If you would turn, please, in the scripture to Mark 11 this morning.

In Mark 11, we've been on this for some weeks now, and we're calling it faith to receive.

And since the scripture tells us that the just live by faith and walk by faith,

it's extremely important to every part of our life.

And it's sad that so many millions of Christians don't believe these things that we've been talking about.

They think we're strange and presumptuous and that we take too much upon ourselves.

And the problem is sadly that they just don't know God well enough.

Because he's the one to set it up this way.

That we are to be bold to come before him and to lay hold and receive now of course you can't lay hold and receive anything that hasn't already been given to you

it's got to be available or you couldn't get it when they ring the bell and say,

come and get it.

You can show up to the table, but if there's nothing on the table, you can't, but you can't

get.

Got to be something there before you can appropriate and lay hold of it.

And that's what the scripture said in John.

A man can take nothing to himself except it be given to him from heaven.

So it's not a matter of us trying to change God.

He can't be changed.

He does not change.

And it's not a matter of us trying to rend out of the hand of God, something that he

hadn't decided whether he's going to let us have or not. No, something he's already bought and

paid for in Jesus and given it to us. But then just because he's given it to you doesn't mean

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