Do you hear testimonies of my financial provision for people that comes in unexpected ways? Are these more common with those who earn their living as self-employed or entrepreneurs that do not have a steady income? If you have a steady income do you think it disqualifies you from having such a testimony? Learn to think of your steady income as a gift from me. Many who do not have such financial stability wish they did and see yours as a great blessing. Learn to recognize and accept your dependence on me. Whether you have a steady income or not you still depend on me to rebuke the devourer. 

I spoke some difficult things in the lessons I gave. Some of them were disturbing even to my disciples. I asked them if they too would go away and they said to whom shall we go? For you have the words of life. Have you ever experienced the same thing yourself, that you have encountered authors whose words challenged your very being and the way you lived? Wouldn’t it be easier to set such books aside? Yet you sense that these are the words of life for you and continue to engage even though it is difficult. My disciples were right but this is not limited to me. Receive the words of life I speak to you and you will have words of life for others. 

Would you ever pray for something you already have? If you want to make prayer a regular habit, then a prayer that is short and straightforward may be helpful in that practice. You could pray that I would be present in that moment. Yet you know as a matter of basic doctrine that I am omnipresent, and you have my promise from my word that I will be with you always, I will never leave you or forsake you, and no one can take you out of my hand. Then if you offer this prayer you will be asking for something you already have. The answer will be that you gain the awareness of what is already true.