(Mark 11:23-24 NIV) If anyone says to this mountain, "Go throw yourself into the sea," and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours.
Miracles. They happen around us every day. People are praying and are on their faces before God day and night asking Him to intercede and move mountains. But, why is it some mountains move, while some don't?
Beside the obvious that God's timing is always perfect, sometimes, and I stress some times, it is possible that our own words may get in the way. The verse above clearly states that if you believe you have received it then it will be yours!
The other day I was involved in a group prayer where someone prayed "Dear Lord, we pray for a complete miraculous healing. But, if you choose not to do it, we pray for a quick recovery from surgery."
Is it possible that we pray without expectation-that we pray 'ho-hum' prayers that say, if you do it, you do it, but if you don't, oh well? Immediately when the prayer went up I heard a voice asking me, "What?"
There is one simple problem I can see with this prayer. Six seemingly harmless words that may have simply taken the 'miracle' out of the prayer. They are, "But, if you choose not to." I think any time I ask the Lord to do something followed by the words, "but, if you choose not to," I have relinquished my belief and traded it for mere words. I might as well say, "Lord, please give me a healing, but because I believe that you might not answer me, I'll take the quick recovery."
The Bible says:
(Jeremiah 33:3 NKJV) "Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things which you do not know."
(1 John 5:14-15 NKJV) Now this is the confidence we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And, if we know that He hears us whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.
Because we can have confidence that He hears us (1 John 5:14) and that if we call to Him He will answer (Jeremiah 33:3), then we can be certain that He will move mountains if we believe and do not doubt! (Mark 11:23).
I'm not making this up...I'm just passing it on... Therefore I tell you whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours. (Mark 11:24).
What a promise!
Blessings
Rhonda
I'm going to try again to post a comment....I said "Believe in The One to Whom we pray". Believe that He IS Who He says He is.....and that He can - and will do what He says He will. Sometimes I have to check to see if I am praying B E L I E V I N G ......not believing in my ability to pray 'rightly' or my worthiness - but IN HIM!
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