Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with thanksgiving. Colossians 2:6-7.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
I want to make your life beautiful, the most beautiful life ever lived and one of the ways I do this is by giving you My Covenant Names, which are promises signed in My Covenant Name, and by instructing you who are in Jesus how to ask, seek, knock, and receive, and My Spirit in you will help you with this for you do not know how to pray as you ought.
For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it. In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the sanctified according to God. Romans 8:24-27.
Asking, seeking, and knocking, can be summed up as declaring who I am to you and who you are in Christ Jesus. All who call upon the Name of the Lord will be saved.
David understood this, the way he declared Me to be to him is what he authorized Me to do and be for him.
I love You, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies. Psalm 18:1-3.
He called Me under the Name as a declaration of who I was and would be to Him for what he needed at that moment to be saved. And I showed up and was that for him.
He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters. He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me. Psalm 18:16-17.
And was that prayer according to My Will so that I heard him and answered? 1 John 5:14-15. Yes.
He brought me forth also into a broad place; He rescued me, because He delighted in me. Psalm 18:19.
His prayer of faith delighted Me.
“Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving and pay your vows to the Most High; call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me.” Psalm 50:14-15.
“Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name. He will call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him. With a long life I will satisfy him and let him see My salvation.” Psalm 91:14-16.
The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much. Elijah was a man with a nature like yours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. What was that effective prayer? Look back and see.
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” 1 Kings 17:1.
It was a declaration of who I am and what I would do with, in, and through him. For the prayer of faith will save you. James 5:15-18.
Now, let Me show you how to pray the effective prayer of faith, you who qualify as righteous in Christ with My own righteousness.
Look at what I instruct you to do throughout your life once you have confessed Jesus as Lord and been born again from above:
Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk (live your life) in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with thanksgiving. Colossians 2:6-7.
As you have received Jesus as your Lord continue to do likewise for all you need to walk out your life.
How did you receive Him? Did I instruct to beg and plead with Me to be saved? Did I tell you certain qualifications of various works you had to do to be acceptable? No. I told you to receive salvation by believing in your heart I raised Him from the dead and declaring Him to be your Lord, not asking if He would be but declaring that He is.
For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness. But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down), or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).” But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in Him will not be disappointed.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him; for “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Romans 8:5-13.
And that is the Word of faith, the spirit of faith, and the prayer of faith. You did not ask Him to be your Lord, your declared Him, confessed Him, affirmed Him, and received Him as Lord and you were saved.
And that prayer will always be heard and answered because that is asking, seeking, and knocking according to My Will for your life. My magnificent promises are all showing you My Will for your life by showing you who I am and want to be for you.
And salvation does not just mean saved from eternal death in hell, though that is a major part of it given by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus in bearing all your sins and giving you My righteousness, but salvation includes healing, provision, deliverance, protection, direction, guidance, correction, abundant life, and perfection, making you complete, lacking in no good thing.
You are asking, seeking, and knocking for healing? Believe in your heart that by His stripes you are healed and confess Him as your Healer. You are asking, seeking, and knocking for increase in your finances? Confess Me as you the one who sees ahead and provides for you, confess Me as your Shepherd overflowing your cup so that you shall not want. Confess Me as the LORD of hosts who opens the windows of Heaven and rebukes the devourer for those that give tithes and offerings.
In Jesus you see all My Covenant Names in action and fulfilled. When you declared Him as Lord you became My child, a joint heir with Him, and all My Covenant Names became “YES” to you in Him, for in Him, you are brought into His Covenant with Me as your great High Priest and authorized representative as Son of Man.
I tell you to seek My Kingdom and My righteousness first and all you need for your life will be added to you. How do you seek those? You declare Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart I raised Him from the dead, and that faith in your heart makes you righteous (I justified you as your judgment paid, your sentence of condemnation satisfied, and all you sins gone when I raised Him from the dead) and your declaration that Jeus is Lord saved you. You were born again from above as a citizen of the Kingdom and I gave you the Kingdom as His little flock.
How do you ask? You call on My Name and order what you want to come once you have My Word on it.
Think of Moses, as the people panicked with the army of Pharaoh at their backs and the deepest part of the Red Sea before them, what was his response and My response?
But Moses said to the people, “Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the LORD which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever. The LORD will fight for you while you keep silent.” Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to go forward. As for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, and the sons of Israel shall go through the midst of the sea on dry land. Exodus 14:13-16.
He called upon Me as the LORD of salvation (Yeshuah), the Savior who would fight for them. And I told him to lift his staff, stretch out his hand, and command the sea to divide. And then I was authorized to part it as I had planned, with the path I had walked ahead of them revealed, and My Will was accomplished. He worked his dominion authority with Me as their salvation in that situation.
Joshua learned from Moses and from My Word to do the same. When I was fighting for and through them he needed more time to complete the victory but the sun was setting and the dark would ensue when the enemy could escape into the darkness. He consulted Me and I told him to command the orbit around the sun to stop and the moon as well. And it did. The works of My hands I made subject to your commands and I will make all things work together for good when you love Me and are working according to My purpose, which is salvation for you in every situation.
How do you seek? You know the name of what you are looking for and call that place of business, person, or institution that has what you are looking for and inquire how to have it.
One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in His temple. Psalm 27:4.
How do you knock? If you want a sure entrance you call the name of the person who is inside to let them know you are someone who knows who they are and then you say your name who you are so your admittance is assured if you are someone who has a good relationship with the person inside.
And I give you who are in Christ Jesus specific instructions of how to ask, seek, and knock:
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession (homologia). For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive (lambano—which means to receive in the sense of actively taking hold of it) mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:14-16.
First you have a great High Priest who knows what it is like to be in the flesh. And He is the High Priest of your confession.
Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession (homologia). Hebrews 3:1.
And I would have you take notice that this was written in Greek language and the word that is translated “confession” (and the same for confessing that Jesus is Lord) is the word “homologia” which is from “homou,” meaning “together” and “lego,” meaning to speak to a conclusion, which as one word means “to voice the same conclusion in full agreement.”
And in the armor I share with you, the Sword of the Spirit is My Word which I tell you is sharper than a two-edged sword, which in Greek and Hebrew is literally named as a “two-mouthed” sword. Meaning, that the Sword of My Word works to bring about the promise in that Word when your words are in complete agreement with My Words.
When I first spoke to Gideon and called him a hero with the strength of an army he did not have faith in that, but I told him it would be so because I would be with him. And he finally became fully persuaded that I would do that and more for him, if he was willing to go forward with Me so My will could be done through and with him on earth. And agreeing with My Word made him and just three hundred men rout out the enemy of thousands upon thousands. I think now you will understand why I taught Gideon the slogan “The Sword of the LORD and of Gideon?” It gave him the victory over the Midianites when that became his battle cry.
When the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers, they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing, and cried, “The sword of the LORD and of Gideon!” Each stood in his place around the camp; and all the [enemy]army ran, crying out as they fled. Judges 7:20-21.
Agree with Me and you will be who I made you to be in Christ for I then can perform it.
Do you understand? If you will just agree with Me that you are healed, that you are an overcomer, that you are more than a conqueror, and that I am your healer, your provider, your good Shepherd, I can perform it for you. My Word does not return to Me void but achieves the purpose for which I sent it. You just have to return it to Me in full agreement. I watch over My Word to perform it.
And that should not surprise you, I told Jeremiah that I watch over My Word to perform it, Jeremiah 1:12, when I invited him to be My prophet to the nations, Jeremiah 1:5, that if he would speak only My Words and not mix them with the profane that he could be My mouthpiece and command nations with no fear. Jeremiah 15:19-21.
“Behold, I have put My Words in your mouth. See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.” Jeremiah 1:9-10.
That established, because in Jesus you are established in righteousness and that makes you far from oppression and every tongue of the evil one raised against you, you will prove false by the truth of who you are in Jesus, you can come with confidence to My throne of grace. You are coming with thanksgiving through the open gate into the Holy of Holies by the new and living way that Jesus opened to you by making you righteous having redeemed you by His blood. And what do you do there? Do I tell you to beg and plead for mercy? For healing? For forgiveness? For provision? NO. I tell you to RECEIVE mercy (healing mercy, provision mercy, forgiveness mercy) because it is all there for you fully paid for by the blood of Jesus. It is yours when you need it for the price has already been paid.
You have blood bought benefits and you are blood bought as well. You have been purchased at a tremendous price beyond all you can even fathom by the unfathomable riches of Christ offered in your behalf to bring you there holy, blameless, and beyond reproach before Me. I have already blessed you with every blessing in Heaven in Christ Jesus, you have only to come to Me and receive it. And how do you receive it? With praise and thanksgiving as you confess (speak in perfect agreement with Me) all your benefits that are yours in Christ. And do not forget any of them. Declare and confess them in agreement with Me just as you received Jesus as Lord.
Your declarations that He is Lord and that all of My magnificent promises as many as they be are “yes” to you in Him as you confess them. Confess you sins and thank Me for forgiving them by His blood and cleansing you of every stain of sin. Speak your need for provision, particularly what you need at that moment while thanking Me for already seeing ahead in advance and providing it for you to just show you where it is and how you should take it.
And after receiving mercy, you find the answers, the skill, the ability, the wisdom, the solutions, and the creative ideas you need right at that time to bring you into increase, victory, and salvation in every situation. When you seek in this way, you find it all there already if you just confess that I am the LORD who looks ahead and provides and then I take you to that provision as your helper, your strength, your deliverer, and the LORD of Hosts. If you will call and declare Me under those Names I can do wonders for you. All you need to do is agree with Me and go forward with faith in your heart and My Word in your mouth. And never forget, it was all bought for you by the blood of Jesus. It all starts with repentance and receiving My forgiveness but never let it stop there. It all starts with confessing Jesus as Lord believing in your heart I raised Him from the dead and you are justified. But never let it stop there. As you received Him, so go forward to walk out your life with Him, repent, believe in your heart, and confess with your mouth and I can perform it with you, but you must follow the directions of what I tell you to do. Like Moses parting the sea, Joshua stopping the orbit of the earth around the sun, and Gideon putting a lamp under a clay pot and then breaking the earthen vessel to let the light shine in the darkness of the night. And I could tell you many more examples but you have the whole Bible to seek out all the treasures that are yours if you will simply agree with Me and then walk it out.
Remember David and My tender mercies, for him I was every Name he declared Me to be. And you have the joy of using all those Covenant Names as well. But you have even more, you have the Name above every other name as your own to which every knee must bow, in the earth, under the earth, and in Heaven and He gave you authority to use it.
I love you. I hope you are learning how to pray the prayer of faith effectively. You must renew your mind to know that begging for what I already said “Yes” to is not an effective way to pray and you cannot receive that way because it shows NO faith in Me or My Word. Remember that seeking is a matter of declaring who I am to you. Seek and you shall find. But know what you are seeking by knowing what is yours already.
You will also declare a thing (promise, speech, thing, word), and it will be established for you; so light will shine on your ways. Job 22:28.