FAITH EVEN WORKS TO
GET YOUR LOVED
ONES SAVED
Sometime in 2004 I was listening to the teaching of Norvel Hayes on a cassette tape entitled “Stand In The Gap“. Norvel teaches how he stood in faith, in the gap, for his daughter who was out partying, clubbing and taking drugs. Norvel and his daughter even saw some of her friends die from drug over-doses.
Norvel refused to waver in unbelief as his daughter continued this destructive life-style and called her “saved” (Romans 4:17) for two years and would remind satan by confessing out loud, “You will never have her, satan, for she is a child of God and I won’t let you take her to hell.
He called her ‘saved’ even though she was living ‘like hell’.
I grabbed hold of this teaching for my mom.
I immediately bound the “god of this world from blinding her mind any longer” (2 Corinthians 4:4) and asked God “to shine the light of His glorious gospel into her spirit” (also 2 Corinthians 4:4). From that moment forward I continually thanked God for saving my mom. Mark 11:24 states that whenever you pray, BELIEVE that you have received your answer BEFORE YOU SEE THE ANSWER and then the answer will be given to you!
Almost every single day, since 2004, I raised my hands to God and proclaimed, “Thank You Father for saving my mother! Thank You for filling her with Your Holy Spirit and giving new birth to her spirit. Thank You for sending laborers to teach her about You and Your ways and thank You for letting me spend eternity with her, worshiping You, along with all my family members beside me!”
Almost every single day I prayed this way!
It became so real to me that I could see all of us kneeling down at the throne of God, praising and worshiping God together! It was a done deal! By faith, I knew my mom was saved.
1 John 5:14 & 15 says that if we ask anything according to His will, then we know that He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, then we KNOW that we HAVE what we’ve asked of Him! And since it is God’s will that NO ONE perish, I therefore believed I had the request that I had asked of God. So all that was left, was for me to praise and thank God for doing it!
Remember Hebrews 11:1 teaches us that our Faith is the substance of things we hope for. Faith is our evidence and PROOF that we HAVE something we don’t yet see.
And Hebrews 11:6 teaches us that without faith it is impossible to please God.
So, I continued to thank God. Almost every single day.
In the middle of 2006, I got on the Ken Copeland Canadian website and found a believing church in my mom’s city and asked if there was anyone in their congregation who liked visiting with elderly shut-ins. There was such a lady and the Pastors of the church sent my mom’s info over to this lady in their congregation. This lady started visiting with my mother and my mother was allowing this lady to pray general, nice and easy prayers for her, as the lady would end a visit.
I must mention, my mother was a lady who never liked Christians. She thought we were crazy and our reliance on an invisible God showed our lack of strength.
But this lovely Canadian lady struck up a wonderful friendship with my mom and my mom would let this lady pray with her.
I got a phone call on Monday, April 9th, 2008 from this lady who told me that she was visiting with my mom that day, and that at the time that she was about to leave she started a non-specific prayer for my mom but she said there was such a presence in the room that she knew the Lord was doing something special with my mom. So she asked my mom if my mom would pray along with her this time, and my mom actually said, “Yes” and so this lady led my mom in prayer to “forgive everyone who ever hurt her in her life”. And then she had my mom pray and ask “Jesus to forgive her for everything she had ever done wrong in her life”. And then she had my mom say something along the lines of, “Jesus I want to know You” and then the prayer time was finished.
This lady went on to tell me how my mom was weeping through the entire prayer time and that the presence of the Lord was so lovely and so strong.
Wow!
Faith!
I BELIEVED that my request for God to save my mom was already answered when I first started praying for my mom! (Mark 11:24, 1 John 5:14).
I BELIEVED that what I SAID would come to pass (Mark 11:23);
And I BELIEVED that God is not a liar (Numbers 23:19) and that His Words are Truth (John 17:17) all the time, for every situation, and that His Words would perform EXACTLY what He said they would perform (Jeremiah 1:12)!
FAITH.
Remember to use your faith for EVERYTHING in life!
Use your faith to overcome hatred in your life. Use your faith to overcome doubt and fear. Use your faith to get your family members saved. Use your faith to get your body healed. Use your faith for EVERYTHING in your life!
God is on your side! Believe this. And thank Him for this.
HE CHOSE to make the Promises! So just start thanking Him for the Promises and kick any doubt out of your mind that says ‘He won’t do it for you’ (2 Corinthians 1:20).
HE chose to make the Agreement, the Promises, the Covenant, so believe that He will do what He has said! You do the believing and the results will follow! (Matthew 21:22)
Simply believe God at His Word and walk in the Blessings which God died to give to you!
This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith
1 John 5:4-NIV
If you BELIEVE, you WILL receive WHATEVER you ask for in prayer
Matthew 21:22 — NIV
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(C) 2007-2011 LeeAnn Bell, Faith Speaks Inc
Originally Posted 2008.
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