it says,

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the rhema (spoken) word of God.

The Scripture is not referring to the logos (written) word, but the spoken word of God. Faith comes by the spoken word of God. In other words God starts to speak His word inside of you. It starts to come out, you begin to speak it, and that is what produces faith.

So why do we need faith?

Well very simply because the Scripture says that without faith it is impossible to please God. But the Scripture also says that with faith all things are possible. It says,

All things are possible to him who believes.

I thought to myself,

"Wow, if I could produce the faith, I know that I can always please the Lord no matter what I am asking for. I know that no matter what I ask for, I am dealing with the God of the impossible. All things are possible."

I can receive all these things because I have finally learned to know my rights.

So I started with the apple core and got a core desire; a burning hot passion. Then I learned from the Word of God that I have a right to ask the Lord for this thing that I desire.

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