Dr. Creflo Dollar - Claim Your Victory Today: 10 Steps That Will Revolutionize Your Life

Copyright 1993, 2006 by Dr. Creflo A. Dollar

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In the early days of my ministry, God placed
two individuals in my life who impacted me eternally.
Bishop C. L. Carter, Sr., and Minister Laura M. Carter provided
spiritual oversight to me as my pastors and as my teachers.
They cared for me like a son.
Their Christ-like examples, wise counsel, and
faithful prayers made all the difference in how
God set me on His divine course for my life.

I dedicate this book to them for their hearts of love
and compassion pertaining to the gift of God they saw in me.
With all my heart, I bless them with my enduring lovealways.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

1 Corinthians 14:40

Frustration. I see it on the faces of many believers who tell me they just can't seem to get "this faith stuff" to work for them.

I can sympathize. Early in my Christian life, I too spent a lot of time scratching my head and wondering why I wasn't seeing the miracles I needed so desperately. Now I know that the key to seeing miracle-working power operate consistently in our lives lies in understanding the divine order of faith.

When I talk about "divine order," I'm referring to the fact that God has ordained everything in heaven and on earth to operate according to a predetermined sequence or order. This is especially true where spiritual things are concerned. God's heavenly Kingdom is a place of order.

For example, under the Old Covenant system, the high priest followed a very strict, very detailed sequence of actions before he dared to enter the Holy of Holies. He didn't go waltzing into the Most Holy Place anytime he pleased. I assure you, he would have done so only once. Such a cavalier attitude toward God's prescribed order would have cost him his life. There was a process that had to take place before the high priest could operate in certain aspects of his calling.

The same is true for you and me where faith is concerned. We will never see the miracles and promises of God that will move us from the problem to the solution until we come to understand the divine order of faith.

FOLLOW THE PROCEDURE

Even in everyday life, there is an established order to follow in much of what we do. As the pastor of a large and growing congregation, I frequently run into people who fail to follow the set order. From time to time, for example, an irate church member will come up to me and say, "Pastor, I've been trying to get in to see you for five months!"

I respond by asking how he or she has gone about trying to see me.

"Well, I've dropped by your office several times, and you're either gone or busy or you have someone in your office."

Immediately the problem is evident. there is a simple and well-established procedure in our church for arranging to see the pastor. It is spelled out clearly in our new member orientation. Anyone who wants to see me merely needs to call my secretary, set up an appointment, and show up on the day and time set. That's all there is to it.

I have established a clear order for arranging my office schedule. If you don't follow the order, you probably won't get in to see me. The same is true in the Kingdom of God. The Lord has a set order for everything. First Corinthians 14 makes that very clear:

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.... Let all things be done decently and in order.

1 Corinthians 14:33, 40

NO ORDER, NO MIRACLES

When you neglect God's divine order, His blessings don't flow. Divine order is a prerequisite for miracles and blessings. This truth is illustrated vividly in Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. Before the people could be miraculously blessed, they had to get in order.

When you neglect God's divine order, His blessings don't flow.

For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.

Luke 9:14

Can you imagine the chaos that would have ensued if the disciples had started randomly handing out food to that hungry mob? There would have been a riot!

There's no getting around it. Follow God's set order and you'll get the desired results. ignore it and you'll end up frustrated and defeated.

So does God have an established order when it comes to overcoming problems? Yes. The Scriptures give us a clear pattern for moving from any problembe it sickness, debt, lack, family strife, or anything elseto the solution. These steps will work for anyone at any time, regardless of how overwhelming the circumstances are, because these steps represent God's divine order of faith.

Over the years, there has been a lot of good teaching on faith. But I've heard very little on God's prescribed order for using it. I believe that's why we have so many so-called faith failures and so many frustrated Christians. Most don't even know there is a divine order of faith, much less understand what it is.

In the following pages we'll see that God's word lays out a simple ten-step order for getting from any problem to a miraculous solution. It doesn't matter if you've been a Christian for fifty years or if you were born again five minutes ago. If you will submit yourself to this order, your faith will produce. God's word guarantees it.

If you will submit yourself to this order, your faith will produce. God 's Word guarantees it.

Before you can submit to God's divine order for faith, however, you need to have a good working understanding of what faith is.

YOU GOTTA HAVE FAITH

The just shall live by faith.

Romans 1:17

Child of God, the time for playing church is over. The King of kings and the Lord of lords is on His way back. And the key to surviving and even thriving in this unprecedented era is knowing how to operate in faith.

We are living in extraordinary times. Signs all around us shout the fact that we are living in the final days of history. in this critical hour, knowing how to operate in faith can literally mean the difference between life and death.

Knowing how to operate in faith can literally mean the difference between life and death.

That's why it is vital for you to start developing your faith now. If you wait until a crisis is upon you to start learning how to live by faith, you'll be in big trouble. Those who put it off until the last minute will find that it's too late.

NO AVOIDING TROUBLE

Regardless of the time in history in which you're living, if you're a believer one thing is certain: you're going to have trouble. It's not only likelyit's guaranteed. in John 16:33, Jesus says:

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.