What Should I Keep Praying While Waiting For My Answer To Manifest

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On October 28, 2009 I received the below question, through my “COMMENTS” section.

I tried really hard to answer the question in the same COMMENT section, but I am too long winded … sigh  … and so I have decided to make the Question into a Post.  It is a great question and deserves a full explanation.

On October 28, 2009 at 1:15 pm Yoojin Said:

Thank you so much for sharing such good Word of God! I stumbled upon your site when I was googling for testimonies of healing, and have been reading through many of them, getting encouraged with every one. I’m standing right now for my baby boy’s healing, and wondered if you could advise me on something –

I believe in my heart that when I prayed for his healing, God answered, and the answer was a “yes” in the spiritual realm. So I consider Mattie completely healed. I’m speaking over him daily to bring that from the spiritual to the physical, for I know that God works through the words that I speak over him.

My question — or rather, the point that I hope you can help with — is this: how/what exactly should I pray while I’m “praying until…”? For example, I’m standing in faith that his seizures will stop because God has healed him, and I rebuke it and tell it to be removed. Could you use this as an example, and show me what a sample prayer based on this situation should look like?

Thank you in advance, and God bless! I will be reading through the rest of your articles with great interest at heart!

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My Answer is this:

Hi Yoojin:

You have asked such a good question … and I find it very interesting that even though I have seen many physical healings in my own body and in the body of my loved ones, when a physical attack comes upon me and  I don’t see the  physical healing manifest very quickly, my mind still can ask the question, “What exactly should I be praying?”

I believe this is my fleshy, fallen mind which is still open to attacks of doubt or even confusion.  Our minds  need  to be renewed daily and be built up in faith thru daily reading of the Word   …..  so I am glad you have asked this question so that others too, can have an answer to this question.

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HOLD FAST

But the seed in the good soil, these are  the ones who have heard the Word in an honest and good heart, and HOLD IT FAST, and bear fruit with perseverance.
{Luke 8:15 – NASB}

God says HOLD FAST TO THE WORD {Luke 8:15, NASB} and HOLD FAST TO YOUR CONFESSION {Heb 10:23}, meaning we need to keep believing AND speaking the Word over our situation, in the PRESENT TENSE form that it is written, believing we ARE healed.

So #1 –
I quote the Scriptures of Healing over my body, when a sickness or pain comes into my body.

God says He heals ALL our diseases {Ps 103:3};  The Word says Jesus bore ALL our sickness in His body and by His stripes we WERE healed {1 Ptr 2:24};  and God says His Word IS health to ALL our flesh {Prvbs 4:22}.  God also tells us that we receive WHATEVER we ask of Him {1 John 5:15} and by believing we HAVE received our answer to prayer,  God says we then will see our answer manifest {Mark 11:24}.

So at the FIRST sign of sickness, I quote those Scriptures out loud, then I pray something like:

“Father I thank You that You sent Your Word, Jesus Christ, and healed me.  I thank You that Jesus bore ALL my sicknesses and diseases, and all my pain in His body on the tree, and by His stripes I AM HEALED.

Father, whatever I ask from You, You say I DO RECEIVE and so I ask You now to remove this (pain, this disease, etc) from my body and I thank You  that You do exactly as I ask.

I believe You at Your Word, and I believe that I receive exactly what I have asked from You.

I thank You that You sent Your Word and healed me and I praise You that Jesus bore ALL my diseases in His own body on  the tree, and so I know that I am now healed.  I believe I have received my answer.  I believe I am healed now.  I don’t care what my body feels and I don’t care what my eyes see.  I am healed now, in Jesus’ name.    And I give You all the glory Father God, in Jesus’ name.   Amen.”

#2  –
I will never again ask God to heal me.  I will daily  continue to pray something like:

“Thank You Father God that I do receive whatever I have asked from You, and I thank You that I am therefore healed.  Thank You my body is pain free.  Thank You my body is disease free.  Thank You for sending Your Word and healing all my diseases.  I praise You that Your Word is forever settled in heaven, that Your Word is True and  sure, and I believe You at Your Word that I am, right now, healed and whole in Jesus’ name, and that sickness and disease cannot harm my body or attach to my body.  In Jesus’ name.”

Do you see what I am doing?

I am HOLDING FAST to the Word of God.

I am HOLDING FAST to the Promises of God.

God says I AM HEALED and that  I RECEIVE WHATEVER I ASK FROM HIM.

So I say I am healed and that I have received  exactly what I asked from Him.

# 3  –
I will spend about 30 minutes minimum every single day thanking Him for healing me, thanking Him that He is faithful and dependable, and thanking Him that His Word heals all my flesh and that His Word is TRUTH.

Sometimes I will spend 30 minutes in the morning, then 30 minutes again at bed time worshiping and thanking Him.

Sometimes, I will worship morning, noon, and night.

However much time I can find during the day, I WILL TAKE THAT TIME.

I force my mind and my body to sit before God and praise Him, out loud,  that His Word is True.  I  praise Him that He is not a liar, and I praise and thank Him that I AM healed.

This is a form of meditating on the Word, while also worshiping God.

My mind is being forced to meditate on the Truths of God’s Word when I speak the Word out loud and my faith is being built stronger and stronger that I am healed, because the book of Romans says Faith Comes By Hearing God’s  Word {Romans 10:17}.

Also, I could do a huge word study on why we should be worshiping God, ie:  He inhabits the praise and worship of His people; in His presence is fullness of joy;  we are to offer the sacrifice of praise in the midst of trials; we should put on the garment of praise in place of the spirit of heaviness; etc

But the main fact is this:
A – God is worthy of our praise
and
B – when I THANK and praise Him for His Word as though the Word has ALREADY TAKEN place, my mind is absolutely renewed in faith and joy, believing I DO HAVE MY ANSWER even before it happens.

It is a very interesting fact.

It is not MIND over matter.

This is real FAITH.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the EVIDENCE of things not seen
{Hebrews 11:1 – KJV}
OR

Now faith is BEING SURE of what we hope for
{Hebrews 11:1 – NIV}

The Bible says that Jesus was able to endure the shame (and pain) of the cross, because of the JOY SET BEFORE HIM {Hebrews 12:2}.

I truly believe Jesus looked with the eyes of faith, and saw Himself back in heaven with the Father sitting at the Father’s right hand.  Jesus knew Psalm 110, which says “Sit at My right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet“.  And as Jesus quoted the Word to resist the temptations from satan in Matthew 4, I believe Jesus quoted the Word to get through His temptation to walk away from the fear of the  pain and shame He knew was awaiting  Him at the cross.

The Word is our sword, like it was Jesus’ sword.

We must hold fast to the Word, believing it exactly as it is written.

When we quote the Word out loud and praise and thank God daily that our bodies ARE HEALED,  then faith will rise up in us and we will become JOYFUL that we HAVE exactly what we asked for from God.  And we will become JOYFUL that the Word is 100% true  exactly the way it is written in the Bible, when it says WE ARE HEALED.  We will actually get JOYFUL that we ARE healed.   We will see it with our eyes of faith.  And we will believe we are healed, even before our bodies feel that Truth.  Our FAITH will be our evidence and proof that we are healed, and this will cause huge JOY to rise up in us.

Therefore, point #3 is very important for us to do.

And then finally,
#4 –
After a period of worshiping and praising God out loud, and meditating on the FACT that I AM healed,  I pray in tongues and I ask God if there is anything He would like to speak to me.  Sitting quietly in God’s presence after we worship Him is a blessing,  for many times He will speak another  encouraging  Scripture to us which will spur us on in faith as we wait for the healing to manifest in our body.

Remember, we ARE HEALED.

Your prayer for your boy IS ANSWERED.

Jesus took ALL your boy’s diseases in His body on the tree  and by Christ’s stripes your boy IS healed {Matthew 8:17, 1 Peter 2:24}.

We are  simply waiting  on God to receive more revelation or hear more Scriptures  in ADDITION to the unshakable, eternal Promises that are already written to us, to encourage us  in our  faith.

There can sometimes be demonic opposition which hinders a prayer from manifesting in the natural realm, and so we must simply continue to praise God in Faith that we have our answer, and the demonic opposition will finally break off the situation  {Daniel 10:13, Ephesians 6:11, 12}.

There are times when our faith just isn’t up to the situation, to break a sickness off immediately,  but through persevering prayer, or persevering prayer with FASTING, the disease will leave {Matthew 17:20} … but don’t get all upset believing this is your problem immediately and then get nervous that you DON’T have faith for this particular  situation.  Jesus said, “WHOEVER …  shall believe that those things which he says shall come to pass; he shall have whatever he says” {Mark 11:23} … so KEEP SAYING “My boy IS healed, in Jesus’ name, and seizures will NEVER AGAIN come upon his body”. Perseverance is a HUGE key in spiritual matters, to grow our faith and to lay hold of our answers.  As I mentioned earlier DON’T LET GO of the Promises of God … ever.

And then there are times when our faith is simply TESTED, so that we can be made strong and mature in faith  in order to overcome everything the devil will throw at us {James 1:2-4, Luke 10:19},   and so that our faith will be presented before Jesus as genuine,  to His glory and honor {1 Peter 1:6 & 7,  James 1:2-4,  Luke 8:15 NAS}.

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Whatever the reason is why there is a waiting period before you see your prayers manifest in the natural realm for Mattie, remember that God is FAITHFUL and that BY FAITH Mattie IS HEALED now {Hebrew 11:1}.

These are  two foundational Truths to get anyone through a trial of sickness and get to the side of VICTORY.

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Now, let’s pray together   for your boy:

“Father, I thank You so much that Your Word does not return void to You, but Your Word accomplishes exactly what You sent it forth to accomplish.

You said in Your Word, that You heal ALL of our diseases, so I praise and thank You for healing Mattie now … totally, completely, and entirely.

I believe that Your  Word will not return void to You, and so I know that Your Word DOES heal Mattie now, in Jesus’ name.

I praise You that seizures are a thing of the past.

I praise You that You have given Yoojin authority over ALL of the power of the enemy and now nothing can harm her or Mattie or anyone in her household, any longer!  {Luke 10:19}

We praise You now, that Your Word is Truth.

We praise You that the power of seizures are broken, in Jesus’ name.  Seizures will never again, come upon Mattie, in Jesus’ name.

We praise You now, that Your Word is forever settled in heaven and will never be changed.

We praise You now, that You are faithful to uphold Your Word and  that by Christ’s stripes Mattie IS healed, in Jesus’ name.

We love You God.

We thank You that we can depend upon You.

We thank You that we do not have to wonder or be in confusion.

We thank You that You have written down in print, exactly what You desire for us, and we thank You that Your will is health and wholeness and freedom for Mattie.

Thank You for Your power that is TOWARDS us, healing all of our diseases all the time.

Thank You for Your power that is towards us, and in us, and for us, healing all our diseases and moving mountains out of our lives {Ephesians 1:19}.

We praise You Father for Your Your great love towards Mattie and for healing him.

Thank You that Your Word heals him now.  In Jesus’ name, Mattie you are healed.  In Jesus’ name, Mattie you are whole.  Seizures, you will NEVER come back upon Mattie again, in Jesus’ name.  In Jesus name, Mattie you ARE free.

Praise You Father for Your kindness towards Mattie.

Praise You that You have not left us helpless or alone on this earth.   Thank You that You never forsake us, but that You do all that Your Word says You do.

We praise You.  We give you glory.  We love You and exalt Your holy name.  Through Jesus Christ Your son.  Amen.”

Keep praying such thanksgiving prayers like this one, Yoojin, daily.  Even many times per day, stop and thank God for being faithful and for healing Mattie.

I very much look  forward to hearing your great praise reports about your faith being built up, about your joy being very large while you wait on God, and I look forward to hearing that Mattie is completely seizure free!

God bless you with grace and joy while you wait on Him.

Love in Christ,
LeeAnn

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As the rain and the snow come down from heaven,  and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish,  so is my word that goes out from my mouth:  It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
{Isaiah 55:10-11}

The Lord said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I am watching to see that my word is fulfilled.”
{Jeremiah 1:12}

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