Current topic: Introduction to this prayer blog. First audio clip to be posted tonight.
Good morning.
What do you dream about? What is your vision? Where do you imagine yourself to be? What do you imagine for God’s Kingdom? When you pray, what do you see in your imagination?
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever!” (Ephesians 3:20).
This passage came into my heart a few days ago. When I read it, the revelation from the Lord, His rhema Word on this passage, unfolded to me. When we pray for someone, when we minister into somebody’s life, and when we pray for our own needs or those of the church either locally or international; what do we see in our imagination and what do we expect to happen? God is able to do immeasurably more that we could even imagine, but if we do not imagine or expect to see, there is nothing He can match up with. If, however, we imagine the results of our prayers, He can match it and give us immeasurably more.
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen,” (Hebrews 11:1). Hope is a glad expectation, an imagination. If we continuously pray and then continuously imagine the results, we exercise faith which pleases the Lord (Hebrews 11:6) and He will gladly do exceedingly more; Him being “God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did,” (Romans 4:17).
Jesus said in Mark 11:24: “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” Imagine it, see it, and hope it.
During the past three months I’ve been ministering to- and praying earnestly for a friend of mine and his family, who has been struggling in their faith for the last few years. When I discovered this rhema, I started to see him and his family in my imagination with hands in the air, free from the bondages of sin, worshiping the Lord. They’re not there yet, but are surely getting there if it’s up to the Lord.
Whenever I now pray about anything, whether personal of regarding the Kingdom, I make a point to envision the results in my imagination. I’ve also found that when I pray continuously in tongues, pictures of how things could be come into my heart. I would for instance pray for the church to become more active in evangelism or for more people to become active in their gifting and when I then continue in tongues, images of what I desire flash though my imagination. Obviously these desires are given to me by the Holy Spirit. “Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart,” (Psalm 37:4).
What desires did the Lord put in your heart? What is it you pray for, or have been praying for for a long time? Picture it in your imagination, expect it to become reality, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
When you pray with us as the Salt of the Earth, you should pray with expectation to see a difference and to see answers to our prayers. Let us as a church globally imagine as big as we can, and God will do exceedingly or immeasurably more that we imagine.
Lord, please put your desires in my heart and help me to imagine what could be.
Our weekly blessing to you:
“Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not treat prophecies with contempt but test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil. May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it,” (1Thessalonians 5:16-24).
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