In this third month of 2024, let us look at PRAYER again. You might have noticed that in the Bible the “Earth” has to do something before “Heaven” can respond.
In the gospel of Matthew Chapter 6, we find Jesus teaching His disciples about prayer, commonly call “The Lord’s Prayer”. Jesus’ disciples had asked Him how to pray, and in this prayer, Jesus gave them a “model, pattern or blueprint” of how to pray. This is what we can call an “interim” prayer, as the Old Testament was coming to a close and the New Testament or New Covenant was going to be started after the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Matt.6:9-10 - In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done ON earth as it is in heaven..
- Notice that Jesus said to pray God’s Will be done on the “earth” as it is in “heaven.” You know that God’s will is already done in heaven, as there is no adversary or enemy to stop or hinder God’s will there.
- However, to accomplish God’s will on Earth, Jesus said someone must pray. God’s will on Earth will not be done simply because God wants it to be done.
- I am fully aware that this statement may not sit well with many people, and yet this conclusion is inescapable.
- Based on these verses God’s will on Earth will only be done if someone asks Him to do it. We have plenty of example to verify this assertion.
- It took someone asking God to bring things to pass. We can see a good example of this in Daniel Chapter 9.
Dan 9:1-2 - In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the lineage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans -- 2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the LORD through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in thedesolations of Jerusalem.
- In other words, Daniel was reading the Book of Jeremiah.
Jer. 25:11-14 - 'And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 ' Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,' says the LORD; 'and I will make it a perpetual desolation. 13 'So I will bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied concerning all the nations. 14 '(For many nations and great kings shall be served by them also; and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.)' "
- Daniel found where Jeremiah the prophet under the unction of the Holy Spirit spoke about the 70-year period and the events surrounding it. Daniel realized where the Jews as a nation were in time, according to God’s
timetable. - God’s plan and will was clearly spelled out for him and He knew the things that should be taking place on the Earth. However, these things had not happened, and apparently were not going happen, unless someone did something.
- Notice what Daniel did do...
Dan. 9:3 - Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
- The Bible says he set himself to pray. Daniel set himself to pray about what God wanted to do in the Earth.
- Now you know that if it worked under the dispensation of the Old Testament, it most certainly will work under the New Covenant.
- The only requirement is that you and I search the scriptures and find what God wants to do today and then go to Him with it in prayer.
Evangelism, healing, prosperity, victory over circum stances and long life are all part of His Will for you and I right now, so lets get busy praying and saying it.
Remember to say the following with sincere conviction.“I’m believing to be at the Right Place, at the Right Time saying the Right Thing and the right thing to say is the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”