Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
I remember a denominational minister in my home county — just a country preacher — who never had an opportunity to pastor a very large church. Most of his churches were small community churches. His limited high school education prevented any promotion by his denomination that he might otherwise have had.
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However, this preacher was in constant demand for revival meetings because of his success in soul winning. He would go to a church where no one was being saved, where no one had been saved for years, and would have a landslide meeting and many people would be brought into the Kingdom of God. You can understand why he was in demand.
I talked to him when he was in his early sixties, and he was still having phenomenal success in revival meetings winning the lost. In his own churches he had altar services as we used to have in Pentecostal circles. He would get the people in his church on their knees, praying.
He said, “People are always asking me my secret. It is a very simple thing. I just apply faith in the area of soul winning like I apply faith in the areas of healing or whatever I am believing God for. It never entered my mind to doubt that people will come to be saved. If the doubt does try to come, I resist it in the Name of Jesus. It is just that simple.”
He said, “I don’t do a great deal of praying, any more than others do, but I do pray. I do seek God. However, I attribute my success to that one point — I just have confidence that people will come to be saved. By the eye of faith, I see the people coming to my services; I see the altar filling up with those who want to be saved."
“If the meetings aren’t going like I think they should and people aren’t coming forward like at other times, I don’t necessarily increase my praying or seeking God about it; I just exercise more faith. When I begin to give the invitation, I can just see the people coming, and they come.”
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What this minister said and did was an expression of his confidence and his faith in God. He had prayed, all right, but not excessively. Many times in our praying, we keep looking at the wrong things. We keep looking at the circumstances, and we keep looking at what is not happening.
Someone might say, “Well, hardly anyone came to the meeting last night, and people probably won’t come tonight either.”
Or in the area of finances, someone might say, “Well, the finances haven’t manifested yet. When I get the money, then I’ll believe I have it.”
Or if it is in the area of praying for the lost, someone might say, “Well, when I see my family and friends saved, or when I see a change in them, then I’ll believe God has heard my prayer and is dealing with them.”
You see, that kind of attitude doesn’t demonstrate any confidence in God’s Word. That kind of attitude isn’t letting the Word of God dwell in you at all. That attitude or way of thinking is nothing more than having faith in what you see.
Oftentimes people undo all of their prayers by doing that very thing — by walking by sight when they should be walking by faith in God’s Word. But instead of looking at the circumstances when they pray and looking at what is not happening, they should be seeing with the eye of faith what God’s doing on their behalf in answer to their prayers.
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