CONSERVACION DE ZYPREXA

We read in Genesis 2:21-25, "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore, shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."

Now, the point that I want to bring out is this: you noticed that Adam did not complain about what God had made him. We have no indications at all that Adam was unhappy or dissatisfied with what God had created for him. All I am saying is that if Adam could have that much confidence in God, you can have that much confidence in God, and believe that He is going to bring the kind of person into your life, male or female, that is going to be best suited for you, and who you will be best suited for.

And therefore, will produce for you a most happy marriage, and a most beautiful blessed relationship.

So I don't believe necessarily that it is Faith when you go out and just claim a person. "I claim him. He has to be this size ...." That is Foolishness. When I say, put in a claim, I mean, tell God what you want. If you want a husband, tell Him you want a husband, but I really believe that you ought to back off of the statistics because you think that is what is going to make you happy, but you have no guarantee that once you marry, you won't have a problem

on your hands. A lot of times the things you think will make you happy, don't really make you happy at all.

You can trust your Father God. After all, He saved you: He filled you with the Holy Ghost: He has your name written down in the Lamb's Book of Life: He is blessing you as you are operating in His Word, and I think it would be best just to claim the husband, or wife in the name of Jesus, and leave the rest to God. He knows you don't want to marry King Kong or Godzilla, and I think there are plenty of people to go around for everybody.

Some people don't want to marry. But if you do desire to marry, I think that if you are going to use your faith in the area of claiming a husband or wife, then you should just claim the husband or the wife and leave the statistics up to God. Trust Him. If you are going to trust Him with your eternal salvation, you ought to be able to trust Him for a husband or wife. You should just believe that you have received, and stop looking or shopping around. Because if you believe that you have received, you don't need to shop. There is no point in looking now, because God will bring the person to you, and you will know it when this happens.

When you start acting on or claiming a certain person, you are getting into Foolishness and Presumption and you are getting ready to get your head cut off, because you are going to get something that you don't want.

Many times, I have sat across the desk and heard the words, "I wish I had never seen that woman! She is driving me crazy." But he thought that he couldn't live without her, the same as she thought that she couldn't live without him. And now he has found out that he can't live with her.

The point is this. Seek first the kingdom of God, and put your claim in for a husband or wife. Believe that you have received according to Mark 11:24, and leave the size, color, dimensions, and statistics to your heavenly Father.

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Finances In The Home Situation

What about writing checks when you have no money in the bank to cover them, and believing that God will supernaturally put the money there? Is that Faith, Foolishness, or Presumption?

I know a man who is a minister of the Gospel, and he is out in the teaching ministry. He teaches around the country, just as I do, and he is a very prominent man in the ministry of the Word today. I heard a video tape of his some years ago, and he was saying that when he first got hold of the faith message, he had acted very foolishly concerning finances. He had a lot of bills and he was going to use his faith and claim that he could write checks and send them in, and believe that God was going to supernaturally put the money in the bank to cover the checks. Well, you know what happened. Every one of them bounced! That is not Faith.

If someone writes you a check and doesn't have any money to cover it, that is dishonest. You could not do that as an exercise of your faith and expect God to honor it. Do you know why? Because it is dishonest, unless you post date a check and tell the person that you give the check to that it will not be good until this date. If you write a check and give it to someone before you have the money in the bank to cover it, you are absolutely being dishonest because when you give a person a check, you are saying that there is money in the bank to cover it. Isn't that what a check is for? It takes the place of money. So if you write a

check and hand it to a person, that person assumes, unless you tell him otherwise, that there is money in the bank to cover that check.

That is not Faith. That is Presumption and Foolishness.

That will not work, and you will get into serious trouble.

You are going to ruin your own good credit, and your own good name, and you will bring dishonor to the kingdom of God, if you do this. That is not Faith. You shouldn't write any checks until you have the money in the bank to cover them.

This business about writing a check and getting to the bank before the check clears to put the money in, is being dishonest. When you write that check and hand it to a person, you are saying to that person, "I have money in the bank to cover this check." And if you don't have money in the bank to cover it, I don't care what you plan to have in the bank (What happens if they have a fire in the company where you work and the thing burns down?), if you don't get that money in there, you will be messed up. And you lied to the man, because the money was not in the bank. If you don't have any money in the bank, you don't have any business writing a check.

Somebody gave me a check one day. We were in Santa Paula, California, and this man said, "I want to buy a couple of your books, but I don't have any money in the bank: I am going to post date this check. Don't put it in the bank until then."

Fine, wonderful. I could receive that. I could agree with that. But if I had put it in the bank before he deposited some money in the bank, it would have bounced. There would not have been any money in there to cover the amount of the check.

If you think that you are using Faith and you just go out and write a bunch of checks, and send them in, and there is no money in the bank to cover them, that is not Faith: that's Foolishness. God is not going to supernaturally drop some money in the bank. The only way that money is going to get into the bank is when you make a deposit, or somebody else makes a deposit to your account. Is that Faith, Foolishness, Or Presumption? You tell me!

Is it Faith, the fact that I am going to believe God to pay all my bills off, and I go out and write all of those checks before I put the money in the bank? That is not Faith: that is Foolishness.