Study in Prayer

We need to constantly be reminded about spiritual things because everything in this world is trying to pull us back into walking in natural, carnal things. Human knowledge, human senses. Also called “head faith” – what you believe with your head – instead of walking in Spiritual faith. Walking with the faith in your heart.

Many times, everything in your everyday life will seem so natural that it will pull you back into walking in the natural instead of walking by faith. If you’re not careful, as we discussed before, even your church will try to take faith OUT of you rather than putting faith IN you. Amen.

Some people will try to get you to doubt and try to make you walk by head knowledge or sense knowledge. But we – as faith people – need to walk by faith and not by sight. We need to walk by heart faith, not head faith.

As I’ve shared before, Mark 11:23-24 are my main scriptures I use to walk by faith and not by sight. If it were not so, Jesus would not have said it was so. Many times, that is the only thing I have to stand on. But guess what – in those cases – it is all I needed. Amen!

Not only is this true concerning healing, but it is true in every aspect of life in this world. No matter what the need is, we receive the same way from God every time. Amen.

Some people will pray and pray and pray and never see their prayers answered. Others will pray one time and “THERE IT IS.” Amen!

Jesus said if you believe you receive WHEN YOU PRAY, then YOU will receive the thing you are praying for. He did not say, “Sometimes you will receive it.” He did not put any qualifier on believing and receiving at all except to say “do not doubt in your heart.”

Believing you receive BEFORE you see the answer is the most important part of this equation. Not an hour from now or tomorrow. Believe at the exact moment you say AMEN!  That’s what AMEN stands for, by the way, in case you did not know it. AMEN stands for “SO BE IT.”

So when you pray and say amen, you are really saying “In Jesus Name I pray – SO BE IT.”

You will not become a spiritual powerhouse overnight, just like you will not be able to bench press 300 pound the first week you start working out. It takes time and repetition. It takes an increase in resistance. That’s true for weightlifting and for praying.

As you become stronger in the spirit, those little devils that used to hang around you and try to tempt you keep getting their bells rung every time you pray. So they go on to other folks who are not as strong spiritually. Then a little more stronger devil comes along to see how he will do with you. At first, you may wonder why? But if you continue to stand strong in the Word and in Faith, pretty soon, he will get tired of getting his head smashed in with the Word of God he will move on, too.

The person who thinks he is spiritually strong and has nothing else to worry about is simply deceiving himself. The only one who has achieved that level of success is Jesus Himself. Amen. The rest of us need to keep working out spiritually just like we need to keep working out physically. Amen!

Smith Wigglesworth said some people are ready to give up before they actually begin. When they do, it just proves they never did believe God to begin with. I have to agree.

Remember in Acts 27 when the Apostle Paul was on the ship that was being tossed and in jeopardy of sinking. An angel appeared to him and told him that he and the crew were going to be alright, because he still had a mission to accomplish.

Let’s Pray!

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As we have discussed before, the first and most important thing we need to learn about prayer is that we are to pray to the Father IN THE NAME of JESUS. Amen!  The second most important thing is found in Mark 11:24, as we have already read, but I’ll do it again because it is so important: 

“Therefore I say to YOU, whatsoever things YOU desire, when YOU pray, believe YOU receive them and YOU shall have them.”

In John 16:23, Jesus taught, “And in THAT DAY, you shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, whatsoever you ask the Father for, IN MY NAME, HE will give it to YOU.”

When you put those two verses together, and stand on them in faith, there is no devil in hell powerful enough to stop you from receiving what you are believing for. Amen.

When you pray, BELIEVE that you receive your prayer as answered – RIGHT THEN. Even if you do not see or feel the results. After you say AMEN, you just praising God for answering YES and now you are waiting for the manifestation. 

Faith comes between the “AMEN” and the “There it is!” Glory to God! Did you get that!  Let me say it again in case you missed it.

TRUE FAITH, is what happens between the AMEN and the THERE IT IS. Glory to God! I just preached myself happy right there! Glory!

When you pray, YOU must believe YOU have received your answer. You don’t wait until AFTER you receive the manifestation. No, you believe as soon as you say AMEN. Amen?

I keep going over this because it is so important. This is what faith is all about. True Bible Faith. Amen. Believing God and taking Him at His Word – before you actually see the answer. These truths will gradually dawn on you if you hear them enough. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.

Let me ask you this.  Are born again? Are your sins forgiven? Are you going to Heaven when you die on this earth? How do you know? Have you experienced dying and going to Heaven forever?  Then how do you know? In what are you putting the most important aspect of your Faith? 

Do you simply believe that because you heard it preached before? Because it is in God’s Word as a promise – in various scriptures – but let’s just say because John 3:16 says so? Well, PRAISE GOD!  AMEN!  I’m in agreement with you! Amen! I’m not denying it at all. I’m standing in agreement. I’m believing the same thing the same way. Amen!

But – why don’t you believe for healing, finances or any other thing you are praying and believing for the same way? You believe you’re saved simply because God’s Word says so. Well, His Word says the same thing about “believing you receive” as well. Just believe the same thing the same way and you will see the same thing the same way. Glory to God!

Let’s Pray!

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We have been talking about believing you receive your prayers as answered. We have also been talking about growing up in the faith so you can believe yourself for having your prayers answered. And we have been talking about growing up spiritually so you can hold onto your prayers being answered and not allow the devil to steal what you received.

But, if you allow any doubt to creep in at all – you can lose it all. 

I remember hearing a great man of God one time, if I mentioned his name, many of you would know immediately who I’m talking about. But he told a story about a man that had some type of paralysis. It had gotten so bad, he could barely move around his house. He lost his job, etc. 

He was raised as a Methodist of Presbyterian, I think, but that really doesn’t matter. His faith or denomination did not believe that healing miracles were for today. They believe it all went away when the disciples died out. Oh, they don’t deny God can’t heal, they just don’t believe you can pray for it and expect results. They do their best to deny the power of God and the authority of the Word of God. But anyway…

This man was desperate. He heard there was a meeting taking place in town where miracles were happening every night. So he got down to the meeting and when given the opportunity to go forward for prayer, he had someone help him to the front. The preacher laid hands on him and he was instantly healed! Praise God!

He went home, went to bed and got up the next morning and could barely move. He prayed something the effect of, “God, if what I felt last night was the power of God, I want it again. If it was just some hype or some power that preacher had – or if it was from you, I need to know. If it was truly you, let feel that same power now and get this off of me.”

He felt the power of God come on him again and he was as healed as before! He got up, went shopping and was just enjoying his healing. 

A few days later, he pastor came by. He’d heard about the man’s healing. He came by to warn him to “be careful about that healing stuff. It’s of the devil…”

By the time the pastor left, the symptoms were back and a little later that day, he could barely walk again.

A few months later, that same preacher came back to town to hold another meeting. The man’s wife went to ask him to come pray for her husband. He had been confined to the bed since a day or two after the man’s pastor had left him. She said he lays in bed cursing God for allowing that sickness to come back on him. He said he’s saved, but still curses God. The preacher told her he could not do anything for her husband. 

He had heard the Word of God, accepted it and received the healing. The devil came back, just like Jesus said it would and the next morning, he was feeling the effects of the disease. He prayed and asked God to confirm the healing power – and God honored his request. Then the devil sent that deceived pastor to him – and received the testimony of the devil over the testimony of God and God’s confirming power. 

The man was healed by a manifestation of the Power of God. But when he got to where he was going to have to take a stand on his own, he refused to do so. And now, the last state of the man was worse than at the first. Now, the devil had him cussing at God.

Folks, that is why it is so important for you to be taught the Word of God and the power thereof. It is also why you cannot associate yourself or put yourself under the authority of anyone that is not of like precious faith as you believe. That pastor may have been a nice guy and a friend of that man for many years. But, if I had received my healing and then a confirmation that it was from God, I’m sorry, friend or pastor or not – I’m not associating myself or putting myself under the spiritual authority of anyone who believes otherwise. I’ve had to extricate myself from a couple of churches for that same reason. 

Let’s Pray!

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We talked yesterday about the need for someone to stand on their own Faith and believe they receive, rather than relying on someone else to do it for them. The reason for this is obvious, but yet there are many people that just don’t get it. Amen.

I’m telling you this so you can begin to believe and teach and hold fast to that which you have learned. The Bible says in Mark 11:24, “Therefore I say to YOU, what things soever YOU desire, when YOU pray, believe that YOU receive them and YOU will have them.”  This is totally, 100% talking about YOU.  It is a promise Jesus made to YOU. Amen!

How can I help someone else permanently with my faith if the other person doesn’t exercise their own faith to believe God or His Word? I can’t. That’s the bottom line. I can’t do it.  That person would not be able to receive from God even if I prayed the prayer of faith because his lack of faith would nullify my faith. When it comes to praying for someone else, that other person’s faith can nullify the faith of the one doing the praying. Amen.

Amos 3:3 says, “Can two walk together except they be agreed?”  Two people cannot pray in agreement unless they are in agreement about what is being prayed for.  But it goes one step further than that. Two people cannot expect to see the results of the prayer unless both of them are in agreement for the results and have the faith to expect the results.

If I was praying for your needs to be met, but you were not in agreement with the prayer, would your needs be met? No! Your unbelief would nullify my faith. It would not work. 

Yes, it is possible for someone to receive victory and receive something because of the other person’s faith. But those are temporary victories. This is especially true for baby Christians. But there will come a time when that person needs to start praying for themselves. They need to grow up spiritually.

Think of it like this.  A young mother has her newborn in church. Sitting in the pew a few rows in front of you. Holding the baby and feeding it a bottle of milk. Everyone smiles and whispers how cute it is. And it is. Amen.

But, 18 years later, the same mother is still holding her 18 year old son, but stretched out on the entire pew and is feeding him a bottle of milk. Instead of whispering to each other how cute that is – I can guaranteed you they will be whispering, but it would be about cute. Amen.

There comes a time when the boy has to learn to get off of milk, start feeding himself and acting like a grown up. And there comes a time when the mother has to say, enough is enough, you need to start fending for yourself.

Well, folks, it works the same way for baby Christians. Yes, pray with them. Yes, pray for them. Yes, pray and stand in faith for their victory. But, just like that mother and her boy, there will come a time when your prayers will not work unless they learn to believe for themselves. Amen!

Let’s Pray!

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In Matthew 12:43-44, Jesus said, “When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he finds it empty, swept and garnished.” 

The bible is telling us in this verse that when an unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places seeking rest. But he is not finding any other place he can rest. So the evil spirit returns to the body he was cast out of and finds it clean and, look at this – empty!

There is a scriptural principle involved in this verse. The devil is going to try and get back in again if he can. Even in the case of sickness and disease. That is one reason many people are healed – sometimes a miracle healing – and then relapse the same day or a few days later. Because the devil has been cast out and can’t find anywhere else to move into. So he returns to see if he can weasel his way back into the persons body. He will cause some symptom to pop up and see if the person will say something like, “Well, I guess I didn’t get my healing after all. That problem is still here.”

You have to stand your ground against him with the Word. YOU will be responsible for it. Not your preacher, not your wife, not your husband, not your momma or daddy. YOU. Period. 

Now, if you have young child, YES, as a parent, YOU can take a stand against it. I’m talking here mainly about people who should know better – but don’t. Amen.

The reason I keep harping on this aspect of prayer is because there are no new tricks the devil has come up with. He is still using the same tactics he was using in Jesus day and before that. Amen. These are fundamental spiritual truths you must learn how to operate by. Day in and day out. 

Our own wrong thinking defeats ourselves most of the time. The devil doesn’t defeat us – we defeat ourselves. That is why it is so important for people to be taught the Word of God and learn how to pray for themselves and stand in faith themselves. 

Let’s Pray!

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