Listen "Study in Prayer - January 10 - Stay Positive and Resist Doubt"
Episode Synopsis
Scripture of the Day: Mark 14:39“Once more he went away and prayed the same thing.”Stay Positive and Resist DoubtIn order to receive the answer to your prayers, you need to let every single thought about the subject of your prayers to remain positive. Call it as already done – in Jesus Name.If you are believing for a financial answer to prayer, stay positive, even in the face of negative reports. If you are believing for a healing, same thing. Stay positive, even in the face of a negative report or feelings. How you feel does not affect the Word of God. Amen!After you pray in Faith, according to God’s Word…you MUST stand on scripture at all times – NEVER allow a picture of failure to try and replace that Word that is LIVING on the inside of you.We are talking about receiving answers to your prayers. Once you have prayed and asked God for something…and when I say “something” I am not being a generalist here. It has to be SPECIFIC. But I don’t know what you need or what you are praying for – so I have to be general as I’m talking to you today through this platform.For example, if you need $1,314 dollars to meet a financial obligation, don’t just say, “Lord, I need a break through here. I need to see an increase in my finances…” If you walk out to the parking lot and found a $5 bill on the ground, wouldn’t that be an increase your finances? So God answered your prayer!“Well, brother bob, He knows what I need…” YES – He does! More so than you do… “What do you mean by that?”Let’s talk about praying for finances for a minute. This is a unique form of prayer because God is not going to rain money down from Heaven like manna. He has already put “all of the silver, all of the gold” into the earth at creation. They don’t make that stuff anymore. And God isn’t making it anymore either. So, for Him to answer your prayer for financial increase, he has to get it from someone who already has it.When you say, “God I need $1,314 and I need it now” – God knows what you really need. I know, I’ve had this conversation with God.I was praying a prayer like that a few years ago when God arrested me in the Spirit and said, “No you don’t.” That shocked me! I said, “Yes I do” and He replied again, “No you don’t.” Then He said, “If I give you this money now, next month you will be right back here asking for more.”And you know what, He was right. Then He showed me in His Word, that living by debt instead of Faith is wrong. It goes against Biblical principles. And with this pandemic, you can see why…People have been living for the here and now instead of saving. They should have been saving for an emergency fund that experts say should have a minimum of six months expenses and preferably an entire year. Most people do not even have one month of expenses in savings. I was the same way.But several years ago, as I was praying for a miracle in order to keep the bills paid, that is when God said “No, that’s not what you need. What you need is to do stop borrowing and living on credit and start saving and paying cash.”When I did, man – life got better. Yes, we went several years without vacations. We went several years saving for an emergency. But, during this pandemic, when everyone was panicking around us, we were secure. That’s just one example.But the point of what I’m sharing today is not how to live secure financially. My point was to stay single minded and focused on your answer to your prayer request. In my example of asking God for increase and you finding $5 on the sidewalk, that was increase. You cannot say God did not answer your...
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