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God’s love has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5). He’s put His own love on the inside of us. We just need to believe it and walk in it. If we’ll do that, our prayers for this nation will be effective. We’ll be able to release our faith and receive what we ask for when we pray. Say It, Act On It, and the Feelings Will Follow How exactly do you release your faith? With your words. As we’ve already seen, Jesus said, “Whosoever shall say…and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.” Second Corinthians 4:13 puts it this way: “We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak.” When you pray for healing, immediately start calling yourself healed. Say it by faith, even if you still feel symptoms of sickness in your body. Say, as one of my fathers in the faith, Kenneth E. Hagin, used to say, “I feel good, I feel fine. Now, body, get in line.” Then put your faith into action. Take command over your feelings and behave like you truly have believed you’ve received, because “faith without works is dead” (James 2:20). In other words, do what the woman with the issue of blood did in Mark 5. Talk about someone who got what she believed for! She’s both an inspiration and a great example to follow because she did everything Jesus taught in Mark 11:22-25. I don’t know if she’d heard about that particular teaching. The Bible doesn’t say. She might have, though, because she lived in Capernaum, where Jesus Himself lived. It’s possible her house was just down the road from His, and Jesus regularly taught and ministered there. A number of people in town had even been healed under His ministry. Because of her condition, the woman with the issue of blood had been a shut-in for 12 years. Legally, she could have been stoned if caught out in public, so she most likely hadn’t gotten to attend Jesus’ meetings herself. But obviously someone relayed to her what He’d been saying, because faith comes by hearing The WORD of God—and this woman had some faith! She so believed what she’d heard about Jesus that she kept saying, “If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole” (Mark 5:28). The fact that she could make such a faith declaration with confidence indicates she must have been walking in forgiveness which, given her circumstances, is amazing. Over the years she’d been sick, she’d “suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse” (verse 26). After all those doctors had put her through, that woman could have had aught against them. But if she did, she had apparently let it go. Who knows? Maybe she’d heard about the paralyzed man in town with the four friends who tore through the roof of Jesus’ house and lowered their sick friend down in front of Him while He was preaching. Maybe she’d heard that Jesus forgave the man’s sins, and when the people in the meeting questioned His power to do so, He’d said: “Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins—He said to the paralytic, ‘I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house’” (Mark 2: 9-11, "NKJV"). Think of it! Right there in Capernaum, Jesus had taught that the same power that forgives also heals. He’d made it clear that if you won’t forgive, you can’t receive healing because you’re rejecting the power that’s behind both. Again, the Bible doesn’t say whether the woman with the issue of blood knew this, but we do know she was walking in love and forgiveness because her faith worked. When she put it into action, got up out of bed, went to where Jesus was preaching, pressed through the crowd, and touched His garment, “straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague” (Mark 5:29). See the sequence there? She didn’t wait to believe until she felt something happen in her body. (If she’d done that, she never would have left the house. She would have stayed home in bed and died.) Instead, she believed, spoke, put feet to her faith, and the feelings followed. She felt in her body that she was healed. What happened next? Jesus, knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him said, “Who touched my clothes?” She fell down before Him, “and told him all the truth. And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague” (verses 30, 33-34). In other words, Jesus repeated back to her the words of faith she’d spoken herself. She’d said, “I shall be whole,” and Jesus brought it to pass. He made her whole—which means not only was her body healed but her strength and finances were restored. God intends the very same thing to happen for us! He intends for us to pray in faith the way Jesus taught and get exactly what we prayed for. His plan is for us, like the woman with the issue of blood, to receive everything we ask of Him—every single time. V POINTS TO GET YOU THERE: 1) Jesus never said that when we ask God for something, sometimes the answer is yes and sometimes it’s no; He taught that God always gives us what we ask. (Matt. 7:7) 2) As long as you’re asking in line with God’s WORD, and according to His promises, as a believer in Christ you can know in advance He will say yes to you. (2 Cor. 1:20, "NKJV") 3) Don’t wait until the answer to your prayer manifests to believe you’ve received; release your faith when you pray. (Mark 11:24) 4) No matter how you may feel, when you ask God for something in prayer, say, “It’s mine now, in Jesus’ Name.” (Rom. 1:17) 5) Faith works by love, so before you finish praying make sure you’ve forgiven everyone you need to forgive. (Mark 11:25) *********************************** *********************************** ******* ADVERTISEMENT ******** EVENTS 2022 Branson Victory Campaign April 7-9 | Branson, Mo. Sacramento Victory Campaign May 12-14 | North Highlands, Calif. Knoxville Victory Campaign May 26-28 | Knoxville, Tenn. Fargo Victory Campaign June 9-11 | Fargo, N.D. Southwest Believers’ Convention Aug. 1-6 Fort Worth, Texas Omaha Victory Campaign Oct. 27-29 | Omaha, Neb. Washington, D.C. Victory Campaign Nov. 10-12 | Woodbridge, Va. 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