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chapter. This is the prayer of faith. When you pray, do what? It’s not begging God. When you
pray, do what? “Believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” That’s the prayer of faith.
If you’re just begging God, “Oh, please heal me, please heal me,” when are you believing you
receive? You’re not. When are you going to believe you’ve got it? “Well, when I see it.” It will
be too late to believe it then, because faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1) When you can see it, you can’t be in faith about it because now
you’re seeing it. When people say, “Well, seeing is believing,” nothing can be further from the
truth. Seeing is not believing. “Well, I’ll believe it when I see it.” It will be too late to believe it.
Now, if you don’t understand that, don’t throw it away. Believing is when you don’t see it and
you don’t feel it, and it’s what gives us such total freedom in our spirit. You can believe anything
you choose to believe because you don’t have to see it or hear it or feel it. You can just choose to
believe it. It’s not based on what you see and feel or think or reason.
“What things soever ye desire,” the prayer of faith, “when ye pray,” do what? If they’re praying
the prayer of faith over a sick person, how would they pray it? “Lord, we believe that we receive
our healing.” That’s the prayer of faith, and we know that. Do we have to put an ‘if it be Thy
will’ in there? None of these guys did, so why should we?
James 5:16 involves another area of prayer. It deals with people missing it and making mistakes.
“Confess your faults one to another,” and do what? “and pray one for another…” Now, he didn’t
just say the prayer of faith, he just said “pray,” and this taps into the prayer of supplication. This
goes into the areas of interceding and supplicating and praying in tongues. Why? Because there
are times when we need to see some things. Why is the situation this way? What needs to
happen? We know healing belongs to us, we know it’s been bought and paid for, but they made
their confessions, and they’re no better.
In James 5:14-15, there’s a flow here. Call for the elders, and let them pray the prayer of faith
over you. This should be it—the prayer of faith, and the Lord will raise him up. If he committed
sins, they’ll be forgiven him. That should be it. Well, what if it’s not? What if weeks later, and
months later, we’re not getting better, we’re getting worse. What now? Well, we call for the
elders again. Get some more oil, and let’s get some better elders, and get some better oil. Now,
this is where whole denominations developed their doctrine of “it’s not always His will.” They
say, “We did it. We anointed with oil. We prayed. We did it, and it didn’t work.” What didn’t
work? “Well, it’s just not always God’s will.” Why would you come to that conclusion? Because
it’s easy and requires no responsibility.
Why don’t we come to the same conclusion when people die without Jesus? “We prayed for
them, but if they ever confessed Jesus, I didn’t know it. I guess they were lost. That proves it’s
not always God’s will to save people.” No, it does not. We do not find the will of God from what
people experienced or didn’t experience. It’s in the Bible. We only find it in the Bible.
So, this comes to another kind of praying. Confess your faults one to another and pray one for
another. There are times when Phyllis and I did what we normally do and didn’t get the results
like we normally did. Well, it’s not time to start second guessing God or questioning Him or