LAY HOLD ON THE INVISIBLE: What are you waiting for? What prayers have you prayed that seem to be unanswered? Are you wondering, Where is it, Lord? Where is my healing? Why haven’t my finances come in? Why don’t I see anything happening? You may have been waiting so long for answers, you are more than ready to discover how you can receive what you’re believing for. What I’m sharing with you is not some new revelation. It’s not some secret God has let only a few privileged people in on. Receiving the results of our faith is fundamental to who God has designed us to be as his children. and if we’re not receiving, we’re missing the most elementary step. Believing before seeing the manifestation is the very starting point of receiving., , ,The key to your answers is the same today as the day Jesus preached it: “Have faith in God. I say to you, what-ever things you ask [whatever you want, whatever you desire, whatever you need] when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them” (Mark 11:22, 24, New King James Version). Today is your day to receive what you’re believing for, it’s your day to lay hold of the invisible! Receiving Is Foundational; Jesus clearly taught that receiving answers to prayer is basic to our Christian thinking. Receiving the results of our faith is fundamental to who God has designed us to be as His children. And if we’re not receiving, we’re missing the most elementary step. We are God’s people whose lifestyle is supposed to be “We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 4:18, 5:7). Natural thinking says, “Seeing is believing.” But supernatural thinking declares, “Believing is seeing.” Believing comes before seeing if we’re to receive all the good things God has in store for us. Every one of us who has been born again had to first believe when we heard that salvation had been provided by God through His only begotten Son, Jesus. When we believed, we received our salvation. Then we began to see things from a different perspective. We began to see what we believed we would receive. We began to look at things from the unseen realm of God as they began to come into the seen realm of our very own lives. We saw God as our Father. We saw Jesus as our Savior and brother. We saw the Holy Spirit at work in us as He began to change our thoughts, speech and actions. We began to see life differently. We began to see the world and our neighbors from the vantage point of what we believe—we believe God is good and He loves the people of this world, and so do we. So, believing before seeing the manifestation is the very starting point of receiving. It’s how we received our salvation and it’s how we are to receive everything else God desires for us to have. Meditate on these truth through out today. Its my intention to get you to the place of the manifestation of Gods will. We get off to a good start and somewhere along the way we begin to put the cart before the horse. We start off walking by faith and for some reason we get off the path and begin to think we’ve got to see something before we can believe and receive. Right now we have to get back to the basic fundamental of our faith. Read this out loud: “I look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen. I walk by faith, and not by sight. I believe I receive! What’s the Holdup? Here we are—believers who walk by faith, looking at things that are not seen, ask ing and believing. So, what’s the holdup? I’ve found that for most people of faith, the holdup is in the receiving part of our walk. For most of us, receiving seems to be easy in some areas. But there are other areas where it seems to be a struggle. Look again at Mark 11:22-24 w h e r e Je s u s t a u g ht t h a t w h e n y o u p r a y a n d believe you receive, you shall have whatever things you desire. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. What things can we pray for? By God’s Word we know everything is ours because He loves us, saves us, delivers us and provides for us. Romans 8:32 says God gave us all things when He gave us Jesus! Everything we could ever desire, He has for us. Our desires are waiting for us to receive them because He’s not holding anything back. How do we pray? Jesus taught His disciples about effective prayer in Luke 11. Right after teaching them what we know as the Lord ’s Prayer, the ver y next example He gave is about the importunate friend. Starting in verse 5, Jesus says that because of the man’s importunity his friend got up and gave him the bread he needed for unexpected visitors. Importunity means “shamelessness, immodesty, without bashfulness, boldness, impudence.” That’s the way we should approach our Father when we pray. Why? Because we go to Him based on what He has promised. I have never known any child who was shy or sheepish when calling on Daddy to make good on a promise, have you? When it’s time to collect, a child will walk right up with no fear and say, “Daddy, let’s go—you promised!” They do it fearlessly because they are totally convinced their daddy loves them and will keep his word. INTIMATE ONE DAILY DEVOTIONAL 3RD, FEBRUARY 2014.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 05:48:05 +0000