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What Do I Do If I Don’t See Any Improvement After Praying?

Keep believing that you have received your healing. Keep saying that you have received your healing. Keep thanking God for the healing that you have already received. Don’t let up until your healing has completely manifested itself in your body. Continue to do whatever natural things you need to do (taking medicine, for example) until your healing is fully manifested.

If the reason you ask this question is that you are afraid that it didn’t work, you are probably not in faith to begin with. In that case, continue reading healing Scriptures and good healing literature to build your faith. You will have to back up to the point where you believe that you receive your healing. Actually, if you are really asking this question, the chances are good that you are not in as much faith as you think you are. If you are truly in faith, lack of visible improvement so far doesn’t affect what you believe in the slightest. It won’t even bother you because you know the final outcome.

The time after you pray and before you see any change is the time when you “Let God be true and every man a liar” (Romans 3:3-4). It is the time when you exercise patience along with your faith. This patience is not a resignation to your condition. It is an active force that undergirds your faith and refuses to back down despite circumstances.

Where some people miss it is if they don’t receive the results they want by faith soon enough, they assume that they need to do some more receiving by faith! They try to crank out more faith. That doesn’t work. You pray the true prayer of faith once. After that, you thank God that you have already received your answer in your spirit. Thank God for it even though you don’t see any improvement yet. Thank God for Jesus’ statement that you can believe and receive what you pray for when you pray.

If your condition sudden worsens and seems to require immediate medical attention, I urge you to get it. It is not anti-faith to get medical help. If you are really in faith, your supernatural healing will manifest itself anyway. If you are not in faith and you avoid medical help because you want to think you’re in faith, you could die in the process. If you’re in faith, you don’t need to be afraid to see doctors. After all, they can verify and document your healing when it comes.

You need to do what Abraham did and “consider not your own body” (Romans 4:19). That doesn’t mean that you deny or ignore symptoms. It means that you do not consider your body’s current condition to be the final word concerning your healing.

Other topics are devoted to helping you determine if you’re really in faith. Read them and see whether you have really believed you have received anything or if you’re just “a hopin’ and a prayin’.” The bottom line is that if you really believe that you have received something, you don’t really care that you don’t see any improvement yet. You are at rest knowing that it must manifest as long as you stay in faith.

Some other useful thoughts are found in the topic, I Thought I Was Healed. Why Did the Symptoms Just Start to Return?