How To Get God Results Pt.2
Difference between Christians who get miracles and those who don't...
Those who get the miracles are the ones that just won’t give up.
These people take the word of God and refuse to let go of what it promises despite the situation they are in.
This is not about praying and asking non-stop until they're blue in the face. A person can only ask until it becomes redundant; God heard you the first time.
Here's the kicker: sometimes we can pray ourselves out of faith because we pray and pray and see nothing and conclude “God must not have wanted it.”
Nonsense. Stop praying and start believing.
Curry Blake said he thinks the reason we see more dead raising in Africa than we do America is because in America when someone dies, the ambulance comes and takes them away; whereas in Africa, the body stays in the house of the family for at least a few hours if not a day or two.
What else are they going to do while they wait but pray and believe God for a miracle? At the very least they have the time to do it.
It’s as if we in North America pray and pray waiting for a miracle, and when the situation doesn’t turn out the way we anticipated within the next 5 minutes, we throw our hands up in the air and say, “It didn’t work… but at least we tried.”
This could be evidence that we were resting in our faith and not in our God.
Frustrating when it doesn’t seem so easy for us isn’t it?
Disclosure
Let me take a second and unwrap things because I know that I've just offended someone. They're thinking, "What are you talking about?! I believed God the whole time and still lost everything!!!"
That's not what I'm addressing here, and I acknowledge there are countless believers that hold on to the end and things still don't turn out favorable in the moment.
Notice I didn't say "things didn't turn out good for them"?
Because though it may be painful in that moment, we can't forget what God says to us that He causes all things to work together for our good...even if that means eventually. Romans 8:28
What I'm addressing here is the "IF..." scapegoat
We pray like this, “Father IF it be your will…” or “God IF you want to do this…” Praying like this gives us a scapegoat to point to if what’s being prayed for doesn’t come about: “Oh it must not have been God’s will.”
These types of prayers could be showing how little we know God intimately. Specifically when it comes to things we don't want to be disappointed in like health, relationships, healing, opportunities, spiritual bondage, etc.
It can be much easier to not get our hopes up by throwing up a prayer like "if it be your will", so that we can sit back and watch what happens- rather than putting in the effort of knowing what He's promised us in His word or going through the struggle of raising the bar and becoming better equipped for the blessing that lays before us waiting to be taken.
Knowing vs KNOWING
We might know the scriptures, but that doesn’t mean we know the God of the scriptures.
To really know someone is to know what they want or rather, their “will.”
For example, when my wife is in the other room and I notice that the kitchen is dirty I don’t need to ask her if she wants me to clean it.
I already know what her will is; so, I do it without having to ask first.
When it comes to sharing with someone the Good News or praying for them to get healed we don’t have to ask God if it’s His will.
“He is not willing that any should perish” and “by His wounds we are healed” so based on those two Bible verses alone you already know what His will is concerning evangelism and healing.
Even if you simply put yourself in God’s shoes and looked at the evil in the world.
If you as a human can feel compassion towards others; how much more the God of love?
You don’t have to ask Him who to help. Just go do it.
The fact you saw them and thought about it is likely the answer to that person’s prayer! Pray as if it’s all up to God and work as if it’s all up to you.
The two work together. You can also believe without “praying”/asking and see miracles happen.
This is likely why whenever Jesus healed someone He never had to ask the Father about it first.
He usually just said a word, sometimes nothing to do with their ailment, and He’d tell them to sin no more.
An example is John 9 when He made mud with his saliva and put it on the blind man’s eyes. Other examples are Matt 8, Mark 2, Luke 6, and John 4.
Jesus always believed He could do it because He knew who He was in the Father.
Belief is where the power lays. Action is where the power is released.
To sum up what I am trying to say: to get busy resting means to step into situations, either physically or prayerfully, that are seemingly impossible and behave as if you have a God that can do and does the impossible.
More importantly: to behave as if He can do it through you. It can be this, “God… you needed someone for this situation. I’m here. This is impossible. Thanks for letting me see how powerful you are.”
What if it Doesn’t Work?
And if all fails and things go up in flames, then what? Well… it reminds me of the mother who lost her son and was questioning the pastor, “Where was God when my son died?” to which the pastor replied, “Exactly where He was when His Son died.”
The consolation in this is that we don’t have all the answers and life will always be full of situations where things fail according to our perceptions, and that’s okay.
God is God. But that only makes sense after we clear out of the tough times and we can see how it all played together for our good.
When it seems like God is the furthest thing from us, it can be difficult to persist in trusting Him.
But oddly enough, it seems that during those times is when we feel most drawn to Him for we know deep down inside that nothing else can help.
I don’t have all the answers why bad things happen to good people and no one else should pretend to know either.
What I do know is that God tells us to do something good in this world while we are here and to trust in Him until the end.
I also know that He’s also told us there will be suffering while we go and He will be with us through it all.
There are many situations of seemingly unanswered prayers in the Bible. Consider John the Baptist at his end.
But there are also many situations where death was not the ultimate end of things. Consider Lazarus, Peter’s mother in law, Tabitha, or even Jesus Himself.
Let us live and pray as if death is not the ultimate end for us, and I don’t mean simply physical death but “unanswered prayers” in general.
And should we find ourselves being “thrown to the furnace” like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego (with literal flames or metaphorically speaking), let us remember our God is also there with us– Daniel 3:24-25.