God Has Already Provided
CONFRONT HINDRANCES HEAD ON!
It's not wrong to continue to pray if you understand that God has already released His power. In the spirit realm, it's complete. But you don't want it to just stay in the spirit. You want it manifest in the physical. So you pray again, not doubting that God has already given, but to rebuke the devil. You pray to receive wisdom and revelation in case there's something you must do. You pray to build up your faith and encourage yourself. Instead of just praying once and then trying to forget it, you're aggressively releasing your faith to deal with any hindrance and draw the provision into the physical realm.
Jesus confronted the hindrances head on. He didn't doubt His Father's faithfulness but doubted this man's
faithfulness—that the unbelief of this town was still hindering him from receiving. So He asked the man this
question and saw that there was still some delay in the manifestation. Instead of just letting him go, Jesus kept ministering to him until he received the full healing. It's much easier to keep something you've already got than to get something you don't yet have.
So Jesus prayed for the man a second time. If Satan, unbelief, or whatever the hindrance is can withstand one dose of the Holy Ghost, shoot 'em again! Just hit 'em again with the same power. This time, those eyes received, and he saw every man clearly.
Then Jesus told him not to go into the town or tell it to anyone there. He instructed the man to go home, but where do you think he lived? This man may have had a job, family, and friends. Yet Jesus commanded him not to tell anybody or to go back into Bethsaida. That's a pretty strict requirement! Why? Jesus knew that even though this man had received the manifestation of healing, he could still lose it if he immediately got back around all of that unbelief.
Retention of your healing isn't automatically guaranteed. Jesus warned the man who'd been healed at the pool of Bethesda, "Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee" (John 5:14). The devil comes "to steal, and to kill, and to destroy" (John 10:10). There's nothing he'd like better than to take away your manifestation, kill your faith, and destroy your testimony. You must maintain your healing by faith. That's why Jesus told the man not to go back into that unbelieving situation.
Jesus knew that God had healed this man completely. It was already done. But He recognized that there was a hindrance in getting it from the spiritual into the physical.
So the Lord prayed with him a second time in order to get this man over that hindrance. Then He told him how to keep the healing he'd received.
I often encounter this same thing. People come to my meetings, and we help them manifest a healing. Then they go back into unbelieving churches and submit themselves to a teaching which is totally opposite what they receive from me. Their sickness or disease returns, and then they come back to me the next time I'm in town and ask, "What's happened?" It's not God who took the healing away or put sickness back on them. They quit believing. They didn't have any root in themselves and so only endured for a season. (Mark 4:17.)
COOPERATE & COMMAND
God has already done everything. You're already blessed, healed, and prosperous. You already have joy, peace, and wisdom. Everything you could ever need is already there —in the spirit. All you need to do is believe and receive! If you don't see the manifestation immediately, don't doubt that God has already done it. Recognize that He's a Spirit and that He moves in the spirit realm. (John 4:24.) For what He's done—what's already true in the spirit—to manifest in the physical realm requires the cooperation of some physical human being. Faith is the bridge that God's provision crosses over, out of the spirit and into the physical. Sometimes it takes us a period of time to build ourselves up in faith to the point where we can receive, but it doesn't take God any time to be ready to give, because He's already provided.
has already done from coming into manifestation. Sometimes other people are involved in our answers to prayer. Therefore, we must receive wisdom about how Satan is hindering so we can speak to the mountain and command it to be removed.
We need to learn and cooperate with the laws of God. You resist the devil. You speak directly to the problem. You exercise the authority and power God has given you. It's important to direct your prayers properly in order to receive your desired results. God has already done it, but it's your responsibility to believe and draw His provision into the natural realm. As soon as you can get yourself into faith and learn how to do this, you can manifest what God has already done.
Instead of being a beggar, a pleader, a whiner, and a griper, you'll become a commander. You'll believe what God has said He's done, and you'll take your authority and begin commanding it to manifest. Instead of just praying for healing, you'll command healing. Instead of just praying for blessing, you'll command blessing. That's a huge difference!
BE A BRIDGE!
You need to understand that there's a real spiritual world. Through the window of God's Word, you can see and accurately perceive the spirit realm. As you discover and meditate on what other people did and what was going on behind the scenes, you can be confident that the same thing is going on around you today. Even though you can't see it or feel it with your physical senses, you can perceive it with the eyes of your heart.
Renew your mind to God's Word, and allow yourself to become a bridge that He can flow through from the spiritual realm into this physical world!