Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours — the prayer promise follows the mountain-moving faith teaching. The believe that you have received it communicates the posture of confident, trust-filled prayer rather than anxious petition. The promise is not a mechanism for getting whatever you want but a description of the faith-relationship with the Father that makes prayer efficacious. The whatever is conditioned by the character and will of the Father who hears — the Lord's Prayer of Mark 14:36 (not what I will, but what you will) provides the framework.

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