How to Pray With Faith: Take Away the Question Mark | The One Secret Every Answered Prayer Has in Common ( Faith Over Fear )
by Nikki Walton of CurlyNikki.com
I was in and out of sleep last night because an idea kept coming and waking me up. It got so deep that I dreamt I had already written this post lol. I kept hearing, ‘take away the question mark’. And while in the stage between waking and sleeping it felt so dope, and crisp… it made complete sense. It felt brilliant haha!
But when I woke up to find that I hadn’t written it out, and hadn’t even typed it into my phone notes (I often do this during the day, but try not to overnight so I’m not tempted to scroll), the idea felt… not awesome. I didn’t even know where I was going with it… where He was going with it. Until I asked God what He was trying to show me, and He said, take away the question mark. I’ve already said yes.
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How to Pray with Faith
You keep asking like you don’t already know the answer. You keep talking to God like He’s still deciding, like He’s still measuring your worth, like heaven is still holding a meeting about your miracle.
But heaven isn’t confused. Heaven isn’t fuzzy. You are. And that’s okay. Because faith is what happens when you stop asking if He will and start whispering thank You because You already have.
There’s a moment in prayer when the Holy Spirit gently removes the question mark from your voice.
That tiny curve up of doubt that ends your sentences… it doesn’t belong to you anymore.
He wants to give you a period instead, a full stop, a declaration that says it is finished.
That’s the moment prayer becomes POWER. That’s the moment His Power arises in you. His Prayer. And His Prayer is the the prayer where mountains throw themselves in the sea. His Words, pronounced by your lips, formed by your mouth, create.
When Jesus prayed, He didn’t ask the storm to calm.
He said Peace, be still.
He didn’t wonder if the bread would multiply. He lifted it, blessed it, broke it, and it became enough for thousands.
He didn’t hope for the miracle. He embodied it.
That’s how to pray with faith. That’s how to take away the question mark. Not, ‘it will work?’ but, ‘IT WILL WORK.’ IT WORKED.
You’ve been praying from a place of waiting, hoping, checking, refreshing, repeating, looking, worrying, re-praying, lol, but prayer doesn’t move from the outside in, it moves from the inside out. Evidence follows expectation. Miracles follow certainty. You don’t have to beg for what has already been promised.
You just have to believe that it’s already done.
Pray Like It’s Finished
When you pray today, don’t ask if it will happen. Thank Him that it already has. When you look at the thing that hasn’t shifted yet, don’t plead with it. Speak to it. Call it what it is. Healed. Whole. Done. Finished. Full to the brim, spilling over, enough to share… Take away the question mark.
This is alignment. You’re not prideful or thinking you’re doing it yourself. You know it’s Him and you’ll tell everyone that has ears to hear this Truth. This isn’t pride. It’s full humility.
You couldn’t possibly do the things that are unfolding and about to unfold in your life. They are that big. That improbable. That surprising. Everyone will be talking and asking, and you’ll be preaching haha!
This is the frequency of faith, the sound of rest, not striving, the sound of it is finished. When you learn to pray from that knowing, your world rearranges itself around that truth. You start to see it in the timing, in the stillness, in the peace that passes understanding.
You see it in the way the impossible starts making room for you. Because it’s already done. Because you finally stopped asking. Because you finally believed. You be-Loved!
The #1 Secret to a More Powerful Prayer Life
Faith doesn’t ask ‘I can?’
Faith declares I can. Because You can.
Faith doesn’t sound desperate.
It sounds sure, steady, like the praise before the proof. That’s the secret of how to pray with faith. You stop trying to convince God, and start agreeing with Him. You stop speaking from lack and start speaking from love. Because love already gave you everything you’re asking for. And when you be still and KNOW that, prayer becomes communion instead of competition. Rest instead of repetition. Miracle instead of maybe.
So today, when you pray, end the sentence differently.
Don’t question. Declare. DECREE! Don’t wonder. Take away the question mark and thank Him. It was never your punctuation anyway.
Reflection Practice
Sit still for a few breaths before you pray today.
Let your mind slow down until it feels like you’re sinking.
Now, take one thing you’ve been asking God about.
Say it again, but this time, without the question mark. Without the, ‘but will You, tho?’ energy. Feel the peace settle into your body as you end it with a period instead of panic.
That Peace is the first proof you get. The Peace is the beginning of the miracle. And everything comes after.
“Yes indeed, it won’t be long now.” God’s Decree.
“Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You won’t be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once—and everywhere you look, blessings! Blessings like wine pouring off the mountains and hills. I’ll make everything right again for my people Israel:
“They’ll rebuild their ruined cities.
They’ll plant vineyards and drink good wine.
They’ll work their gardens and eat fresh vegetables.
And I’ll plant them, plant them on their own land.
They’ll never again be uprooted from the land I’ve given them.”God, your God, says so. – Amos 9:13-15
Heading out for my daily walk! I love you!!!
nik
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