Why Your Prayers Aren't Working (And How to Fix It)
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In Mark chapter 5, there's the story of a woman who had been bleeding for 12 years. She spent all her money on doctors, but they didn't help her. They just made things worse. Now, the problem with this is in that culture and community at that time in the Mosaic law, this made her ceremonially unclean. Because she was always considered unclean under the law, she was isolated from her community, from her temple, from all the people that normally would be there for her. Well, she heard that Jesus was passing through. And when she heard that, she said to herself, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well."
Notice that. I will be made well. After saying that to herself, she pushed through the crowd. Even though she knew that in doing that she was breaking the law, making other people unclean. Punishment would follow if she was caught. But she did it anyway. She pushed through the crowd.
She touched the edge of Jesus' cloak. And immediately, the Bible says immediately, she was healed. She could feel it in her body that she was healed. Well, Jesus stopped and he asked, "Who touched my clothes?" Because he had felt power go out from him. Now, the funny part about that is the apostles around him were like, "Are you kidding? Like, there's thousands of people gathered around us.
What do you mean who touched you? Like, you're getting bumped into by all kinds of people." But Jesus knew this was different. He felt that power go out from him. Now, think about the woman's perspective at this point. She came forward in fear. Now she had been discovered.
She didn't think about the fact that Jesus would know that he had healed her. Right? She came forward in her fear and she just confessed everything to him. Jesus didn't get upset. He didn't condemn her. What he said was, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be cured of your disease.
Again, your faith has made you well. That woman's healing started before she even touched Jesus. It started when she spoke her healing with certainty. I will be healed, she told herself. She embodied her faith despite weakness, despite shame. She acted as if her healing was guaranteed despite the risk that it put her in. She could have been caught.
What if she wasn't healed? What if they stoned her for it? But she did it anyway. And Jesus attributed her healing to her faith and not just his power.
In Hebrews 11:1, it says, "Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen." Faith isn't wishful thinking. It's assurance, something we know will be. It's certainty. Faith is proof of what you know in your deepest being, not what you can see out in the world. The woman couldn't see that she was going to be healed. She just knew in her heart that if she touched Jesus' clothes, she would be healed.
And sure enough, that's what happened. Think about the way you pray. Do you pray from desperation and from doubt? Do you say, "God, please, if only you could, maybe." Or do you say, "Thank you, God, that you're already at work in this thing that I ask of you." See, one thing makes you a beggar. It keeps you at a distance from God.
It shows a lack of trust. If you could, maybe, please. The other brings you into partnership. You know it's going to happen. You have faith. You trust. You're like the woman with the flow of blood.
Mark 11:4 says, "Therefore, I tell you, all things, whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them." Jesus says, "Believe that you have received them." That's the present perfect tense. Not believe that they will come eventually. Believe that you have received them. Not you will receive, but you have received. Now, this isn't manipulation.
This is you aligning yourself with how God's kingdom actually works. You see, God exists outside of time. He sees the beginning and the end simultaneously.
Whenever God makes a promise, it's already done. There's nothing that can stop it. It is as good as accomplished right now. It's just a matter of us walking towards that achievement. Our job is to live in the reality of it having already happened while waiting to see it physically. We're just walking towards it. Imagine you're going to take a drive to a big city.
Let's say New York City. It's a road trip. You got family out there, right? When you get in the car, you don't worry whether or not New York City exists. You just drive towards it. You follow the map. You drive towards it.
It's the same things same way with the things that we ask God for. We know it's already there. We just walk the path until we see it. Romans 4 19- 21 tells us about Abraham that without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body having already been worn out. He being about a hundred years old and the deadness of Sarah's womb. Yet looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
Abraham knew God's promise. God had promised that Abraham would have descendants as numerous as the sands of the sea. Abraham didn't deny or ignore the reality. He knew he was old. He knew that Sarah was barren. But that didn't change the fact that God had made a promise. And he knew that God always has the final word.
It was as good as done. It existed now. He lived as if he had a multitude of children because he gave God's promise more weight than his current circumstances. And he started living in that way like he was the father of nations. He knew it would it would come to pass as God had promised and it was counted to him as righteousness.
This isn't being in denial of reality. This is living in a deeper reality. There's the natural world and there's the supernatural world. what we can see, what we hear, what we touch, what we taste, what our senses tell us, that's the natural world, and there's nothing wrong with that. But that's not all there is. We also live in the supernatural world that God makes possible through his promises. So once we've asked, just like Abraham, once we've been given that promise, live it out.
This isn't just positive thinking. This is genuine faith that reorients our life. Think about it. If you made a request to God, if you asked for something, but you lived as if it might come maybe in some future time, are you going to take the steps that align yourself and your life with the request that you gave to God? No, you're not. You're just going to keep living like you are now. You're not going to change anything.
And so, of course, nothing's going to happen because you prayed, but you didn't have faith. Abraham lived as if what God had promised had already happened. He took all the steps. It was counted to him as righteousness. And of course, in taking all the steps that were required, God's promise was fulfilled. Now, let's get clear about what we're asking for here. We shouldn't be asking for vague God bless me things when we pray.
God, please bless my life. No, no, no. Be specific. Abraham knew exactly what he wanted. He wanted an heir. He wanted a child. And God promised that he would have it.
Jesus would ask people sometimes in the Gospels, "What do you want me to do for you?" Now, of course, Jesus already knew what that person needed, but he wanted them to ask for it specifically to show faith in that request. God wants you to know what you're asking for. Why does he want you to know? Because if you don't know what you want, well, then again, you're not going to take the steps that align your life with your request. So, you may as well give it up. That's like what James says that you're going to be like a wave tossed about in the sea hither and thither.
You're not going to take the steps necessary to fulfill what it is you're asking God for. Ask a specific request. Align your life with your request and watch God act and give you what you desire.
Get quiet before God. Let your deepest desire surface when you're in prayer. Let your mind and your heart tell you what is that one thing. If that one thing changed would transform your entire life. Don't be afraid to ask for it. Sometimes what we think we're asking for is unreasonable or unwarranted or we don't deserve it or something like that. Don't pray that way.
Be honest with God. If he thinks something else would be a better answer, he's going to tell you that. If he thinks what you're asking for isn't what's right for you, you're going to know. You're going to hear that soft voice in your head. Ask. Ask in faith. Don't beg.
Start thanking God that he's already at work in your life to give you your request. Instead of saying, "Please help me find purpose," say, "Thank you that you've created me with unique gifts and you're revealing how to use them." Instead of, "Please heal this relationship," ask, "Thank you that your love is being poured out and restoration is happening." Philippians 4:6 says, "In nothing, be anxious, but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God." You notice that with thanksgiving, you're already thanking him for the thing happening in your life. God, thank you that you've given me this new job. God, thank you that healing is coming in my body.
God, thank you for working out this relationship for me right now. It's already happened. If you ask anything in line with God's will, it's as good as done. So live like it's as good as done. Pray like it's as good as done. Not just for the things he's already done in the past, but for what you're asking for right now. And then you got to live like your prayer is already answered.
That woman who had the flow of blood, she pushed through the crowd because she knew that she'd be healed as soon as she touched Jesus' garment. She knew that her actions matched her faith. That's why she was healed. Jesus said, "Your faith has made you you well." He called her daughter. So, what would it look like if you started living as if your prayer was already answered? Here's some practical examples.
If you're praying for peace, feel what peace feels like right now. Breathe deeply. Relax your shoulders. Notice the peace. Practice the peace. If you're praying for provision, some material thing that you need, well, then practice gratitude for it. Be generous.
Live like someone who trusts that you have enough. You need to be reasonable. You don't want to be unreasonable with your finances, but act as if you already have enough. and be grateful for all the things you have now, knowing that the other thing is on its way. You're just walking toward it. It already exists. You're just walking toward it.
Are you praying for healing? Well, then notice moments of wellness. Pay attention to what works well in your body rather than focusing on what's broken or what's unwell. Move with the assumption that your body is actively being restored right now. That doesn't mean ignoring medical advice, but it also means not taking the medical report as the last word or the final say. God can do all kinds of things that medicine cannot work in tandem with the medical advice. Don't take that as the only source or solution.
God is greater than all those things. Don't believe me? Read the gospels. Then there's Romans 12:2. Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by renewing of your mind.
Don't be conformed to the world. What the world says works. What the world says you should do. Sometimes there's wisdom in that, but that's not the last word. What God says you are, what God says he will do, what the Bible says is wise and right action, that's what you should base your life on. Renewing your mind, it's not just changing your thoughts. It's retraining everything about the way you live, your emotions, your physical responses, your habits, your automatic reactions to things.
You need to create new patterns in your life because those new patterns interrupt the old ways that are keeping you stuck in what you are right now. It's those old patterns that make you afraid to ask God for things. It's those old patterns that make you a beggar. Whenever you pray rather than confident, like the woman with the flow of blood, you need new patterns. You believe it's done intentionally, consistently. It's an act of worship. These new patterns are worship.
It's faith. That's how you need to live. Now, let's clarify this here. I'm not talking about some formula. You're not putting money into a cosmic vending machine and then what you want comes out. That's not how God works. This isn't just a formulaic way of getting whatever you want.
Your life has to be aligned with God's will. That's very clear. The Bible tells us that what you ask according to his will will be done. Sometimes what we think we want isn't what we need. Sometimes God answer is not yet or I have something better. When we truly seek God's kingdom first, that's how we cooperate with what he's already doing in our lives. Let me give you a personal example that just happened to me recently.
So, the past few months, my job has not been going well. Not because of my actions, but the entire team in the entire sales department not going well for almost anybody right now. I could see the writing on the wall. I knew that there was something I needed to do. So, someone who left for this reason and got a job at a different company in the same industry who does mostly the same stuff that we do, he was doing really well. And so, I talked to him about it and oh, it was all positive, positive, positive. Things were going great.
And I'm like, hey, I would love to jump ship and go work over there. Talk to your to the owner about it. And he did. And because I'm one of the top performers at my current job and always have been. The owner was like, "Yes, absolutely. We want to hire you, but I have to get some more marketing people and I have to get some more installers to install the jobs that you sell." Well, time passed, a month passed.
I checked back in with my my friend who used to work there and he's like, "No, he's not ready yet. They're still working on it." Well, things continued to get worse at my job and I'm like, "This is getting pretty bad. So, I'm running out of time here. So, I checked back in again a couple of weeks ago. No, he wasn't ready yet. Well, on Wednesday of last week, something happened that morning.
There was a shift in my mindset and I knew that job wasn't the one I was supposed to get. So, I sat down and for the first time, I put my resume on indeed.com. I updated it with my current job and posted it. That day, a couple of hours later, I got a call from a recruiter for a much larger company than the one I was thinking of moving over to with a much better position, with better pay, with better training. There was nothing about this company that was not superior to the one I thought I was going to go to. The recruiter called me. He asked me, "When can you be interviewed by the manager?"
Well, here's the thing. My appointment for that time was cancelled at 3:00. I had an appointment I was supposed to go to for work, but it got cancelled. And that's when the recruiter called. You think that was a coincidence? So, he called me during that time when I happened to be home. And I asked him, "Well, I'm available now.
What's the manager doing?" So, he checked the manager schedule. As it turned out, 15 minutes after our phone call, he was free for me to talk to him. I called the manager. We had a 20-minute conversation. I got the job. When God is going to do something for you, he's not going to let you make the wrong decision.
The first job, the one that I thought I was going to get, was the wrong decision. God did not let that happen. He kept pushing it off, pushing it off. No, no, no. I thought that was the right move for me. It wasn't. God didn't let it happen.
When the right position became available, boom, that day, instantly, it happened. In a matter of hours, in one morning, I got the job that I need needed to get and I'm going for training on the 27th of this month. That's how God acts in your life. Sometimes it can be very frustrating because you think you have the solution in front of you. You're like, God, it's right there. Why aren't you giving me this thing? but that's not what's right for you.
And so he says no. And he holds off and he holds off and he holds off because he's got something better coming. And then boom, it arrives at an unexpected time and it's quick and it's easy and you are amazed. When God does things in your life, it's always amazing. It's never a humdrum. That's how you know it's from him. Matthew 6:33, that famous scripture says, "But seek first God's kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."
So, keep seeking God's kingdom, and don't worry. There in Matthew chapter 6, Jesus said, "God knows you need all these things. Look at the birds of heaven. Look at the liies of the field. God takes care of them, and they are worth far less than you are. So, just keep doing what he's asked you to do. Keep seeking his kingdom.
He's going to make everything happen. And it's going to be more amazing than you ever thought it could be. When our deepest desires align with God's kingdom, when we're asking for things like healing, wholeness, restoration, peace, purpose, the ability to love well, these are all things that align with God's will. You can pray for those things with confidence. That woman who had the flow of blood, she knew God wanted her to be healed. She believed that all she had to do was touch Jesus garment. Believe is probably too weak of a word.
She knew that she would get healed if she just touched him. There were risks involved. She had to push through the crowd. She had to break the law. And yet when she did and she touched him, she got what she believed. She was healed. Jesus didn't hold her accountable for breaking the law.
He said, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. You are that woman, and God will do the same for you." Now, while these things are going on, after you pray, pay attention. Watch for God's work as you live this way. living as if it's already occurred. You'll start to notice things, little coincidences, things that you're like, "That's not a coincidence." Like me putting my resume online that morning and all of a sudden the recruiter calling me 2 hours later and 20 minutes after that me having the job.
The right person is going to call you at the right time. Scriptur is going to jump out when you're reading the Bible that speaks to your situation. And that's why you need to be absorbed in God's word. God very often uses that to give you the wisdom, the exact thing you need to read and hear at the time. Opportunities appear that align with your prayer. Again, the recruiter called me. I've been praying for a better job for quite some time.
I knew that God was going to give it to me. I knew that he knew what I needed. These aren't accidents. This is God working. He's been working all along. See, but now you're paying attention. You start to notice those little synchronicities.
Psalm 130:5 and 6 says, "I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word. My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning." This is active watching, eager anticipation. We're not wondering if something's going to happen. We know it will, and we're actively paying attention so we don't miss it when it does.
It's not passive resignation. It's alert expectancy. Stay awake to what God's doing. Pay attention. When something happens that's related to your prayer, acknowledge it. Thank him for it. The first thing I did after I got off the phone with the recruiter, before I even talked to the manager was I thanked God for the job that he had already given me.
I talked to the manager. Boom. 20 minutes later, I've got the job. And then I thanked him profusely for that too. I had to go through paperwork, onboarding, background check, all that stuff. But I was I wasn't concerned. Already knew it was done.
And of course, it was done. Yesterday, I got the text. It was 100% cemented. I'm on my way to training on the 27th. Believe in it. Thank God for it. Let that strengthen your faith.
You're building a history with God. You're learning to recognize his voice, his timing, his methods. Had I not been paying attention on Wednesday of last week when I woke up and my gut, something in my heart and in my head said, "You need to put your resume online." I had already been assured, guaranteed that as soon as the other company was ready, I was going to get that other job. But I knew, I felt in my heart I needed to put my resume back online. I did and I got the job that actually had been waiting for me because God had given me something better. I didn't know it, but there it was.
And I didn't ignore that internal voice when it told me it was time to act in a way that was different than I had thought. Now, you're going to face internal resistance when you do this. You're going to notice old fears rising up, doubts, voice saying it won't work. You're just kidding yourself. You don't deserve this. That's all normal. It happens when you start living differently.
That old programming, it fights to stay in control. That's your flesh. That's not your spirit and that's certainly not God's spirit or God talking to you. Those voices are liars. God will never talk to you like that. He's never going to talk down to you. God is love.
He's only going to talk up to you. He's going to give you positive words. Good things are coming. Now, he might tell you that thing that you thought is what was for you, that's not for you. But he's not going to stop there. He's not going to say you don't deserve that. He's going to say, "I've got something better."
So, when you hear that negativity, ignore it. Push it away. That's the old programming fighting to stay alive. That is not God talking to you. 1 John 4:4 says, "You are of God, little children, and have overcome them because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world." Don't listen to the world's voice. Listen to God's voice.
The power in you is greater than any resistance that might come up. Holy Spirit is stronger than that old pattern. is stronger than that old wound, that limiting belief that you were taught as a child that comes back to haunt you. When those voices come, counter them with truth. When the devil tempted Jesus, what did Jesus say? Go away, Satan, for it is written. You can do the same thing.
Again, you have to be absorbed in God's word. You have to know what it says. So when that voice, that negativity comes into your mind, you can say, "Go away, Satan. It is written." You know who you are. You know what God has called you to be. You were made in the image of God.
You are loved. You are holy. You are righteous. You are cared for. You are not all those negative things that the world in your mind tries to tell you because of that old programming. Speak God's word over yourself. You are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Remind yourself of who you are in Christ. You are a participant in the divine nature. according to second Peter 1:4. Refuse to give those old patterns any power over your life.
Now, you don't just face internal obstacles. You are going to face external ones, too. Remember, the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one. You're going to face circumstances that seem to contradict what you're praying for. You're going to see doors that close and you wonder, "Why? Why isn't it happening? Why did I not get the job?
Why is that guy not acting? The owner said that he was giving me the job. Why haven't I been hired yet? It was a closed door that I could have let discourage me, but it wasn't for me. That isn't what God wanted for me, and that's why it didn't happen. So, don't view those closed doors as a negative. Things that don't work out as you had planned.
All that means is that was your plan, not God's. Don't see those things as signs that you're on the wrong path. It's just information. God is telling you that's not the right thing. I've got something better. Ask questions when that happens. What is this teaching me?
What's the invitation here in this difficulty? What do I need to see? What is God telling me? Sometimes God will redirect us through closed doors. Sometimes he's protecting us from something we can't see. There's something behind that door that's bad for us. We think that's the right door, but God's like, "No, no, no.
You can't see behind the door, but I can, so I'm not opening that one." Sometimes he's developing something in you that you need before the next door opens. Or maybe before that door opens. Maybe it's the right thing, but you're not ready for it yet. And he's giving you time to continue to build the qualities you need to prepare for what's behind that door. Trust the process. Stay faithful.
Don't get discouraged. Good things are coming. Believe. The woman with the flow of blood knew she would be healed, but she had to push through the crowd first. She had to take the risk of breaking the law first. It's not going to feel easy, but that tension, working through those problems, that struggle, that builds your faith. You know it's going to happen.
You just got to get to Jesus so you can touch the cloak. That's all you need to do. Keep pushing forward. James 1 2 and3 says, "Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance." Obstacles aren't failures. They're part of how your faith grows strong. When a baby's very small and it's learning to walk, it will fall many times.
Crawl, get up, try to walk, stumble, fall. Crawl, get up, try to walk, stumble, fall. That's important. It's how that baby's legs get strong enough and eventually as a child a little older that you cannot catch that kid. He's running so fast. That's your fate. You build it over time and that strength makes you possible of doing things you never could have done before.
This is necessary. And another thing that's necessary is community. You can't do this alone. You need community. You need people living by faith who can encourage you. and you can encourage them who can pray with you and for you and you can pray with and for them. Hebrews 10:24 and 25.
Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the day approaching. We need each other. Your faith strengthens my faith. My breakthrough makes your breakthrough easier. You find your people out there. Find the community that you feel comfortable in. It's your second home.
Share what you're praying for with the people that you trust. Let them support you and offer your support to others. Matthew 18:1 19 and 20. If two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my father who is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them. There's power in this kind of agreement. There's power in this kind of community.
Don't isolate yourself. Don't try to figure it all out on your own. You're not alone. We're the body of Christ. We need every part functioning together. The body is made up of many parts. You are one of those parts.
That part is vital for life. But there are other parts that are vital too and you need to join yourself with them. Our real goal here is transformation. As you walk along this path, you'll notice that something's happening. You're not just changing your circumstances. You're growing in faith. You're being transformed.
You're becoming that new creation that was promised. That's what God's after. Of course, he wants to answer your prayers. Of course, he wants to give you good gifts. Jesus said, "What father who asks for bread by his child is going to give him a stone. He's not going to do that. He wants to give you good things.
But more than anything else, he wants you. He wants you whole, free, fully alive, fully yourself as he created you to be, not as your current circumstances has shaped you into. His plan for you is very different from the world's plan for you. Ephesians 3 20 and 21 says, "Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us. To him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen." God is able to do so much more than we ask or think.
what I wanted him to do. The job I wanted him to give me was nowhere near as good as what he had in store. What he had in store was exceedingly abundantly better than what I asked for. This happens according to the power that works in us. The power is already there. It's already working. Your job is to cooperate with it.
Just like the woman with the flow of blood, she knew. All she had to do was touch Jesus garment and she would be healed. Her faith made her well. Cooperate with God and your faith will make you well too. This is the invitation that we have. Live in faith so real that it transforms everything. Pray with such confidence that you start living like your prayers already answered.
Align every part of your life with what you're asking God for and trust that he is faithful and is going to do what he promised what you asked. His will, you know it. You read the Bible. You know his will. You're seeking first his kingdom. Why are you doubting? What did Jesus say over and over again?
You of little faith. Don't be one of those people that he sigh and says, "Uh, you of little faith." Be one of those people that he says your faith has made you well. What he has started, he will finish. What God desires and the desires that he's planted in your heart, those are invitations into partnership with him. Look for them. Don't ignore them.
Align yourself with them and walk towards what he's promised. Look, the woman with the flow of blood, she could have stayed home. She could have said, "I tried everything. The doctors couldn't do anything. I'm all out of money. I give up. I'm just going to be sick until I die.
But that's not what she did. She pushed through. She reached out. She took the risk. And she believed before having any evidence. And Jesus called her daughter and sent her home whole. This is available to you, too.
Not just an answered prayer, not just a thing that you need, but wholeness. Not just getting what you want, but becoming who you were truly meant to be, who God knows you are. We're not just seeing God work. We're partnering with him by aligning our actions with his will and his promises for us and the things that we pray for. Faith is a gift. Ephesians 2:8 says, "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God." Our faith, it's a gift.
Our job isn't to create it from nothing. Our job is to receive it, to nurture it, and to act on it. So, here's my final challenge for you. What's the one thing that you're praying for? Get really clear about it. What's that thing that would change your life forever? Ask for it.
Thank God that he's already at work, that it already exists and you're just walking towards it. Begin living as if he's already answered. Watch for his hand. Pay attention to those synchronicities. Let them move you to action. Push through the obstacles. Push through that internal resistance.
Do it in community. And trust that God is doing more than you can possibly imagine. That same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead, it's at work in you right now. The same spirit that hovered over the waters at creation is breathing life into your prayers. The same God who called Abraham, healed that woman, turned water into wine, fed the 5,000 with a kid's lunch. That God is your father. He's not done working miracles.
He's working them in you and in your life right now as long as you know that he will make you well. John 10:10 says,"I came that they may have life and may have it abundantly." God doesn't just want you to have a simple life where you accomplish nothing, where you struggle to get by. He wants you to have life abundantly. But you have to know that he is doing that for you right now. Not just someday in heaven, but right now. Right here.
Abundant life, full life, rich, deep, meaningful, transforming. All that starts with faith. Faith that speaks to mountains and moves them. Faith that causes you to push through crowds at great risk. Faith that thanks God before you see the physical answer to your prayer. Faith that lives in reality of God's kingdom while waiting for it to fully come. The tension of already but not yet.
Will you accept that invitation? Will you start praying differently, living differently, believing differently? Will you let faith become more than just a vague concept in your eyes? Some day, some way of being blessed. God, please bless me. How? How?
Get specific. Ask, believe, make it into that lived reality that transforms everything. God is waiting for you. He's already at work. The question is, will you join him? Let this be our prayer. Aba Father, we come to you not as beggars but as beloved children.
You've invited us into partnership with your work in the world. You've given us faith as a gift in prayer as a privilege. Teach us to pray with confidence, to live with expectancy, to trust your goodness even when we can't see the outcome. Give us courage to push through crowds, to reach out for healing, to speak our deepest desires with certainty. Transform our minds, our hearts, our lives. Make us whole. Use us to bring your kingdom to earth just as it is in heaven.
We believe. Help our unbelief in Jesus name. Amen. I wanted to take a moment to tell you about my book, The Broken Mirror: Rediscovering Our True Nature in Christ. Readers call it a fantastic book where you will feel yourself discovering your identity in Christ. One reviewer praised it as five-star material for the spiritual mystic or group Bible study. It's time to escape legalism and shame.
Discover you're already God's beloved child with divine nature flowing through you with what reviewers describe as excellent writing style and elegant pros like a campfire discussion with a knowledgeable and gifted recontour journey from Genesis to Revelation uncovering your true identity. This book shows how to access God's peace, wisdom, and strength from within. Your struggles become opportunities for divine light to shine through. Available in hard coverver, paperback, Kindle, and audiobook. The link to the book is in the video description. May God bless your journey along his path for you. [Music]
