WALKING IN THE FULLNESS OF OUR INHERITANCE

May 31st

           FAITH IS NOT SOMETHING REALIZED IN THE FUTURE

        ...."All things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they shall be granted you"....

                                                                                                                                                                              Mark 11:24 NASB

According to human understanding "to pray and ask for" is something done now, but "they shall be granted you" happens in the future. According to man's idea, the answer to a prayer is bound to come sometime in the future, but as we look closely at the words of our Lord in this passage we see what real faith is. Only one kind of faith is real faith, and that is the faith that believes that God "is". To believe that we have received our petition means that we have received them "now" - NOT not some time in the future! We can clearly see how this approach differs from our "natural concept" of the future - for in Christ there is no future tense. The "fact" [spiritual reality] that is seen in faith is not something realized in the future, it is something that is both believed and received now. According to the reasoning of the unrenewed nature of man, past, present and future form a logical sequence, but in spiritual matters this is not so - for there is neither past nor future but only present in the Kingdom.  Real faith gives us the eyes to see that in the spiritual realm things are "already done" as soon as we apply our faith and exercise it. Many prayers are "amiss" because the heart of those who have prayed has limited the Father [and His Word] to time and their own surroundings [circumstances]. Any bondage to time and space will always cause a child of God to "feel" that their prayers are ineffective unless they can perceive the results with their five physical senses. Every child of God needs to know that the fervent, effectual prayer that avails much transcends "all" time and space. They must come to know that it is the power of God resting on the words of faith that are spoken by them, that will cause the physical manifestation of the petition to come in the Father's perfect timing - without fail - as they maintain an absolute faith and trust in Him.

Related Scriptures: 2 Peter 3:8; Romans 10:17; Hebrews 11:6; Joshua 1:8; James 1:6-8;

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