We have an assignment to pray prayers that make a difference. On earth as it is in heaven is not just a nice prayer to keep us positive; it’s the dream of God’s heart to co-labor with us to see His will done in the earth. Jesus promises “Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full” (John 16: 24). We were designed for joy, and we were designed to make a difference.
the lord invites us into the inner
chambers if you will
of the king of all kings
of the lord of all lords of the great i
am
to converse with him
so that out of the conversation certain
events would be changed
certain things would be affected on the
earth because of our conversation
from the beginning it starts in genesis
chapter one and it goes to the end of
the book that god’s primary design for
us
is to be a co-laborer
he didn’t create us as robots and
program us to do specific things
we are
living entities who through surrender
yield our will to his purposes
and we find that he shapes our heart and
our mind our thinking until we become
recalibrated in what his dream is for
the planet
he said to pray for his will to be done
on earth
as it is in heaven
can you imagine him
saying now pray this prayer
it’s not going to happen
but it’ll keep you busy
it’ll keep you busy keep you positive
while nothing happens
and that’s my design for you
is nothing happens
it’s silly we would never give an
assignment like that in our own areas of
responsibility and the lord gave us a
specific assignment because of his dream
praying his prayer links me to his dream
links me to his process links me to
engage with the one who can actually
make these things happen that i cannot
possibly make on my own
so we have an assignment to pray
on earth as it is in heaven we have this
assignment through our engagement our
interaction with him to actually have
him fulfill the cries the dreams of our
heart and that’s part of the revelation
of him as a father
is that the things that are prayed for
actually happen
john 16 has this a very important verse
there’s four times in three chapters
john 14 15 and 16 there’s four times in
those three chapters where the lord says
ask for whatever you want and it’ll be
done for you
we know that’s not an invitation to
become arrogant and independent and
selfish and build your own empire what
it is it’s an invitation to die
until you can represent his heart
and see a continuous flow of answers to
prayer that keep you filled with
joy god designed us
if look at it this way he designed us
with a capacity for overflowing joy
but he said the way you enter into the
fulfillment of that capacity is through
answers to prayer
so in in john 16 it says
whatever you ask for will be done for
you that your joy may be full
that your joy may be full so here here’s
the here’s the process engage with this
pray till something happens and the
result of that is you’re gonna have
absolute overflowing fullness of joy
it’s the design
you’re designed for joy you’re designed
to pray and make a difference and those
two things working together keep you
fulfilled
in proverbs it says proverbs 12 says
hope deferred
makes the heart sick
the second part is as important
desire realized is a tree of life
desire realized is this life-giving
fruit
fulfilled desires how are they fulfilled
in the believer’s life through prayer
it’s the automatic implication that you
engage with god and things happen
because you met with him
and those
responses from god the fulfilled answers
and dreams that
is the tree of life for you
so we were designed to live with ongoing
answers to prayer and the problem is
if i’m not getting answers to prayer see
we tend to pray enough
to ease our conscience but not enough to
make a difference
we have a lot of relief valves in our
lives
when the lord is moving us to pray
for
government
we tend to relieve the pressure by
criticizing government
it eases the conscience just enough to
remove the pressure when actually the
pressure was supposed to be a divine
invitation to enter into the courts of
god and make a difference through prayer
to stand before the lord and to accuse
people is the misuse of my authority
and he’ll defend the person i’m accusing
he will not bless the curses
of one of his priests if you will
because we’re not giving that assignment
so if i am designed to live with
overflowing joy because of answers to
prayer
and i’m not getting answers to prayer
then i have to get my joy from the
discipline of prayer
if i get my joy from the discipline of
prayer
then i’m training my heart to celebrate
form
and not impact
what is religion form without power
it’s the beginning of the end
when there’s no answers to prayer and we
have to find our joy in the fact i
prayed
when we’re actually designed by the lord
to see things happen around us
I really liked reading this message. It was encouraging to me and helped my focus to come back to His directions so that I may have and see my prayers answered .