WHEN YOU BELIEVE, YOU RECEIVE

WHEN YOU BELIEVE, YOU RECEIVE

Now faith is the substance of things 

hoped for, the evidence of things not 

seen (Hebrews 11:1).

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To believe is to act your faith; believing is the 

action of faith. Faith itself is the response of the 

human spirit to the Word of God, and that response 

is evidence. When you act your faith (believe), you 

receive and it’s endorsed; you no longer require further 

evidence.

It’s like the judgment that’s given in a court of 

law on the basis of evidence produced. Once the 

judgment is passed, you don’t have to come again 

with further evidence; the evidence has been accepted 

and that’s why the judgment was made. Likewise, 

when you believe, you’ve judged whatever it is that 

you’ve believed to be true, and as a result, something 

happens: you receive! We don’t believe for nothing; 

the believer is a “haver.”

For example, the Bible says, “He that believeth 

on the Son hath everlasting life…” (John 3:36). When 

you believed in Jesus Christ, you received eternal life: 

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me 

hath everlasting life”  (John 6:47). That’s why John said, 

“These things have I written unto you that believe on 

the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that 

ye have eternal life...” (1 John 5:13).

Eternal life isn’t a hope in the Sweet By-and-By; 

something you’re waiting on God to make happen 

for you; no! You got it when you believed; it’s your 

present-hour possession. Let’s examine Mark 11:24 

in the same light; it says,  “Therefore I say unto you, 

What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe 

that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”  It’s not 

when you hold what you desire in your hands or see 

it with your physical eyes that you know you have it; 

your spirit took possession at the time you prayed in 

faith and believed that you got it. Hallelujah!

PRAYER

Dear heavenly Father, I thank you for imparting faith 

into my spirit. I’m a possessor of eternal life. That 

life in me destroys, paralyses, and renders ineffective 

the works of the devil in my life, family, finances and 

business. The divine life of God flows through my 

being. Hallelujah!

FURTHER S TUDY:

John 17:1-3; 1 John 5:11-12