RECEIVING IN PRAYER

“Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” – Mark 11:24

LIGHT FOR NOW: In the place of prayers, the one that has the responsibility to receive is the one praying and not the one prayed to.

In the place of prayer, who has the responsibility of receiving? Is it the person prayed to or the person praying? The one that has the responsibility of receiving in the place of praying is the one who is praying. Jesus makes that very clear. 1John 5:14-15 “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him”. God always hears us when we make our request; it’s in his hearing that we are confident that he gives that which we asked for. In prayer, we don’t have a delay from God. James 1:5-7 “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord”.

The asking should be in faith, same as what Jesus said – believe that you receive them. God’s character is to give to all without finding fault; this means it is our responsibility to receive what has been given. The receiving is by faith, a man that asks and stays in doubt cannot receive. This does not mean God has not given; rather we have to receive by faith. Matthew 21:22 “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive”. The believing is for receiving. At salvation, God gave to us Jesus, we received by faith and that is how we are saved by faith in what God gave. So by believing in the resurrection, we are saved. Same way, when we pray, we can only receive by faith. Faith therefore is the tool for receiving in prayers. Where we are found doubting in prayers, we are in unbelief and thus, it becomes hard to receive, since receiving in prayers is not in unbelief but in faith. Glory!

INSTRUCTION: Stay in faith in prayers.

CONFESSION: I declare answered prayers now because I am in faith, in Jesus Name, Amen.

For More Light; get the message, “The Potency of Prayer” by Dr. John Linus

QUOTE: Enthroning doubt while in prayers fights receiving in prayers.

DAILY BIBLE READING: MORNING: JAMES CHAPTER 5; EVENING: MARK CHAPTER 11