Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. (Mark 11:24 ESV)
If we are going to live a life of believing God then we must believe God is who He says He is, and thus we can and should have enough confidence in Him to believe that we HAVE Received what we asked Him for in prayer. This is the only way that it can BE ours.
Video Devo – Believing God | Part 2 – That He Answers Prayers and Grants Petitions
Petitions
The Greek word “aitēma” translated as petition means, “something asked, a request, or something required.”
The word is used in John 5:14, 15 when are told, “And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He hears us: And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.” This is in line with Mark 11:24.
Whatever we ask God according to His will, He grants us. This is a guarantee. We can find His will for us as Christians laid out in the New Testament, and really throughout the entire Bible. All the blessings and promises of God belong to us Beloved! All we have to do is ask.
Prayer
The word Greek “proseuchomai” translated in Mark 11:24 is made up of two words that mean: “to come near and pray, worship, wish or will something.”
Praying is therefore much like making a wish, but God is not a jeannie, He is God. The difference s are these: 1. He is real, 2. we come to as His, worshipers, servants, children not the other way around. 3.He will not give us something that will hurt or is not according to His will unless we insist on having it, like the Israelites (see Psalm 106:15 ), 4. we have to believe we have been granted what we ask for and take possession of it by faith, literally not figuratively in order to see it come into being. (more than a notion), and 5. We must forgive all people and not hold onto strife in our hearts because faith works by love (gets its energy to produce by love, in a heart rooted and grounded in love for God is love, so being rooted and ground in love is being rooted and grounded in God, (Mark 11:25, Galatians 5:6, Ephesians 3:17)).
You can learn more about prayer here: Praying with Understanding – Downloadable Guide
What it means to believe?
The Greek word pisteuō means to: have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), that is, credit; commit (to trust), put in trust with. Simply put, we must, as a requirement put our trust in God.
What it means to receive?
The word receive is actually an action, not a passive word in the Greek that has more to do with the receiver than the giver. The Greek word “lambanō” used in this verse means “to take or to get hold of.”
You and I have to actively get hold of what we ask God for in prayer and take it. How does one get hold of something that cannot be seen? The answer is: by faith, using the same unction (energy, power, anointing) as we do in trusting in eternal salvation.
The writer of Hebrews puts it this way, “God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we …can have great confidence as we take hold of the hope that lies before us,” (6:18).
Beloved, if you feel like your prayers aren’t being answered ask yourself if you have really gone beyond merely asking and took some time out to receive. This is where so many people miss it, asking but never seeing it come to pass because of not having taken the time to BELIEVE and RECEIVED it by faith.
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