“Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye will have them."(Mark 11:24; KJV) So, what can we pray for in faith? Well, anything that is according to God's will (1 John 5:14-15) or anything in his word (the Bible).

So, what is faith? Faith is a strong trust, confidence and belief in God or more simply put: knowing that we know that we know that we know! This is not head or mind agreement with God's word but faith is of our spirit; knowing deep in our spirit that God's promises are: "yea, and in him A-men," for us (2 Cor 1:20).

We need the God kind of faith that: "calleth those things which be not as though they were" (Rom 4:17). In other words, when we pray, our faith sees the answer and it is so real in our spirit that nothing can talk us out of it, even though we don't experience the answer to our prayer immediately in the natural, with our senses.

That kind of faith brings results in the natural. We stand patiently in faith (Heb 6:12), not wavering, just like Abraham, who held on for years waiting for God's promised son (Rom 4:20).

How often we want to get the answer by our own efforts, like Abraham and Sarah getting a son Ishmael by Sarah's maid (Gen 16). Paul criticized the Galatians for starting in faith, in the spirit, but trying to succeed in their Christian walk in their own efforts (Gal 3:1-3). There are no short cuts, we build our faith by time in God's word (Rom 10:17). Start using your faith at the level you are at, but work on building faith. Take the limits off God: "but with God all things are possible" (Matt 19:26).

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