Creflo Dollar is the founder and senior pastor of World Changers Church International (WCCI) in College Park, Georgia, which serves nearly 30,000 members. His award-winning Changing Your World television broadcast reaches nearly one billion homes in practically every country in the world. With 30 years in ministry, Creflo Dollar is committed to bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ to people all over the world, literally changing the world one person at a time.
1. Believe and Receive
Did you know that everything God has promised in His Word has already been done? The only
thing we have to do is believe and receive what rightfully belongs to us by faith. People of faith
always have a good report because they are constantly walking by what the Word says and not
by what their five physical senses are telling them. To live the life of faith means to live in full
assurance of the finished work of Christ.
There are three ingredients of faith: belief, trust, and confidence. Mark 11:24 says, “Therefore I
say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye
shall have them.” Anything that can be found in the Word has already been granted to you;
however, you must believe that you will get it. You can’t say you are believing something and
you are not trusting. Trust is maintaining a committed stance on what God has said. When you
trust in something, you have full confidence in it.
A great illustration of confidence that is born out of trust is to think about when you sit in a
chair. You trust that a chair is going to be able to hold your weight, and, therefore, you are
confident that if you sit in it you will be secure. Most people have no questions when it comes
to believing in a chair’s ability to support them. However, when it comes to God and the things
He has promised us, people tend to lack absolute confidence. The way to build it up is to
meditate on the Word of God and think about all the things He has already done. Has He ever
let you down or failed to come through for you? Think about the many situations you have
been in where God showed Himself strong on your behalf. You can trust in Him as your source
of all things.
Laying hold of the promises of God means adopting an ownership mentality. This is not a
mentality that is waiting for God to do something, but is one that knows what already belongs
to you. The person with an ownership mentality says, “I OWN healing, deliverance, abundance,
and prosperity. These things are mine!” We actually get the promises to manifest in this
physical realm by releasing our faith in the grace of God that is available to bring them out of
the spiritual realm and into the natural. Ephesians 2:8 says, “For by grace are ye saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.” It is through God’s grace that each of the
promises are at your disposal.
It’s hard to have faith when you don’t have understanding of the Word of God, which is why it
is important to attend a church that is actually teaching you how to live by faith. Traditional,
religious mind-sets convince you that you have to try to get God to do something, but the truth
is, He has already done it. Instead of praying to God to heal you, declare and admit that healing
exists inside of you right now. Healing isn’t being made in some healing factory; it is already in
existence! Declare that you have faith in the grace of God versus faith in your own ability to get
God to move.
2. No matter what you are going through, or what your five physical senses are telling you, don’t
allow your life to be led by your sensory mechanisms. Facts can change on a daily basis, but the
truth of God’s Word never changes. It has the power to change and rearrange the facts. All God
is looking for is someone who will believe and receive what He has already done.
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challenge we face, there is a solution. “Your World” is passionate about empowering our
viewers for positive change through the Grace of God. We invite you to tune in weekly!