Good Will Come to You

In Job 22:21 it says: Acquaint now thyself with him

[God], and be at peace.... Always remember that if you have
lost your peace, you are on the wrong road. When that
happens to you, you need to get into a room by yourself,
with no one around, and spend some time worshipping the
Lord and praising His Name until you get your perfect peace
back.
The Lord Jesus Christ has perfect peace for every
believer. He has perfect peace for every follower of Him.
The Bible says to acquaint now yourself— now, not after
a while.
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace:
thereby good shall come unto thee.
Job 22:21
Good in everything will come to you.
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and
lay up his words in thine heart.
Job 22:22
The Mouth Agrees With the Heart
The only reason that people don't get healed is because
they don't have healing verses memorized. The only reason
people don't get blessed in certain ways is that they don't
have the verses that pertain to their need memorized in
their heart. How do I know that? Because what a person has
memorized in his heart will come out of his mouth.
Your mouth only speaks what is in your heart. You can
say in a general way, "Well, I love the Lord, and I believe the
Bible," but that won't heal you. It may be true to a certain
degree. But you need to learn that God is a specific God.
He's not a general God.
You may say, "Well, I believe God can do anything."
Well, that's a first-class sign you don't believe anything. You
are trying to pull a cop-out on God, and He won't accept
that.
 If you believe the Lord Jesus Christ is your Healer and
you want to be healed, then call Jesus your Healer. Be
specific about it. Call the Lord Jesus Christ your Healer.
Someone may say, "Brother Norvel, I have to have a
miracle." Well, the Lord Jesus Christ is a Miracle-worker! He
has miracle power, and it is a free gift to the church.
Your Mind and Mouth Can Be Your
Worst Enemy
And as a believer of the Lord Jesus Christ, you have a
right to a miracle. But you have to take the miracle away
from the devil and away from your mind. As long as you live
in the world of your mind, you are never going to receive a
miracle from God. Your mind and your mouth are two of your
worst enemies.
The reason that is true is that sometimes you speak
words out of your mouth because of the way you feel, and
most of the time your feelings will lie to you. Your mind can
be a cesspool to which the devil makes supernatural
suggestions.
If the enemy is allowed to keep on bombarding your
mind with false suggestions, you might just go ahead and
act on his lies. "Well, bless God, I'll do whatever I want to
do." No, you can't get anywhere like that. You have to find
out what the Lord wants you to do and obey Him if you want
to be mightily blessed.
You Need the Mind of Christ
That's the reason the Bible plainly tells you that you
need to have the mind of Christ in your mind all the time.
And don't ever let God's Word depart from your eyes. Keep it
in your brain and keep it in your spirit all the time. It will
also help you to memorize some specific verses pertaining
to your need, (for instance, healing verses, financial verses,
wisdom verses, miracle verses, love verses, gifts of the Spirit
verses, and fruit of the spirit verses).
If you will memorize those verses and get them in your
heart, your mind and your mouth will have something to
work with. But you have to get grounded in God's Word and
memorize it, and get it down on the inside of you. You have
to let it become branded on the inside of you by memorizing
it and then quoting it several hundred times. That is how it
becomes a part of you.
Make the Word a Part of You
The only part of the Bible that ever works for you
permanently is the part that you have made a part of you.
When a scripture begins to become a part of you like your
right arm, it will work for you! But it only works for you when
your mouth speaks it out.
The Bible says that out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaketh (Matthew 12:34). Whatever is
in your heart, your mouth will speak out.
You never have to ask a person what kind of shape they
are in spiritually or otherwise. Just go have lunch with them
and let them talk for a while, and you'll find out exactly what
kind of shape they are in. Their mouth will tell on them.
What they have in their heart is what their mouth will speak
out.
You Choose What Goes in Your
Heart
The only thing the mouth has to work with is what you
put in your heart. And you put things in your heart by
choice. Every human being on earth has the same choice.
You can listen to the Lord Jesus Christ and follow Him, or you
can do your own thing. You don't have to follow the Lord.
Now if you do your own thing, you are going to live a
rough life, full of chuck holes, climbing mountains. But the
Bible says to get acquainted with God and listen to Him;
then peace will come unto you.
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and
lay up his words in thine heart.
Job 22:22
 You see, you receive when you lay up His words in your
heart.
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built
up, thou shalt put away iniquity FAR from thy
tabernacles.
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold
of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou
shalt have plenty of silver.
For then shalt thou have thy delight in the
Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he
shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
Job 22:23-27
The Bible says that any man who cries out to the Lord or
makes his prayer unto Him day and night for something-
asking God for it, believing and thanking Him for it, and
glorifying His name for it day and night— Jesus said that the
God who made us will give the answer to a person like that.
The Bible says that a human being who wants
something has to do one thing, and one thing only, and it
doesn't cost a dime: "Let thy request be made known unto
God."
Whatever You Need, Go to God
Do you want a new kidney? Do you want to be blessed
financially? Do you want the fruit of the spirit to operate
through you (which is the greatest thing in the world, to get
along with people). Do you want all of the gifts of the Spirit
to operate through you? Do you want the Holy Ghost to give
them to you? Whatever you may want, He said, "Let thy
request be made known unto God" –nobody else.
God doesn't like it when you go to a human being and
ask them for all kinds of things. God is a jealous God, and if
you are following the Lord Jesus Christ, God doesn't like it
when you go to a human being and ask them for anything.
He wants you to come to Him. God doesn't like to be
bypassed.
 The Bible says that God is a jealous God, and He doesn't
like it when you make a request of somebody else and start
putting pressure on other people to give you what you need.
One of the worst things you can do in life is go to people and
try to make them give you what you need.
If the human beings in the church world could only
understand that the Lord loves it when He hears their voice.
He is waiting and longing to hear their voice. The Bible says
that is what makes God happy.
A God who can speak worlds into existence wants to
hear you — one of His children — crying out to Heaven,
approaching
Heaven, letting your request be made known unto Him,
thanking Him before you ever see it, day and night, for
hours at a time.
Pass the Test of Faith
God says, "The thing that makes Me full of joy and
happier than anything else is when one of my children
passes the test of faith and refuses to accept defeat. I can
hear them believing Me in truth for something before they
ever see it. The thing that makes Me the happiest is when I
get to give to My children what they request."
Look at the next several verses from Job:
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he
shall hear thee...
Job 22:27
If you make a prayer unto God, He will hear you. Of
course, you understand, it has to be the prayer of faith! I
have a book that tells about ten things that causes your
faith to work in perfection after you learn what faith is.
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he
shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
Job 22:27
If you'll pay your vows unto God (for instance, you really
should tithe if you want God's best blessing), look what He
says in verse 28:
 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be
established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon
thy ways.
Job 22:28
Decree something that you want and claim it in Jesus'
Name. "I decree that my Uncle John is not going to go to
hell. I decree that my sister who is not following the Lord is
not going to go to hell. I decree that my daddy will never go
to hell in Jesus' name!"
Decree it and speak it out for the rest of your life, and
something will happen before your daddy dies, and he will
accept the Lord.
Decree it. Refuse to let any of your loved ones go to hell.
Just decree it. And don't ever talk any other way. I don't care
if they are mean to you or curse at you; just decree it
anyway. Let's look in Proverbs chapter 13.
A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a
scorner heareth not rebuke.
A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth:
but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but
he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Proverbs 13:1-3
Just make sure that when you open up your lips and
your mouth, you don't talk about people and you don't run
them down; you just speak good things.
When you do that, God Almighty will bless you so much
you can't hardly stand it. God says if you will do it, you will
keep your life. If you don't do it, destruction will come upon
your finances and upon your body.
Be Diligent
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but
he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath
nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made
fat.
Proverbs 13:3,4
 Let me expound on verse 4: The soul of a lazy person
desires things, but he has nothing. And he won't ever have
anything. If somebody gives him something, he'll lose that
too.
God will bless you when you are diligent. Look at verse
5.
Find True Riches
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man
is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the
way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath
nothing...
Proverbs 13:5-7
You have a lot of knowledge to make money, but you
don't know the Lord Jesus Christ and His peace. You are rich,
but you have nothing.
...there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath
great riches.
Proverbs 13:7
I have known people who didn't have very much money
at all, but they knew God real well. They wouldn't talk about
people — you couldn't hire them to. And they didn't tell lies;
they just knew God real well. They had no knowledge about
how to make money, but they just knew God real well.
And I have known people who give everything away to
God. Every time they get something, they go give it to the
poor. They just give away everything they have. But they
have great riches in their heart and in their mind.
The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the
poor heareth not rebuke. The light of the righteous
rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put
out.
Only by pride cometh contention: but with the
well advised is wisdom.
 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished but
he that gathereth [wealth or income] by labour shall
increase.
Proverbs 13:8-11
If you get wealth the wrong way, you will lose it. Make
your money by using your mind, and make your money by
using your labor. Figure things out, labor, work—and you will
increase.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when
the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. Whoso
despiseth the word shall be destroyed...
Proverbs 13:12
If you despise to hear the Bible preached or to hear it
read, you will be destroyed on this earth. You will destroy
yourself.
Whoso despiseth the word [or the Bible] shall be
destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment
shall be rewarded.
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart
from the snares of death.
Proverbs 13:13,14
What is the law of the wise? The law of the wise is the
Bible. The Bible is God's law book.
How To Break Every Chain of
Bondage
Someone may ask, "How can I get out of all these
troubles and all these burdens, and the snares of death, and
all these crazy things that try to come upon me? Has God
given me instructions about how I can get strong enough to
overcome those things?"
Oh, definitely. Let's look at Isaiah chapter 58. You are
going to learn how to overcome those things and to break
the bands of wickedness and the chains of unsuccess — any
kind of chains of bondage.
Is not this the fast that I have chosen?...
 Isaiah 58:6
Sometimes God doesn't choose a long fast for you. And
if I were you, I would never go on a long fast unless the Lord
told me to.
Brother Kenneth Hagin told me one time, "Norvel, I've
been in the ministry over sixty years. When I was on the
field, I would fast usually every Tuesday, sometimes every
Tuesday and every Thursday.
"But if something came up where I had a special need
and I wanted to bring a petition before God, or if I wanted to
break the power of something that was trying to mess me
up, I would start fasting and praying."
If you are going to fast, you need to pray; if you don't,
you might get a headache.
He said, "In more than fifty years of ministry when I did
that, I always got my answer; the attack of the enemy was
always broken. It would take one day, two days, never longer
than three days, of fasting to break the power of anything
trying to get victory over me. A lot of times I would get it in
one day.
Sometimes it took two days. But it never took more than
three days in all those years."
A lot of times you just need to fast one meal and pray
and take authority over the problem, and you will get your
answer. Sometimes it takes two meals, sometimes one or two
days. Most of the time you won't have to go to the third day.
When you fast, your spirit becomes strong enough to
get victory because it keeps your flesh under subjection.
Unless your spirit is grounded in God's Word, unless you
have a portion of the Abraham-kind of faith and the Jesus-
kind of faith inside of your own human spirit — your flesh
and your body and your mind will rule you in life.
But if you regularly fast one or two days, you keep your
flesh under subjection. You are not feeding your flesh; you
are taking away the power of your flesh. You are building up
your spirit, which is on the inside of your flesh. And your
spirit gets stronger and sharper.
 The Condition of Your Spirit
Revealed by Your Mouth
The only time a human being doesn't get victory is
when his human spirit is not strong enough spiritually to get
the victory. Jesus said, "All things are possible to him that
believeth."
You see, God is a Spirit, so you believe God with your
spirit. And the condition of your spirit comes out of your
mouth. Unless you rule your flesh, sometimes you will just
do or say what you feel or what you want to. Well, you're not
going to get very much victory doing that.
But you can fast one or two meals, or whatever it takes
to keep your flesh under subjection, and pray while you're
fasting. Someone may ask, "Is that in the Bible?" Yes, it's in
the Bible. In fact, God chose that ministry just for you.
Fasting is a ministry from God to us.
The Fast God Chooses
Is not this the fast that I have chosen?...
Isaiah 58:6
God is asking you a question. "Is not this the fast that I
have chosen?" And then you come along with a problem and
say, "Chosen for what, Lord?"
And then God answers: ...to loose the bands of
wickedness [from around you or others who are close to
you], to undo the heavy burdens [that are trying to
burden you down. God doesn't want you burdened down
with heavy burdens.], and to let the oppressed go free,
and that you break every yoke? (Isaiah 58:6).
Break every yoke. You see, the devil has the yoke of
poverty to put on you. The devil has the yoke of disease to
put on you. The devil has the yoke of doubt to put on you so
you can't receive your miracle. The devil has all kinds of
yokes to put around your neck to let you know that you are
not going to receive.
The devil looks at conditions. He will point out every
condition he possibly can to convince you that you are not
going to receive.
But God says, "Remember, I'm God and I love you. I'll
make a way where there is no way." So believe God for
things when it looks impossible to you. When you hear,
"There's no way!" that's your mind working. Don't say,
"There's no way," that is a lie. God warns you in the Bible
not to lean to your own understanding.
God says to lean on a God that can make a door where
there is no door. Lean on a God that can make a way where
there is no way. God can give you victory where there is no
victory, where it looks desolate and dark and lonely and sad.
As you lean on Him, the light of the morning will come upon
you.
Is not this the fast that I have chosen?...that ye
break every yoke?
Isaiah 58:6
You break the yoke yourself! Someone may say, "Brother
Norvel, I'm not strong enough to break it." I know you may
not be strong enough to break it now, because you are living
in natural conditions; you haven't paid the price. But when
you obey the instructions of the Lord Jesus Christ and pay
the price, when you fast for a meal or two or three and pray
and your flesh gets weak and your spirit gets strong, then
you can break that yoke.
God says, "Is not this the fast I have not chosen for you,
to break every yoke?" Not some of the yokes, every yoke.
Look at verse 7: "And is it not to help others also?"
Fasting also gets your spirit into shape to help others.
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry...
Isaiah 58:7
Someone says, "Now Brother Norvel, I don't want to give
some of my bread to a hungry person. I don't delight in
that." Well, if you fast for a day or two and ask God to help
you get that way, you will get that way. And you will
voluntarily and willingly deal your bread to a hungry person.
You will find great favor with God dealing your bread to
a hungry person or giving to help feed the hungry.
 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that
thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house?
when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him...
Isaiah 58:7
Someone may say, "I can't do that." Yes, you can! You
may not be able to do that today, but if you will fast a day or
two you will be able to. Because God will give you that kind
of love.
...that thou hide not thyself from thine own
flesh?
Isaiah 58:7
No, don't hide yourself from your own flesh. Put your
flesh under subjection in Jesus' name.
The Glory of the Lord as Your
Reward
If you will do these things, verse 8 tells you what will
happen to you.
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning,
and thine health shall spring forth speedily [health
will return to your body, and disease will disappear]: and
thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of
the Lord shall be thy re-reward.
Isaiah 58:8
The glory of the Lord shall be thy reward! That promise
is for you if you will fast for two or three days until you put
your flesh under subjection. Get your spirit strong enough to
believe God and break every yoke in your life. Rebuke those
yokes in Jesus' name.
The glory of the Lord will be your reward when you get
your heart and mind in a good shape, to the point where you
voluntarily feed the poor and help somebody get some
clothes, to the point where you will say, "I'll help you." Don't
put it on somebody else. "I'll help you."
You may say, "I don't have any money. What happens if I
meet a man with no shirt?" Well, give him one of yours.
 When you get yourself in that kind of shape, then this is
what will happen:
Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer;
thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou
take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the
putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity.
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and
satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in
obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day.
Isaiah 58:9,10
Thy darkness turns into noonday and the sun shall shine
so brightly. Now look what God says He will do for you: And
the Lord shall guide thee continually... (Isaiah 58:11).
Those that are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of
God.
And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and
satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones:
and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a
spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Isaiah 58:11
If you are having trouble finding a job, fast for two or
three meals and pray, claiming a job. Claim the door of
employment to swing wide open to you in Jesus' name. If
you will do that, you can get a job when nobody else can get
one. God will make a way for you where there is no way.
...and like a spring of water, whose waters fail
not.
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old
waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of
many generations; and thou shalt be called, The
repairer of the breach,
The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Isaiah 58:11,12
Respect the Sabbath
You need to understand this if you are going to be
successful in life: If you will please the Lord on His Sabbath
day and bring to Him some of what you made that week, the
Lord says the blessings of heaven will fall on you. God says if
you will keep the Sabbath day holy, and go to church on the
Sabbath day, and worship and praise Him, He will restore
you; He will keep you young; He will preserve you. Look at
verses 13 and 14:
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from
doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the
sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable;
and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor
finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own
words.
Isaiah 58:13
You are to respect the Sabbath and come into the house
of the Lord. God says if you will bypass all the things you
want to do, all the words you want to speak, all the pleasure
you desire, if you will bypass your ways and come on the
Sabbath day to the holy tabernacle of the Lord and honor
God Himself with your presence, then verse 14 is yours.
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I
will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the
earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy
father for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Isaiah 58:14
God loves for you to be in His presence, in His house.
That's where He wants you. And He wants you to get to
know Him intimately, so you can break free of every yoke.
Get your mouth in agreement with your heart, and walk
in the fullness of His blessings.
About the Author
Norvel Hayes shares God's Word boldly and simply, with
an enthusiasm that captures that heart of the hearer. He has
learned through personal experience that God's word can be
effective in every area of life and that it will work for anyone
who will believe it and apply it.
Norvel owns several businesses which function
successfully despite the fact that he spends more than half
his time away from the office, ministering the Gospel
throughout the country. His obedience to God and his
willingness to share his faith have taken him to a variety of
places. He ministers in churches, seminars, conventions,
colleges, prisons — anywhere the Spirit of God leads.
 GETTING TO KNOW GOD
Norvel Hayes shares vital principles from the bible to
help you get to know God intimately. If you want to be set
free from every chain of bondage in your life, if you want to
receive every blessing God intends for you to have — then
get to know God yourself.
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NORVEL HAYES, a successful businessman, has learned
through personal experience that God’s Word works for
anyone who will believe and apply it. He shares with a bold
simplicity that captures the heart of the reader and shines
new light on hidden treasures.