1 John 5:14-15 (NKJV) tells us, “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.”. This is such a powerful verse right here! As believers, we have confidence in Him. The word confidence means an attitude of openness that comes from freedom and lack of fear. Look at the verse like this, and now I am paraphrasing with the definition, “Now this is the attitude we have in Him, an openness that comes from freedom and lack of fear, 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 we have asked of Him.”.
We are to have faith in God in all circumstances. Faith is not hoping something will happen, faith is knowing God’s Word is so and living it out. Galatians 2:20 (ESV) tells us, “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”. As Christians, we have been crucified with Christ, and we have been resurrected with Him to newness of life! We must remember it is our spirit-man that gets born again, our soul goes through a process of being transformed to the Word of God, and our flesh will be fully made new one day. However, our entire Christian walk is a life that is a walk of faith. We don’t walk how the world walks, we walk the walk of faith.
Hebrews 11:1 (ESV), defines faith, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”. We may not see what we are declaring by faith, but we walk by faith because God keeps His promises in His Word. You might be praying for healing over someone and it may not manifest right away in their flesh, but in their spirit being they are already healed. It doesn’t matter how long it takes for healing to manifest in the flesh because the Bible says “by whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24). We are not going to be healed, we have been healed. Healing was completed 2,000 years ago through the work of Jesus Christ. Continue believing God’s Word like it is so, and your symptoms will come into alignment.