Last night I had the honor of facilitating the Prayer Meeting at our church. It's always a humbling thing to me to have the opportunity to speak to God's people.
I always want to say exactly what He wants to have said but part of me struggles to say something in my own words that has the power to change lives! I know if I'm saying exactly what He wants to have said, it will change lives and if I say my own words I'll probably just offend or cause stumbling!~ So I struggle to say what He wants said and not just what I want to say! Anyway, this is what I shared~
"Last time i shared here I spoke about being Active or AWOL, does anyone remember?" (some did remember!)
"Anyways, now I want to share a little more about the idea that we are soldiers in God's Army.~
First, I want to encourage us to start seeing ourselves as we are called to be. We all need to see ourselves as Prayer Warriors, because we are called to be Prayer Warriors! We are God's feet, His voice and His hands on Earth, we are His body.
Jesus told us of the power that we should be walking in~
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. John 14:12
And because we are in Christ we can claim these verses~
But God being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ(by grace you have been saved)., and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly place in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:4-6
"The Word in Ephesians 2:6 is past tense. God has already raised us up and made us sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. We will rule and reign with Christ in this life now-if we'll exercise our rightful authority.
Our position in Christ is already an accomplished fact. But we need to exercise the authority that belongs to us in that position of reigning with Christ over principalities and powers before it will profit us.
Our position as believers is one of joint-seating with Christ in heavenly places that may not always be our circumstance , but that is our position.
If we want to rise above our circumstances, we must take advantage of our position in Christ.
When we get the revelation of our position in Christ, what a difference it will make in our lives! We will no longer be the defeated Church We will take our place as the triumphant Church, which was God's design from the foundation of the world." Kenneth Haggin
Scripture tells us that what we loose on Earth will be loosed in Heaven and what we bind on Earth will be bound in Heaven.
"Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven. "Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst." Matthew 18:18-20
We need to be using this authority! We need to be cashing in on this! If we were given a visa gift card we'd take it right to the store and cash it in, we should be cashing in this promise that Jesus gave us!
We are familiar of binding things because we bind enemy spirits from having any power in our lives, but what does loosing mean? How do we loose things?
"Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity." Luke 13:12
Secondly, we need also to always put on our armor, daily! When we start praying and battling in the spiritual realm we need to take the steps that our Heavenly Father has given us so we aren't just sitting ducks! The armor is given to us to protect us because our battle is not against flesh and blood.
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints, and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, Ephesians 6:10-19
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