Are You Doubting You’lL Receive What You Already Have?

by Victoria Thornton

Do you sometimes have doubts that you’ll ever receive the mate God has for you? Do you often look at others in relationships and wonder why hasn’t it happened for you yet? Well if you suffer from thoughts like these, it’s your ‘stinking thinking’ that is getting in the way of you receiving. If you are guilty of this kind of thinking, the problem lies more in your mindset than in what is actually happening to you.

Unknowingly, you are judging your situation from your own limited frame of reference not knowing God has already provided you with a mate. Once you change your thinking from trying to ‘get God to do something’ to ‘receiving what God has already done,’ you’ll get results. Be forewarned if you entertain doubt, it’ll zap all the power from your faith and you’ll be left with an empty shell of a prayer that won’t get any results. You’ll have a prayer filled with hope that receives nothing from God. You won’t see the answer to your prayer because it’ll lack substance (that which gives it form) and evidence (that which makes it real) to give you the assurance you need to await the manifestation.

Because the substance and evidence you need in prayer will be absent if faith is lacking. Since it is faith that is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.  It’s a heart full of faith that turns prayers into reality.  So if you are entertaining doubt, is it any wonder why you’re not receiving what you asked for? Let’s deal with your doubt.

So what is doubt? Doubt is defined as the state of being unsure of something; uncertain about the truth or factuality of the existence of something.

What are you uncertain about? 1. Do you doubt God hears your prayers? 2. Do you doubt the truth that God has already provided you with a mate? 3. Do you doubt the truth that God has someone for you?

If you doubt God hears your prayers, remember what the Bible says:

In I john 5:14, If we ask ANYTHING according to his will, He HEARS us and if we KNOW he hears us; we KNOW we have the petitions we desired of him. How can doubt remain when the word of God plainly declares your prayers are heard and answered?

1John 5:14 -15 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

Next the bible states, Every one that asks receives.  Everyone means all people –and that includes you.  If you ask, you receive.

Mat 7:8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Last, Isaiah 65:24 states, Before you call, He’ll answer and while you are speaking, He will hear.  Therefore cast out this fallacy that God didn't hear your prayers from your thinking and believe the Word of God.

If you doubt the truth that God has already provided you with a mate? Consider II Peter 1:3…

According to 2 Peter 1:3, the bible says God has already given you All thing that pertain to life and godliness. ‘All things’ in this verse literally means – all things. A loving mate pertains to life and has already been supplied by your Heavenly Father. 2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

If you doubt the truth that God has someone for you? Consider this… When God created the first man (Adam), God saw that is was not good for the man to be alone. God even declared it in Gen 2:18. So what did God do about it? God went into action and made Adam a wife and brought her to him.  God is no respecter of persons.  If He supplied a mate for the first man He made to walk the earth, God has supplied one for you--and will bring that person to you when you ask.  Genesis 2:18 “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.” So don't let doubt stand in your way of receiving the love of your life. Believe God and trust his Word. God can not lie. Trust in that fact.

But what if you have doubts that were not covered here? If you have any doubts that weren’t mentioned above, here is how to dissolve them. Dissolve your doubts by checking them against the validity of the Word of God.  Find and meditate on the scripture that’ll overcome your stinking-thinking in that area.  Be relentless.   If you find yourself faced with a doubt that keeps resurfacing, the bible has an answer.

In Matthew 17:14-21 when the disciples failed to cure a young boy, they later asked Jesus what happened.  Jesus answered them saying, it was because of their unbelief.  And he told them that, that kind of unbelief only goes out with praying and fasting.

Mat 17:16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.

Mat 17:17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.

Mat 17:18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.

Mat 17:19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?

Mat 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Mat 17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

So if your doubt isn’t dissolving by meditating on the Word, consider fasting and prayer as the bible suggests. Fasting and prayer must be a powerful tool to remedy this problem, otherwise our Lord Jesus would not have suggested it.†