Step Six: Believe You Have Received What You Asked For

by T.L. Osborn

Based upon Receive Miracle Healing by T.L. Osborn
© 89-08 OSFO Used with the Author's permission

This is faith, simply believe, when you pray, that you have received what you prayed for. Some people pray for years, asking repeatedly for something God has promised. But they refuse to believe they have the answer until they see or feel it. That is not faith.

Faith is simply expecting God to do what He has said He'll do.

He promised: Everyone who asks, receives. Holy Bible Mtt. 7:8 NIV

Faith believes that, even before it is seen or felt. You trust in God's Promise alone.

If you have no faith, you will trust your natural senses, and be disappointed.

God calls us to: Walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Co. 5:7

Faith is superior to the natural: it is supernatural.

Without faith it is impossible to please God. Heb. 11:6

Have faith in God's Word, His Promise, and you will be rewarded.

It is not enough to agree that God's Word is true. Many people say they believe it, but they refuse to act on what it says.

Genuine faith acts on God's Word.

You only really believe as far as you act on what you claim to believe.

Smith Wigglesworth, England's most dynamic Evangelist, lived his motto:

'God Says it, I believe it, that settles it!'

Since God's Word declares, By his wounds I have been healed. 1 Pe. 2:24 Then I have been healed.

Real faith, trusts utterly on the integrity of God's Word.

Hope says, 'When I feel it, or see it, I'll be sure I have it.'

But faith declares, 'It is written that I have it now, so it is mine now.'

Learn to walk by faith, and let faith in God's Word rule over your natural senses.

God's way is for you to look to His promise.

Your way is to look at the problem or disease. You watch symptoms, read medical books, listen to people telling you to be careful, filling you with fear, doubt, and sense knowledge.

But Jesus pronounced the blind man healed while he was still blind. ... And he received his sight. Lk. 18:42-43 and Mk. 10:52

He declared the lepers cleansed when the disease was still there: ... And as they went, they were healed. Lk. 17:12-19

He thanked God for raising Lazarus, even while Lazarus was still dead.Jn. 11:41 That's Bible Faith.

Faith is believing God has done what we asked, even before we see it. Like God does, we too:

Call things that are not, as though they were. Ro. 4:17

When you believe:

One of the most important lessons to learn, is to believe you receive when you ask.

Jesus said, Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe you have received it, and it will be yours. Mk. 11:24

Notice; believe you receive as you pray... not after 20 years, or after you get well, but while you are asking. Most people do it in reverse. They say, 'Seeing is believing.' But God's order is the opposite, 'Believing is seeing.'

When healing starts:

God promises to begin your healing only after you believe He has heard, and answered your prayer.

If we know that he hears us... -- whatever we ask -- we know that we have what we asked of him. 1 Jn. 5:15

Knowing that God has promised the blessing which you seek, when you ask Him to do it, you know you are asking according to His will, because His Promise is His will.

Knowing that; you have perfect confidence He hears your prayer, so you know you have the answer because God keeps His Promises.

Jesus said: If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer. Mtt. 21:22

That is praying the prayer of faith. And if your prayers are not prayers of faith they are a waste of breath. So learn to pray like Jesus prayed, and taught us to pray.

Now Take Step Seven