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Those who dwell on the positive and

confess the positive will be raised up

overnight with special anointings

that will amaze and confound the

world.

My father had a great miracle ministry, and he said that God spoke to him these words: “I don’t want you to speak a word of unbelief or to agree with others who do.” He had to begin to cultivate this ability because if we are not careful we find our- selves, just in the course of normal conversation, speaking words of unbelief. After he had worked at this for a while and thought he was doing pretty well, the Lord spoke to him again: “It is not enough

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for you not to speak unbelief. I don’t want you to even think it.” From that day on, my father had to start the process all over again.

Get rid of some of the negative things you think and say. When you think like that and talk like that, you become your own worst enemy. Stop dwelling on and declaring the negatives and the limitations. There is no limitation in the Spirit. There is no limi- tation in the glory. Those who dwell on the positive and confess the positive will be raised up overnight with special anointings that will amaze and con- found the world. What a wonderful day in which to live!

How long do you have to wait for some of these things to happen? If you will believe for it and stop insisting on the reasons it cannot happen, God will raise you up in a matter of months.

“But I’m not Jeremiah,” I hear someone saying. There is an anointing for this day that is greater than Jeremiah’s day. There is an anointing for this day that is greater than Isaiah’s day. There is an anoint- ing for this day and hour that is as great as anything that has ever been seen on the face of the Earth.

“What about the Day of Pentecost?” What about it? It is true that one hundred and twenty were filled with the Holy Spirit, but I have been in services in which thousands have been filled with the Spirit in one meeting, in a few minutes time. There has never

been a greater day, a greater hour or a greater move of the Spirit of the living God. Begin to declare it. Accept your great calling in the river of God.

Why do we find it so hard to believe what God is telling us for ourselves? Once, when we were hav- ing Bible School every afternoon in Jerusalem, one of our leaders said to all the students, “I want you to go home tonight and write down any outstand- ing prophecy or vision or dream, anything that has not yet been fulfilled in your life and bring it back on a piece of paper tomorrow to class.” When we got to class that next day everybody seemed to have done their homework, but they were embarrassed to show it. The papers remained hidden under some- thing else, and the students didn’t want anybody else to see or to know what they were anticipating in God. They didn’t want anyone to think of them as being high minded, and they didn’t want any- one to make fun of them.

The teacher went around the room, trying to get someone to read their paper first. Finally she got one of the students to reluctantly start reading off some of the things God had promised him. It said, “I am going to be a great evangelist. I am going to preach to thousands. I am going to see thousands saved.” He was visibly embarrassed by what he had read.

The teacher, however, only encouraged him. “I don’t see any problem with that,” she said. “You

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are already preaching, you are already having suc- cess, you are already winning souls. The seed is already working. All God has to do for you is mul- tiply the numbers, and that’s an easy thing for God.” Another person read, “God has shown me that I would be preaching on large platforms in Africa, in great healing meetings, with great miracles.”

“That’s not difficult for God,” the teacher re- sponded. “Remember the lady you prayed for the other day. God healed her. What a miracle that was! Remember ...? ” and she went on to remind him of other miracles God had done through him. The heal- ing power was there. It just needed an acceleration, a multiplication in numbers. If God could heal one person through him, He could heal ten thousand people through him. Before we had finished that day, many were convinced that God would do what He had promised. We will see it in the days just ahead of us.

You are called to the nations. You perhaps have never thought of it in that way, but it is time you did. Get a good world map and pray over it. Lay your hands on the countries God burdens you for and believe for miracles. If you are not good at ge- ography and don’t know the countries, begin by praying for geographical areas or for continents. Pray for Asia, for Africa, for South and Central America. Pray for the Caribbean Islands. See what

God will do for you. This is God’s day and hour to bring to fruition the call that has been on your life from your mother’s womb. It is nurtured and en- larged as you are carried away in the river.

Some might say, “You don’t know the kind of childhood I had.” It doesn’t matter. The call of God is not dependent on the family in which you were raised or even whether or not you were raised in a churchgoing family. God has an individual relation- ship with each of us that goes back to the moment we were formed in our mother’s womb. His call is individual and personal.

The world is not too big for us to love. Move into your authority in God and begin to call forth na- tions for Him.

Just a couple weeks before my brother died, the Lord honored me and gave me the privilege of be- ing in North Korea, the very last country I had been believing Him to send me to. I am blessed to have been in nation after nation, some of them for long periods of time and some of them over and over again. There must have been more than two hun- dred. This should not surprise us. It is what God promised. Get in the river, and it will happen in your life too.

Some people sit down and try to plan it, and while they are busy with the details of how they will get it done, God has already used the person next to them

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to accomplish the goal. Stop trying to do His work on your own and be carried away by the river.

Some people sit down and try to plan