The ferevrent effective prayer of a righteous man avails much.
Great faith is undeniable. It always believes God. We can never ever have faith in faith, but we need to have faith in the promises, nature, and character of God. To know God's character, is to renew your mind, and get the worldly junk out, that clutters your thought life. It is written to take every thought captive. Not every demon. So we want to not depend on ourselves, and our abilities to get into the grace of God. But instead we need to put our mind in agreement with God, and what He says we are, and what He says we can have.
Our spirit agrees with God, when we are Born-Again believers. We also need to get our mind and body into that agreement also. Ability is good, but ability will only take you so far. Ability is in the natural realm. Having faith in God's grace, and coming into agreement with Him with our mind, by renewing our mind, and walking in the spirit is how prayer and confession of the Word works. It is depending totally on God, and HIS supernatural ability.
Knowing God's Character and His nature causes us to stand in faith and agree with God, and it gives us the desire to be ferverent, because we renew our mind with the Word. We know that God's perfect love casts out all fear, and that He hasn't given us a spirit to fear, but of peace, love, and a sound mind.
In reading the Word, confessing it to come into agreement with God, because faith comes by hearing and that the Word of God. It puts us into the position, that we can understand that God is the Author, and finisher of our faith.
So if a person is believing that he is already healed, when he comes to God. Means that he has come into agreement in his mind, that by the stripes of Jesus he is healed and made whole. This also says that he is walking in the spirit.
Denying that you are sick has no power. You need to understand that ritualistic confession has no power. You may say that you have confessed healing Scripture a hundred times today, and don't understand why God hasn't healed you. But if there is no faith and agreement in God's Word about healing in your mind, then healing will not manifest in your body. Becuase we need to walk in the spirit, line our mind and body up with the spirit, and God's Word, and as we pray we also have to know that we are the righteousness of Jesus, and then we are made righteous by what we believe in our heart. But healing then takes place in the confession, the same as when you confessed Jesus as your Lord and Savior. You believed first-Righteousness. Then you confessed-Salvation.
So when we pray, we need to see it as completed. Because Jesus has already done all that He needs to, and is going to do, for Salvation, healing, and the victory over Satan that lets us live, not only above, but far above Satan's curse, and Satan himself.
This is the same principle in all of our prayer life. We cannot please God without faith. So if we don't believe, then we tie God's hands, and prayer is ineffective. If we doubt when we pray, we cannot believe that we will get anything from God. For if we doubt, we are like the waves of the sea, tossed and driven by the wind. We then are double minded, and a double minded man is unstable in all his way.
So the prayer of faith is undeniable. It always gets results. God's is a results God. We need to be a prayer by faith, believing in God's manifested results, Christian.
Remember that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. As a man thinks in his heart, so he is.
Blessings. Rev. Duane.
Sir..I never doubt the power of either prayer or God, but I do at times doubt myself...
bonding is something I have experienced little of thru my life..one thing and another has caused me to be introverted, and as much as I love life and embrace all of mankind, I rarely feel this is reciprocated, some say I run too much or push folk away...
I wonder then will my hearts/mind have the same effect when I am on bended knee, though I feel God is close and hears my every word, is my inner emptiness (lonliness) caused by not enough overall Faith in God?..( am I making sense)
I think we all go through this during our stay here on Earth; not just once during our lives, but several times. satan uses doubt against us fervently. It's a buddy to fear; basically, it's the telemarketing appointment setter for fear to enter your heart.... This is why the Apostle Paul taught us long and hard about growing up in faith. It doesn't just happen; you have to work at it...."Practise makes perfect" as they say...
Just the fact that you have these concerns about your faith shows God that you are growing. For He can use even our weakenesses to strengthen us! know that He cares more about what is earnestly in your heart, than you feeling like you are some mega-strong faith man.... "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man, availeth much"...james 5:16... what does that mean? It means that you work at it; speak the words that God has given us in His Book of Life. You don't have to feel them. That emptiness you speak of is a good place to start: invite the Holy Spirit into every void space you feel; ask Him to fill up the emptiness; I believe these are spots that have been washed clean of things of our past life( the one you lived before you were saved) so now they are empty spaces needing to be filled. It's up to you what you fill them up with. The Lord told the lame man at the pool to go and sin no more, or it will be far worse what would become of him, should he turn back to his old habits... Fill that emptiness with the words of God; and know that His Word is Alive and True. We have been duped for generations into thinking that if we don't feel something; then we can't believe it. God counted righteousness to Abraham because he knew that the Lord was True, not because he felt that the Lord's word was True. You don't feel a cloud, do you? But you know it's there. You don't feel a leaf fall off a tree, right? No, but you know it did. Your sincerity towards your desires for God is what impresses the Lord to honor you prayers. Know also that words like " doubt" and "unbelief" are not just phrases or loose emotions; in fact, they aren't your emotions at all; they are demonic spirits in satan's army that are attacking your emotions! When you get that into perspective, then you can do something about it. You can rebuke doubt, and unbelief; you have been given the authority to use the Lord's Very Own Name to do so. You can speak words of faith into your heart, and mind, and those demons will have no place to enter!
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