An Attitude of Trust

"And it came to pass, before he had done speaking...and he said, Blessed be Jehovah…who hath not forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth" (Gen. 24:15, 27).

Every right prayer is answered before the prayer itself is finished--before we have "done speaking." This is because God has pledged His Word to us that whatsoever we ask in Christ's name (that is, in oneness with Christ and His will) and in faith, shall be done.

As God's Word cannot fail, whenever we meet those simple conditions in prayer, the answer to our prayer has been granted and completed in Heaven as we pray, even though its showing forth on earth may not occur until long afterward.

So it is well to close every prayer with praise to God for the answer that He has already granted; He who never forsakes His loving-kindness and His truth. (See Daniel 9:20-27 and 10:12.)  --Messages for the Morning Watch

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When we believe for a blessing, we must take the attitude of faith, and begin to act and pray as if we had the blessing.  We must treat God as if He had given us our request. We must lean our weight over upon Him for the thing that we have claimed, and just take it for granted that He gives it, and is going to continue to give it. This is the attitude of trust.

When the wife is married, she at once falls into a new attitude, and acts in accordance with the fact; and so when we take Christ as our Savior, as our Sanctifier, as our Healer, or as our Deliverer, He expects us to fall into the attitude of recognizing Him in the capacity that we have claimed, and expect Him to be to us all that we have trusted Him for. -Selected

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God answers prayer, its that simple. He said that he would be attentive to our prayers (2 Chron. 7:14-15). He has promised to listen to our desires and concerns (Jer. 29:11-12). If you were to speak with Abraham, he would tell you that God answers prayer. If you were able to speak with David, he would tell you that in the darkest of times, God answers prayer. If you would speak with Hezekiah, he would tell you that God answers death bed prayers. If you were confer with Joshua, he would tell you that God answers "Sun Stand Still Prayers". If you were to speak with Elijah, he would tell you that God answers prayer in the season of drought.

If you were sit down and discuss prayer with the prayer master, Daniel, he would tell you that even when the answer seems delayed, God answers prayers, from the very moment that you open your mouth to pray in faith, God has already answered the prayer (Dan. 10:2-12). So, delay is never denial with God, when you pray in faith by the authority and unity with Christ (Through the Authority in Jesus' Name, by way of spiritual Power of Attorney), it moves God into response immediately. Whether it takes the physical manifestation some time to appear is irrelevant to the one wielding faith.

Dr. Rick Wallace

So, take your burdens and cares to the Lord and trust that he hears. God told Moses I have heard the cries of my people in Egypt. He hears your cries as well. He knows your pain. He is cognizant of your struggles. Before you finish speaking your prayer, God has responded and the process of deliverance, breakthrough and elevation has begun. Do not lose hope, the season of harvest is near. ~ Dr. Rick Wallace

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Faith Bends Facts

28 Tell them: As surely as I live,” this is the Lord’s declaration, “I will do to you exactly as I heard you say. (Ex. 14:28, HCSB)

This verse of scripture speaks volumes into the faith and speech of believers. This conversation between God and Moses takes place immediately after the twelve spies return with their report to the people of Israel of all they saw in Canaan (the promised land). Ten of the spies came back saying that it is all that God says it was (unbelievably beautiful and having an abundant supply all things necessary for living). There was just one problem; there were giants in their land. So, their final assessment was: we can't take the land.

Now God had given them the land, but required them to go in and possess it. He was not sending them in blind for He promised them that he would be with them and that they could surely do it. Nonetheless, these 10 spies said that they couldn't. The two other spies, Joshua and Caleb, said that the land could be taken, because God had already given it to them, they only needed to go in and possess it. The people decided to believe the other ten spies and begin to say that God had asked them to do the impossible.

Allow me a bit of digression for a moment. When God is in the midst of your movement there is no such thing as impossible. In fact, through academic study and experiential observation, I can tell you that the more impossible the endeavor, the more powerful God's movement in it becomes. I have learned that when I simply let go and let God, the impossible becomes possible and the extraordinary becomes ordinary.

I digress, God told Moses, "just as they have spoken and I have heard them say, so shall I do to them." God said since you said that you can't, you won't. If you take the time to read this entire passage, you will find that their lack of faith and the declaration that they could not do it, was considered by God to be a direct complaint against Him. When God has promised to walk you through the storm and you keep worrying and believing the lies of your circumstances, you are saying to God, I don't believe you can do what you said you can do. I don't believe your power is enough to manage my moment. I don't believe you will come through.

One of the problems with believers is we have bought into the distorted view of factual information bequeathed to us through secular paradigms. Most of us have been taught that facts are solid and they cannot be manipulated. The truth is facts are fluid because not even factual reality can resist the power of faith through love. In other words, faith bends facts. In life one of two things are happening daily; either your faith is transcending the facts, or the facts are transcending your faith. My friend, nothing trumps faith in God, not even facts.

It is interesting to me the emphasis the Bible places on speech. We are told that there is the power of life and death in the tongue and admonished to choose life. We are told that we will have to give an account of every idle word that comes out of our mouth. We are told that we can determine what is in a man's heart by observing what comes out of his mouth. In this particular instance, God said, just as you have spoken in my hearing, so shall it be.

Here is my first question: What are you speaking into your life? How many words come out of your mouth daily that reinforce the negative happenings in your life? (Okay that was bonus question). The thing is many of you are self-perpetuating your misery with your negative imprecations. Stop speaking anything that is not God's will for you into your life. Stop responding the fact as if they are fixed. I'm not saying that this will stop the vicissitudes and challenges of life from rolling in. Trials and tribulations are a part of life, but faith and the words that come from a faith filled heart produce the power to exit each one of these storms victoriously.

God had never told the Israelites that they would not have to fight; He told them that they would never lose. He told them that He would fight for them. He told them that no weapon formed against them would prosper. I have read the bible from cover to cover too many times to count (not including daily study, teaching, etc) and when I get to Isaiah 54:17, I continuously read the same thing: No weapon formed against you will prosper. It does not say, there will be no weapons formed against you. In fact, the context and sentence structure is implicit that there will be weapons formed against you, but then it becomes direct in the assertion that the weapons will not prosper.

Here is my second and final question (maybe)? Who are you listening to when determining what you are going to believe? Here is my advice to you. Stop letting narrow minded people who have no vision convince you that the vision you have for life is unrealistic. Stop letting people who gave up on their dreams talk you out of yours. Stop allowing those that are unacquainted with the power of faith convince you that facts are final. Faith bends facts. Look, the fact was that before The Battle of Gibeon, the sun had never stood still in the History of mankind, however, that did not stop Joshua from praying to God to stop it. When you study this passage, Joshua did not ask as if there could be any other response to his faith; he declared and decreed.

12 On the day the Lord gave the Amorites(AB) over to Israel, Joshua said to the Lord in the presence of Israel:

“Sun, stand still over Gibeon,
    and you, moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”
13 So the sun stood still,
    and the moon stopped,
    till the nation avenged itself on[b] its enemies,
as it is written in the Book of Jashar. (Joshua 10:12-13, NIV)

God desires more audacious Christian believers like Joshua, not afraid of the impossible, but daring to reach for it. Speak life. Speak life into that hopeless situation. Speak life into your dead circumstances. Speak life into your dwindling hopes. Irregardless to what your circumstances declare, make your declarations of your faith. The writer of Hebrews reminds us to hold fast our confession of faith without wavering. The two words "hold fast" is actually the double use of one Greek word "katecho" (kat-ekh'-o) meaning to hold down, possess, to seize. We are to take hold of our faith and stand firm in it.

So, remember the next time someone starts listing the facts and painting the illusionistic portraits of negativity, that your faith trumps their facts. ~ Dr. Rick Wallace  

Expectations Beyond Us

"But prayer" (Acts 12:5).

But prayer is the link that connects us with God. This is the bridge that spans every gulf and bears us over every abyss of danger or of need. How significant the picture of the Apostolic Church: Peter in prison, the Jews triumphant, Herod supreme, the arena of martyrdom awaiting the dawning of the morning to drink up the apostle's blood, and everything else against it. "But prayer was made unto God without ceasing." And what was the sequel? The prison open, the apostle free, the Jews baffled, the wicked king eaten of worms, a spectacle of hidden retribution, and the Word of God rolling on in greater victory.

Do we know the power of our supernatural weapon? Do we dare to use it with the authority of a faith that commands as well as asks? God baptize us with holy audacity and Divine confidence! He is not wanting great men, but He is wanting men who will dare to prove the greatness of their God. But God! But prayer! --A. B. Simpson

Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things, above all that we ask or think. Each time you intercede, be quiet first and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, of how He delights to hear Christ, of your place in Christ; and expect great things. --Andrew Murray

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Our prayers are God's opportunities.

Are you in sorrow? Prayer can make your affliction sweet and strengthening. Are you in gladness? Prayer can add to your joy a celestial perfume. Are you in extreme danger from outward or inward enemies? Prayer can set at your right hand an angel whose touch could shatter a millstone into smaller dust than the flour it grinds, and whose glance could lay an army low. What will prayer do for you? I answer: All that God can do for you. "Ask what I shall give thee." --Farrar

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"Wrestling prayer can wonders do,
Bring relief in deepest straits;
Prayer can force a passage through
Iron bars and brazen gates."

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I can think of no greater weapon of the believer than prayer. Not prayer in the broad sense of the word, but faith filled prayer that bears specificity in its expectations. I'm am speaking of prayer that is not presumptuous in believing that it can comprehend the omnipotent power of God to respond to its requests in ways that are far beyond the believer's limited perspicacity.

When prayer is executed through the conduit of audacious faith, its results in efficacious and supernatural transcendence of what the human mind can fathomed.

The effectiveness of every believer is inextricably bound to the commitment and consistency of their prayer life.

Efficacious prayer is never regimental, ritual or religiously driven. True prayer yearns God's presence and relishes the relationship that develops through one on one communication with Him.

So, I encourage each of you to commit yourself to consistent prayer. Let God move in your life in ways that will excite your friends, confound your enemies, and elevate your existence. ~ Dr. Rick Wallace