HAVING A GOAL

James 1:22 NLT But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise you are only fooling yourselves. V.25…and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for it.

When an archer releases the arrow from his bow into the air he’s aiming for the bulls eye on the target every time. He has a goal in mind. When a sales person tells you about his product in an advertisement he’s aiming for you to buy his product. He has a goal.

In the same way, when we pray, we need to have a goal, not a vague airy fairy prayer that aims at nothing and hits it every time! No, God tells us to ask, to be specific, to use our faith, to find His promises relating to our request and pray His word because we know then that it is His will. When we know it’s His will we know we already have it by faith and can just wait for the result to manifest. (1 John 5:14-15)

How to ask - God says to make our requests with thanksgiving. (Philippians 4:6)  We can thank Him for all He has already done for us and that He never goes back on His promises, they are all yes and amen in Jesus.

We can show the Lord we’re serious about these things by doing our part of finding out what He’s said about it and then declare it, stand on it and don’t let it go when things get rough, because we have a goal!

We can speak God’s word, release the power inherent in it into our situation but we do need to do something in faith! It’s not all up to God.

We can choose to stop dwelling on what we don’t have, and thank God for what we do have and ask Him to provide whatever our need is according to Philippians 4:19, to heal our sicknesses and diseases according to Isaiah 53:5, Exodus 15:26, Psalm 107:20 and so on. 

We do have to ask! Mark 11:23-24 NKJV 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. 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. 

So do we have a goal? What scripture are we basing it on? And have we asked? When we do what He says, He says He will bless us for it. Thank You Lord.😊

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