Mark 1:23-24 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea', and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. v.24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. (NKJV)
Jesus is teaching us His 'how to' of faith in this amazing passage. In verse 23 if you count how many times the word believe comes you find it only once. But if you count how many times He tells us to 'say' you'll find it three times. Interesting the emphasis Jesus puts on our 'saying' or 'speaking' the things we want to be done. He says we will have whatever we say when we believe what we're saying from our hearts....but believes what he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
Think about that for a minute. It's not what someone else says, or even what God says, no, we get the casting vote - it is what we say that will happen if we really believe it. Now that should make us more careful as to what we say and more adventurous too!
Do you want to see some things happen in your life, your church life, you family, nation, etc.? Then it's up to us to start believing for some things, really believing them, and then 'say' them. Speak to our mountains and tell them to be removed. Then start calling 'things' into existence that we can't see yet.
Verse 24 says Whatever 'things' you ask for when you pray, believe that you receive them and you will have them. To receive them in the original language means 'to take them'. You pray, then you 'take it' by faith, it's yours. It belongs to you whatever 'thing' you've believed for, now you stand in faith for it and draw it in daily by faith until you see it manifest.
Don't let the enemy talk you out of it, but watch your 'saying' is in line with your praying in the coming days if it takes a while!
So here's the thought for today. What are you going to pray and believe to be done by your 'saying so'?
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