The Prayer Of Faith - Part 3
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I welcome you to Part 3 of our series on PRAYER
The Prayer of Faith – Part 3: KNOW YOUR PART AND DO IT.
Let’s pray.
Father in heaven, we thank You for yet another day like this, where we have the opportunity to learn more about You and how to pray correctly. May this message impact and transform our prayer life in Jesus' name, amen.
Welcome yet again, family!
I hope Parts 1 & 2 didn’t only get you thinking differently about prayer, but moved you to pray. What a blessing it is to have that ability to communicate with God Almighty Creator and Owner of the universe.
Today we’re delving into Part 3, and let me just say here... if you’ve ever wondered, “After prayer, what next?”—this one’s for you.
If you didn’t already have the ability to believe God for something and have it come to pass, He wouldn’t have told you to do so. God never tells you to do something He knows you can’t do.
When we make demands through the prayer of faith, it’s so vital for us to know what role we’re expected to play. Often, there’s an act of obedience that God requires of us. Many people are ignorant of this truth, and so they fail to take the necessary steps besides praying.
In the end, they would have reasons why their expectations weren’t met. But when you’re in sync with the Spirit of God in prayer, He’ll show you what your role is, and you ought to be diligent to play your part.
When Christ ministered to certain people through the Word of faith, there was always something He required.
“And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his
eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, what saith my lord unto his servant? - (Joshua 5:13-14).
It was the Holy Spirit who referred to Himself here as the Captain of the Lord’s Host. He came to tell Joshua what to do as he stood before Jericho, contemplating how best to take it. Jericho was a part of the Promised Land, and God said to Joshua, “...see I have given into thine hand Jericho and the king thereof and the mighty men of valor” (Joshua 6:2).
Notice He didn’t say, “I will give....,” but “I have given...” This wasn’t a promise; it was a statement of fact coming from the mouth of God. It’s quite remarkable that though God had given the Israelites Jericho, there were still great walls surrounding the city when they got there.
The walls were so huge that the children of Israel couldn’t scale over them. Even if they did, the armies of Jericho were in position to pick them off like sitting ducks. It seemed Israel would be unable to go in and possess the land the Lord had given to them. But the Holy Spirit, the Extraordinary Strategist, was present to tell Joshua what he needed to do to conquer Jericho:
“And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shall thou do six days. And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him” (Joshua 6:3-5).
The strategy given to Joshua was obviously strange (but supernatural), because no human mind would've thought of bringing down those walls through the mere sound of trumpets and the shout of weary men.
But the walls miraculously came down because Joshua and the host of Israel acted on the instruction of the Holy Spirit. It's sad that many Christians have had promises from God that they never enjoyed, and prophecies that never came to pass, just because they didn't know what the Holy Ghost would have them do.
When the Lord told Joshua, "I've given you the city; I've given you the king and all the men of valor there. I've given all into your hand," Joshua could have shouted, "Wow, thank God, Jericho's mine!" and just gone to sleep. The next day he would have woken up to see those walls looming as defiantly as ever, and he would have wondered, But God told me He had given the land into my hand; why can't He bring to pass what He promised?
That’s just like someone who says, “I thought God said the job was mine. I went there and they didn’t give me the employment letter; in fact, they threw me out!”
Yours can be a different story. You can confidently declare God’s Word in faith and get the results you want, as long as you’re poised to follow the leading of the Spirit on that matter. To accomplish this, you need to fellowship with the Holy Spirit and find out the strategies to employ in order to have what you want.
Hearing From God
“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the COMMUNION of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen” (2 Corinthians 13:14).
“Communion” refers to a partnership, a communication, a fellowship with the Holy Spirit. It means talking to the Holy Spirit and listening to Him talk to you. This is how you get to know what He wants you to do. It’s not enough to have a vision or to proclaim what you want; you’ve got to know the right steps to take to make that vision a reality, then you can go ahead and do it.
You see, it’s not God’s idea for us to always call on Him for our needs. Most of the time, our cries and pleas to God are unnecessary, for He’s given us the power to bring about whatever kind of change we want in our lives.
Paul prayed in Ephesians 1:17-18:
“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints."
As you become acquainted with the great provisions that God has freely given you, not only would your prayer language change, you'd also begin to understand the necessary actions you need to take in order to enjoy your divine inheritance. You'd cease to pray the "Lord-give-me" prayers; instead, you'd be acting on the infallible Word of God and getting remarkable results. You'd know beyond doubt that all things are yours, and anything is indeed possible, hallelujah.
See you in the next part of this prayer series.
God bless you richly!
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