Video summary

God Answered—So What’s Holding It Back? - Andrew Wommack - Charis Daily - Season 16 Ep. 17

Main summary

Key takeaways

Wellness and Self-Improvement

Key wellness / self-care / healing strategies highlighted

  • Believe you’ve received healing when you pray (not when you can see it).

    • Emphasis on Mark 11:24: pray and believe “you have received,” then healing manifests in time.
    • If symptoms don’t change immediately, the mistake is doubting what God did because you can’t yet see it.

  • Understand healing as a “spirit to flesh” process.

    • God is Spirit; spiritual reality is real even when it’s unseen.
    • Healing must be received in the spirit first, then eventually shows up in the physical body.
    • Renewing the mind (thought/language/emotional processing—“soul”) helps bridge what’s true in the spirit into the body.

  • Reduce “unbelief” as the main barrier.

    • Teaching uses a “balloon/weight” analogy: belief can rise, but unbelief acts like a weight preventing motion.
    • Rather than “trying harder” to manufacture faith, focus on removing unbelief (doubt driven by lack of visible results).

  • Use God’s Word as the source for spiritual truth.

    • God’s Word is “spirit and life” (John 6:63).
    • Align beliefs with Scripture so your inner life doesn’t default to what you only feel/see in the body.

  • Act on your received healing using “right words and deeds.”

    • Declare healing consistently:
      • “Thank You for taking [symptom/illness] away.”
      • “By Your stripes I was healed.”
    • Use speech as part of faith practice (life/death in the tongue), paired with faithful action.

  • Expect possible delays—but treat them as spiritual timing/opposition, not God’s absence.

    • Example teaching from Daniel:
      • Prayer can be answered quickly in the spirit, while physical manifestation may take longer due to spiritual resistance.
    • Interpret extended timelines as:
      • Spiritual opposition (including demonic hindrance), and/or
      • Needing sustained faith/consistent cooperation.

  • New Covenant believers can intervene actively (not just “wait it out”).

    • Unlike Daniel (described as lacking authority/Christ’s yet-to-be-given power), believers are taught to:
      • Bind the devil
      • Command demonic interference to depart
      • Pray in ways that strengthen spiritual alignment (including praying in tongues)

  • Pray in tongues to strengthen the inner self and bypass the limits of the natural mind.

    • Tongues are presented as spirit-prayer that helps overcome mental-emotional limitation.
    • Illustrated with a story about praying, binding hindrances, and then seeing results accelerate.

  • Cooperate with God by declaring and planning like the answer is already released.

    • Scripture used to support: God’s power works “within us,” so God works through believers.
    • Practical implication:
      • Stop assuming defeat (“my house will be taken,” “I’ll stay sick”).
      • Make plans as if God’s spiritual provision is already operating.

Overall takeaway

Healing is framed as already provided in the spirit, then released into the body through believing at prayer time, renewing the mind, speaking/acting in faith, and—when applicable—actively resisting spiritual opposition.

Presenters / sources (mentioned)

  • Andrew Wommack (teacher; Charis Bible College / Charis Daily Bible Study)
  • Bob Fleischer (personal testimony mentioned by the speaker)

Bible / Scripture sources cited

  • Mark 11:23–24
  • John 4:24
  • John 3 (Nicodemus/wind analogy)
  • John 6:63
  • Ephesians 1:18–19
  • Ephesians 1:3
  • Ephesians 3:20 (quoted/clarified)
  • Romans 8 (conformation to Christ’s image)
  • Daniel 9 (Gabriel answering; ~3 minutes mentioned)
  • Daniel 10 (21 days; opposition described)
  • Daniel 10:11 (quoted/paraphrased)
  • Ephesians 1:19–20 (resurrection power)

Additional general references to “the soul” (mind/emotions) via Bible terminology.

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