After you've prayed your prayer for the thing you hope for, and prayed it correctly, hold onto it until it manifests.  Keep on believing and believing, adding in thanksgiving until you know that you have your answer ... that you have possession of it.  After you get it and possess it, you no longer need to believe for it because now you have it.   

Some people believe and believe, and then they stop believing  ... they never come to the knowing: "I got it!"   They become weary of waiting for the answer and so they never receive what they pray for because they quit in the process of believing BEFORE they KNOW it. 

Patience is involved here.  We live in an "instant society", we want our answers right now ... but it doesn't work this way. 

To claim God's Covenant Promises as our own, we must receive them into our spirit knowing (being intimate with) that they have been sealed with the Blood of Jesus and that they cannot fail.  

Reverend Robert W. & Mary C. Butler