DON’T PRAY IN FAITH THEN SPEAK IN DESPAIR

How often have you prayed earnestly for something you really needed? You know the scriptures, and you appeal to God with all humbleness to supply your need. What did you ask for? Family protection, salvation for a distant sibling, a replacement car for the old clunker in the driveway? Or maybe there is sickness in the family and you or a loved one needs healing? Scripture says:  You have not because you ask not! 

2 Corinthians 4:10-11 "Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus (which was for our victory), that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh." - Bodily Health!!!

Regardless of what it is, we all know that God is able to supply any need, to heal any wound and to guide us through any storm.

But do we really KNOW it?? Do we LIVE IT? SPEAK IT?

Countless times I have heard fellow Christians request prayer for their situation.... then hear them late exclaim gloom over that same situation! “Please pray for my Mom, she’s sick with blah blah”... then later .. “They say there is no hope for it”.  Or  “ Lord, please bless my finances so I can afford a new car.... mine is falling apart!” then complaining to friends that you’ll never be able to afford a newer car. And one I hear often... "We ask prayer for our son/daughter... that they be brought into believing and be saved." Then the next conversation you hear, " That kid will never act right, no matter what! I give up!"

Is that faith? No. Its not. That is talking yourself right out of a blessing!! And its not only telling God, who already knows your heart, but the Devil, who can't read your thoughts, that your FAITH is WEAK and that gives him a pretty good foothold in your mind to work in more doubt, more worry, more anxiety.....

SPEAK IN FAITH! When you pray for or about something, I assume you pray in faith that God hears you and that as one of His elect, He wants to heal you or your situation. You must then speak in faith, as though you have already received that blessing or at least that the resolution of it is imminent! To do otherwise is to betray our faith.

If we continually speak bad things over our lives, then that's exactly what we will have. Speak positive, Godly, faithful things, as the Bible tells us to do, and you will see a huge difference not only in your attitude and countenance, but in the bounty of your life!

^{Mark 11:22-24}

²² And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. ²³ Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain,‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. ²⁴ Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received^[a] it, and it will be yours.