Faith It ‘Til You Make It

Memorize this phrase: “Works will work without faith, but faith will not work without works.” In other words, faith is a two-sided coin. The front side of the faith coin is the “belief ” side. This is where you have a high level of confidence in what you believe in as truth. The back side of the faith coin is the “action” side. This is where you actually act on what you believe as truth and do something on a daily basis until something happens. Most people are highly developed on the belief side and underdeveloped on the action side.

I go to the gym at 6:00 a.m. three times a week to play full-court basketball with some other thirty-five-year-old and older guys. Our goal is to look thirty-five until we’re one hundred, so we run very hard to stay in shape. I have been doing this for at least ten years. Almost every time I leave the gym, though, I see a large man sitting in the lobby watching TV and drinking something from a large cup. He usually is waiting for the swimming aerobics class to start. From time to time I stop and chat with him. Over the last few years I have lost forty pounds from working out. But in the same time I have seen him gain weight. I finally asked him one day what was in the cup he was drinking from. He said, coffee with lots of sugar. I told him if he changed that to water, then he would probably see some weight loss and actually benefit from his membership.

In other words, this man was highly developed in his belief that going to the gym would keep him healthy. However, sitting in the gym lobby drinking sugar was working against him! He needed to be highly developed in working out instead. In the same gym, I often see a man who has big arm and chest muscles but very, very skinny legs (he looks like a cartoon). He will go up to the weight room and immediately begin to work on his arms and chest area . . . again. Because he never works on his legs, one area of his body is highly developed and the other area is underdeveloped. This is a lot like most people’s faith.

In this book, my plan is to assist you in developing both sides of your faith coin. I am a living witness that faith will totally change your life. Over the last twenty years I have grown from sad to happy, divorced to married, unknown to famous, poor to rich, noneffective to effective, and low impact to high impact through developing the action side of my faith coin. This book will detail the simple methods I have used to change my life from one of poverty and defeat to one of complete fullness. I am so glad you have allowed me to mentor you in this area.

Let’s get started.

“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead” ( James 2:23).

I know this may sound a little strange, folks, but it works. Trust me. You must begin to act as though you believe what you say. God’s Word never fails. My family and I now experience a rush of “jubilee manifestations” because we posture ourselves to receive from God by our actions. How do you do that? You start by saying now you are a millionaire and now you are debt-free. Don’t wait for it to happen. Start declaring now that you are never sick and you walk in divine health. A good rule of thumb is to never say what you don’t want. Even if you are so broke that you can’t pay attention, never admit it! Speak the Word, not the current conditions. We’ve adopted a family slogan and lifestyle we call “Act like it!” We act out, to the letter, whatever we confess. I was on the elevator one day and pushed the button, but the doors kept opening and the elevator wouldn’t go up. Eventually, I realized I had been pushing the button for the f loor I was already on! You have to push the button (confess) for the f loor (area in life) you want to go to, not the current f loor (current circumstances) you are on. In other words, speak and act like where you are going, not for where you are currently located. Don’t set up a tent in the middle of your problems!