If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. James 1:5-8
A double-minded man allows circumstances to influence him and keeps changing his goal. He may set his goal on prosperity; but if somebody tells him, “It’s not God’s will for you to have riches, ” he dials back to poverty.
After he goes to an uplifting meeting, he switches his goal to prosperity; but when he goes back to his church and hears, “You’re never going to get anything in this life,” he turns back to poverty again. He will never become prosperous.
A certain minister tells the story of a paralyzed man who came to one of his meetings in a wheelchair. God healed him, and he walked out of the meeting that night!
The next day his pastor came to see him “to straighten him out.” Though the man walked to the door and let him in, the pastor wasn’t impressed. He said, “Brother, all healing went out with the apostles. This is of the Devil, and you would be better off in a wheelchair than to be healed this way!”
When the pastor left, the man was unable to move from his chair: He had lost his healing! The goal-setter-the impulse to that man’s heart-had been reset for sickness by the words that pastor had spoken.
When he thought, The pastor may be right. It must be God’s will for me to be sick, he became double-minded and the paralysis came back on him.