Step No. 2

Perhaps you thought you needed to fast and pray for 40 days and nights. No, the starting point is getting into the Word. If you know what you want, earnestly desire it and you can see it in your mind, then the next thing to do is to get into the Word.

Of course the Word is long, going from Genesis to Revelation. Which part do you start with? Well you have to start somewhere.

We have provided an online Bible program called the GBM Online Bible which is freely available. Simply go to:

https://gbmbible.gbmi.co.za

There you will find a daily Bible reading schedule. It lets you read seven different chapters each day. Each day if you return, you will find it has advanced to the next chapter in the list.

We divided the Bible up into sections, and you read a chapter from each section every day. When you reach the end of a section you start again at the beginning.

You will end up reading the whole Bible that way. But you will not read it in order. You will read from different places, which gives you an overall picture of the Word.

You need to get into the Word and find some promises from God. Find a passage where God promises you what you want. You might have a problem with this and ask,

"Where does God promise me a Lincoln Continental?"

Well you won't find a promise quite that specific. You might get a prophetic revelation and we will talk more about that later. What you need to do is get in line with the Word so that you know how God works.

For example, suppose you need a husband or wife and want to ask the Lord for that. You must be very specific like this:

She must be three inches shorter than me

She must be blonde

She must be nice and slim

She must have the right curvature

Is there anything wrong with that? No there is nothing wrong with that at all. You are at liberty to ask the Lord for any kind of partner you want, except in this case: you are already married.

The Lord will not give you a new partner if you are already married. That is sin, and you need to know what the Scriptures teach about that.

So you need to get into the Word and know what it teaches. Then when you come to ask the Lord for anything, you ask in line with what the Word clearly teaches.

Some folks like to get a 'fortune-telling word' from the Lord. They take the Bible and open it at random, and they see the words, '…and Abram married Sarah.'

Sometimes the Lord does that. He has pity on us and does us like He did Gideon. He was such a man of doubt that he wanted many confirmations. And even when God gave them, he still had doubt. It is not exactly an act of faith.

But sometimes the Lord will allow this. In fact, we even allowed for it in the GBM Online Bible, and we gave a link where you can click to get a random Bible Verse. You can find it at the top right of the screen.

You could keep clicking that until you get a Scripture that says something you want to hear. Then you will have your 'word from the Lord' if that is what you really want.

But I suggest you rather get into the Word and pull out every promise that God gives you. Every time you see a promise in the Word, make a note of it. Make yourself a document with all the promises in it.

The time could come in the future when you need something from God. Then one of those promises will give you the assurance that you can ask according to God's will.

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