Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלוהים) says:
Prayer is your way to inspiration, revelation, impartation, emancipation, restoration, and participation with Me. It is preparation for eternity, which is complete and open fellowship with Me, prayer in the presence is conversation divine. It is the only way you can fellowship with Me. It is the only way to know Me intimately. To draw close to Me, you must pray in spirit and in truth, for I am a Spirit.
Prayer was so important to Jesus that there were times He stayed up to watch with Me and prayed the entire night. Often His disciples would find him up praying to Me early in the morning. It was not drudgery to Jesus to pray to Me and with Me, it was His lifeline and His joy. It is what kept Him walking the life of good deeds I had set forth for Him to walk.
His disciples were so attracted by the ease with which He communicated with Me that they also wanted to pray like He did. So they asked him to teach them to pray. And so He did. When you ask, He answers. Just call on Me and I will answer you and tell you great and mighty things you could not know. And that is what prayer is about, answers
I sought the LORD and He answered Me and delivered me from all my fears. Psalm 34:4.
In our prior Life Lesson we began to look at the prayer Jesus taught His disciples. In this Life Lesson, we will continue looking at prayer as we move on to the verses following where we ended previously. But first, I would like to set out the teaching My Son gave on praying this prayer.
“When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words. So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’ For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.” Matthew 6:5-15.
There is much to contemplate here, but it comes down to that prayer is of the heart. Faith is of the heart, you believe in your heart and speak with your mouth. It is coming up out of your spirit and not just your mental arena. Prayer is communication, it is you conversing with Me in a meaningful exchange that is not a monologue on your part where you seek no input or answers from Me. If you are doing all the talking (reciting) in what you call prayer that is not prayer to Me. My Son called that praying to yourself. Luke 18:11. He also called it meaningless repetition. It never takes you to a higher level spiritually because it just keeps you at the same level and has no transforming power in it.
To go deeper into Covenant realities of oneness with Me, you must go into your inner man of the heart and converse with Me there. Not for show or holy appearance but seeking an empowering relationship. My Son told you to pray at all times, Luke 18:1, that was how important He considered prayer. And in seeing Him you see Me, and in hearing Him, you hear Me. He wanted you independent in operation but always connected to the source of supply, and I mean all supply—physical, spiritual, emotional. I am the One who teaches you to profit and the way you should go. If only you had followed My direction your prosperity and joy would be flowing like a river. Prayer is your lifeline to the divine.
“Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”
Yesterday we covered the greeting, the place, and the Holiness and promises in My Name. These opening lines set you in complete confidence to come before Me with your great High Priest and brother Jesus as one holy and beloved. You are My child and a joint heir with Christ, made righteous with My own righteousness in Him, you are seated with Him in Heaven with Me in your spirit where you are communicating with Me, and you have been given every spiritual blessing in Heaven in My Covenant Names, and all those magnificent promises are “yes” to you in Jesus. Thus you can immediately receive mercy (healing mercy, provision mercy, forgiveness, peace, and joy) and find grace (My divine life, i.e., My answers and My skill in you) just when you need it at My throne of grace in the very Holy of Holies in Heaven. Hebrews 4:14-16.
Today let us move on to the use of your dominion authority to plant Heaven and establish it upon the earth. You are seeking My glory to invade the earth, that is, My goodness, presence and power among you. You are asking for My Will to be done on earth just as it is in Heaven. In Heaven there is no sickness, lack, mourning, pain, depression, fear, or death. Love is the atmosphere of Heaven and it results in righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
The best thing you can pray for in any situation is for My Kingdom to come and My Will to be done. For by this time you should always know what My Will is. It is in My Covenant Names and it is seen in the life of Jesus among you. By His life and by My promises and identification, you know that My Will is always healing and NEVER sickness or pain. I AM the LORD your healer and I am the same yesterday, today and forever. You must receive healing and good health by faith and not give in to the lies of the devil and the unclean spirits of infirmity and illness but healing and good health are always My Will. If you do not know this, however, you will accept sickness, pain, and infirmities as if they are from Me, but they are not and attributing them to Me when Jesus showed you that My Will is always to heal and that He commanded you to do the same.
And as you go, proclaim, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received, freely give. Matthew 10:7-8.
So pray My Will into the earth and lay your hands on the sick in Jesus’ Name so they can recover.
“These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” Mark 16:17-18.
Jesus brought the Kingdom and the glory to earth. Wherever He healed, provided, blessed, forgave, taught, made whole, exercised authority over demons, storms, and evil, the Kingdom had come and touched the earth. Heaven and earth had kissed. And all the people would give glory to Me for the goodness that had manifested among them.
Show us Your lovingkindness, O LORD and grant us Your salvation. I will hear what God the LORD will say; for He will speak peace to His people, to His godly ones; but let them not turn back to folly. Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that glory may dwell in our land. Lovingkindness and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth springs from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven. Indeed, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its produce. Righteousness will go before Him and will make His footsteps into a way. Psalm 85:7-13.
And you are to do the works He did and greater. I anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and power and He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil. Acts 10:38. The Kingdom was at hand for all who would believe and receive.
And now that Jesus is back with Me in Heaven, I am asking you, as the Body of Christ, the church on earth, to continue the work of bringing the Kingdom to the earth. Pray then in this way: Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
My Will is that all people be saved and come to know the truth. And I have given you the duty as My ambassadors to reconcile people to Me by witnessing to Jesus and showing them that they are beloved, forgiven, blessed, and favored in Him. Stretch out your hand in prayer to reach all with salvation, mercy, and love.
My Will is that you prosper and be in good health even as your soul prospers, and your soul only prospers one way, and that is by walking in the truth. My Word is truth. If you continue (remain, abide) in My Word you will truly be My disciples and then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. Free from the life limited by the world. For things that are impossible with men are possible with Me. Put no limits on what I can do in, with, through, and for you.
Some people pray for My Will to be done implying that if they are facing something bad or painful just to leave them in it if that is My Will, but this is returning to folly. I will hear what God the LORD will say; for He will speak shalom (wholeness and perfection in every area of your life, spirit, soul, and body) to His people, to His godly ones; but let them not turn back to folly.
Before you can pray the prayer of faith, which is effective indeed, you must have faith in what I have promised through My Word for such a situation. And faith comes by hearing, and hearing My Word, especially about who you are and what you have in Christ, that is, in the anointing and the anointed One.
Deep darkness is covering the earth and Satan is running madly about seeking someone to devour but keep alert in prayer with thanksgiving and be ready to resist him by taking down his attacks against you and against those who are ignorant of his tactics with the truth of My Word, the Sword of the Spirit. Lies die in the presence of the truth. Lies are perishable seed. The truth is imperishable seed. Be like the sower planting the seed of My Word throughout the earth in your prayer of intercession, Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
It is time to take action and prayer is the watchtower where you begin.
I will stand on my guard post and station myself on the rampart; and I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me, and how I may reply when I am reproved. Then the LORD answered me and said, “Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that the one who reads it may run. For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; for it will certainly come, it will not delay. Behold, as for the proud one, his soul is not right within him; but the righteous will live by his faith. Habakkuk 2:1-4.
What I speak to you in the secret place, announce from the housetops! How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news, glad tidings of Salvation (Yeshuah). Show the whole world My Yeshuah!
I gave man dominion over the earth and the works of My hands. Adam and Eve let the devil take their authority and made him the “god” of this world, but Jesus won that authority back as Son of Man and then entrusted it to you who are in Covenant with Him and through Him with Me. I do not have authority in the earth and in your lives unless you invite Me in by receiving Jesus as your Lord and speak My Words into the earth so that I can perform them. You can either exercise your dominion authority with Me for the Kingdom or you can exercise it with Satan for the realm of darkness. You cannot serve two masters. You have the authority to choose whom you will serve. To serve Me is life, to serve the devil is death. And that will determine your eternity – eternal life with Me or eternal death with the devil. Choose life that you and your household may live.
I love you. Pray always and you will never lose heart. It will put your heart in Mine and My heart in you and in Me you will find peace and joy unspeakable filled with glory. Walk in the cloud of prayer and you will always be in the glory of the Holy of Holies even now