Mark 11:24 ‘What things so ever you desire when you pray believe that you receive them and you shall have them’

DAILY READING: – Philippians 2:12-30; Ezekiel 21-22; Isaiah 50

In August 2002, major News outlets carried the story of a young boy who survived multiple snakebites through the power of prayer. On August 26th, 2002, in St. Augustine Florida, seven year old Matthew Carrera and his older brother were waiting for their father to take them to school when they decided to go into a nearby bush to look for a baseball they had lost the day before. But while there, suddenly Matthew was struck by a rattlesnake, not once, but five times. The two boys screaming came running out of the bush. When their father, realized what had happened, immediately he sped off with them to the hospital, praying and calling upon God’s intervention. It was a race against time. As the venom of the snake began attacking  Mathew’s vital organs, the young boy passed out in the car. At the hospital, the emergency room team worked desperately to save Mathew, eventually a helicopter airlifted him to the critical care unit of Wolfsons Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. His chances of survival were very slim, in fact doctors didn’t expect him to survive that day. His  body was in shock and despite the large doses of antivenim being pumped into him, the venom was destroying the tissue in his leg. And his kidneys and liver showed signs of failing.  However Mathew’s  parents being Christians, understood the power of prayer. And so they rallied family members and friends to begin praying ceaselessly for Mathew. Miraculously, Mathew not only survived that day but survived many more days to come. And though various complications arose, Mathew’s family persisted in their prayers, until eventually God gave them the victory. Soon Mathew was well enough to be discharged from the hospital. His recovery totally amazed the medical doctors who saw him as a walking miracle.

James 5:16 says: ‘The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much’.

Indeed there is power in prevailing prayer. A man who will fervently persist in the place of prayer, will have his answers.

Mark 11:24 tells us ‘What things so ever you desire when you pray believe that you receive them and you shall have them’

This is the promise of God. That whatsoever we desire, when we pray and believe, God will answer us. It doesn’t matter how impossible the situation, as long as we can pray about it, God is committed to answer. Getting answers in prayers requires resoluteness and a certain stubbornness. You have to decide  that you will not quit until you get your result. God does not store prayers, He answers them.

But we have to learn to persevere until the answer comes. The key is persistence. Refuse to give up. It is often when God is about to do a great work in your life that the enemy comes against you with his strongest weapons.  The enemy knows that if you persist you will receive, this is why he tries to discourage and weary you to give up before your answer comes. But make up your mind to keep praying because you know God has promised you an answer and He keeps His promises. Indeed prayer works. However we must be willing to pay the price of persistence, because persistence wears down every resistance.

Perhaps in this season, you have been praying for certain things, but are yet to see your desired answers. Don’t give up. Keep pressing in, keep faith alive by feeding on God’s Word. It’s not about the length of your prayer, but the strength of your faith. Keep knocking and don’t give up, your time is coming. You will reap if you faint not. You will see your greatest dreams come to pass – when you refuse to be a quitter. Whatever, you are believing God for today, make up your mind to keep pushing in prayer until something happens. Surely there is an end, and your expectations shall not be cut off.

PRAYER: Lord, please  grant me the grace to persevere in the place of prayer until my answer comes,. No matter how discouraging situations may sometimes seem, please Lord,  help me not to grow weary but rather to persist until I see my desired result in Jesus Name.  .

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Until you cry out in the place of prayer certain things won’t happen. WORD BITE 222