You must Persevere in Faith in God's word
To receive your Miracle and Never give up
Many of us pray to God, believe that we have received our miracle, and begin to decree and declare the miracle over our lives (Mark 11:23-24).
However, when the miracle does not manifest within a few days or weeks, we give up and begin to doubt.
If we do so, our words of doubt will stop our miracles from manifesting (James 1:6-8).
Instead, we must persevere in our thanksgiving to God and in making our decrees and declarations for the miracle we have received (Mark 11:23).
If you do so, you will receive your miracle in due season (Matthew 17:20).
God's greatest desire is to have every child of God grow to maturity in Christ, conformed fully to the image and character of Jesus (Romans 8:29).
God wants to prepare us as a glorious bride for the return of His Son Jesus, a bride without wrinkle or spot or sin (Ephesians 5:27).
And the mark of maturity in Christ is perseverance---perseverance in faith, in love and in rejoicing (James 1:2-4).
And God trains us to persevere in faith, and in love, and in rejoicing through the trials He allows us to face, so that we can become mature and complete in Christ.
James 1:2-4
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,
3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
Jesus our Lord Himself commands us to pray and never give up (Luke 18:1).
More critically, Jesus Himself also taught us that as soon as we have prayed to ask God for something, we must believe that we have received it (Mark 11:24), and begin to decree and declare our miracle (Mark 11:23).
In other words, we must keep on thanking God for the miracle and never give up.
We must also keep on decreeing our miracle and never give up.
This builds up our perseverance in faith in the word of God.
And as we persevere in faith, God's miracles will manifest.
Luke 18:1
1 Then Jesus told His disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.
Mark 11:23
23 Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, "Go, throw yourself into the sea," and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.
Mark 11:24
24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
In the Parable of the Persistent Widow (Luke 18:1-8), the widow kept on asking the Unjust Judge everyday for justice.
However, because our God is a Just Judge, a God who honours His promises, we do not have to keep on asking God for the same thing everyday.
In His promise in Mark 11:24, Jesus said that when we ask God the first time, He wants us to believe that we have received our miracle (Mark 11:24), and to decree our miracle (Mark 11:23).
And if we believed that we have received our miracle, we must therefore also thank God for the miracle everyday until it manifests.
We must have faith in the words of Jesus that God has given us our miracle the moment we ask of God (Mark 11:24).
We must therefore persevere in faith in the word of God by thanking God every day for the miracle.
As we persevere in faith---as we thank God everyday for the miracle, as we decree and declare that our miracle has come everyday---God will manifest the miracle in our lives.
According to our faith, it will be done for us, in God's perfect timing (Matthew 9:29).
But Jesus is asking the Church today:"Will the Son of Man---Jesus Himself--- find faith on the earth when He returns? (Luke 18:8)"
Let us therefore not give up praying and decreeing, but persevere in our faith in God's word in Mark 11:24 concerning the miracles we asked God for.
If we persevere, God is faithful to His promises, and He will do what He says.
1 Thessalonians 5:24
24 The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.
Jesus said that as the Just Judge, God will give us our miracles quickly (Luke 18:8).
Therefore, let us persevere in our faith in God's word, and not give up praying and decreeing.
Luke 18:8
8 "I tell you, He will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
A TESTIMONY
GOD SUPERNATURALLY HELPED ME MEET MY SALES TARGET
FOR YEAR 2015
Brother DC:
"God touched my bosses to assign a sales commission to my sales team, even though the company that made the purchase bought the machines directly from the USA and not from our Penang office.
I work for a multinational company selling electronic test equipment.
In February of 2015, I moved from a technical support role into a sales role.
Having been with the company for a few years, I was considered as an experienced resource, but I was new to the sales role.
I prayed with my prayer partner that God will bring the customers to me, because I did not like doing cold calls (meaning calling on a customer whom you have never met).
As always, after our prayer, I believed that the miracle has come, and continued to declare and decree the miracle over my life.
God has been good to me and has granted me favour.
God has opened doors to the right contacts within my accounts, and they have given me information, and have made purchases.
In addition, I cover a big customer who had placed orders directly with my company in the USA, and the company then drop-shipped the equipment over to Malaysia.
However, my management has shown us favour, and has given us sales credit based on the trans-shipment.
Because of this I fulfilled 137% of my quota by the end of the year.
God has been good to me and has given me favour all-around, and has blessed me so that I can be a blessing to many people.
To God be the glory!!!"
Comments (Brother Andrew):
1. To meet company sales target, as in the testimony above, a child of God must persevere in his faith in God's word that the miracle has been released after his initaial request to God.
2. Such a believer must therefore persevere in his faith in God's word in Mark 11:24.
He must persevere in thanking God everyday that God will send him more than enough sales to meet his sales target.
3. Such a believer must also persevere in declaring and decreeing as often as possible his miracles, as follows:
"By God's grace, I will more than meet my sales target this year."
"By God's grace, I will have favour from all my old and my new customers."
"By God's grace, God will send me new customers with new orders this year."
4. Even when sales are slow, and even when the sales target has not been met by November, such a believer must never give up thanking God everyday for his miracle, and never give up decreeing and declaring his miracle.
By the end of the year, the miracle will come to pass.
5. When we have grown in our perseverance in faith in God, we have become mature and complete in Christ.
This is God's main purpose in all the trials He allows to come our way.
Only by the testing of our faith through trials can God produce perseverance in our lives.
6. All of us must exercise perseverance in faith for our miracles, not only in meeting sales target as in the testimony above, but in every area of need where we have asked God for a miracle.
Persevere until the miracle manifests.
And it will manifest if we do not doubt and do not give up believing in Mark 11:24.