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You’ve Already Got It!
By Andrew Wommack
On March 23, 1968, I had a miraculous encounter with the Lord that changed my life forever.
Instantly, I received “revelation knowledge” that I’m still trying to understand and communicate today.
This knowledge didn’t come through the normal channels of study and
education; the Spirit of God supernaturally imparted it to me.
When I came heart to heart with the Lord, I just knew things about
Him intuitively. One of those revelations has become a mainstay for what
the Lord has accomplished in my life, and it’s one of the most
important and foundational truths of the Gospel.
It’s the knowledge that God has already done His part. When Jesus cried “
It is finished”
(John 19:30), He meant just that. His work on earth was done. The
Atonement was complete. He provided everything we could ever need. We
aren’t waiting on Him to give; He is waiting on us to receive.
The book of Ephesians is written from the perspective of everything
already being ours in Christ. It starts in Ephesians 1:3 by saying,
“
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ” (emphasis mine).
Any blessing you could ever need or desire from the Lord is not something to strive for but something you already have.
God made the provision before you had the need. It is just a simple matter of receiving what He has already done.
The benefit of understanding and being assured of this is enormous.
It kills legalism and the performance mentality, and that takes a huge
load off of you. How could you doubt that God will give you something if
He’s already given it to you?
When Jamie and I first pastored our little church in Seagoville,
Texas, in 1973, I didn’t even have a complete Bible. The one I had taken
with me to Vietnam was all mildewed, and entire books were missing. I
decided that believing for a new Bible wasn’t an option—it was a
necessity.
I had to start seeing results somewhere and it was here. I would get a
new Bible or die trying. If I couldn’t trust God for $20 to get a
Bible, how could I trust Him to minister to people about eternal things?
The devil knew how important this was to me, and he fought me “tooth
and toenail.” It took me months to get enough extra money to buy that
Bible. During that time, not ten minutes would pass that I didn’t have
to deal with some thought of unbelief. The devil was telling me, “You’ll
never get it. Some man of God you are! You don’t even have a whole
Bible! How can you pray for people to be saved or healed when you can’t
even pray and get a new Bible?” The battle was intense.
The day came when I had the money. I bought a brand-new Bible, had my
name engraved on it, and walked out of the store with it under arm. I
had won! And you know what? Instantly, my doubts ceased. I had been
fighting negative thoughts constantly for months. But once I had the
Bible, I never doubted that I would get it.
You are probably thinking,
Of course you didn’t doubt once you had it. That would be crazy!
That’s my point. Have you ever prayed to be healed and then in your
next thought wondered if you would ever really get healed? That’s
because you don’t view healing as something that has already been done
but as something that has yet to be accomplished.
First Peter 2:24b says,
“
By whose stripes ye were healed” (emphasis mine).
It’s already a done deal. It is actually incorrect to pray for
healing. Instead, we should just receive the healing that the Lord has
already provided.
There is a difference between fighting to get healed and fighting because we have been healed. That difference is the difference between success and failure.
In Ephesians 2:8, Paul said, “
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves.”
We aren’t saved by grace alone or by faith alone;we are saved by a combination of the two. Actually, faith isn’t true biblical faith unless its used in receiving what God has already provided by grace.
Grace is what God has already done for us, independent of any worth
or value on our part. If it’s tied to some goodness of ours, then it’s
not true grace.
God, by grace, has already provided everything we will ever need.
Our faith doesn’t move God. If God hasn’t already moved by His grace, then your faith can’t make Him.
Faith simply appropriates what God has already provided by grace.
If He’s already provided your needs by His grace, then faith is just
your positive response to what He has already done—not something you do
to get God to respond to you.
It takes a revelation from the Holy Spirit to make these truths become alive on the inside.
Many people just can’t grasp them, because they are trapped in their
five senses. If they can’t see it, taste it, smell it, touch it, or hear
it, they don’t think it exists. Therefore, when you say they have
already been healed, they check their physical bodies with their five
senses, and if they don’t look or feel healed, they say they aren’t.
Many things exist that we can’t perceive by our physical senses. For
instance, there are television signals wherever you are right now. You
can’t see or hear them, but they are there. All you have to do is turn
on a television set and tune it in to the signal, and then you will see
and hear that they do exist.
The signal doesn’t begin broadcasting when you turn on your set; it
was already being broadcast before you tuned in. That’s just when you
began to receive. Likewise, the Lord has already blessed you with ALL
things. Your life may not reflect that, but it’s not because the Lord
hasn’t given; it’s because you haven’t received.
If your television set was to suddenly go blank, what would you do?
Would you immediately contact the station and urge them to fix their
transmitter? I don’t think so. You would check your set first. Yet in
the spiritual realm, Christians are constantly going to the Lord and
asking Him to fix His transmitter instead of asking Him to work on their
receivers.
If they don’t see an instant manifestation of their healing, they
just automatically suppose that God hasn’t healed them. They seldom take
into account that maybe it’s their reception that’s the problem.
Daniel prayed two prayers in Daniel 9 and 10. He saw an answer to his
first prayer while he was still praying, within about three minutes.
But in the tenth chapter, it was three weeks before he saw his prayer
answered. Some people would think,
Why did God answer the first prayer in three minutes and the second prayer in three weeks?
The answer to that question is that God didn’t answer one prayer in
three minutes and the other one in three weeks; He answered both prayers
instantly. In Daniel 9:23, the angel Gabriel told Daniel that at the
beginning of his prayer, the Lord gave him a commandment to go explain
the answer to Daniel. Yet it took Gabriel approximately three minutes to
get there.
Then in the tenth chapter, the messenger who came to Daniel told him
that on the first day of Daniel’s prayer, the Lord sent him, but he had
been hindered by a demonic power for three weeks.
God wasn’t the variable in these instances! He answered both prayers
instantly, but what the Lord had commanded in the spiritual realm was
hindered from manifesting in the physical realm. Still, the answer had
been given. The truth is that the Lord has already provided everything
we will ever need, but His provision is in the spiritual realm.
“
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24).
God moves in the spiritual realm.
Whether or not we see manifest
in the physical realm what He has done in the spiritual realm is not
dependent on His giving but on our receiving.
One of the variables is the devil’s opposition. However, people give
the devil way too much credit. Some think that the devil never misses a
trick. They aren’t sure about the Lord’s faithfulness, but they are
absolutely convinced that the devil is always there to wreak havoc.
However, the devil blows it all the time. Sometimes the physical
manifestation of what God has already done comes with little effort.
Other times it can be delayed, not because God changes, but because the
devil just misses it sometimes. Other times, there is major demonic
opposition that hinders the manifestation of what God has commanded.
We have to know that God has already done His part and that any delay
in our manifestation is not His fault. That will keep us in faith.
Remember that faith is our positive response to what God has already done by grace.
This leads us to spiritual warfare. It’s a hot topic in the body of Christ, but
in my opinion, spiritual warfare is the most abused teaching in the church today.It’s
true that every one of us is involved in spiritual warfare. Denying the
battle doesn’t stop it—it just guarantees that you will lose. But
Satan’s only power is deception.
Satan doesn’t have any physical power or authority except what we give him when we yield to his lies.
That’s a radical statement that is completely contrary to popular
spiritual warfare teachings. Many proclaim that demonic powers are
holding people in bondage and that the way to break through is to
intercede, bind those powers, and set the people free. That’s not what
God’s Word teaches.
The Bible says,
“
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32).
Knowing the truth, not binding the devil in prayer, is what sets people free.
There isn’t one scriptural model for spiritual warfare the way that it
is being taught today. Neither Jesus nor His disciples ever sent teams
of prayer warriors into cities to prepare the spiritual climate. They
never motivated the body of believers to spend their lives binding
demonic powers. This is a very controversial subject and one that I
don’t have time to deal with properly in this letter. But I have gone in
depth about this in my teaching entitled
You’ve Already Got It!
If you aren’t experiencing the abundance that you know the Lord wants
you to have, then I can guarantee you that the revelation you need is
in this message. This is the type of teaching that you will want and
need to read or listen to again and again until it becomes true
revelation knowledge to you.
This message will forever change the way you think about receiving the blessings of God.
It’s the knowledge of this truth that will set you free to receive from God.
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