The Bible says you've got to learn a whole new system. You have to get educated all over again. You have to "renew your mind" as the Bible calls it, because what God promises will not work if you do not make a commitment to live by the system.

You've spent all your life educating yourself to operate in the world system. But now you have to start over and begin educating yourself in the Word system, because if you don't know about the Word system, then how can you receive from the Word system? If you don't know how the Word system works, how can you operate in the Word system?

What does it mean to operate by the Word system? To operate in the Word system means I conduct my life by God's Word. I handle my finances by God's Word. I educate myself on what the Word of God says concerning a believer's finances. And I manage my finances according to the Bible's system instead of continuing to operate my finances by the world's system.

When I live under the Word system, I operate my finances by the Word, I raise my children by the Word, I treat my wife or husband by the Word. I speak by the Word. I believe by the Word. My attitude is adjusted by the Word.

Since I now call myself a Christian, I operate according to the system laid out for me in God's Word. I no longer operate in the world system, because the Bible says I can't continue to operate in the world system and yet expect to receive the results of the Word of God.

Source: How To Trouble Your Trouble by Creflo A. Dollar, Jr.
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers