I love to pray. When I pray I get answers to my prayers. Before, when I prayed I would metaphorically cross my fingers and hope that God would answer my prayers.
But later I heard about a certain minster that prayed for the sick and when he prayed people would instantaneously get healed. He would pray for people Live at crusades or at his church with cameras on and people watching him.
When he prayed, lame people would get out of wheelchairs. The blind would receive their sight. The deaf will hear. The dumb people could speak. All because of simple prayers this Pastor would say.
Some people criticized the Pastor; they couldn't believe it was real even though they knew that Jesus talked about these kinds of things in the bible. They probably wouldn't admit this but the reason they didn't believe was because they too must have prayed to God and asked for a miracle at some point in their lives but unlike the Pastor who received an answer to his prayers; they didn't.
Instead of joining other Christians and being skeptical, I asked myself, why does this Pastor receive such instantaneous answers and I don't?
I, unlike some believers believe what Jesus said when he said these signs shall follow them that believe. [*Reference* Mark 16:17]
I have always believed that scripture even though I hadn't seen it yet in my life or any other person's life for that matter. I just found it hard to disbelief that a God who created the world and all human beings would be able to use another human being to make a lame man walk.
Anyway, I attended his crusade and saw the miracles first hand. All that was in my thoughts as I saw this was, 'if Jesus can do this through him, then Jesus can do this through me.'
I never get jealous of another minister achieving what I want to achieve, or someone in the business world making leaps forward that I would love to make. It just makes me go; if he can do it, I can do it too. That's how I think.
Being jealous of another person's achievements pushes your ability to acheive that thing further way from you.
I bought video tapes by that preacher and watched them at home when my mates where watching hollywood movies. I didn't like reading then but I figured that since I'm used to watching movies and music videos, I should get something of the preacher that is in the format that I'm used to. So, I got his video tapes. What I'm telling you about happened in my high school days, there were no DVDs as such in Nigeria at the time but I remember we had a VCD player and a video cassette player. That time, video cassette players weren't completely phased out in Nigeria. I watched the video tapes where this preacher spoke about prayer. I watched them over and over again.
Over the years, my understanding of prayer has grown on what I learnt through those tapes.
Are you ready for it? Are you ready to hear how to pray and receive answers instantaneously?
Ok! First of, all prayers must be heart-felt. If you don't feel your prayer in your own heart : if your prayer is not sincere and coming from the bottom of your heart; then don't expect God to feel your prayers himself and don't expect him to answer them.
Pray simple prayers but not with the aim of simply being simple but approach it as you would a sincere heart-felt conversation. Don't feel like you need to reach out to someone in the heavens far above that is so far away from you but can still hear you because of his divine soverignity, but as though God was present beside you.
When you pray, believe that you have received an answer to your heart-felt prayer as long as you didn't hear God saying No!
After praying, just believe that your heart-felt prayer has been answered. You must recieve the answer first by faith before you can receive it in the physical.
If you are cripled and you want God to heal you. First you must believe that God is ABLE to heal you and that he WANTS to heal you right now.
After you are sure you believe that, pray to God to heal you, then after that you must believe that he has healed you. Just get up and walk. Keep your mind on the scriptures or on how powerful and awesome God is. Don't let doubt set in. At that moment not allowing a pinch of doubt into your heart is very important. Even if doubt shows up you must counter it with the word or your faith in what God wants to happen right now.
If you hear a voice in your head going, "You would never be able to stand up, remember what the doctor said. You would never walk. You could try now and something worse would happen."
Counter that voice with something like, "Shut up Devil, you are a liar. I believe the report of the Lord over the report of the doctor and the word of God says that I am healed. Therefore I would stand today."
Continue trying to get up. You would see your miracle.
If before, you could only stand half way and now you are standing more than half way but you are still unable to stand up fully straight. Don't say, Oh! it did not work or God gave me a half way there miracle. No!!! Don't say that, instead focus on your healing. Focus on your miracle. Focus on thanking God for your ability to make the little movements that you could not have made before. Let it be your physical proof that your heart-felt prayer is working. Then based on that keep trying to get up as you know and can see that your miracle has already begun. Thank God all the while and know that nothing in the world is more powerful than God's word. Keep your mind on God or God's word or both.
I tell you, if you do this; you would stand.
Feel free to share your testimonies below. And testify in your church and to those around you too. Remember, testifying establishes the fact that you have been healed.
Thanks & God bless.
Alfred Benjamin King.
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If you’ve been touched by what you just read and you’ve never given your heart to Jesus before but now want to become a Christian, please say this prayer and mean it with all your heart.
“Oh Lord God, I come to you in the name of Jesus Christ. Your word says, ‘… whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved’ (Acts 2:21)
So now I ask Jesus to come into my heart to be the lord of my life. I receive eternal life into my spirit and according to Romans 10: 9, ‘That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved’ , Therefore I declare that I am saved; I am born – again; I am a child of God! I now have Christ dwelling in me, and greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world! (1 John 4:4). I now walk in the consciousness of my new life in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah!”
PRAYER FOR THE RETURNING BACK SLIDER (ONLY):
“Oh lord God, I ask for your mercy and forgiveness for turning my back on you. I come back to you today in total sincerity and like the parable of the prodigal son, I thank you for receiving me back with Joy and Gladness.
I confess that Jesus Christ is the lord of my life and God the father is my Daddy. Hallelujah!”
PRAYER TO RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT:
“Oh Father, I thank you now for making me born again. For making me your child.
I ask that you give me your Holy Spirit to live in me and with me. For your word says that you would freely give the Holy Spirit to all those who ask. I open my heart and receive, and I know by faith that you have given me your Holy Spirit. Thank you Father. In Jesus name. Amen.”
CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE NOW A CHILD OF GOD. WELCOME TO THE FAMILY OF GOD.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alfred Benjamin King is a full time writer & illustrator who obviously loves writing and drawing with all his heart.
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He lives as though he’s retired early and retired rich. His bread comes from the fact that he is a business investor who God has blessed with wisdom.
He is one of the leading Christ – Minded writers in both fiction and non – fiction today.
His contribution to literature is extra ordinary. He created two new genres of literature namely, “D.I.P” and “S+C.S”
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