Believing Comes Before Receiving

“…Ye have not, because ye ask not.” James 4:2bKJV

A.S.K. = Ask, Seek, Knock

"So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. "For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” Luke 11:9-10NKJV

Because you’re children of God you’re heirs of God and have a grand inheritance. He has promised you many things but the benefits are not automatic or on auto deposit. It’s “through faith and patience (you) inherit the promises.” Heb 6:12 God is your “ever present help” but He helps when you ask. Just like the bank, heaven also has a system. If you want to make a withdraw at the bank you first have to make a deposit and then write a check or fill out a slip. In your heavenly account God has already made many deposits but if you want to make a withdraw you have to deposit faith in your heart and then ask with your mouth. You have to hear and believe, before you can ask and receive. God’s Word is Truth and when you abide in it then you will believe it and then when you ask for it you will receive it.

John 15:7-8 "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

When you hear and meditate on the promises of God, “faith comes” and it’s “through faith” that the promises come. You can’t get anything from the bank without submitting to the system and you can’t get anything from heaven without faith. You are “saved by grace through faith.” Eph 2:8 Faith is the channel through which all the blessings of heaven flow. Believing is required and comes before receiving.

"Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40 NKJV

That’s why it’s so important to meditate on the scriptures everyday. As you meditate and believe the channel stays open for you to receive. God’s frequency is faith and when you read His Word you hear from heaven and when you follow His direction you’re on you way to the promise land. His Word is His will and His provision is in His will. His will contains the inheritance and it’s given to those who believe it and ask for it. The process is simple it takes time and diligence to abide in the Word. And that’s what disciples do…

John 8:31-32
31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
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So you keep on hearing and hearing God’s Will, meditate on it until you believe it, then you ask for it and receive it. That’s simply how the heavenly system works.

Rom 10:14-15
14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
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Rom 10:17
17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
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I Jn 5:14-15 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him

Matt 21:22
22 And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
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Mark 11:24
24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
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The first step is to believe that your prayers will get answered. How will you know? Because of what you see or what you feel? No! Not at first believing comes before receiving. You believe it “Because God said so!” And if He said so then it is so. Take the scriptures that say - if you ask you’ll receive – and meditate on them until you believe. Do you really believe what Jesus said?

John 14:13-14
13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.
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John 15:16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

Matt 7:7-8 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. "For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

That’s amazing! If you want to have power in prayer then you will need the knowledge of the Word if His Will. So start by asking for that because "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." Mark 9:23
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And God said, “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” Jer 33:3NKJV


PIE 90 Scripture:

Matt 21:22
22 And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
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