When Faith Contacts God

When Faith contacts God, it is always in the Present. God lives in the Eternal Now. To Faith, He never reveals Himself as “I was” but always as “I am”. When Faith contacts God, it is always in the Present. When we apply this Principle to petitioning God, it changes our Prayer Life. In Mark 11:24, Jesus told us, “Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”

When did Jesus tell us to receive what we have prayed for? He told us to receive at the very moment that we pray. We ask, and at the same moment we receive. Thereafter, we know that what we asked for will be granted to us. Granting still remains in the future, but receiving by Faith, takes place when we pray. Faith to receive is in the Present. The manifestation of what we have received is in the future. But without present Faith, there is no assurance of future manifestation.

Let us look at Hebrews 4:3 “For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world”. Believing here is viewed as something already accomplished that does not need to be repeated. The receiving is our part and the manifesting is God’s.