The Power of Positive Believing

Matthew 7:7-11

        People carve out their tomorrows by their attitudes, beliefs, and ideas of God. The Christian life should be typified by expectancy and vitality.

        Doubt confines; faith unleashes.

        Doubt imprisons; faith sets free.

        Doubt weakens; faith strengthens.

When one really believes God, one can recognize a responsibility in every crisis; but when one doubts God, one sees a crisis in every responsibility.

Positive Believing Includes An Element of Intense Desire.

Prayer is positive believing that God is able to do it and I am in need of it; therefore, I earnestly call on God to answer.

There is a certain element of increasing urgency:

Ask suggests sincere praying.

Seek suggests earnest praying.

Knock suggests desperate praying.

We ask with the mind,

We seek with our heart, and

We knock with our will.

The element of intense desire can be seen in human persistence.

The aorist imperative gives a definite command.

The present imperative gives a command that one should keep on doing.

Prayer is not an all-out effort to change God’s mind.

Positive Believing Includes An Attitude of Assurance.

Positive believing rests with assurance that God will keep His word.

Miracles come to people who expect them, who prepare for them, and who pray for them, believing that God can and will give them the desires of their hearts.

An answered prayer is the prayer which accomplishes the results desired.

Positive Believing Includes An Attitude of Trust.

God is kind and benevolent and anxious to give to His children.