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Rick Mortimer
All things start with an action. The journey starts with the first step. The first step needs to be taken in faith. Your faith is the [tangible] substance of the thing hoped for, the evidence [proof]of the thing not yet seen. That faith is based on a belief that all will follow as needed. When you couple this with an attitude of ‘doing whatever it takes’ with gratitude for knowing that you can ‘do all things in Christ, which strengthen us,” then you cannot fail. Whatever the mind of man can believe, he can achieve.
Fear begets fear. ‘The thing I fear has come upon me.” Fear is the opposite of faith. Just as faith builds, so fear destroys. Fear is Satan’s counterfeit of faith. Fear is against God because God has said we can accomplish all things. Fear says we can’t. Fear says, ‘why even start.” Fear shuts you down before you begin. God says, ‘begin a thing, and trust in me." Doubt is fear disguised, but fear nonetheless.
Speak the thing into existence. What you say is what you get. If you speak words of doubt and fear, you create an attitude of such. Reverse that by speaking words of faith out loud to yourself. Fearful [fear filled] words are satanic words. Speak God’s words about a thing. Our words create our attitudes and enforce our beliefs. Are we speaking words of belief in God’s ability and promises to us, or are we speaking words of defeat from the enemy? Are we hung by our tongue? We create with our words, or we destroy with our words.
Don’t dither around in trying to control the circumstance necessary for you to create. You do the work, don’t plan the results. The results are God’s part. Your part is to do, and that means to get started from where you are – not from where you are going to be, or want to be – but from where you are right this moment. Success is not built on convenience. Don’t expect things to meet all of your expectations before you begin. Begin NOW with what you have. When you step out under adverse circumstance, it is an expression of your faith. God honours faith – not hesitancy and fear.
Would you doubt any project if you absolutely positively knew that you could not fail? Then why do we allow doubt to enter into a thing? Did not God say that he has put all things under our feet? In the original Greek, all meant all. We are more than conquerors in Christ. We cannot fail. Failure is impossible if we have a consciousness of the victory and power that was given us at the cross. We have the mind of Christ within us. We have the victory over powers and principalities that might oppose us. How then, can we fail to do a thing? If we walk the walk, we can't.
