Keys to Answered Prayer !

KEYS TO ANSWERED PRAYER: Jesus went on to say in verse 24 that it will also work in prayer. You can use the same principle in prayer. "He shall have whatsoever he saith. He didn't have it then, but he shall have it. Many Believers and Christians cancel their prayer with unwise words. BELIEVE AND RECEIVE: (Mark 11:23) is a faith principel. It is not a prayer Scripture. Verse 24 says, "Therefore [or because of this faith principle] I say unto you, what things soever you desire when you pray, believe that you receive them and you shall have them. Now, its not talking about believing with the head. It is telling you to believe with the heart. "Whatsoever things--- whatsoever things you desire. He didn't say, "if it is God's will for you to have it." He said whatsoever things you desire when you pray. Believe that you receive them. Now when are you going to believe that you received them ? You are not going to believe it when you see it, If You Go by the Word of God. You must believe it when you pray. He said, "When You Pray, believe." What is the evidence that I received when I prayed ? The Word of promise, which is Faith is the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1). If I believe that I received this morning when I prayed, I wouldn't dare get up tomorrow morning and prayed the same prayer. That would be proof that I hadn't believed. Somebody says, "But it has not manifested yet." It doesn't say, "Believe when it is manifested." When you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them. It doesn't say you have them, but you shall have them. They are not manifested yet, but you have received God's Word. Therefore you have received them in your spirit. How can you receive something that is not manifested yet ? You receive it in your spirit. Your spirit man receives it as done. When you are praying, you are operating in spiritual law. You are operating in the spirit realm, not in the intellectual realm. You are tapping the spiritual resources of God. You need to realize, in doing this, that you don't have the same physical evidence that you do when you are operating in the natural realm. Things may look worse after you have prayed. In fact, some have told me, "You know, after we agreed in prayer, it got worse." Don't get excited about that. Did you believe when you prayed ? Did you believe when we agreed you received it ? The thing that will determine whether you believed it or not is this: when the circumstances look worse, do you still believe what we agreed upon ? The Word teaches us, to hold fast to the confession of our faith. (Hebrews 10:23) "Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that promised," the King James Bible. The amplified Bible, "So let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering the hope we cherish and confess and how are acknowledgment of it, for he who promised is reliable [sure] and faithful to His Word."