STARVING THE MONSTER

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. (Underlinings are mine)

Jesus said that we can have what we say when we believe it in our hearts. Now that works both ways because it is a spiritual law He’s giving us. If we believe the problem is getting worse, and speak the problem all the time, then that’s where our faith is and we will have what we say! 

But if we turn it round and speak God’s Word, which is His will and believe it, then we can have what we say, which is putting the problem right. Very often we speak the way it is, instead of speaking the way we want it to be.😊

Then Jesus says if we believe and receive what we prayed for, when we prayed for it, before we ‘see’ it, and don’t doubt it, then we will have the answer. But we have to believe we receive them, and know that however long it takes for them to come, they are definitely on the way. We have to hold on to the confession of our faith and not waver. 

Too often we bow to circumstances, to what we see with our physical eyes, or what we feel, and say, “Oh it’s not working” and we cancel our prayer of faith! We let go of our confession of faith because we were led by our senses and not by what the Word promised.😊

God says in His word that if two of you agree on anything it will be done. Now that can work both ways as well. These are spiritual laws that Jesus was giving us and what we don’t always realise is that when we speak out our problem, how nothing is changing, how it’s getting worse, other people hear us and agree with us about how bad it is and we have whatever two agree on! We’re putting that spiritual law into operation and we’re feeding the monster of the problem and causing it to grow bigger. But rather, we can starve the monster and say the Lord is turning it around for good, that He’s giving beauty for the ashes, that we’re victors not victims, and agree on that instead.😊

Lord, help us to renew our minds and retrain our mouths to agree with Your words, to speak what we want to see and not the problem. In Jesus name. Amen.

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