How Do I Appropriate?

I don’t think I am alone when I say that everything that you believe for didn’t come to pass. Everything you have prayed for didn’t happen. There are many promises, provisions in the Scriptures that we have had difficulty taking advantage of. As I have waited upon the Lord and looked to Him for answers, it seems like the things that we don’t know are so difficult. It’s like when you finally learn something and you know it, it is easy and simple. The Word is like that. It is difficult to understand but then once the light comes on and you see it, how simple it is.

For years I wrestled with all the teaching I’ve received on the need to appropriate, to appropriate the things of the Lord. I believe that but then when I tried to do it, well .... Here I’m trying to draw from the Lord, I'm trying to appropriate, and I don’t know if I got anything or not. How do you get that thing to work? How do you appropriate? Someone asked me one time, “How do you appropriate?” Well, it is such a simple thing.

I had a dream the other night and the Lord showed me some things using the principles of electricity. I’m not going to get into all that with you, but in the Scriptures it says: Give, and it shall be given unto you. Luke 6:38. Now that is one scripture we’ve known all along. Is that simple or what? We are all familiar with that scripture. Alright, apply it to appropriation. Give, and it shall be given unto you. What God showed me in my dream was that unlike charges attract, positive-negative. Negative flows to the positive. Every time an electron flows over, it leaves a hole from where it left. Then that hole attracts another one. So it is as you give out, as you minister out. It is a principle of God that you automatically begin to be refilled. If you’re not giving out, you don’t get anything. It is just that plain and simple. The flow has stopped. But as you are giving out and the flow continues, you bless, you bless people who you come into contact with, bless things. Bless your car! And you love, and as long you continue to do that, then your spirit automatically begins to draw a refilling from the Lord. It’s not something you have to consciously do; it just happens because it is a principle that God has set up.

Give, and it shall be given unto you. You do not have to focus on what is being given to you. You just give. Give it out; let it go! It turns loose the blessing to you. There is a message from one of the older Trumpets – How to Turn on God's Love-Faucet. You turn it on by giving out and then you receive.

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