Have we allowed ourselves to get lax in stepping out in our faith?  The things that we’re praying for, are we boldly declaring them, or have we wrestled so long, with things we might count failures, that God is putting off because of His sovereignty?  “Well, I’ve declared so many things and I haven’t seen them come to pass, yet.”  Well, have you died?  Is time over?  Do you still believe?  Then let’s act like it.  Let’s begin to say, “Well, I’ve been praying for twenty years and haven’t seen it.”  Declare it like it’s yours the first time ever, today, praise God.  (Mark 11:23, 24); amen?  How many times have we had that verse?  “Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart…that those things which he saith shall come to pass…?  What does the Holy Spirit go on to say to us there?  “When ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them,” praise God.

Can I ask you a question?  What are you believing about that situation today?  Has your outlook changed?  Has your confession changed?  Has your belief changed?  Has your boldness of coming to God and thanking Him for those results changed?  If we’re moving in faith, then nothing has changed but this one aspect of knowing and believing that it’s sooner than when we first believed.  God’s Word does not return void.  I have come for your words.  Believe that you receive it and you shall have it; amen?  A stirring up of ourselves.  That’s why it’s necessary to go back to the Word.  Faith comes by hearing the Word of God.  It’s in the prayer closet that you get your rhemas.  We have general knowledge from the Word.  We know what the promises of God are, but so often, it’s when we’ve gotten quiet before God.  So often, it’s when we’ve prepared ourselves and fasted.  So often, when we begin to be diligent, when we have that spirit, “I will not let you go until you’ve blessed me; amen?”  The blessing that he’s talking about there may not be the immediate manifestation, but it will be the renewing of a rhema to where this thing comes back alive in you.

Have you lost some stuff?  It can come back alive in us if we’ll saturate ourselves with the Word of God.  Come and get on our faces.  Put a little time in to abiding in Christ, to fellowshipping with Him.  When I say put time in, I don’t mean, of course, that we need to speak words.  We’re not heard, the Bible says, for our much speaking.  Now, as we look at the context here, we know that the Lord was speaking toward the pagans and how they would have certain mantras or they would begin to, as they did on Mount Carmel when Elijah was calling out the prophets of Baal, and all of their chanting from the morning till the evening.  They’re chanting and all of these things are going on.  Compare all of that with the short prayer of Peter, “Lord, help!”  Amen?  Aren’t you glad for the answer to short prayers?  “He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him” (Hebrews 11:6).  Put your time in.  Put your fervency in.  “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much” (James 5:16); amen?  That white hot fervency.  It doesn’t have to do with the outward expression.  It’s not yelling, it’s not putting an emphatic emphasis on certain things.  That fervency, that white hot fervency, that believing that moves mountains is when we really believe.  Finally believe.  “Lord, I believe, help my unbelief; amen?”  What does it mean to believe?  To put into action; amen?  The way that we put it into action is to rise up; we come out of our prayer closets, and we begin to tell everybody we know, “I’ve just been in the presence of God, and He has reassured me and this is what God is going to do.  This healing is going to manifest.”