Pastor John Swearinger explains.

What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. Mark 11:24
“Faith is … the evidence [or title deed] of things not seen” (Heb. 11:1). In Jeremiah a title deed is repeatedly spoken of as “the evidence.” Your deed is “the evidence” or proof that you own your home. Faith is the title deed to what you have not yet seen. When you have been given a deed to a home, which you have not yet seen, you already have a home before you see it…. Jesus repeatedly said, “He that believeth, hath.” Moffatt’s translation of Hebrews 11:1 reads: “Faith means that we are … convinced of what we do not see.”
In Mark 11:24 Jesus commands us to believe we “have received” the things we pray for at the time we pray, without waiting to see or feel them. On this condition He promises, “Ye shall have them.” Faith for the healing of your body is the same as faith for forgiveness. You are to believe, on the authority of God’s Word, that you were forgiven before you felt forgiven. Nothing else is faith, for faith is the evidence of things not seen. As soon as the blessing we take by faith is manifested, faith for that blessing ends.
If you are the beneficiary in a rich man’s will, you are already wealthy the moment the rich man dies, though you have not yet seen any of the money. Just so, everything bequeathed to us in our Lord’s last will and testament is already ours by virtue of the death of Jesus, the Testator. Faith is simply using what belongs to us.

You would enjoy visiting his church, The City of Refuge Christian Church of Northern New York.  If you can’t do that, you can connect with Pastor Searinger on facebook.

Thank you Pastor Swearinger!

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