Hi Brian!

This week I want to share from Kenneth E. Hagin's "Faith Food" devotional. It is just a refresher on something I know that YOU already know, but sometimes reviewing Truths from the Word of God helps bring them to the forefront and that helps renew our complete faith in HIM and HIS WORD!

Praying And Saying

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. — MARK 11:24

Faith will work by saying without praying (notice Mark 11:23 doesn’t mention praying), but faith also works by prayer.

However, when you pray it, you still have to say (or confess) it.

Let me repeat that: Faith will work by SAYING it, or it will work by PRAYING it, but when you PRAY it, you still have to SAY it.

Mark 11:23 and 24 brought me off a bed of sickness many years ago. After I had prayed, then I began to say (not think) out loud in my room, “I believe that I receive healing for my body.” Then I specified each thing that was wrong with me: “I believe I receive healing for the heart condition. I believe I receive healing for this paralysis. I believe I receive healing for the incurable blood disease.”

And just in case I had missed anything, I concluded, “I believe that I receive healing from the top of my head to the soles of my feet.”

Within the hour every symptom of physical deficiency disappeared from my body, and I was standing on the floor beside the bed — healed!

Confession: What things soever I desire, when I pray, I believe that I receive them. I confess what I believe. I hold fast to my confession. And I never fail to receive them.

Holy Spirit has been reminding me lately of the simple, powerful TRUTHS that we first learned years ago. I have found that a fresh look at things like this has really deepened my faith and increased my expectation! I hope that it does the same for you! Here is a video version of Brandon Lake's "Tear Off The Roof" song that used scenes from the Chosen movies.

Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!