How many of you are frustrated when it seems your prayers are not answered?
We pray and pray and pray and it seems like God has a deaf ear to your petitions.
Believe me it happens. But much of it depends on us and how we pray.
More and more I am understanding that God has already done his part.
When Jesus cried out from the cross, “It is finished” as we read in John 19:30, He meant just that. His work on earth was done.
The atonement for our sins was complete. He provided everything we could ever need. We aren’t waiting on him to give us anything. He is waiting on us to receive.
Ephesians 1:3 says, “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.”
Any blessing we could ever need or desire from the Lord is not something to strive for, but something you already have.
The verse says 'has blessed us”. It doesn't say he is going to at some time in the future bless us. It says it has already been done.
God made the provision before we had the need. It is just a simple matter of receiving what he has already done.
1 Peter 2:24 says, “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
Again, the verse says “you have been”, that's past tense – meaning it has already been done.
It’s already a done deal. So, why do we pray for healing to happen in the future.
Instead, we should just receive the healing that the Lord has already provided. There is a difference between fighting to get healed and fighting because we have been healed. That difference is the difference between success and failure.
The Lord has been showing me this truth through my study and revelation knowledge from the Holy Spirit in recent months and these truths have become alive on the inside.
Many people just can’t grasp them, because they are trapped in their five senses. If they can’t see it, taste it, smell it, touch it, or hear it, they don’t think it exists. Therefore, when you say they have already been healed, they check their physical bodies with their five senses, and if they don’t look or feel healed, they say they aren’t.
God moves in the spiritual realm. Whether or not we see manifest in the physical realm what he has done in the spiritual realm is not dependent on his giving but on our own receiving.
Sometimes the physical manifestation of what God has already done comes with little effort. Other times, there is major demonic opposition that hinders the manifestation of what God has commanded.
We have to know and believe that God has already done his part and that any delay in our manifestation is not his fault. That will keep us in faith. Remember that faith is our positive response to what God has already done by grace.
If I hand you a gift, you don't have to keep praying and ask for it. You already have it. Open it, enjoy it and be thankful for it.
It's the same thing with God.
Press on in praise, worship and thanksgiving what what God has done and thank him for answered prayer. It might take a only a few minutes, a day, a week, a month, a year or more to manifest, but keep praising and thanking.
We must thank him, thank him and thank him some more for answers to our prayers.
Be patient and know it is God's will for us to be whole and that means healed.
We don't have to ask for it. We just have to receive it and be thankful that God loved us enough to provide the means and the provision for us to be saved, healed and delivered. It's a deal that is already signed, sealed and delivered to each of us as believers. Receive it and be thankful because we know the price was paid in full by the Lord Jesus when he died for us on the cross.
Be blessed.
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