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You need to settle in your heart whether you really want to be healed or not! Do you really want to be healed, or do you want to have some reason to remain the object of sympathy and have people dote over you, at least until they get tired of hearing you only talk about your pains and sufferings? Do you really want to be healed, or would you rather continue to lie in bed, watch TV, and collect disability payments? Do you really want to be healed, or do you want to die? Do you really want to be healed, or do you fear losing your social acceptance among others who have your condition? Do you really want to be healed, or do you want an excuse to complain and act ornery all the time? Do you really want to be healed, or would you rather watch game shows and soap operas until the undertaker takes you under?


If you have decided in your heart that you can live with it, and it really isn't important to you one way or another if you get healed or not, you do not desire healing. Do not attempt to apply Mark 11:24 if that is so. Right after you pray, the devil will lean on you to give up, and you will. If you are not determined to get your healing, you won't get it. You can't be wishy-washy about it, because you will get negative pressure. You will get it from your body, you will get it from unenlightened Christians, and you will get it from the devil. If you don't really care, you are sure to cave in and you won't be able to stay in faith.

(By the way, I had originally planned to write this topic around the phrase, "What things soever ye desire" in Mark 11:24, but a trip to the concordance convinced me that the word desire could better be translated ask. I didn't want to build a castle on a faulty foundation. This would make the common mistake of preaching something that is true but basing it on the wrong Scripture.)


In John 15:7, Jesus said, "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." If you don't really want healing, don't ask for it until you do. Also, notice the condition that you must abide in Jesus and let his words abide in you. If you don't meet the condition, you don't qualify for the promise.

You must pay the price in time spent meditating on healing Scriptures. You must continually plant and water the seed of God's Word in your heart so that it can spring up and produce a harvest of healing. If you are unwilling to do this, just call the doctor and let medicine do all it can from you, because you won't be healed supernaturally.

Some people don't see the need to pay this price because they know someone who was healed by the gifts of the Spirit without exercising faith. Thank God for signs and wonders and people who get instant miracles, but they are the exception, not the rule. In general, people must receive healing by planting healing Scriptures in their hearts until they act on them and speak them instead of being overwhelmed by pains and feelings. No Christian has a guarantee of being healed through the gifts of the Spirit, but every Christian has the right to receive healing by acting on God's Word. It takes work. You must labor to enter into rest, as contradictory as that seems at first.


It is not necessarily a sin not to aim your faith at a minor physical condition that doesn't matter much. Just make sure that you know where you stand. Don't try to use your faith for things that you don't really desire.

Now let's assume that you really do desire your healing. You are willing to face the inevitable pressure and contrary circumstances and stand your ground. You have no choice a Christian in this case. You must "believe that you receive it when you pray" and you shall have it. Those are your instructions from your Creator and Father. Obey them!

God would be unjust to command you to do something that you cannot really do. If Jesus said that you can believe you receive something when you pray, you can do it. That's right, YOU. You, the person with your name, sitting in your seat, reading this computer screen, can believe you receive the healing you desire when you pray. Jesus said you can do it. So you can. Don't let anyone talk you out of it.


Consider the tenacity of some of those whom Jesus healed. Blind Bartimaeus cried out to Jesus all the louder when men around him told him to shut up. The woman with the issue of blood could have been stoned for being out in public, but went out and touched Jesus anyway. No wonder she feared and trembled when she told Jesus all the truth! The Syrophonecian lady persisted in asking for deliverance for her daughter after the disciples kept trying to get rid of her and even after Jesus told her (correctly) that she had no right to healing because she wasn't a Jew. The ten lepers weren't supposed to be anywhere near Jesus, but came anyway to be healed. These people wanted healing and put their lives where their mouths were. What a difference from those who blab a few "Healing Scriptures" because they think that's all they need to do. Friend, you are going to need some tenacity if you want to be healed. Many men today will try to talk you right out of your healing, just as they tried to do to Bartimaeus. You are going to need some patience and Holy Ghost boldness if you expect to be healed.


You may not feel like you can do it. You probably feel like you can't do it. Big deal. Walking by faith has nothing to do with how you feel about it. You can't let your emotions rule you. One of the biggest lessons you need to learn in life is that you can act on God's Word without feeling like it will work, and it will still work! As long as you believe in your heart, you can even doubt in your head! Did you realize that? Doubt only chokes your faith when you act on it instead of acting on what God said. As long as you act on what God said, you will get God's results. Acting on what God said includes speaking what God says about your situation.

Get ready to experience great freedom in your life when you realize that you can believe that you receive when you pray. (You already did that to get saved.) This is not some special advanced topic for faith giants. This is easy and you can do it. Nothing is so bad that you can't overcome it with faith in God and his Word. Knowing this destroys fear in your life. You will no longer be afraid of some awful thing that Satan might bring you next. You will know that no matter what comes along, you will be able to overcome it with your faith. You will be able to believe that you receive when you pray and your answer will manifest and your problem will be over. You will speak and you will "have whatsoever you say."

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