I have wondered for years about what it takes to receive from God, for example, financial prosperity and healing of the body. Most of us, if not all, want to live well and be well. As I pondered this issue over the years, I found that sometimes it is not a lack of faith, but a lack of releasing faith.

Act 14:8-10 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.

I see it so vividly that the man had faith for healing, but he is still lying in the dust because he has not acted on his beliefs. I believe it is this way all over the world in the lives of Christians. What I am saying is, you can have faith for healing and still die sick or you can have faith for prosperity and still suffer lack.

One time on a job I worked, my left knee just started swelling, I mean it was like a small grapefruit compared to my other knee. I was not in any pain it was just stiff, and I needed Miss Ella’s help just to get my pants and shoes off. Then it started hurting and of course, I did what most men do, I ignored it.

I ignored it until I had to walk up the stairs and downstairs sideways. I was going to take a picture of my knee, send it to my boss and explain that I could not come to work. Thank God for the Holy Spirit! Now if you had asked me if I was in faith I would have said yes of course, and I was, but I had not released it yet.

So, the Holy Spirit said do not send the picture go to work, so I did, it took about a week and my knee was just like the other one, praise God I was able to walk right and even run.

Matthew 9:27-30 And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us. And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.

They are standing in front of Him acknowledging that they have faith for healing, but they are still blind. When He touched their eyes is not when they received faith, it is when they released their faith. I hope you can see that.

You may ask how do we release our faith. We release our faith with our words and our actions. God told Abram he would make him the Father of many nations, but Abram still did not completely get it. He asked in Genesis 15 What will you give me seeing I go childless, and I have no seed. Really, Abram had seed, he had the Word of God from Genesis 12, and that is all he needed.

So, God changed the situation, He had to make it where Abraham must confess what God was saying by changing his name, I am the Father of a multitude. It is very important that you see this. Abram confesses that he has no seed, Abraham confesses that he is the father of a multitude. Abraham got what he confessed; his faith must be released with those words I am the father of multitudes.

I began to look at myself and those around me, I began to see the need to act on what we believe, to confess what we believe. You are developing your faith in healing so when it comes time to confess the word of healing be resolute.