In the old days, before emails and instant messaging, often forms needed to be filled in triplicate. You could and probably still can buy special paper that when you wrote on it, you were actually writing on three sheets of paper and had three copies of what you wrote. So a company could give a customer a copy of the receipt, the salesman could have a personal copy and the company could file a copy for later. Triplicate.
True faith is triplicate. It needs to be in three places to work. You need three copies. I am teaching you how to dream big here and get results from the Word.
Let’s use a simple example. You might be sick in your body. Now, the Bible says very clearly and explicitly that By His Stripes you are healed (1 Peter 2.24). So this is the first place faith is. There is faith in the Word. The Word of God has faith inside it. That’s why just hearing the Word brings faith. Everything you need in life is found in God’s precious promises and you have a whole book of them that bring not just the promise but faith to believe it. If you are struggling to believe God’s Word, if you are anxious about the future, if you are struggling to see yourself rich there is faith in the Word.
So you must get into the Word. The Word of God is non negotiable if we want faith, it is the very first place there is faith. It is the master copy of Faith. There are Christians praying for faith, begging for faith, hoping to get faith, but faith is in the Word and to get faith you have to go to the Word, and find out what the Word says.
But faith in the Word will not change anyone’s life. Just going out and buying a big black leather bound Bible will not change your faith.
You need to duplicate the faith in the Word in your heart. You need to be listening to good faith filled sermons, you need to read the Word, study the Word, meditate on the Word, learn the Word, be in church. All of us need to take heed how we hear because the measure we mete will be measured to us (Mark 4.24). Your job is to take the Word of God and copy it to your heart so your heart stops looking like a mix of traditions, worldliness and your opinions, and starts looking like the Word. The more your heart is full of the Word, the more your life will look like the book of Acts. You will always end up living what your heart looks like. As a man thinks in his heart so he is (Proverbs 23.7). Your task is to both garden and guard your heart so it looks like the Word. Sow the Word as a seed, protect yourself from weeds, and do whatever it takes to make your heart look like the Word.
But that’s only a duplicate. Faith needs to be into triplicate. You could have the purest most godly heart in the world, but if you never speak the Word you will never see it. You will have what you say. You have to speak the Word. You cannot just talk rubbish and see the Bible life manifest. You have to take control of your big mouth and let the words of your mouth match the Word.
When there is true triplication, when the Word matches your heart and your results, you will see the Word manifest. You will be healed, prosperous, happy and in the right place at the right time.
Make renewing your heart and controlling your tongue your life goals! Watch and see miracles!
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